SAMSUNG HEARING HANDS

Bronze Eurobest

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TitleSAMSUNG HEARING HANDS
BrandSAMSUNG ELECTRONICS TURKEY
Product/ServiceSAMSUNG VIDEO BASED CALL CENTER FOR HEARING IMPAIRED
Category E01. Social Video
Entrant Company LEO BURNETT ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Advertising Agency LEO BURNETT ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Media Agency STARCOM MEDIAVEST GROUP Istanbul, TURKEY
Production Company DINAMO ISTANBUL, TURKEY
Credits
Name Company Position
Oktar Akın LEO BURNETT İSTANBUL Creative Director
Emrah Akay LEO BURNETT İSTANBUL Creative Director
Aren Selvioğlu LEO BURNETT İSTANBUL Creative Group Head
Öykü Berberoğlu LEO BURNETT İSTANBUL Creative Group Head
Sezgin Rızaoğlu LEO BURNETT İSTANBUL Copywriter
Deniz Çavdar LEO BURNETT İSTANBUL Copywriter
Meltem Gençkırlı LEO BURNETT İSTANBUL Account Director
Gözde Attila LEO BURNETT İSTANBUL Account Supervisor
Sevinç Öktem LEO BURNETT İSTANBUL Agency Producer
Erman Karahisarlı LEO BURNETT İSTANBUL Agency Producer
İsmail Seval LEO BURNETT İSTANBUL Planning Director
Berkant Avcı LEO BURNETT İSTANBUL Planner
Roda Sezer LEO BURNETT İSTANBUL Vice President

Creative Execution

Our stunt has launched on Samsung Türkiye's facebook page. That was all we ever needed to do. Everything grew organically. The video went immediately viral on different channels.

Video reached 17 million people with 8 million views on Facebook (Facebook, 2015). Campaign got 232 million impressions on Twitter in total and organically became 6th on Trending Topic List of Turkey. Campaign was iewed 32 million times on YouTube with a positive sentiment score of 96% (Somera, 2015). Many global channels including Times, Independent, Huffington Post, shared the campaign on their websites and social media accounts. The campaign reached the 2nd spot on BuzzFeeds trending videos list (Cohn&Wolfe, 2015). Most importantly, after the campaign Grand National Assembly of Turkey decided to review three different projects for deaf citizens http://bit.ly/1xuWr8Q).

Samsung is a very highly respected and successful brand in Turkey, but it needed to become much more closer emotionally. With this objective in mind, Samsung launched a video call center for deaf people. To communicate this initiative, we arranged an act. Turkey was not a very deaf-friendly country for the deaf people, as they had lots of obstacles in daily life. People were not aware of their troubles, even if he was their neighbor. The act was created to build awareness, to lead by example and ignite a change in the society. As this act would be a surprise, nothing initial was planned. To drive an emotional response, the best suited tool would be video. To spread it to larger audiences, especially the young-and-open minded people, Samsung’s Facebook page was the most costly and effective solution as the Samsung’s fans.