Brand | SAKKER EL DEKKENÉ |
Product/Service | AWARENESS CAMPAIGN |
Entrant | LOWE PIMO Beirut, LEBANON |
Category | Use of Promotional Stunts/ Live Advertising / Live Shows / Concerts & Festivals |
Entrant Company
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LOWE PIMO Beirut, LEBANON
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Advertising Agency
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LOWE PIMO Beirut, LEBANON
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The Brief
In a curious attempt to ‘improve’ road safety, our government created a traffic law imposing high financial penalties on drivers for traffic violations. A law just like another law applied in a corrupted way.
April 1st, 2015, or April Fool’s Day, was the date set for the new traffic law to be implemented. It was a date that simply screamed irony and we at Sakker el Dekkenne, a Lebanese, anti-corruption NGO, decided to raise awareness and ask people to report government corruption, and since humor is often the best way to engage the Lebanese people, we decided to prank everyone.
Creative Execution
In the early hours of April 1st, more 120,000 fake fines were placed on car windscreens across Beirut and 30 of its surrounding regions. From a distance the fines looked real enough, but each of the five special designs focused on a specific type of corruption with the government named as the offender.
Subsequently, 120,000 people woke up shocked at receiving a fine, until they actually read the message!
Describe the success of the promotion with both client and consumer including some quantifiable results
The prank created a huge buzz online! A spontaneous hash-tag “#AKALTA” was created by people sharing their fines on Instagram and Facebook. Thousands were reached through social media, blogs and by word of mouth. Millions were reached through the prime time news on all the major Lebanese channels and through the main newspapers.
Even though it was an April fool, the prank convinced everyone that corruption and death on the roads are certainly no joke.
Explain why the method of promotion was most relevant to the product or service
The aim of this awareness campaign was to counter attack the implementation of the new Lebanese traffic law due to take effect on April 1st, while citizens were suffering of road-safety corruption.
That's why our campaign was based on a 1 day street activation on the early hours of April 1st , covering the main capital and 30 surrounding regions.
Credits
Madona Zeidan |
Lowe Pimo-beirut |
Creative Head |
Rania Barakat |
Lowe Pimo-beirut |
Senior Art Director |
Tina Arab |
Lowe Pimo-beirut |
Art Director |
Charbel Harb |
Lowe Pimo-beirut |
Graphic Designer |
Elie Charbel |
Lowe Pimo-beirut |
Production Manager |
Sarita Saad |
Lowe Pimo-beirut |
Copywriter |