HEADS UP!

TitleHEADS UP!
BrandAOK
Product/ServiceAOK BACK HEALTH PROGRAMS
Category B02. Use of Mobile Devices
Entrant Company SERVICEPLAN Munich, GERMANY
Advertising Agency SERVICEPLAN Munich, GERMANY
Advertising Agency 2 PLAN.NET Munich, GERMANY
Media Agency PLAN.NET Munich, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Alexander Schill Serviceplan Chief Creative Officer
Markus Maczey Plan.net Executive Creative Director
Axel Thomsen Plan.net Executive Creative Director
Cornelia Blasy-steiner Plan.net Executive Creative Director
Christoph Bohlender Serviceplan Copywriter
Carina Disch Plan.net Copywriter
Friederike Froehlich Plan.net Copywriter
Richard Wegele Plan.net Art Director/Graphic Design/Screendesign
Verena Wenisch Plan.net Account Director
Philipp Schmidt Knutschmidt.de Programmer
Philipp Von Mauch Plan.net Programmer
Maximilian Janda Plan.net Agency Producer Film
Katrin Kalchschmid Plan.net Media Media Manager
Lorenz Langgartner Serviceplan Creative Innovation Manager
Franz Roeppischer Serviceplan Creative Innovation Manager

Brief Explanation

“Heads Up!” is the first interactive mobile ad that reached the user right at the core of the problem: namely while using the smartphone with a tilted head. On Back Health Day 2015 the news on the website stern.de were only visible when the smartphone was held in an upright and healthy position. Key element is the forced reaction by the users: once they revert to old habits and stopped holding the smartphone upright, the news were not readable anymore. As a result users could book preventative AOK back health programs.

Results and Effectiveness

“Heads Up!” created widespread awareness in the mobile internet. The mean residence time on the ad was almost 3 minutes – within a week thousands of visitors lifted their heads and alleviated the strain on their necks.

Creative Execution

By creating an ad that included actual news content from the website stern.de, “Heads Up!” demonstrates a new, innovative and so far unseen way of pointing the problem “text neck” out to the smartphone users. The mobile ad linked the users to a website where they could book preventative AOK back health programs.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

The campaign addressed all health-conscious smartphone users. By reaching users at the core of the problem “Heads Up!” created widespread awareness for the so called “text neck”. Both – new customers and existing customers – remembered the AOK not only as a trustworthy health insurance company, but also as a modern, preventive and an accommodative partner.