ASTRAZENECA CORPORATE DIGITAL PLATFORM

TitleASTRAZENECA CORPORATE DIGITAL PLATFORM
BrandASTRAZENECA
Product/ServiceASTRAZENECA
Category D01. Health & Wellness: Corporate Image & Communication
Entrant DIGITASLBi London, UNITED KINGDOM
Idea Creation DIGITASLBi London, UNITED KINGDOM
Credits
Name Company Position
Mario Forgione DigitasLBi Client Director
Julian Cross DigitasLBi Executive Creatieve Director
Chris Barnes DigitasLBi UX Director
David Sanderson DigitasLBi Programme Manager
Chris Keetch DigitasLBi Technical Director
Alex Holmes DigitasLBi Design Director
Zach Sheppard DigitasLBi Designer
Andrea Wirth DigitasLBi Designer
David Delaney DigitasLBi UX Lead
Nicola Waters DigitasLBi Lean Application Developer
Paul Holiday DigitasLBi Application Developer
Matt Hobbs DigitasLBi Lead Interface Developer
Mathew Hawley DigitasLBi Application Developer
Aaron Faber DigitasLBi Interface Developer
Edward MacDonald DigitasLBi Lead Test Engineer
Arthur Morris DigitasLBi Test Engineer
Mauricio Reyes DigitasLBi Test Engineer
Richard Rae DigitasLBi Service Delivery Manager
David Dekker DigitasLBi Technology Partner
Francesco Brenci DigitasLBi Interface Developer
Marieke Bowman DigitasLBi Project Manager
Lee Ryan DigitasLBi Project Manager
Joe Aylesbury DigitasLBi Senior Technical Search Manager
Dana Mayer DigitasLBi Senior Analyst
Ian Stromsmoe DigitasLBi Client Director
Leanne Goodwin DigitasLBi Account Director

The Campaign

We needed to tackle some myths head on and reveal that AstraZeneca were genuinely different from other pharmas. We developed a creative vision to position AstraZeneca as ‘#1 for potential partners and recruits’, through bringing their amazing science stories and people to the fore.

Creative Execution

We worked closely with some of AstraZeneca’s scientists to bring to life a variety of cutting-edge scientific stories, through words, videos, animation and photography. The user journeys and experience are optimised to meet the requirements of varied user groups while ensuring the site promotes the science-led ethos of AstraZeneca. The engaging content and experience ensure core audiences gain a real insight into AstraZeneca and arm them with enough information to make an informed decision about partnering and recruitment opportunities, before being efficiently handed off to other relevant touchpoints within the AstraZeneca digital ecosystem. The site works on three primary breakpoints (small, medium-up, large-up), as well as a small set of more specific breakpoints for module edge-cases to optimise the website for each user across a wide range of devices. The combination of inspiring, engaging content and a mobile-first approach means the site offers a truly immersive experience across all devices.

After just over six months since going live the new site achieved the following: • Increased by over four times the volume of traffic to the careers site (from 7% to 21%) • Reduced the site-wide bounce-rate by 18% • Created a 23% uplift in the number of core users that agree the website ‘communicates that AstraZeneca is science-led) – comparison study before / after launch • Increased the number of visitors to the IR content by 6% Performance against the key metrics continues to rise.

INSIGHT During an extensive discovery phase we established the biggest challenge for AstraZeneca was to overcome the often ill-informed, negative perceptions of the Pharmaceutical industry (compared to Academic research institutions) held by many scientists. STRATEGY In order to dispel the myths we developed a strategy that focused on the science. We developed a creative vision to position AstraZeneca as ‘#1 for potential partners and recruits’, through bringing their amazing science stories and people to the fore.