Title | THAT TIME JORDIE BARRETT DIDN'T |
Brand | HAWKE'S BAY REGIONAL COUNCIL |
Product / Service | RAIL SAFETY |
Category | D03. Single Market Campaign |
Entrant | CLEMENGER BBDO WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND |
Idea Creation | CLEMENGER BBDO WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND |
Production | CLEMENGER BBDO WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND |
Name | Company | Position |
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Brigid Alkema | Clemenger BBDO Wellington | Executive Creative Director |
Since 2012, 218 NZ vehicles have collided with trains. The majority of these crashes involved rural males between 40-59 years, with many happening on familiar roads, close to home. A simple look right, then left is all that’s needed to prevent bad things from happening. To remind this tough rural audience of the right behaviour, we leveraged some famous people, their infamous moments, and the unfortunate situations they found themselves in just because they didn’t look both ways.
The well-known New Zealanders referenced in the spots are household names in New Zealand. Our audience would instantly recognise them and their infamous moments. The campaign is designed to evolve over time; as more stories are added to the campaign, our message is strengthened in the minds of our audience. Every time they hear a new spot, it’s yet another reminder that bad things can happen when you don’t look right, then left. For more cultural context on each famous figure featured in the spots, and their infamous moments, please see the included additional information boards.
If one of the burly younger members of New Zealand’s national rugby team had looked to his right while wolfing back an extra-large combo at 5am after a night of not drinking, he’d have seen that the curtains, carpet, light fittings, family portraits, and two trembling females hiding in the shadows, were a little unfamiliar. If he’d looked to his left and gazed through the window and across the street, he’d have seen the house he thought he was in. And he may have seen that it would’ve been wise to hightail it before the cops got there. Unfortunately, he didn’t look right or left. And the next day had to swallow a supersized combo of embarrassment, televised public apologies and forever being known as the real-life ‘Hamburglar.’ Bad things can happen when you don’t look both ways. Especially around railway level crossings. Whenever you’re approaching, look right, look left for trains.
The campaign leverages famous, instantly recognisable moments in New Zealand culture. Using humour to make a serious message cut through and resonate with our tough rural audience – and making our message stick. The campaign launched on 5-Dec-2018. It played on radio stations with a bent towards a rural male audience, with targeted spots playing at high commuter times. It ran in the lead up to the summer holidays, a time where traffic numbers typically increased and crash risk was elevated. Delivering our message to our audience at the moment it most mattered: while they were behind the wheel, at the highest-risk time of the year.