Title	THE SAFETY CAKE
Brand	RENAULT
Product/Service	ROAD SAFETY
Category	A03. Durable Consumer Goods including Automotive
Entrant	MORTIERBRIGADE Brussels, BELGIUM
Idea Creation	MORTIERBRIGADE Brussels, BELGIUM
Media Placement	OMD Brussels, BELGIUM
PR	MORTIERBRIGADE Brussels, BELGIUM

Name	Company	Position
Nicolas Mouquet	mortierbrigade	copywriter
Geoffrey Masse	mortierbrigade	Art Director
Joost / Philippe / Jens Berends / De Ceuster / Mortier	mortierbrigade	creative directors

Why is this work relevant for Brand Experience & Activation?

Road safety is an important topic. But it isn’t a sexy one. Plenty of sensibilisation campaigns already exist and most of them rely heavily on the content of their message (be it humorous, emotional or shocking) and a lot less on how you experience it. With the Safety Cake we created something which directly influences the way you behave on the road. What started out as yet another sensibilisation briefing turned into an experience which made our roads a whole lot safer.

background

Situation Cars are getting safer every day thanks to new technologies becoming increasingly available on cars in every price range. Unfortunately, the people driving those cars aren’t changing as fast. So whilst our cars are getting safer, plenty of our drivers still maintain bad habits. Brief How do you make drivers realize that all the technology in the world won’t be any good if they still behave badly themselves? We had to make them understand that their behaviour behind the wheel is of vital importance when it comes to making our roads safer for everyone. Objectives - We aimed to make road safety a public issue again. This meant we had to ensure a broad coverage amongst Belgian drivers. - We wanted to actually change behaviour, so we had to find a way to get inside people’s cars.

Describe the creative idea (20% of vote)

Our insight is as simple as it is true: people drive safer when they’re transporting food. Whether you just went to get some Chinese take-out or stopped by a drive-thru window, you’re always that tad bit extra cautious when you’re driving around with food on the passenger seat. We translated this into our core idea: Treat your friends like a cake. Because if everybody would be driving around as if they had a fragile little cake next to them, our roads would be a whole lot safer. We created the Safety Cake: a cake specifically designed to make people drive safer since it can’t survive strong accelerations, fast turns, bumps and hard braking.

Describe the strategy (20% of vote)

In order to reach a broad audience we created short online videos describing all the kinds of driving the Safety Cake can’t handle and urging drivers to “treat their friends like a cake”. The cakes itself were distributed at dealerships and handed out to influencers. This way we actually got people to try it out themselves. A PR seeding strategy focusing on both national news outlets and online lifestyle magazines ensured the necessary media coverage on top of our limited paid efforts.

Describe the execution (30% of vote)

On august 16, the day after Ascention day we launched a teaser saying that a cake can save lives. On Friday the 30 the campaign was launched via PR, online and on social media and at the Renault dealers. Cakes were distributed and the campaign ran for two weeks.

List the results (30% of vote)

Thanks to the national and international interest in this curious Safety Cake, our campaign touched 64 different countries for a total reach of 44.6 million. And it increased road safety awareness on social media by 300%. It’s safe to say we put road safety back on the public agenda and made our roads safer in doing so.