2018 Winners & Shortlists

AQUABOARD

BrandBEKO
Product/ServiceENERGY EFFICIENT WASHING MACHINES
EntrantMcCANN ISTANBUL, TURKEY
CategoryUse of Outdoor
Idea Creation McCANN ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Media Placement McCANN ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Production McCANN ISTANBUL, TURKEY

The Campaign

According to Beko’s consumer behavior research; when people are looking to buy a new white good, they check these three things first: design, practicality and extra functions. That’s mainly because efficiency isn’t seen as a materialized benefit. When we had the Beko dishwasher efficiency brief, we looked for a way to materialize the efficiency. Because people believe something when they see it. What they needed to see was that a person living in developed countries uses 300 liters of water every day. We have to be efficient. New Beko dishwasher makes that possible using much less water than usual. So, how could we show people the actual amount of water Beko dishwasher uses? We created an outdoor ad...made of water. No ink, no printing, no paper, only epoxy (a material that looks like water when it dries up) as much as the amount of water a Beko dishwasher uses.

Creative Execution

The idea we found was to create an outdoor ad with the exact amount of water the new Beko dishwasher uses. How though? Water itself wouldn’t work. We needed a liquid material that freezes and looks like water after the implementation. After a bit of a search, we discovered epoxy. We needed to shape and spread it well. On what surface? Glass, plastic or paper didn’t work. Acetate did. So we obtained an acetate layer in the size of an outdoor ad. After weeks, maybe months-long practice and rehearsal, we started the implementation of the Aquaboard. After 30 days of hard and attentive work, we let it dry. When it was done and ready to go, we moved our unique piece of work to the location that we chose to display it, one of the most crowded centers of Istanbul.

Water scarcity is real. So is the need for efficiency. When you work for a brand who produces specifically energy efficient products, the communication you design becomes more than a commercial. Aquaboard was not only about a product. It was also about the fact that we need to be efficient. That’s why it was valuable for Beko. When you create an ad, the easiest thing you do is to create a story. Stories are fiction. People realize that. Most of the time it’s hard for a fictional story to convince people. That’s not the case with the Aquaboard. It was a real ad about a real benefit of a real product. That’s why it was easier for it create an impact on the awareness and equity. Around 4000 interactions led to conversations and word of mouth that ultimately impacted Beko's "energy-efficiency equity" by +17%.

Aquaboard was born as a creative media execution idea. Especially for the outdoor platform. Outdoor medium is a classical part of advertising. However it is believed to be a little too conventional and limited lately. We wanted to break that. Because we believe it is still one of the best ways to “show” real things to real people and materialize nonphysical concepts like “efficiency”. So, this time, it was the outdoor medium that made this idea possible and executable.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

When you are dealing with a brief about energy efficiency and water scarcity, everyone in the modern society becomes your target audience. Especially the ones living in the metropolises like Istanbul, one of the largest cities of Turkey and the World. We wanted to reach the good people of Istanbul with this outdoor ad. Considering what we had was a single, hand crafted and precious output, we needed the best possible location to display it. After a searching process, we found it. We chose the exterior area of Istanbul’s most popular and luxurious shopping mall where people meet their friends, wait for a bus, park their cars and use the subway. Reality was the approach for this project. We wanted to create a real work about a real solution for a real global problem and show it to the real people in a real location.

Credits

Name Company Role
Uğur Çakır FP7/McCann Istanbul Chief Creative Officer
Cenk Öztunalı FP7/McCann Istanbul Creative Director
Aybars Gürlü FP7/McCann Istanbul Art Director
Korcan Yavuz FP7/McCann Istanbul Copywriter
Engin Ger FP7/McCann Istanbul Art Director
Yiğit Zigaloğlu FP7/McCann Istanbul Jr. Copywriter
Tahaab Rais FP7/MENA Regional Head of Strategic Planning
Zeynep Yağcı Yıldızlı FP7/McCann Istanbul Strategic Planning Director
Eren Kayserilioğlu FP7/McCann Istanbul Group Account Director
Pelin Toykan FP7/McCann Istanbul Account Manager
Zeynep Doğu FP7/McCann Istanbul Head of Production
Cansu Yılmaz FP7/McCann Istanbul Jr. Producer