LAND OF EMOJIS

Short List
TitleLAND OF EMOJIS
BrandSAMSUNG
Product/ServiceSAMSUNG GALAXY
Category C07. Co-Creation & User Generated Content
Entrant CHEIL WORLDWIDE Frankfurt, GERMANY
Idea Creation CHEIL WORLDWIDE Frankfurt, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Roland Rudolf Cheil Worldwide Germany Chief Creative Officer
Joern Welle Cheil Worldwide Germany Executive Creative Director
Arnab Biswas Cheil Worldwide Germany Creative Director
Annika D'Ambrogio Cheil Worldwide Germany Senior Copywriter
Chris Druecks Cheil Worldwide Germany Senior Copywriter
Sonja Fritsch Cheil Worldwide Germany Art Director
Alexander Neusinger Cheil Worldwide Germany Art Director
Trang Le Thu Cheil Worldwide Germany Junior Art Director
Christoph Fischer Cheil Worldwide Germany Head of Development
Marco Heutink Cheil Worldwide Germany Senior UX Designer
Sebastian Staats Cheil Worldwide Germany Senior Developer
Cindy Steigerwald Cheil Worldwide Germany Senior Producer
Moritz Gillrath Cheil Worldwide Germany Agency Producer
Volker Selle Cheil Worldwide Germany Chief Executive Officer
Hong-Seuk Lim Cheil Worldwide Germany Business Director
Stefan Prilip Cheil Worldwide Germany Account Director
Roman Laufer Cheil Worldwide Germany Senior Director Public Relations
Jan Dörmann Cheil Worldwide Germany Senior Project Manager
Valentina Zehe Cheil Worldwide Germany Project Manager
Anna Mrass Cheil Worldwide Germany Project Manager
Malte Nowag Cheil Worldwide Germany Retail Designer

The Campaign

Emojis are the world’s new universal language, transcending borders and cultures. Encouraging and helping users to make emojis on his or her smartphone as personal and diverse as possible, the user-generated, personalized emojis function as a message for and proof of diversity in German society, spread with every single chat from users' smartphones.

Execution

By automatically turning selfies into individual emojis, Samsung gathered Germans of all kinds around a literally iconic message of positivity. Hundreds of thousand people started to use their own customized emojis sets, promoting diversity with every chat or post over the course of more than three months. The campaign launched via a print ad in Germany’s largest newspaper, BILD, and posts on Samsungs facebook channel, which directed the audience to the campaign website and to download the mobile app. Interactive displays and public installations in Germany’s capital, Berlin, amplified the online-campaign. Finally, on the annual national “Day of Germany Unity”, all emojis where brought together on the Brandenburg Gate in a spectacular light show, creating a new sign of diversity.

• Total media impressions: 67 million • Social reach: 20 million • App downloads during campaign activation: over 41000 • Unique emojis created by users: 220.000+ • Market share increase during campaign period: 7%

The Situation

“Land of Emojis” is a brand and PR campaign for Samsung that uses the smartphone as an "earned media" tool to seamlessly connect mobile, web and outdoor channels, creating media attention and direct consumer engagement while promoting the brand ideals.

The Strategy

The brand proposition of Samsung Galaxy centers around being an approachable “people’s brand” with the mission to create meaningful innovations which help consumers overcome technological as well as barriers in life. It’s product range covers a great variety of devices, reflecting on different needs and a diverse set of consumers. Taking a visible stand against newly rising populism and racism in Germany, Samsung reflects the core values of the brand by proving that while you can be wildly different – you can also understand each other at the same time. Applying innovation and creative self-expression, Samsung can champion the cause for unity, diversity and inclusiveness in a manner that fits the brand and empowers the individual consumer.