A story that begins on a website and ends on your mobile.
Objective
ING DIRECT Christmas charity campaign. Reinforce the brand’s innovative image, generate brand awareness and raise funds for UNICEF.
Creative idea
The idea was very simple. We wanted to give people the opportunity to provide schooling for millions of children around the world who don’t have any. To do this, we created a campaign focused on two parts: a website and a mobile app. On the website, we had the children, but the school was missing. And the school was an app that people could download onto their mobiles (the price of the download was their donation).
What they had to do was to go to the website (llevalosalaescuela.com/en) and place their mobile with the app open into it. And then the magic happened: one of the children came out of the website and walked into the mobile to go to school.
So that people who don’t have a smartphone could also see it, we made a video of the action and uploaded it onto YouTube, where it went viral.
How it works
The way it works is surprising, but simple:
1. You download the app from App Store or Google Play (the 0.79€ price of the download is your donation).
2. You go to llevalosalaescuela.com/en and place your mobile where indicated, with the application open.
3. Then, a child will walk out of the website and into your mobile screen to go to school.
Results
- In just one month, the website got 260,000 hits.
- For two weeks it was in the TOP TEN downloads at App Store and Android Market. (Nº2 at Android Market. Nº5 at App Store).
- To date, we have collected more than 350,000€ for UNICEF (including direct donations).
- It has appeared in more than 500 blogs, social networks and online media.