Davivienda Bank Case study THE CORRESPONDENT by Leo Burnett Bogota

The Case study titled THE CORRESPONDENT was done by Leo Burnett Bogota advertising agency for Davivienda Bank in Colombia. It was released in Jun 2010.

Davivienda Bank: THE CORRESPONDENT

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June 2010
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June 2010
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Credits & Description:

Category: Titanium and Integrated

Advertiser: DAVIVIENDA BANK

Product/Service: BANKING

Agency: LEO BURNETT COLOMBIA

Date of First Appearance: Jun 10 2010

Entry URL: http://www.elcorresponsal.com.co

Chief Creative Officer: Rodrigon Davila (Leo Burnett)

Creative Director: Fernando Hernandez (Leo Burnett)

Creative Director: Mauricio Sarmiento (Leo Burnett)

Creative Director: German Espitia (Leo Burnett)

Copywriter: Andres Restrepo (Leo Burnett)

Copywriter: Luis David Parra (Leo Burnett)

Copywriter: Andres Riano (Leo Burnett)

Art Director: Juan Felipe Jaimes (Leo Burnett)

Art Director: David Rodirguez (Leo Burnett)

Art Director: Ana Maria Colmenares (Leo Burnett)

Web Designer: Andres Hernandez (Leo Burnett)

Web Designer: Rafael Reina (Leo Burnett)

Web Designer: Luis Carlos Vela (Leo Burnett)

Art Director: Maria Maranta (Leo Burnett)

Art Director: Andres Homez (Leo Burnett)

Account Manager: Carlos J. Larrota (Leo Burnett)

Account Executive: Carolina Ocampo (Leo Burnett)

Account Executive: Carolina Lara (Leo Burnett)

Engineer: Angel Solorzano (Leo Burnett)

Community Manager: Mauricio Alvarez (Leo Burnett)

Media placement: TV CAMPAIGN - 15 SPOTS - TV - JUNE 2010

Media placement: 10 SPOTS FOR INTERNET CONTENT - INTERNET - JUNE 2010

Media placement: RADIO CAMPAIGN - RADIO - JUNE 2010

Media placement: BLOG - INTERNET - JUNE 2010

Media placement: ONLINE ADVERTISING - INTERNET - JUNE 2010

Media placement: SOCIAL NETWORKS - INTERNET - JUNE 2010

Media placement: VIRAL CONTENT - INTERNET - JUNE 2010

Media placement: SPORT CHANNELS CONTENT - TV - JUNE 2010



Describe the campaign/entry

CONTEXT:

Since 1994, Davivienda Bank has used humour for its advertising campaigns, based on the concept: You could be caught in the wrong place, your money shouldn't. Bring it to Davivienda.



TASK:

Create a campaign to reinforce the concept of the bank during soccer world cup South Africa 2010.



THE SITUATION:

How can a local bank steal the show of the Soccer World Cup while competing with global brands such as Nike, Adidas, Coca Cola, and their huge budgets?



Describe how the campaign/entry was launched across each channel in the order of implementation

We created a reporter, ("The Correspondent"), who "travelled" to South Africa to broadcast from there as a regular journalist, but was always caught in funny situations, always the victim of bad luck and always "caught in the wrong place" (as per the concept of the brand).

We aired our TV spots during the half time of every game so it looked like a genuine sports news report, not an advert. People thought it was a real journalist broadcasting from the World Cup.

Then, a blog with exclusive content, radio ads, online ads, You Tube, Facebook, and Twitter were witnesses of a campaign that broke all the Colombian rating records in media and generated free press of more than 3 million dollars.



Give some idea of how successful this campaign/entry was with both client and consumer

We broke all the rating records in media and internet. The campaign managed to become familiar to the Colombian audience, who started to talk like the character, to tape themselves imitating him and to create their own content to publish online. Many watched the World Cup just waiting for his reports. It became the most popular ad campaign in Colombia's history.

During the world cup the blog had more than 18.000.000 visits. and today the blog has more than 55 million visits, a tally 12 million bigger than Colombia’s total population.

The YouTube official channel positioned as the 34th most seen in the world during June 2010.

When the world cup was over, Davivienda announced their stock auction and became also a financial success thanks to the positioning of the brand.

The final result was the private Initial Public Offer with the highest demand in Colombian stock market history, 2,89 Billion dollars.