BREAST BUFFER

TitleBREAST BUFFER
BrandALT BALAJI
Product / ServiceBREAST CANCER AWARENESS
CategoryC01. Use of Digital Platforms
EntrantGREY INDIA Mumbai, INDIA
Idea Creation GREY INDIA Mumbai, INDIA
Media Placement ALTBALAJI Mumbai, INDIA
Production ALTBALAJI Mumbai, INDIA

Credits

Name Company Position
Sandipan Bhattacharyya GREY INDIA Chief Creative Officer
Vivek Bhambhani GREY INDIA Group Creative Director
Mangesh Kavale GREY INDIA Creative Director
Arun Raman GREY INDIA National Planning Head
Yash Samat GREY INDIA Chairman and Managing Director
Mehul Prajapati GREY INDIA Associate Creative Director
Ruchita Bait GREY INDIA Art Director
Anjory Gor GREY INDIA Animator
Yuvraj Bandi GREY INDIA Editor
Samir Chadha GREY INDIA Agency Film Producer
Jignya Shedge GREY INDIA Agency Film Producer
Harshad Khaire Freelancer Illustrator Illustrator
Pravin Patil GREY INDIA Retouching Artist
Prashant Raje GREY INDIA Head Studio & Production
Dhananjay Thakur GREY INDIA Studio Manager
Edward Arulnesan GREY INDIA Language Operator
Rahul Ghanate GREY INDIA Agency Print Operator
Ganesh Sakpal GREY INDIA DTP Operator
Sunil Lulla ALTBalaji Group CEO
Sunil Nair ALTBalaji Chief Operating Officer
Divya Dixit ALTBalaji Senior VP and Marketing Head
Mohit Khatwani ALTBalaji AVP, Product
Joyce Andrade ALTBalaji AVP, Head of Operations
Allan Mascarenhas ALTBalaji Head of Promos
Jitendra Yadav ALTBalaji Supervising Producer
Aneesh Menon ALTBalaji Assistant Producer
Dinraj Shetty Sony Music Entertainment Director - Publishing
Ramesh Dighe Before After Print Production
Dr. Amol Akhade Nair Hospital Health Consultant
Ruben Nair GREY INDIA Account Management

Why is this work relevant for Direct?

Women in India spend twice as many hours as men, watching content online. An integral part of their viewing experience is the frequent buffering due to slow internet speeds. In fact, consumers keep staring at the buffering symbol waiting for their content to resume playing. Moreover, most of the content is consumed by women on personal screens. Therefore, an innovation involving the buffering symbol would be an efficient and discreet way to reach these women directly. Keeping this in mind, we gave the buffer symbol new meaning and purpose.

Background

There’s been a sharp rise in the incidence of breast cancer in urban India, especially amongst women under the age of 50. This makes the idea of preventive self-care even more crucial. And all it needs is two minutes of her time. Even though they are aware of the dangers of breast cancer, most women neglect this life-saving practice. ALTBalaji, one of India’s leading VOD apps wanted to remind its women subscribers to perform the breast self-exam regularly.

Describe the creative idea (30% of vote)

Turning downtime into a useful reminder for breast self-examination. ALTBalaji replaced its regular buffering symbol with the simple, yet unique ‘Breast Buffer’ symbol. So, every time the content buffered, our new 'Breast Buffer' symbol popped up as a personal and discreet reminder. The message next to the symbol, encouraged women to check themselves for breast cancer. The symbol was surprising, unmissable and informative. Something our viewers noticed and engaged with in huge numbers.

Describe the strategy (20% of vote)

Women in India spend twice as many hours as men, watching content online. But given the data speeds on mobile devices in India, there is evidently some downtime while watching video content. In fact, ALTBalaji’s subscribers stare at the buffering symbol for an average of 18 seconds per episode. Which means their entire women subscriber base of 1.2 million stares at the buffering symbol for approximately 360,000 minutes a day.

Describe the execution (20% of vote)

ALTBalaji has a lot of programming which is women-centric. So, they chose 24 shows which were the most popular and decided to replace the buffering symbol on these programmes. The buffering symbol works as a personal and discreet reminder that encouraged them to check themselves for breast cancer. It was accompanied by a message that guided them to the initiatives page, which included breast self-examination tutorials in English and Hindi. Moreover, prominent Bollywood celebrities supported the initiative and created awareness about the new symbol on social media. The new symbol was surprising, unmissable and women engaged with it in huge numbers - 24 million interactions in 6 weeks to be precise. The Breast Buffer symbol was launched on the 16th of April and ALTBalaji embedded it on its content for a period of 3 months.

List the results (30% of vote)

24 Million interactions in six weeks 4.8 Million women reached 5.2 Million breast self-examination tutorial video views Rs.26 Million earned media

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