Winners & Shortlists

2014 Branded Content & Entertainment

THE 24 HOUR AD BREAK

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TitleTHE 24 HOUR AD BREAK
BrandDNB
Product/ServiceBANK / 24 HOUR CUSTOMER SERVICE
Category A02. NON-FICTION: SERIES OR FILM
Entrant Company TRY/APT/POL Oslo, NORWAY
Contributing Company TRY/APT/POL Oslo, NORWAY
Media Agency VIZEUM Oslo, NORWAY
Production Company TANGRYSTAN PRODUCTIONS AS Oslo, NORWAY
Credits
Name Company Position
Lars Joachim Grimstad TRY/Apt/POL Copywriter
Egil Pay TRY/Apt/POL Art Director
Arne Eggen TRY/Apt/POL Account Director
Diana Jandl Von Hall TRY/Apt/POL Account Manager
Janne Espevalen DNB Client
Mette Kristin Olsen DNB Client
Jonas Grønnern TRY/Apt/POL Copywriter
Lars/Kristian Harveg TRY/Apt/POL Art Director
Camilla Bjornhaug TRY/Apt/POL Copywriter
Preben Moan TRY/Apt/POL Art Director
Markus Lind TRY/Apt/POL Designer
Martin Klausen TRY/Apt/POL Designer
Lisa Canneaux TRY/Apt/POL Account Manager Apt
Terje Johnsen TRY/Apt/POL Designer
Andrea Eckerbom Tangrystan Director
Beate Tangre Tangrystan Producer
Rebecca Padoin Schroeder Tangrystan Producer
Camilla Von Borcke TRY/Apt/POL Account Manager
Thomas Sømoen TRY/Apt/POL Developer
Thomas Marriaga Tangrystan Editor

The Campaign

In Norway, Branded Content, is quite restricted in national media, and has to be clearly marked.

Results

CHALLENGE: Only 35% of norwegians knew DNB has a 24hour customer service - giving good advice all day and all night. OBJECTIVES: To raise awareness on DNBs 24hour customer service. STRATEGY: We bought every single commercial break - for 24 hours - on Norway’s biggest commercial TV channel, TV2. And we invited all of Norway to film and share THEIR best advice – on everything from A to Z. We received over 3000 clips of advice, and showed over 1000 clips on TV, creating over two and a half hour of unique user generated branded content. No advice were shown more than once. Every ad break, of course, had reminders of DNBs 24hour customer service - where you get good banking advice all day and night.

The audience were drawn to the content by ads on TV, asking Norwegians to film and share their best advice.

TV2 registered 25% less drop in ratings during ad breaks than usual. Over 200.000 people engaged in social media. (in a country of 5 million people) And best of all: Awareness DNB 24hour customer service increased from 35% to 72%