Winners & Shortlists

DIGITAL UNIFICATION

TitleDIGITAL UNIFICATION
BrandKANDIA DULCE
Product/ServiceCHOCOLATE BAR
Category A09. USE OF OTHER DIGITAL PLATFORMS IN A MEDIA CAMPAIGN
Entrant Company McCANN ERICKSON ROMANIA Bucharest, ROMANIA
Advertising Agency McCANN ERICKSON ROMANIA Bucharest, ROMANIA
Media Agency UM ROMANIA Bucharest, ROMANIA
Credits
Name Company Position
Adrian Botan Mccann Erickson Creative Chairman
Catalin Dobre Mccann Erickson Creative Director
Sebastian Olar Mccann Erickson Copywriter
Arpad Rezi Mccann Erickson Art Director
Raluca Voinea Bv Mccann Erickson Account Manager
Carmen Bistrian Bv Mccann Erickson Pr Corporate Manager
Adrian Constantin Mccann Erickson Digital Creative
Alina Medaru BV Mccann Erickson Account Executive
Alina Carasol Um Romania Media Manager
Nir Refuah Mrm Worldwide Creative Director
Florin Ciobanu Mrm Worldwide Art Director
Mihaela Coman Mrm Worldwide Copywriter
Ionela Buta Mrm Worldwide Account Director
Alina Marin MRM Worldwide Romania Account Manager
Laura Boboc MRM Worldwide Romania Account Executive

Results and Effectiveness

ROM’s flash campaign galvanized civic involvement. The conversation sparked and hundreds of people, businesses and organizations joined the movement to symbolically erase the border. 84 websites changed their country domain. 9 major media outlets unified their pages. Over 20 prime-time features earned us 800,000 euros in free media, generating over 7 million contacts. This led to a 6% increase in sales compared to same period of the last year.

Creative Execution

ROM, the unofficial foreign affairs minister of Romania, reenacts the union 95 years later in the only borderless place- THE INTERNET. On the 1st of the December 2013, sites with .md, the domain extension of Moldova will change to .ro, and the other way around, in a symbolic sign of solidarity.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

December the 1st is the National Day of Romania. It celebrates the Great Union of 1918, the day when all Romanian provinces were unified in The Greater Romania. Ironically, though, due to post-WW2 politics, today we are celebrating the Union from two different countries: Romania and the Republic of Moldova. With very physical borders contradicting the unity, how do you remind Romanians what December the 1st 1918 really felt like?