Hasta La Creative!

Advertising Agency: Y&R, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Chief Creative Officer: Rui Branquinho
Creative Directors: Rui Branquinho, Flavio Casarotti, Jorge Iervolino, Victor Sant’Anna
Art Director: Daniel Salles
Copywriter: Roberto Kilciauskas
Illustrator: Elisa Sassi
Print Agency Producers: Elaine Carvalho, Robinson Silva
Art Buyers: Monica Beretta, Stephanie Wang
Pre-production: Ação
Account Managers: Leonardo Balbi, Evelin Batista, Marcelo Moreno
Planners: Fernanda Flandoli, Eliana Yamaguchi
Media team: Gustavo Gaion, Cassiano Oliva, Fábio Moraes, Daniela Melito, Flávia Tonicelo

Brief: Gulf News, the UAE’s leading English daily newspaper, wanted to reach even more readers and convert them into subscribers. Our target was to gain 1.5% more subscribers, help promote their twitter channel and increase traffic to the Gulf News website by at least 25%.

Strategy: Consumption habit suggests that people read newspapers while having their morning cup of coffee. Tim Hortons is one of our clients in the UAE and they serve 35-50,000 coffees per month, per outlet. Realising its untapped potential, we decided to create a campaign around them to meet our target.

Idea: Since fresh news goes well with fresh coffee, we adapted the coffee cup sleeve of Tim Hortons, a global coffee chain, into an advertising medium and we created The ‘Headline News’ Cup Sleeve. Every cup. Every hour. Every day. When Tim Hortons customers received a cup of coffee, they also received the headline news of the hour, printed using a special printer that pulled out tweets from the Gulf News Twitter account. The short URL and QR code on the sleeve then directed them to the Gulf News website where they could read the full story.

Relevance: Timing is everything. So we interacted with our readers when they normally read the newspaper — when they enjoy their freshly brewed coffee. The ‘Headline News’ Cup Sleeve allowed us to be the
first throughout the day to deliver breaking news to potential subscribers and make a meaningful connection with them.

Results:
• Until now, over 1,440 headline tweets have been printed on more than 840,000 coffee cups.
• More than 2,900 new Gulf News Twitter followers in the first two weeks of the campaign launch.
• The traffic on the Gulf News website grew by 41%.
• Subscription’s up by 2.8% so far.
• We’re rolling out this project in Tim Hortons outlets across the UAE and in 14 new outlets soon to be opened.

Advertising Agency: Y&R, Dubai, UAE
Chief Creative Officer: Shahir Zag
Creative Director/Copywriter: Shahir Zag
Creative Director/Art Director: Joseph Bihag
Copywriter: William Mathovani
Head of Production: Amin Soltani
Agency Producer: Leng Panganiban
Business Director: Zaakesh Mulla
Account Director: Kandarp Baxi
Technical Developer: Pixel Plus Media
Photographer: Mojtaba Komeili/Arturo D. Smith
Editor: Subash Mishra

Advertising Agency: Piko, Moldova
Art Director: Eugen Catruc, Constantin Sarcov

Advertising Agency: Y&R, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Chief Creative Officer: Rui Branquinho
Creative Directors: Rui Branquinho, Flavio Casarotti, Laura Esteves
Art Director: Felipe Pavani
Copywriter: Raphael Quatrocci
Images: Shutterstock
Additional credits:
Print Agency Producers: Elaine Carvalho, Flavio Zamboni
Art Buyers: Monica Beretta, Eliane Pereira
Account Managers: Alessandro Cardoni, Helena Rossi
Planner: Eliana Yamaguchi
Media team: Gustavo Gaion, Inajá Ramos

In Case of Emergency: Eat this Book.

While Land Rover vehicles can take on any obstacles in the desert, it cannot be said the same of their owners. Scorching temperatures, deadly animals and sinkholes are just a few things they might encounter. And when they venture deep into it, even the most experienced drivers can quickly succumb to the harshness of the desert. We wanted to create something that would cut through the clutter and that these people would like to keep. So we created a survival guide, which explained the basics for staying alive in the Arabian Desert, and packaged it in a way that would spur the attention of our target audience.

We researched every indigenous animal and plant, people could encounter in the Arabian Desert and how they could be used to survive. We studied the topography of the region to guide people to safety. We used a reflective packaging similar to army rations, which could be used to signal for help, and bound the book with a metal spiral, which could be used for cooking. Finally, we even took an extra step so that in case of emergency, people could always EAT the book. It was made out of edible ink and paper, and it had a nutritional value close to that of a cheeseburger.

We sent the book to 5,000 existing customers, gave it away as a supplement to the cars’ manual and made it freely available in sports shops.

The initial response was very positive. And the client was so happy with the concept that they asked us to include the book as an insert in the next edition of a car magazine, with a 70,000 circulation.

Advertising Agency: Y&R, Dubai, UAE
Chief Creative Officer: Shahir Zag
Creative Director/Copywriter: Shahir Zag
Creative Director/Art Director/Illustrator: Joseph Bihag
Copywriter: Guillaume Calmelet
Designer/Copywriter: Khaled Said
Retoucher: Gitten Tom
Head Of Production: Amin Soltani
Producer: Leng Panganiban
Account Supervisor: Sarah Locke
Account Manager: Pierre Farra
Photographer: Mojtaba Komeili

Problem: Cityoga studio noticed that new students often quit before completing their first month of classes. When asked why, their insight was revealed: they didn’t see quick results after the first few classes.

Solution:To prove that yoga brings results from day one, we created special Yoga Progress Pants that allowed new students to visibly measure their stretching progress. Every time they practiced, they could measure with the printed ruler how far their fingers, chest or nose reached. Witty phrases challenged them to stretch further and thus continue practicing at Cityoga. Results: After the promo Cityoga reduced the number of new students who quit: every third beginner continued practicing after the first month of classes.

Advertising Agency: Lowe Adventa, Moscow, Russia
Creative Directors: Bruno Ribeiro, Andreas Mielenhausen
Art Director: Michael Druzhinin
Copywriter: Svetlana Popova

Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
Creative Director: José Marques
Art Director: Tiago Pinto
Copywriter: Pedro Dias
Account Director: Sónia Correia
Print Producer: Rui da Paz

“Sing the petition, and send the dictator behind bars”

OBJECTIVE:
To maximize signatures for the petition issued by theassociation, Urgence Darfour, in order to bring to the International CriminalCourt the Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir, who is charged with war crimes, crimesagainst humanity and genocide.
The campaign started with a viral video and an onlinepetition. However, we soon realized we were missing a very important part ofthe target audience: people that are seriously involved in the cause, and yet arenot comfortable with using the Internet, and also activists taking part inmeetings and demonstrations, who get enthusiastic about the cause but thenforget to sign the petition online. We need to make these people sign easily,and immediately.

IDEA:
So we decided to create a “classical” flyer, like the flyersassociations normally distribute to activists.
However, this time, the flyer concealed a fatal trickfor the dictator, and something of real, tangible interest for the activists: bysigning and sending the petition, people literally, and immediately, “send himbehind bars”.

RESULTS:
Urgence Darfour diffused the flyer during the officiallaunch of the campaign, and then during each of the association’s demonstrationsand meetings in France.
In less than a week, Urgence Darfour received hundredsof signed coupons, and several congratulations from activists and associations onthe efficiency of this alternative – and yet classical – medium.

Advertising Agency: TBWA Being, Paris, France
Creative Director: Thierry Buriez
Art Director: Julien Chiapolini
Copywriter: Riccardo Fregoso
Illustration: Scott Benson

A New Year’s gift for selected clients owning Subaru off-road vehicles. Subaru is an excellent choice for any mountain-lover because of its unique Symmetrical All Wheel Drive System (AWD). We made a special darts game. The dartboard represents a mountain with the circles replaced by topographic contour lines. (Contour lines are lines drawn on a map connecting points of equal elevation, allowing us to show the shape of the land surface). The different heights indicate the various scoring sections. This year, using the special Subaru-winged darts representing your Subaru vehicle, you can “Target the Top” at 2011m and enjoy 2011 points!

Advertising Agency: Day6, Athens, Greece
Creative Director: Ivan Papadopoulos
Art Director: Panagiotis Kavopoulos
Copywriter: Ivan Papadopoulos
Illustrator: Redoine Amzlan
Photographer: ?ndonis Kefalonitis
Additional credits: Panos Theokas

Advertising Agency: George Patterson Y&R, Melbourne, Australia
Executive Creative Director: Ben Coulson
Producer: Gene Kingi
Senior Art Director: Chris Northam
Senior Copywriter: Evan Roberts
Group Account Director: Michael Napolitano
Account manager: Sally Kingi