| Title | STOP DSI |
| Brand | SOCIAL PARTY SWITZERLAND |
| Product/Service | ELECTION CAMPAIGN |
| Category |
E03. Innovative Use of Social or Community |
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Entrant
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FREUNDLICHE GRüSSE Zürich, SWITZERLAND
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Idea Creation
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FREUNDLICHE GRüSSE Zürich, SWITZERLAND
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Credits
| Pascal Deville |
Freundliche Grüsse |
Creative Direction |
| Res Matthys |
Freundliche Grüsse |
Copywriter |
| Samuel Textor |
Freundliche Grüsse |
Creative Direction |
| Samuel Textor |
Freundliche Grüsse |
Creative Direction |
| Nadine Mojado |
Freundliche Grüsse |
Art Direction |
| Nadine Mojado |
Freundliche Grüsse |
Art Direction |
| Erwan Eydt |
Freundliche Grüsse |
Pragramming |
The Campaign
We discovered an uprising building against the radical initiative, initiated by the young people who usually do not vote. This battle started to take over social media. The uprising from the young and educated dominated online media, Facebook and Twitter. What they all had in common was: links! So we came up with the strategy of using all these links to share our message. The idea: a URL shortener to spread the message ‚Stop DSI‘. The message was transported in the shared Short-Url and more importantly, the call showed up for two seconds when the link was clicked and – then disappeared.
Creative Execution
The Tool was launched just a week before election day under the domain Stopd.si. The domain with its URL-shortener-service was spread by the campaign managers, activists and influencers over Facebook and Twitter. The tool went viral very quickly since the ‚Stop DSI‘-message was transported in the shared Short-Url. But more importantly, the call showed up for two seconds when the link was clicked and – then disappeared.
The website went viral within hours and recorded 20’000 unique visitors within days. In the week before the election, over 7000 links were shortened, displaying the message to hundreds of thousands of people. The message even got across people who are typically not interested in political topics. Against the predictions the Swiss people clearly voted ‚NO' to the radical initiative. The Url shortener helped spread the messages of the people who swayed the election in a last-ditch effort.
We wanted to use the energy and the momentum that was brewing on the Internet shortly before election day. A revolt of the young, educated, digitally savvy generation of Switzerland. Their medium: The Internet and social media. With the URL shortener, we gave them a simple but strong tool to fight this threat. And also to reach people in their environment that are otherwise not susceptible to political messages. The ‚Stop DSI‘-message was not just a statement but also a call to action and a reminder to people who overslept the polls generally.