SILENT PROTEST

TitleSILENT PROTEST
BrandAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Product/ServiceAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Category B02. Mobile Apps
Entrant SAATCHI & SAATCHI POLAND Warsaw, POLAND
Idea Creation SAATCHI & SAATCHI POLAND Warsaw, POLAND
Idea Creation 2 SAATCHI & SAATCHI Singapore, SINGAPORE
Idea Creation 3 INTERACTIVE SOLUTIONS Warsaw, POLAND
Media Placement SAATCHI & SAATCHI POLAND Warsaw, POLAND
Media Placement 2 INTERACTIVE SOLUTIONS Warsaw, POLAND
Credits
Name Company Position
Kamil Majewski Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Creative Director
Patrycja Lukjanow Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Associate Creative Director
Piotr Osiński Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Associate Creative Director
Piotr Osinski Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Copywriter
Patrycja Lukjanow Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Art Director
Paulina Wachowiak Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Regional Account Supervisor
Julia Dziurbiejko Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Regional Business Director
Dominic Stallard Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore ECD / CCO
Daryl Goh Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore Account Director
Qianhui Guay Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore Account Executive
Joanna Nejfeld Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Senior Account Executive
Tomasz Nowak Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Digital production
Michał Księżuk Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Creative technologist
Piotr Czarnecki Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions HTML developer
Rafał Bauer Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Digital Design Director
Magdalena Barszcz Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions TV Producer
Lee Scharrock Saatchi & Saatchi Director of global creative PR
Steve Walls Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore Executive Planning Director
Rafał Bauer Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Designer
Anna Dudek Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Designer
Tomasz Szczyciński Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Designer
Mateusz Wisznicki Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Designer
Ewelina Eliasz Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Designer
Aleksander Bieroński Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Designer
Marcin Sudak Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Designer
Agnieszka Lipa-Wosko Saatchi & Saatchi Poland / Interactive Solutions Designer

The Campaign

We created Silent Protest – the first mobile app utilizing the most basic, and symbolic functionality of every smartphone in the world – silent mode, to increase the volume on important human right issues around the world. Silent Protest is a mobile app that lends your voice to people who have been unfairly silenced for their beliefs, whenever you switch your phone to silent. The app sends pre-approved protest letters from your personal email account and shares the messages and stories of those who desperately need to be heard, on your Facebook and twitter feeds. Silent Protest is not only a new convenient way of supporting Amnesty International causes. Utilizing the functionality of the ‘silent button’ to help those who have been silenced is a strong symbol, now owned by Amnesty International.

Creative Execution

The app itself is very simple and intuitive - you choose the causes you feel passionate about and the channels in which you want to give the app access to. From that moment on whenever your phone is on silent, the app sends protest letters from your email address to government bodies and embassies on the behalf of people you have chosen to give your voice to, as well as sharing their messages and stories on your Facebook and twitter feeds. The app algorithm limits the posts and emails per day, to make sure it’s never intrusive. To spread awareness of the app, we introduced it in places where turning your phone to silent is natural - in conference rooms all around the world and in cinema complexes just before the movie began. We built 2 versions of the application, working on the most popular systems – Android and iOS.

The project is still ongoing. Yet we already managed to help get one person released from prison, achieve hundreds of thousands online impressions and have Silent Protest app users all over the world. The campaign is global and will be now adapted by local Amnesty International offices with new causes added in the upcoming months.

Our target audience was people who wanted to help more, without having to do more. They were high on empathy but low on the fury needed to drive real protest. They were heavy smart-phone users, with high data plans. Interrupting their screen time wasn't an option. But an app that worked while the phone was 'resting' (cinema, meetings, etc.) was the perfect platform for us. These were people who saw their friends and followers as an audience, who saw themselves as a media channel, and told us that they were prepared to endorse and amplify our message, as long as the process wasn't too laborious and that the message didn't feel like spam. We developed an app that worked only when you turned your phone to silent - sending out messages to your contacts - telling them the stories of Political Prisoners who have been silenced too.