NOT SO DRUNKEN STATUSES

TitleNOT SO DRUNKEN STATUSES
BrandPOLISH COALITION FOR DIABETES & NOVO NORDISK PHARMA
Product/ServiceAWARENESS CAMPAIGN
Category B04. Fundaraising & Advocacy
Entrant Company VML POLAND Warsaw, POLAND
Advertising Agency VML POLAND Warsaw, POLAND
Credits
Name Company Position
Lukasz Szczybelski VML Poland Creative Director
Marcin Strzalkowski VML Poland Creative Director
Marta Jarkiewicz VML Poland Account Manager
Magdalena Siarkowska VML Poland Strategic Planner

The Brief

The aim of the campaign was to draw attention to the problem of hypoglycemia and educate as many Poles as possible on what it is and what its symptoms are, and on what to do when it occurs in patients suffering from diabetes.

Creative Execution

The aim of the campaign was to educate as many Poles as possible on what hypoglycemia is and what its symptoms are, and on what to do when it occurs in patients suffering from diabetes. hypoglycemia is a complication faced by people suffering from diabetes, of whom there are more than 3,000,000 in Poland. Its symptoms are often confused with the state of alcoholic intoxication. We decided to reconstruct an episode of hypoglycemia in the Facebook statuses of people suffering from diabetes, see how their friends would react confusing a status written in a state of hypoglycemia with a status written under the influence of alcohol, and thus cleverly educate them on the symptoms of hypoglycemia, so that they don’t confuse it with alcoholic intoxication ever again.

The approximate reach of the content published as part of the campaign in the social media: 600,000 The number of the website’s views with minimum promotional support: 36,322 The average duration of a visit to the website: 00:01:50 The campaign was noticed in the media and information about it was featured by the largest Polish web portals, including onet.pl, thanks to which thousands of Poles learned what hypoglycemia is.

We asked patients and their invited friends, and online KOLs, to post statuses generated via a special online translator available at www.stophipo.pl on their Facebook walls on the same day. The written statuses lookd like written under the influence of alcohol and ware marked by the #hyp hashtag. All those posting 'drunk statuses' had one task – wait for their friends' reactions. The reactions were obvious: questions about how much the person had drunk. After some time, the campaign's participants explained their state by redirecting those 'punked' to www.stophipo.pl. It turned out that it's easy to confuse hypoglycemia with intoxication.