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Title	EMERGENCY COLLECTIBLES
Client	KOBE SHIMBUN
Product / Service	DISASTER PREVENTION
Category	B04. Use of Print or Outdoor
Entrant	DENTSU INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Idea Creation	DENTSU INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
Media Placement	DENTSU INC. Tokyo, JAPAN
PR	PLATINUM Tokyo, JAPAN
Production	J.C. SPARK Tokyo, JAPAN
Production 2	ENGINE FILM Tokyo, JAPAN

Credits

Name	Company	Position
Ken Akimoto	DENTSU INC.	Creative Director
Junta Yoshikawa	DENTSU INC.	Communication Planner
Yusuke Imai	DENTSU INC.	Art Director
Hirokazu Ueda	DENTSU INC.	Copywriter
Kana Koyama	DENTSU INC.	Copywriter
Ryo Makishima	DENTSU INC.	Planner
Kyouhei Myouga	DENTSU INC.	Planner
Ryo Komoto	DENTSU INC.	Account Exective/Media Planner
Eimi Shimizu	DENTSU INC.	Account Exective/Media Planner
Yumeno Suzuki	DENTSU CREATIVE FORCE INC.	Creative Producer
Toshinori Obuchi	J.C.SPARK	Designer
Sari Ogino	J.C.SPARK	Designer
Oyaka Ito	J.C.SPARK	Designer
Kotaro Tsujimoto	Freelance	photographer
Daisuke Isozaki	VONS	Retoucher
Tae Yoshioka	VONS	Retoucher
Go Suehiro	SUI	Art
Nanami Mizuguchi	SUI	Art
Kenji Tamura	TONE UP CORP.	Printing Director
Taiki Shibahara	ENGINE FILM INC.	Producer
Takashi Tomohisa	Freelance	Director
Ryohei Oka	Freelance	Cinematographer
Ken Sato	NUMAN	Music　Producer
Kozue Katsuragi	NUMAN	Music　Composer
Nemoto Hisashi	L’espace Vision	Color grading
Yuya Hamamura	Platinum, Inc.	PR Planner
Ryohei Nakamura	Platinum, Inc.	PR Planner

The Campaign

We concluded that people felt preparing evacuation kits was tedious and time-consuming. To change negative attitudes about preparing evacuation kits, we devised a method of disaster preparation that we felt people could enjoy as a family. First, we decided to limit the number of emergency essentials to what could fit on a two-page newspaper spread. Then, we printed the outlines of each item on an actual spread. The goal was to suggest that preparing an emergency kit was like completing a treasure hunt.

Creative Execution

We designed the two-page spread so it would appeal to men, women, and children. Each item was represented only by an outline so as to appeal to the human urge to fill compartmentalized spaces. Explanations for each item’s inclusion were also printed on the spread to help families visualize themselves actually using the items in an evacuation center. We also allotted a “Free Space” where families could place one item of their own choosing—an element designed to give families yet another opportunity to talk about disaster preparation. The spread was published in the morning edition of the Kobe Shimbun newspaper and later promoted on the newspaper’s Facebook and YouTube pages. We also made a downloadable version of the spread freely available on the Kobe Shimbun website.

Describe the success of the promotion with both client and consumer including some quantifiable results

Newspapers containing the two-page spread were delivered to 510,000 households, of which 23,000 participated in the project. Eventually, even nonsubscribers learned about the spread thanks to widespread propagation by Facebook and Twitter users. Among all people who viewed the spread, 91% said they were now better informed about disaster preparation. After the project received praise from the governor of Hyogo Prefecture and an elementary school principal, schools and NPOs began to use the spread to teach disaster preparation. In the long run, we hope to further develop the content of this spread into an educational program for raising awareness about disaster preparation among the Japanese.

Explain why the method of promotion was most relevant to the product or service

The spread succeeded in changing people’s preconceptions about disaster preparation being a tedious, time-consuming activity; in the process, it motivated many households to prepare evacuation kits and inspired schools and NPOs to incorporate the spread in disaster preparation workshops.

We needed a medium that was accessible to family members of all generations, promised a wide reach, and was likely to be properly archived. This is how we arrived at a newspaper. We introduced the feature by saying that the items had been chosen by a couple and their elementary school-aged child—a tactic used to implant the idea of disaster preparation being a family activity in adults who may have been previously disinclined to prepare an evacuation kit. By presenting disaster preparation as a type of treasure hunt, we hoped families would be more inclined to complete a kit, in the process creating an opportunity for parents to hand down their knowledge of disaster preparation to their children.