HEADS UP!

TitleHEADS UP!
BrandAOK
Product/ServiceAOK BACK HEALTH PROGRAMS
Category I03. User Experience
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

Creative Execution

By creating an ad that included news content from the website stern.de, “Heads up!” demonstrates an innovative and so far unseen way of pointing the problem “text neck” out to the smartphone users. Via the attitude sensor of the smartphone the mobile ad detected the angle in which the smartphone was held. As soon as the smartphone was held in a healthy angle, the news on the website stern.de got readable to the users. Once they stopped holding the smartphone upright, the news were not readable anymore and a call to action motivated the users to hold the smartphone upright.

The mobile ad “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.

“Heads Up!” is the first mobile ad that reached the user right at the core of the problem: while using a 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. As a result users could book preventative AOK back health programs.