PREVENTIOPHOBIA

TitlePREVENTIOPHOBIA
BrandFELIX BURDA FOUNDATION
Product/ServiceCOLON CANCER SCREENING
Category B02. Non-profit / Foundation-led Education & Awareness
Entrant SERVICEPLAN GERMANY Munich, GERMANY
Idea Creation SERVICEPLAN GERMANY Munich, GERMANY
Media Placement SERVICEPLAN GERMANY Munich, GERMANY
Production NAMOTO Munich, GERMANY
Post Production NAMOTO Munich, GERMANY
Credits
Name Company Position
Sven Hartmann Serviceplan Health & Life GmbH & Co. KG Executive Creative Director
Sarah Munz Serviceplan Health & Life GmbH & Co. KG Junior Art Director
Elena El Masry Serviceplan Health & Life GmbH & Co. KG Junior Art Director
Jason Olney Serviceplan Health & Life GmbH & Co. KG Senior Concepter
Matthias Jester-Pfadt Serviceplan Health & Life GmbH & Co. KG Creative Director

Why is this work relevant for Integrated?

Every year around 60,400 people in Germany are newly diagnosed with colorectal cancer. To reach those people, the campaign used different media channels like TV, PRINT, RADIO, and several DIGITAL channels to communicate the problem to a broad public.

Background

When was your last colon cancer screening? Every year around 60,400 people in Germany are newly diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Around 24,300 people die of this type of cancer every year, which can be prevented by timely screening. The goal was to help people understand the actual idea of prevention in general and the importance of colon cancer-preventive action in particular.

Describe the creative idea

To draw attention to colon cancer prevention, and generally speaking prevention itself, we created a captivating campaign. The core of this creative idea was to create the word “Preventiophobia”, a neologism describing the fear of colon cancer screening. Proposing the topic in a playful, straight, and colorful way the intention was to activate public interaction and to reach the attention of adults as well as of younger people.

Describe the strategy

Since screening colonoscopy examination was introduced in 2002, approximately 139,000 deaths have been prevented and 290,000 new cases have been detected on time to date. However, it seems that the fear of screening per se is bigger than the fear of cancer itself. This needs to change! To help people of all ages to overcome this reluctance to prevention we created a multichannel campaign for the annual colorectal cancer month of March.

Describe the execution

Fear of chicken, flowers, dryness, or being stared at. The campaign uses the many, sometimes ridiculous phobias to explain that only one, namely Preventiophobia, can be fatal. The neologism describes the fear of colon cancer screening in one word. Because when it comes to colon cancer, prevention can save lives. To reach more young people and activate them for this topic, we launched a quiz on the hottest social media platform TikTok. In "Guess the Phobia," we had users guess phobias from the ongoing campaign. The campaign was launched to support the Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month of March 2021.

List the results

With the "Preventiophobia" campaign, in which Wayne Carpendale and Sissi Perlinger played the roles of the crazy phobic and the doctor, we called for colorectal cancer screening, reaching 317,360,000 contacts. . The social media challenge for a good cause went viral with 6000 clips and 12 million views. It received a full 1 million likes and the attention of a new generation on the topic of colorectal cancer screening.