Title | THE HAWKER'S CALL |
Brand | BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION |
Product / Service | SAFETY AWARENESS DURING LOCKDOWN |
Category | F04. Social Behaviour |
Entrant | McCANN INDIA Mumbai, INDIA |
Idea Creation | McCANN INDIA Mumbai, INDIA |
Name | Company | Position |
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Prasoon Joshi | McCann Worldgroup India | Chief Creative Officer |
Ashish Chakravarty | McCann Worldgroup India | National Creative Director |
Kapil Batra | Mccann Worldgroup India | Creative Head |
Anand Bhushan | Mccann Worldgroup India | Executive Creative Director |
Rajit Gupta | Mccann Worldgroup India | Executive Creative Director |
Inderpreet Singh | Mccann Worldgroup India | Creative Director |
Karn Singh | Mccann Worldgroup India | Creative Team Leader |
Jeet Kalra | Mccann Worldgroup India | VP and Creative Head AV |
Rongon Bhattacharjee | Mccann Worldgroup India | Senior Brand Leader |
Ajay Pathak | Collective Art | Executive Producer |
Swapnil Shetye | Collective Art | Director/Editor |
In India, there is a unique tradition followed by vegetable vendors. Whichever part they are from and whatever language they speak. While displaying vegetables on mobile hawkers, they always announce their arrival and advertise their products in an unusually loud and clear, sing-song call. People are accustomed to hearing and responding to these calls twice a day, every day. So the time in the morning and late afternoon when households prepare for lunch and dinner gave us a unique window to communicate our message. It is also common practice when certain vegetable vendors tend to the same household for years. During the lockdown, the task of spreading information had to be faster than the virus. So we decided to use their medium for our message. That's why using the Hawker's Call as a medium was uniquely Indian and their engagement with the households a great opportunity.