Title | ABORTIONTRAVEL |
Brand | CELEM (EUROPEAN WOMEN'S LOBBY) |
Product/Service | SPANISH COORDINATION FOR THE EUROPEAN WOMEN'S LOBBY |
Category |
A04. AMBIENT MEDIA: LARGE SCALE |
Entrant Company
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DDB SPAIN Madrid, SPAIN
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Advertising Agency
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DDB SPAIN Madrid, SPAIN
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Credits
Jose Mª Roca De Viñals |
DDB Spain |
Chief Creative Officer |
Guillermo Santaisabel |
DDB Spain |
Executive Creative Director |
Javier Urbaneja |
Ddb Spain |
Technology Creative Director |
Cristina Rodriguez |
DDB Spain |
Art Director |
Federico Arce |
DDB Spain |
Btl Team |
Fernando Alvarez |
DDB Spain |
Btl Team |
Carlos Guerrero |
DDB Spain |
Digital Programmer |
Plug/In |
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Digital Programmer Studio |
Tesauro |
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Production Company |
Mariona Cruz |
DDB Spain |
Account Supervisor |
Gabriela Castro |
DDB Spain |
Account Executive |
Alberto Escudero |
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Photographer |
Jorge De La Hermosa |
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Photographer |
The Brief
On 20 December,the Spanish Government announced that it would be making changes to the
current law on abortion. These measures,will make it one of the most restrictive in the world;even
prohibiting the termination of a pregnancy in cases where the foetus is malformed.Worldwide
media are debating the measures the Spanish Government wishes to take,and denouncing them
as an abuse of power.Women in Spain took the streets on a massive scale,but the Government
paid them no heed.Our goal,was to collect signatures,mobilise people in Spain against the
changes to the abortion law,and get them to reopen the debate to prevent the proposed
changes,unthinkable in most countries of the world,from being passed.
Creative Execution
The campaign attracted the media's and the public's attention because it highlighted aspects
which had not been previously analysed in the debate and the civil protests:
- What it would cost women obliged to travel outside Spain to have an abortion (both economic
and emotionally).
-That those who had the resources could continue having abortions despite the law.
-That this situation could be very big business.
By placing the public in the aftermath of what our customer was seeking to prevent, there was a
sense of outrage leading to a massive media and public response.
However, its most important aspect was that the campaign reached the Chamber of Deputies,
reopening the debate on the proposed changes to the abortion law.
Describe the creative solution to the brief/objective.
To illustrate this reality we created a fictitious agency specialising in arranging trips to have an
abortion outside Spain: Abortion Travel, 'the agency that should never exist.'
We opened the physical agency in premises in Madrid with the external appearance and
operations of a normal travel agency.
The agency was the campaign's headquarters: a press conference was held there, women were
informed about the consequences of the proposed changes to the law, and signatures were
directly collected to prevent it being passed.
We expected the physical travel agency to make headlines and collect around 5,000 signatures
over the three days it remained open.
Results
35,000+ signatures on our petition at change.org while the physical agency was open (collecting
thousands more signatures online later on).
A hit on national and international media with a ROI of €1,044,103 and an audience of more than
38.5 million people. 3 million impressions on Twitter. In addition, the agency was visited by figures
from the worlds of culture and politics. The campaign reached the Spanish Chamber of Deputies
where parliamentarians and the Vice President of Congress were obliged to address it in
statements. We managed to reopen the debate and made the ruling party rethink the law.