HUMAN AGAINST ADS

TitleHUMAN AGAINST ADS
BrandFUTURE STATE
Product / ServiceHUMAN CLOTHING
CategoryA04. Use of Digital in a Direct Campaign
EntrantTBWA\SANTIAGO MANGADA PUNO Makati City, THE PHILIPPINES
Entrant Company TBWA\SANTIAGO MANGADA PUNO Makati City, THE PHILIPPINES
Advertising Agency TBWA\SANTIAGO MANGADA PUNO Makati City, THE PHILIPPINES
Production Company 1DOOR PRODUCTIONS Quezon City, THE PHILIPPINES

Credits

Name Company Position
Melvin M. Mangada TBWA/SANTIAGO MANGADA PUNO Executive Creative Director
Ali Silao TBWA/SANTIAGO MANGADA PUNO Creative Director
Sunny Lucero TBWA/SANTIAGO MANGADA PUNO Agency Producer
Francis Bagnes TBWA/SANTIAGO MANGADA PUNO Agency Producer
Denise Jose TBWA/SANTIAGO MANGADA PUNO Agency Producer
Nix Lañas 1door Productions Director
Pampy Manalac TBWA/SANTIAGO MANGADA PUNO Art Director
Chloe Arevalo TBWA/SANTIAGO MANGADA PUNO Art Director
Paolo Salcedo TBWA/SANTIAGO MANGADA PUNO Copywriter
Portia Catuira TBWA/SANTIAGO MANGADA PUNO Managing Director
Henson Wongaiham TBWA/SANTIAGO MANGADA PUNO Account Supervisor
Michelle Chang Ignacio 1door Productions Executive Producer
Francis Ricardo Buhay Iii 1door Productions Cinematographer
Jeck Cogama 1door Productions Production Designer
Nix Lañas 1door Productions Offline Editor
Edsel Donald Abesames 1door Productions Special Effects Computer Graphics

The Brief

Human Insight: The youth today hate ads. They are also the generation with the shortest attention span. That’s why Human, the country's edgiest fashion brand, created advertising that its audience couldn’t ignore.

Creative Execution

Human is a fashion brand that is alternative, adventurous, and edgy. These are also the qualities that define their biggest market - the youth of today. With a number reaching two billion worldwide, they'e social media natives - the only generation that has never lived life without the Internet. They hate ads. And they are also the generation with the shortest attention span. How do we engage them online and get them on our side? Create ads that echo the youth’s contempt for advertising. Ads that are as defiant as the market. Ads that criticized ads.

Describe the creative solution to the brief/objective.

ADVERTISING AGAINST ADVERTISING Human launched a series of pre-roll 5-second YouTube spots. The ads echoed the youth’s contempt for advertising. They were ads that criticized ads. We also launched a microsite which allows users to create their own "anti-ad"

Results

In just three weeks, the ads have generated 1,175,706 impressions and half-a-million views on YouTube and counting. Client's original estimated budget for views has been exceeded by 100%. The market also started creating their own-anti ads and shared it with the world. And because they only took five seconds, these "anti-ads" were unskippable, unavoidable, resulting in 100% viewership and disproving that the youth today hate ads.