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media aoy bronze Quebec Foundation for the Blind Leo & Choc 90 Research showed that the number one factor affecting quality of life for the blind is social rejection. To combat that stigma, PHD based its strategy on the insight that the best way to increase social acceptance was to have people experience the reality of blindness. To accomplish that, they employed the element of surprise. Consumers would receive the foundation’s message where they least expected it – during television programming rather than in a commercial break. To be powerful, the concept needed a high-adrenaline environment where consumers would be greatly disappointed to miss the visual support of the television program. In Canada, that meant hockey. PHD executed the stunt during NHL news coverage on French Canada’s most-watched sport channel, RDS. During primetime news, the TV screen blacked out while the sound continued to transmit as usual. After 10 seconds, a text appeared explaining that it was not a technical error, but rather a taste of what it’s like to be blind. To avoid backlash, the stunt ran only once, with the agency team working directly from the station studios. It resulted in an increased number of calls for donations, as well as trade and mainstream press and a YouTube posting that became one of the most-watched videos in the Nonprofi t and Activism category. The campaign was a fi nalist in the Public Service category at Cannes. In Quebec, chocolate milk was seen as something strictly for little kids. To get past that perception, Parmalat and BBDO created the animated characters Leo & Choc to entertain, engage and drive the 12- to 34-year-old target to an interactive website engineered to make chocolate milk cool. To break through to this discriminating and savvy target group, PHD brought Leo & Choc to life in edgier, more mature media environments: cinema, print, online social networks and instant messaging, as well as video-game integration and iPod, wallpaper and mini-clip downloads. The campaign launched with three 15-second cinema spots during the run of The Simpsons Movie. Print focused on free dailies and weeklies, such as Voir and Metro. The in-game advertising component integrated virtual billboards within Xbox 360 video games. Within social networks, PHD employed a new advertising format, a semi-transparent animated super above the selected video that gave the viewer a choice of clicking to follow Leo & Choc to their microsite or continuing to view the chosen video. A unique cost-per-engagement pricing model was introduced for this placement, instead of paying on a CPM basis. Within fi ve months, chocolate milk consumption had increased by 5%. Visits to the website increased by 234% vs. the previous campaign (more than 290,000 visits) and fans created over 28,000 animated clips, which received 103,000 votes. The campaign generated extensive blog coverage and Parmalat redesigned its chocolate milk boxes to feature the cartoons. Honourable mention: MediaCom Our judges put MediaCom in the top four for its outstanding media plans for Pfi zer, Rogers Wireless and TD Canada Trust. To view their cases, go to aoy.strategymag.com www.strategymag.com
The process This year marks the fi rst time media agencies submitted to a juried process for Media Agency of the Year. Previously, winners were determined by a straight poll of network, magazine and other media company execs from across the country. This time around, following the Agency of the Year model, their votes were used to select a shortlist of 12 top media agencies: Carat, Cossette Media, Genesis Vizeum, M2 Universal, MediaCom, Mediaedge:cia, Media Experts, Mindshare, OMD, PHD, Starcom MediaVest Group and ZenithOptimedia. Each shortlisted agency was asked to submit three case studies outlining media plans for three different brands over the past 12 months. (One shortlisted agency, Genesis Vizeum, was regrettably unable to complete the The scores media aoy methodology submission and withdrew from the competition at the eleventh hour.) Next, we chose the judges. The strategic panel was made up of six marketers, one of whom was an international judge, while the creative panel comprised media company execs and senior media agency representatives (not on the shortlist). Working in isolation, the judges gave each agency’s submission an overall score of zero to 10 based on strategic insight and the ability to execute creatively, as well as versatility across media. The cumulative scores from the creative and strategic judges were then totalled and averaged, with equal weighting, omitting any confl icts of interest. The agency with the highest fi nal score was the winner. And now the part you’ve been waiting 16 years for: a full spread of the judges’ averages that determined the 2008 Media Agency of the Year. Creative Strategic Overall Starcom MediaVest Group 9.33 Starcom MediaVest Group 8.62 Starcom MediaVest Group 8.98 Mediaedge:cia 9.15 OMD 7.65 Mediaedge:cia 8.33 PHD 8.15 Cossette Media 7.60 PHD 7.81 MediaCom 8.13 Mediaedge:cia 7.50 MediaCom 7.76 Carat 8.05 PHD 7.47 Carat 7.63 ZenithOptimedia 7.75 MediaCom (tie) 7.38 ZenithOptimedia 7.57 Mindshare 7.70 ZenithOptimedia (tie) 7.38 OMD 7.54 OMD 7.43 Media Experts 7.37 Cossette Media 7.49 Cossette Media (tie) 7.38 Carat 7.20 Media Experts 7.38 Media Experts (tie) 7.38 M2 Universal 7.08 Mindshare 7.24 M2 Universal 7.03 Mindshare 6.77 M2 Universal 7.06 STRATEGY November 2008 91
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