Winners & Shortlists

LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE USING SUBTITLES

TitleLEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE USING SUBTITLES
BrandBVN
Product/ServiceBVN
Category A01. USE OF SCREENS IN A MEDIA CAMPAIGN
Entrant Company MORTIERBRIGADE Brussels, BELGIUM
Advertising Agency MORTIERBRIGADE Brussels, BELGIUM
Media Agency VRT Brussels, BELGIUM
Production Company 2FRAME Zaventem, BELGIUM
Credits
Name Company Position
Jens Mortier/Joost Berends/Philippe De Ceuster Mortierbrigade Creative Director
Vincent D' Halluin Mortierbrigade Strategy
Joost Berends Mortierbrigade Creation
Willem De Wachter Mortierbrigade Creative
Kwint De Meyer Mortierbrigade Creative
Eline Rousseau Mortierbrigade Agency Producer
Sibylle De Backere/Sam Sisk/Zoë Lambooy BVN Client

Results and Effectiveness

THE RESULTS: • Reached more than 3,000,000 people. • The teletext page was used over 89,000 times BVN. Makes people abroad feel at home.

Creative Execution

BVN wanted to help these people to integrate in their new or temporary homeland by teaching them the foreign languages using subtitles. So we created a new teletext page 887 that offered subtitles in French, Spanish and Portuguese. And we put them on the most popular programs: Thuis (N°1 soap opera), Dagelijkse Kost (n°1 cooking show) and FC De Kampioenen (n°1 comedy). This way people could see, read and practice these new languages while watching their favourite programme, again and again, on digital TV until they speak the language like the locals. The tool was launched on national television with three commercials and an introduction by the most popular prime time presenters.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

BVN is a satellite TV channel of the Flemish public broadcaster. People who go on holiday can then still watch their favourite local programmes. To create awareness just before the holiday season that BVN makes you feel at home everywhere.