Title | CHENGZHEN |
Brand | NESTLE |
Product / Service | CHENGZHEN |
Category | E01. Use of Integrated Media |
Entrant | OGILVY BEIJING, CHINA |
Idea Creation | OGILVY BEIJING, CHINA |
Media Placement | MINDSHARE Beijing, CHINA |
PR | OGILVY BEIJING, CHINA |
Production | OGILVY BEIJING, CHINA |
Production 2 | AARDMAN ANIMATIONS Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM |
Additional Company | NESTLE CHINA Beijing, CHINA |
Name | Company | Position |
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Stephanie Lim | Nestlé (China) Ltd. | Head of Marketing (Nestle Ice Cream Greater China) |
Skye Wong | Nestlé (China) Ltd. | Head of Communications (Nestle Greater China) |
Jeremy Webb | Ogilvy Beijing | Senior Vice President |
Arvind Srivastava | Ogilvy Beijing | President, Strategic Planning |
Andrew Low | Ogilvy Beijing | Executive Creative Director |
Callum Ng | Ogilvy Beijing | Associate Creative Director |
Lynn Lin | Ogilvy Beijing | Senior Copywriter |
Erik Huettenberger | Ogilvy Beijing | Senior Account Director |
Genevieve Kwek | Ogilvy Beijing | Senior Account Director |
Scott Zuo | Ogilvy Beijing | Senior Account Executive |
Fannie Chen | Ogilvy Beijing | Creative Director |
Since Shi | Ogilvy Beijing | Art Director |
Nini Chiang | Nestlé (China) Ltd. | Chief Marketing Officer |
Annie Su | Ogilvy Beijing | Managing Partner |
Choo Chee Wee | Ogilvy Beijing | Creative Director |
Alice Chu | Nestlé (China) Ltd. | Senior Producer |
Our message needed tongue-and-cheek humor, with delivery by characters that people could love. Character design became key. For this we worked with Aardman—the animation studio behind the Oscar winning “Shaun the Sheep.” They designed lovable models of the Good Cow and the Bad Cow. 15 second OTV spots told the story that Nestlé Chengzhen is only made with milk from cows with good behavior, showing only good cows getting into Chengzhen. We took the Good Cows on-the-ground to build intrigue and did over 10 sampling activations — visitors were eager to snap photos with the cows and eat a free ice cream, driving up our impact online as the experience was shared on social media. We followed up with a billboard campaign like no other. Advice from our good cow was written for 50 specific locations around Beijing, which took the form of hyper-targeted OOH ads.
.KPI#1: Reverse three-year negative growth of -3% to deliver +5% in 2017. Result #1: Delivered +16% growth (3.2x over the set target) KPI #2: Increase top-of-mind awareness from 23% (2016) to 30% (2017) Result #2: Post-campaign top-of-mind (aided + unaided) grew to 57% in 2017. KPI#3: Brand image uplift on key parameters like ‘authentic’, ‘real ingredients’, ‘will pay more for’ etc. Result #3: Wide improvement on critical parameters directly attributed to the campaign- especially among the core TA. Significant because these factors drive ‘Permission’ & ‘Assurance’ or purchase. And this all happened in a stagnant market! China’s ice cream and confectionary business had taken a hit—even posting zero to negative growth over the past 2 years as Chinese consumers slowed spending.
Our strategic insight came from how consumers behaved while choosing ice cream. Consumer research proved that once a consumer gets the urge to have an ice cream while in the store, the first brand that they think of is the one they will choose. This is even more so when buying a basic ice cream like a milk stick. A reputation for quality helped put a brand into consideration but was not actually the primary driver (especially as trust in the branded food category has started to bounce back after regulatory and industry measures since 2015.) The need to drive top-of-mind differentiation for impulse buyers landed us on our strategic insight and direction: Reframe how ‘good’ ice cream is defined in the category by moving the conversation from rational milk, to an irrational but engaging take on the cow that produces the milk (and is the source of its goodness).