TXTBKS

TitleTXTBKS
BrandSMART COMMUNICATIONS
Product / ServiceSMART PUBLIC AFFAIRS
CategoryA01. Creative Effectiveness
EntrantDDB/DM9JAYMESYFU/DIGIT Makati City, THE PHILIPPINES
Entrant Company DDB/DM9JAYMESYFU/DIGIT Makati City, THE PHILIPPINES
Advertising Agency DDB/DM9JAYMESYFU/DIGIT Makati City, THE PHILIPPINES
Production Company TOWER OF DOOM Quezon City, THE PHILIPPINES

Credits

Name Company Position
Merlee Jayme DDB Dm9jaymesyfu/Digit Chief Creative Officer
Eugene Demata DDB Dm9jaymesyfu/Digit Executive Creative Director
Aste Gutierrez DDB Dm9jaymesyfu/Digit Associate Creative Director/Copywriter
Biboy Royong DDB Dm9jaymesyfu/Digit Art Director
Buboy Paguio DDB Dm9jaymesyfu/Digit Associate Creative Director For Digital/Art Director
Dee Taar DDB Dm9jaymesyfu/Digit Illustrator
Alex Syfu DDB Dm9jaymesyfu/Digit Chief Relations Officer/Account Supervisor
Caloy Sambrano DDB Dm9jaymesyfu/Digit Client Service Director
Ina Vargas/Sambrano DDB Dm9jaymesyfu/Digit Account Manager
Carlo Perlas Tower Of Doom Producer
Melo Samson Tower Of Doom Editor

Brief Explanation

Smart Communications is the Philippines largest mobile company. Through their Smart Public Affairs group, they are actively engaged in several CSR programs which include disaster preparedness, community building, livelihood and of course education. TXTBKS targets public school kids, many of whom belong to families who cannot afford e-readers. These kids usually walk miles to go to school carrying in some cases as many as 22 books to school, leaving them tired and unable to focus on their studies. With the current shift toward smartphones, Smart Communications had an abundance of inactive, older sim cards which would simply go to waste. In these sim cards we saw the opportunity to resurrect older technology and make them beneficial to the less fortunate. So with the help of textbook publishers, the current editions were condensed so they could be encoded into the inboxes of sim cards. When loaded into any analog phone, which have become increasingly affordable, kids could now access their books in a format that was lightweight and easy to use. These sim cards were initially distributed to 4 partner public schools. Immediately, school bags became 50% lighter. Within months, attendance had increased by 90% and the average performance of students increased by a surprising 95%. These results encouraged Smart to pursue its TXTBKS project, by including more subjects and more grade levels, for nationwide release to public schools.