SIMPLE TASKS CAMPAIGN

TitleSIMPLE TASKS CAMPAIGN
BrandMS SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND
Product / ServiceMS AWARENESS
CategoryA07. Best Use of Digital Media
EntrantOGILVY BEIJING, CHINA
Entrant Company:OGILVY BEIJING, CHINA
Advertising Agency:OGILVY BEIJING, CHINA

Credits

Name Company Position
Doug Schiff Ogilvy Beijing Creative Director
Ken Leung Ultd Art Director
Doug Schiff Ogilvy Beijing Copywriter
Ultd Digital Production

Results and Effectiveness

The campaign has just been launched, so we'll have to wait a couple of months before we can judge business outcomes.

Creative Execution

The solution was to invite those online to partake in simple tasks, in order to have healthy people experience something similar to a debilitating symptom. The online interactive channel is the best channel for people to better understand, through their own intimate experience, how control-depleting MS can be.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

The Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society of New Zealand helps inform society about the disease, while helping victims live better lives. But its main objective is to raise awareness of how disabling the illness actually is. As MS strikes women in the prime of their life—the greatest number while in their 30s—the primary target was those in their 30s who would be most moved by the campaign. The insight was how deeply the disease could effect someone in their prime. So the idea was then to give people online an appreciation for just how debilitating the symptoms actually are. We found the use of the cursor—this instrument of precise control while navigating online—to be a powerful tool to demonstrate MS symptoms.