Diversity Marketing
How our kids sing the darndest things.
Client:
Michigan Department of Community Health
Problem:
Parents smoking around children is a deadly serious issue. Our target audience is parents of children, specifically mothers and pregnant women. With a small budget and a very specific audience, we wanted to motivate smokers to pick up the phone to call the Michigan Department of Community Health’s Michigan Tobacco Quitline.
Solution:
Research shows that the number one motivator for people to quit smoking is the negative impact on the health of their children. Even though most smokers are aware that secondhand smoke is harmful, it’s motivating to remind parents of the hazard and give them a free and effective resource to help them quit.
For this campaign, our creative director took an old, classic, public domain song “Secondhand Rose” and re-wrote the lyrics from a child’s perspective. An engaging youngster outlines for parents the dangers of secondhand smoke. Working within our budget, we were able to produce a memorable longer-format YouTube video that has been hugely successful with more than 6,000 views and counting. The Quitline received 874 calls, including a significant number of pregnant women, an important part of the target audience. We supported this with radio media as well.
How smoking children set the phone on fire.
Client:
Michigan Department of Community Health
Problem:
With a significantly reduced budget, spreading an anti-smoking message and offering smokers a free phone counselor would be difficult. Smokers knew the facts about their dangerous habit, and many had tried to quit before but were unsuccessful. We needed an unexpected approach to make them listen.
Solution:
We believed smokers might not quit for themselves, but they'd quit for their children. With this memorable campaign, calls to the Quitline jumped from 227 to over 1,000 a month. The campaign's influence grew as health departments in other states requested to run the spots. The spots won prestigious Radio-Mercury and Mobius awards.
How a strike-out stroke campaign hit a home run.
Client:
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
Problem:
At-risk demographics in certain counties of North Carolina had no idea what blood pressure numbers meant. We had to educate the target audience about heart disease and stroke prevention by informing them about proper blood pressure levels and how to identify the warning signs for stroke.
Solution:
We offered a memorable and informative campaign–82% of respondents to a post-campaign survey could describe the television commercials. 92% of respondents said they would immediately call 911 if they experienced stroke symptoms. Awareness of lesser-known stroke symptoms jumped about 25%.
How the seed of a great brand idea took root.
Client:
Molina Healthcare
Problem:
Molina, a Medicaid and Medicare health insurance provider, was growing quickly across the country. We needed to create a brand to unite and position Molina competitively in the national market space and connect Molina with the communities they serve.
Solution:
We found that Molina's key differentiator was in the roots of its family heritage, and the legacy of Dr. Molina. We positioned Molina as your extended family by including internal employees for photos and using a family tree visual. The campaign significantly increased membership growth and internal morale.
How we made the H1N1 vaccine go viral.
Client:
Michigan Department of Community Health
Problem:
TV news was reporting that a new and dangerous strain of flu virus was going to be hitting us in the upcoming flu season. People were concerned about what to do. MDCH wanted to give people the knowledge they needed to protect themselves from the H1N1 virus: wash your hands, cover your sneezes and get the H1N1 vaccination.
Solution:
The easier this information was to access, the more people would listen to the message and stop the spread of the flu. In addition to traditional media, we created various mobile media elements for our campaign to our targeted population–web banners, mobile ads, and a mobile site with our H1N1 TV spot. This generated over 3 million impressions on mobile devices with over 17,000 clicks through to the website and the ability to "Stop the Spread" by spreading the knowledge and sharing the site with friends.
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