| Title | GIRLS OF PARADISE |
| Brand | MOUVEMENT DU NID |
| Product/Service | CHARITY ASSOCIATION AGAINST PROSTITUTION |
| Category |
A08. Charities, Public Health & Safety, Public Awareness Messages |
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Entrant
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McCANN PARIS, FRANCE
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Idea Creation
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McCANN PARIS, FRANCE
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PR
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McCANN PARIS, FRANCE
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Production
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MEDIALAB TECHNOLOGY Paris, FRANCE
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Additional Company
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MRM WORLDWIDE Clichy, FRANCE
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Additional Company 2
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CAPITAINE PLOUF Paris, FRANCE
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Credits
| Riccardo Fregoso |
McCANN Paris |
Executive Creative Director |
| Julien Chiapolini |
McCANN Paris |
Executive Creative Director |
| Christophe Rambaux |
McCANN Paris |
Art Director |
| Gilles Ollier |
McCANN Paris |
Copywritter |
| Bruno Tallent |
McCANN Paris |
CEO McCANN France |
| Fiona Ferrier-Weil |
McCANN Paris |
International Account Manager |
| Coline Déchelette |
McCANN Paris |
Project Manager |
| Selim Boukhanef |
McCANN Paris |
Digital Account Director |
| Grégoire Talbot |
McCANN Paris |
Digital Project Manager |
| Véronique Leblanc |
McCANN Paris |
Art Buyer |
| Delphine Devaux |
McCANN Paris |
Art buyer |
| Isabelle Créchet |
McCANN Paris |
Producer |
| Sarah Woodcock |
McCANN Paris |
Producer |
| Caroline de Genis |
McCANN Paris |
Post-producer |
| Dragan Kontic |
MRM//McCANN |
Chief Technology Officer |
| Vianney de Villiers |
MRM//McCANN |
Responsable d'Exploitation |
| Clément Hardouïn |
MRM//McCANN |
Technical Project Manager |
| Pierre-Yves Chassaigne |
MRM//McCANN |
Front end developer |
| Agnieszka Kozbial |
Medialab Technology |
Managing director |
| Mickaël Vo Y Phong |
Medialab Technology |
Editor |
| Nicolas Gras |
Medialab Technology |
Editor |
| Fasutine Boussicot |
Medialab Technology |
Production Manager |
| Tom Buisseret |
Zeyneprepresents |
Photographer |
| Pauline Darley |
La Crime |
Photographer |
| Maniacha |
B agency |
Make-up |
| Olivier Duperrin |
Olivier Duperrin |
Casting Director |
| Sess |
mademoisellemu |
Make-up |
| Capitaine Plouf |
Capitaine Plouf |
Sound Producer |
The Campaign
We created a fake escort website, girlsofparadise.sex, on which the girls are already dead, but the clients don't know it yet. Each story is a reconstruction of a real case. When the potential client called or started to chat with one of them he thought was a real prostitute, he was tricked into hearing her real, tragic story.
Creative Execution
We asked 10 actresses to embody 10 characters based on the tragic stories of real-life prostitutes, victims of the system. We created girlsofparadise.sex, a website with the look and feel of a real escort website, bought the domain name, and published a few client posts on dedicated forums to attract potential clients to our site. In parrallel, we set up a call center to answer incoming phone calls and respond to chat and text messages. The call center was open for a full week. Today the website is still online, a robot answers live chat requests informing clients what happens behind the scenes when they pay for sex.
Results
The platform was very effective considering the fact that there was no paid media for the campaign and we used only local channels to promote the project. Just in the first week we received more than 600 phone calls and over 3000 phone calls throughout the whole month and thousands of texts and chat conversations. Concerning the website we had 5 155 one time visitors the first month. Of all the visitors 73,2% of them interacted by chat, spending an average time of 1 minute 14 seconds.
On April 6, 2016, the French deputies voted a law that penalizes clients of prostitution: the best result the Mouvement du Nid could wish for.
Finally, when the association unveiled the story of the operation, we had amazing press coverage in France and also, throughout the world with more than 150 articles worldwide in major media, creating a true social debate about prostitution.
This campaign puts the client at the heart of the idea; confronting him with the reality of prostitution was a powerful way of making him realize the part he plays in victimizing women.
The association's main objective is to prevent young generations from entering the prostitution system. To do so, we decided to show that clients are actually accomplices of the system: when they pay for sex, they actually promote the violence that prostitutes suffer from everyday. For us, the more powerful way to demonstrate this was to use true stories of prostitutes who were murdered or injured by a client or their pimp.