Title	AMERICANSABROADVOTE.ORG
Brand	SF (THE SOCIALIST PEOPLE'S PARTY
Product/Service	INFORMATION CAMPAIGN
Category	B03. Use of Outdoor
Entrant	UNCLE GREY Copenhagen, DENMARK
Idea Creation	UNCLE GREY Copenhagen, DENMARK

Name	Company	Position
Thomas Ilum	Uncle Grey	Creative Director
Lukas Lund	Uncle Grey	Senior Art Director
Carl Angelo	Uncle Grey	Art Director
Carsten Bülow	Uncle Grey	CCO
Madeleine Tronbakken Naesborg	Uncle Grey	Account Director
Simon Naver	Unclegrey	Senior Art Director
Mathias Nielsen	Unclegrey	Motion Designer
Jimmy Blom	Unclegrey	Creative Director
Sophie Hotchkiss	Unclegrey	Copywriter
Frank Polauke	GreyWorks	Retoucher
Rasmus Mikkelsen	BeOn	Seeding Company
Henrik Sørensen	Out of Home Media	Media Company

The Campaign

A satirical and very public display of frustration, to be documented and seeded to the world media, making a clear statement of discontent, both nationally and internationally, with the hopes of reaching as many of the 8 million expat Americans as possible. We wrapped one of the busiest buses in Copenhagen with a political statement placed on the side of the bus. It read: AmericansAbroadVote.org and encouraged Americans living in Denmark to vote for the upcoming US presidential election. We also placed a huge portrait of Donald Trump above the wheels of the bus, with customized wheel caps looking like his eyeballs. When the bus rolled down the street, so did his eyes, displaying him as the lunatic he is. The execution ridiculing the state of the US presidential election was created to provoke a reaction in all eligible voters and through the website start their voting registration process.

Creative Execution

The ad was implemented on a single bus running on one of the major bus routes in Copenhagen, Denmark, passing National landmarks like the Government building, The American Embassy, and all central traffic hubs, exposing it to locals, tourists and expat heavy areas. The bus ran for two weeks, with the on-going PR and social campaign running from day one.

OTS: + 5.7 billion people Media impressions: +1 billion Earned media value of: + €18.2 million Article reads: +7.38M Social reach: +100M (only first stage of sharing, estimated higher) Social Actions: 342K 3.1 million views on user generated content like GIFs on Reddit, Imgur and those alike. 125 global news media publishers covering the story. All of this with zero media spend.

We wanted to create a very public, official and visible piece of communication as the base for a socially distributed campaign. The execution on the side of a bus not only let us create a media specific, satirical and provocative execution, but also gave the message a more official gravitas. The bus execution was supported by a carefully orchestrated PR, and social media strategy maximizing its reach.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

Based on the excruciatingly tight election polls and knowing that there are almost 8 million eligible American voters living abroad that don’t vote, the strategy was to activate as many expat voters as possible. By starting a conversation the rest of the world wasn’t invited into, SF took it upon them-selves to raise the issue on behalf of America, and spread the word. Starting in Denmark and then the rest of the world, through carefully orchestrated PR, and social media. The approach was to highlight the ridiculous nature of the elections through satire with a serious message, to get out and vote, whether you are an expat in Denmark or anywhere else in the world.