EXPERIMENT FOR THE SMART

Short List
TitleEXPERIMENT FOR THE SMART
BrandTENCENT
Product / ServiceTENCENT
CategoryE09. Social Data & Insight
EntrantTENCENT Shenzhen, CHINA
Idea Creation TENCENT Shenzhen, CHINA
Idea Creation 2 ZHENG&CO. Guangzhou, CHINA
Media Placement TENCENT Shenzhen, CHINA
PR TENCENT Shenzhen, CHINA
Production FEATURE WORKS Shanghai, CHINA
Production 2 MAGIC PAINT ADVERTISING Guangzhou, CHINA

Credits

Name Company Position
Thomas chen Tencent General Manager
Vincent Li tencent General Manager
Cicy Li tencent General manager
Vincent Lin Tencent General Manager
Freda xu Tencent General Manager
Akae Wang tencent Excutive creative director
Yolanda Zheng ZHENG&Co. Creative Partner
Zita Zou tencent copywriter
Ivy Huang tencent Art Director
Dong Xie Tencent Art Director
Ahjan Huang Tencent Producer
Yujie Xiao Tencent Senior Brand Manager
Sivan Cai tencent Senior Brand Manager
Justin Lu Tencent Senior Brand Manager
Jasmine Zhu ZHENG&Co. Art Director

The Campaign

The ideal targets for frauds are the family members of those SMARS, who are indifferent towards network fraud. Those SMARTS consider themselves intelligent and knowledgeable, while those victims greedy and stupid, and this attitude actually makes them accomplice. And this leads to our way in: The SMARTS should keep their family safe from fraud. We put up a question “Are you one of the SMARTS?” on WeChat Moment Ad. When a viewer clicks this title, he will see a recorded video of an experiment that we conducted, telling him the facts behind the statics. In the end we want those SMARTS to think about how they should use their intelligence and knowledge to protect their family, and then we provide them a solution – a APP to keep them from fraud.

Creative Execution

We searched in different provinces for those victims that didn’t tell their family the truth, and invited them and their family for this single blind test without revealing our true intension – to reveal the story behind the data and to record everything. With the digital solution that we provided, users could build a connection with their family. And when their family receives a suspicious spam, the system will push an alert to the users so that they can take action right away. At the same time, we encourage users to report suspicious numbers, which helps expand our data pool.

1. Within just one week: 42.13 million interactions forwarded, millions of families signed up, 1 billion impressions generated 2. More than 800 regional bureaus called for participation through official media outlets 3. 243 celebrities voluntarily promoted the event, mainstream media outlets such People’s Daily, CCTV, Xinhua News Agency engaged in further reports generating 550 press articles. 4. Corporate data for the first time provides the backbone for public security. “Guardian Project” escalated into a national initiative. Tencent cooperate with Public Security Bureau to fight telecom & internet fraud. 5. Data, after 6 months, indicates that with the support of Tencent Security Platform, fraud rates have decreased by 27%. 6.“2017 Top 10 Influential Events in China”,reported by 5+ Chinese media outlet

From the comparison of data collected from WeChat with the data report of fraud, we see that the victims are more from the older group, while their children tend to be more well-educated and to have higher income working in key cities – exactly those SMARTS that we have in mind. We made a bold assumption that most of the smart children don’t know their family have been victims of fraud. We produced this “An Experiment of the Smarts” and launch it with targeting media, to those white collars in key cities (well-educated and high income). We want them to start thinking about how much they need to protect their families, and to spread our video out to more people.

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