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BUNT SPENDEN

TitleBUNT SPENDEN
BrandLSVD LESBEN UND SCHWULENVERBAND DEUTSCHLAND
Product/ServiceBLOOD DONATIONS
Category C08. CHARITIES, FUNDRAISING, APPEALS, NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS, PUBLIC HEALTH & SAFETY, PUBLIC AWARENESS
Entrant Company DDB GROUP GERMANY Berlin, GERMANY
Advertising Agency DDB GROUP GERMANY Berlin, GERMANY
Production Company MR BOB FILMS Berlin, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Eric Schoeffler DDB Group Chief Creative Officer
Matthias Schmidt DDB Executive Creative Director
Veit Moeller/Nils Haseborg DDB Creative Director
Andrew Morgan/Ricardo Müller/Lucio Regner/Jacopo Biorcio DDB Art Director
Alice Bottaro/Marc Lüdemann/Vesna Koselj/Lydia Willie DDB Copywriter
Constanze Schmidt/Nele Opel DDB Account Manager
Andrew Morgan DDB Illustration
Caroline Heinrich DDB Animation
Ben Föhr/Max Penk/Daniel Krebs Mr.bob Films Producer
Bleech Programming
Marc Kaufholz DDB Screen Desgn
Fabian Nöthe DDB Ux Director
Samir Belhsen DDB User Experience Designer

The Brief

In Germany, bi- and homosexual men are not allowed to donate blood. To send a strong message to the German Medical Association responsible for the ban, we had to involve as many people as possible in demanding change.

Creative Execution

Each signature filled the red stripe of the LGBT flag in real-time with a new drop. Supporters could sign on the website and via mobile and immediately witness their impact on the interactive flag.

Describe the creative solution to the brief/objective.

We started “Bunt Spenden”, an interactive petition that acts against this discrimination. To represent the missing blood we stripped off the red of the rainbow flag and hoisted it on our website and on digital billboards around the city: 25.000 signatures were needed to refill the red stripe.

Results

The 25.000 signatures needed where reached in one week - and even more kept arriving. The project started an important public discussion on social media and on national and international blogs and newspapers, winning over influencers like Germany’s first outed football star Thomas Hitzlsperger. In the end, the signatures needed were presented to the German Medical Association.