Winners & Shortlists

WATERSAVERS

TitleWATERSAVERS
BrandUNILEVER/ WWF/ MISSING CHAPTER FOUNDATION
Product/ServiceWATERSPAARDERS (WATERSAVERS)
Category B08. CHARITIES, FUNDRAISING, APPEALS, NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS, PUBLIC HEALTH & SAFETY, PUBLIC AWARENESS
Entrant Company DDB & TRIBAL WORLDWIDE Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Advertising Agency DDB & TRIBAL WORLDWIDE Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Credits
Name Company Position
Gijs Sluijters DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Creative/Concept
Joris Tol DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Creative/Concept
Manfred Bik DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Strategy Director
Dylan De Backer DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Executive Creative Director
Joris Kuijpers DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Executive Creative Director
Jenny Johannesson DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Designer
Joris Blomjous DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Motion Design
Nelleke Van Der Maas/Marieke Kuijl DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Design
Christian Borstlap Part Of A Bigger Plan Illustrator
Jan Willem Heining DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam User Experience Designer
David Vogel DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam User Experience Director
Menno Schipper DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Executive Creative Director/Concept
Nils Taildeman DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Creative Involved
Ingeborg Van De Wouw DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Account Director
Vincent Breedveld DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Account Director
Davine Van Heese DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Agency Producer
Steven Beukers/Susanne Meier DDB/Tribal Worldwide/Amsterdam Project Management
Elements Interactive Digital Production
De Geluiderij Music
Green Dream Productions Video Production

Results and Effectiveness

263 Dutch elementary schools are running the Watersavers programme. In the first year more than 15.000 unique bottles were made. This means more than 15.000 reminders in showers that remind people to turn off the tap on time. 80% of the participating families review the campaign as positive and relevant. But most importantly: More than 60% of the participating families now take shorter showers.

Creative Execution

The heart of the campaign is a unique school programme that educates and co-creates with children who design their own label for a shower product with a message for their parents to take shorter showers. Through the channels of the WWF and Dutch Royal Princess Laurentien van Oranje-Nassau (Missing Chapter Foundation) we approached 40 elementary schools to start with. Many teachers and school management teams reacted positively and implemented the programme with enthusiasm. To preserve behavioural change in the longer run, fun measurement tools (including a timetable booklet and a fun mobile stopwatch app) help keep track of shower times. The data can be downloaded by teachers to follow up in class. All campaign components come together in an online platform – where even children who aren’t taking part at school can make their own labels. Watersavers even managed to get its own National Day on September 4th.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

Unilever & the WWF partnered in 2013 to reach one big, shared goal: reduce average shower time in The Netherlands from 9 minutes to 5. People don’t realize that heating up water is a huge source of Co2 emissions. Target audience: Families with children. Unilever produces many consumer goods, including foods and detergents. The WWF has got a big kids’ club called the Rangers in which lots of Dutch children are enrolled. We strategically chose children to help deliver the message as they can act as change agents in the family. The packaging of shower products were the perfect way to reach people in the bathroom. We used family-relevant Unilever brands as a medium and the child-drawn labels (no logos shown) on shower products worked as little billboards in the shower.