2015 Promo & Activation

DO IT FOR MOM

Short List
TitleDO IT FOR MOM
BrandSPIES TRAVELS
Product/ServiceACTIVE HOLIDAY
Category C04. Travel, Leisure & Retail (incl. e-commerce & restaurants)
Entrant Company ROBERT/BOISEN & LIKE-MINDED Copenhagen, DENMARK
Advertising Agency ROBERT/BOISEN & LIKE-MINDED Copenhagen, DENMARK
Media Agency VIZEUM Copenhagen, DENMARK
Production Company GOBSMACK PRODUCTIONS Copenhagen, DENMARK
Credits
Name Company Position
Søren Christensen Robert/Boisen/Likeminded Strategist
Heinrich Vejlgaard Robert/Boisen/Likeminded Creative Director
René Sohn Kammersgaard Robert/Boisen/Likeminded Art Director
Gitte Andersen Robert/Boisen/Likeminded Account Manager
Christina Erritzøe Gobsmack Productions Producer
Cille Silverwood-Cope Gobsmack Productions Producer
Niels Nørløv Gobsmack Productions Director
Bastian Schiøtt Gobsmack Productions Director Of Photography
Simon Borch Gobsmack Productions Editor
Magnus Sveinn Jonsonn Gobsmack Productions Visual Effects
Lars Bo Kjær Sound design Audio Lounge
Simon Ravn Music
Henrik Lindstrand Music
Music Upright Music
Joakim Norman Molamil Creative Director
Ramiro Espada Molamil Interactive Developer
Jakob Elm Molamil Project manager
Rasmus Mikkelsen Be On Aps Nordic Account Manager
Mads Bech Larsen Radius Kommunikation A/s Account Director
Cecilie Valentin Radius Kommunikation A/s Consultant

The Brief

For most Danes Spies Travel is only equivalent to very relaxed holiday. However, research showed that many Danes find that boring and that they want active holidays instead. Spies has a great range within this assortment. Therefore, the challenge was to raise awareness and to promote active holidays. In 2014 Spies Travel launched the ‘Do it for Denmark’-campaign in order to promote city-trips by addressing the historical low birth rates in Denmark. To continue the highly successful campaign, we re-activated the massive audience by making a sequel. This time with a twist, that allowed us to focus on active holidays.

Campaign Success

Our creative take was that mothers that will never experience having grandchildren are the ones who suffer the most from the low birthrates. In an online film, we asked wannabe grandmas of Denmark to join forces. In order to give them a digital tool, we launched Spies Parent Purchase™. Here they could prepay active holidays online for their children and in-laws in order to create a sex-enhancing combo of workout and holiday that could lead to grandchildren. To show our commitment, we threw in discounts as well. Segmented social media content followed the online film and created relevant engagement and retargeting.

Describe the success of the promotion with both client and consumer including some quantifiable results

The campaign quickly went viral. Three weeks into the campaign (when this was written), the online film had a total of +8.500.000 views across Youtube, Facebook and internal players. +1 million are Danish views equivalent to 1 out of 5 Danes. The campaign has generated +600 news clippings internationally. More than +100 Danish media brought the campaign, which had a total reach of +600 million people. The total earned media so far is estimated at 11.3 million Euro. 1.6 million Euro was generated through Danish media alone creating a 5812% ROI on the Danish PR budget. The campaign has reached +140 million social timelines. More than 500.000 people has either commented, liked or shared so far, creating a social action rate of 6% (equivalent to ‘Epic split’. Note: 4% is considered highly viral). The early sales results are very positive with a +21% sales lift in the first two weeks.

Explain why the method of promotion was most relevant to the product or service

In order to sell more active holidays, Spies Travel joined forces with wannabe grandmas in the fight against Denmark's low birth rate. We introduced the promotional vehicle Spies Parent Purchase™ as a central part of the campaign. Here the wannabe grandmas could send their child on an active holiday in order to get a grandchild. The promotional vehicle was combined with attractive discounts and sex enhancing gifts for participants. It was launched through an online film and followed up by segmented social media content. This created relevant engagement within different target groups, whose online behavior had shown that were interested both in our content and in specific sports relevant to Spies’ assortment.