LIFEBOUYS WHO SAVE LIVES

TitleLIFEBOUYS WHO SAVE LIVES
BrandTRYGG-HANSA
Product/ServiceLIFEBOUYS/INSURANCE
Category B06. Use of Ambient Media: Small Scale
Entrant PERFECT FOOLS Stockholm, SWEDEN
Idea Creation PERFECT FOOLS Stockholm, SWEDEN
Media Placement PHD Stockholm, SWEDEN
Credits
Name Company Position
Anna-Maria Sjöberg Trygg-Hansa Campaign Manager
Emma Brandt-Johnsson Trygg-Hansa Head of Brand & Acquisition
Petter Lindkvist Trygg-Hansa Marketing Planning & Insight Manager
Mats Sundquist Trygg-Hansa Marketing Director
Hanna Axelsson Trygg-Hansa Communications Manager
Camilla Nordgren Trygg-Hansa Web Manager
Joseph Borenstein Trygg-Hansa PR Manager
Petter Träff Perfect Fools Account Director
Alexandra Gahnström Trygg-Hansa Spokes person Water Security
Ann Ystén Perfect Fools CEO/Client Director
Daniel Lunde Perfect Fools Creative/Art Director
Philip Arvidsson Perfect Fools Creative/Art Director
Magnus Ivansson Perfect Fools Creative/Copywriter
Klas Lusth Perfect Fools Executive Creative Director
Patrick Dry Perfect Fools Creative Director
Mirjam Krook Perfect Fools Designer
Josefin Enelid Roos Perfect Fools Producer
Maria Elmqvist Perfect Fools Research Planner
Rasmus Bjurström Perfect Fools Strategic Director

The Campaign

Every year, 14 people in Sweden are safely rescued with Trygg-Hansa's lifebuoys. Stories that are largely untold and can serve as good examples of the importance of the Trygg-Hansa initiative.

Creative Execution

Life buoys are usually named after the place where they are located. We renamed life buoys around Sweden after the people who have used them to save a fellow human being. We placed a plaque under each lifebuoy with a story about the incident. We also created three social films, where the life savers told their story, for wider spread online. The campaign was initiated in June 2017 when a lot of Swedes are close to water. We started off with six renamed lifebuoys that will remain at location indefinitely.

We increased awareness and liking of the brand (69%), but also consideration (+10%) and even the conversion rate (+6.5%) even though the campaign purpose was mainly branding. The public response was unequivocally positive.

Since 1954, the insurance company Trygg-Hansa has created an infrastructure of over 80 000 lifebuoys all over Sweden. They are literally everywhere. Waiting to save lives. Almost every lifebuoy has been part of a life saving incident. Stories that are untold. We chose specific lifebuoys that have saved lives as the media. We changed their name to the brave people who’ve used them and told their story. A friendly reminder of their importance.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

In order to remind the public about the importance of lifebuoys, and get more people to act in case of emergency, we re-named a number of lifebuoys after the people who’ve saved others from drowning and told their story.