Title | OPEN BOOK |
Brand | THE REACH FOUNDATION |
Product / Service | CHARITY |
Category | A02. Best Use of Social Media |
Entrant | DDB GROUP MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA |
Entrant Company: | DDB GROUP MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA |
PR/Advertising Agency: | DDB GROUP MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA |
Name | Company | Position |
---|---|---|
GRANT RUTHERFORD | DDB GROUP MELBOURNE | EXECUTIVE CREATIVE DIRECTOR |
NICK CUMMINS | DDB GROUP MELBOURNE | GROUP CREATIVE DIRECTOR |
DANIEL GRECH | DDB GROUP MELBOURNE | ART DIRECTOR |
STEFANIE DIAGIANVINCENZO | DDB GROUP MELBOURNE | COPYWRITER |
JONATHAN YUEN | DDB GROUP MELBOURNE | DIGITAL HEAD OF ART |
DANIEL HEWITT | DDB GROUP MELBOURNE | TECHNICAL DIRECTOR |
LINA CABAI | DDB GROUP MELBOURNE | ACCOUNT DIRECTOR |
JESS BROPHY | DDB GROUP MELBOURNE | ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE |
Reach is a youth Charity that believes every teenager deserves support, regardless of their situation. We wanted to raise awareness of Reach and show teenagers that everyone – even the most famous people in Australia – went through exactly the same stuff once. So we created The Open Book Project. The first phase was a call for entries to celebrities, TV and radio personalities, politicians, actors, sports stars, musicians and comedians asking to submit their own intimate diary confessions online at the openbookproject.com.au. This in turn encouraged visitors to the site to submit their own teenage diary entries to our site and their Facebook page. As our celebrity’s stories spread through the media, the public became captivated. The Project generated 59,944 page views, over $1.2 million of editorial coverage, and spread Reach’s message to over 9 million Australians in the month long campaign. And all for a total cost of $30,000.
Our goal was primarily one of awareness with the broader Australian public, specifically adults, about what Reach does as an organization. We wanted these adults to upload their own diary pages that in turn would stimulate and create conversations online, specifically on Facebook. Allowing people to physically and emotionally engage with Reach was the ideal goal, and social media seemed the perfect vehicle for topics rarely spoken about in the real world.
Digital Results (one month campaign): - Number of Page Views: 59,944 - Average time spent on site: 5 minutes - $1.2 million of Earned Media - Reached 9 million people - $30.000 budget
1. Created an online campaign, known as the Open Book Project, which called on people over the age of 18 to upload pages of their teenage diaries to the website, theopenbookproject.com or Open Book Project Facebook application 2. Engaged well-known Australians to contribute their teenage diary entries to the Project 3. Launched the Open Book Project campaign at a media call on 17th March 2011 4. Ongoing media relations 5. Produced advertising for press and online, as well as radio, where key talent were engaged as voiceovers
Reach is an Australian charity that runs workshops in over 500 Australian schools reaching more than 57,000 young Australians a year. The problem they face is many Australians are not aware of them and what they do. Reach approached us to come up with an inexpensive awareness campaign that highlighted the fact that they encourage young people to develop trust and openness, feel comfortable enough to express their concerns, discuss their aspirations and help them recognize that they’re not alone.
Our strategy was to create conversations online about teenage struggles of all sizes. We needed something that all Australians could relate to and get involved in so we asked people to share pages from their teenage diaries on our face book page and their own face book page highlighting teen struggles and the work that Reach does. We also published these entries on our campaign site. To create further online conversations we published 48 celebrity teenage diary entries, which covered stories as diverse as arrests, of broken hearts, stories of first loves, fears and dreams of fame.