Diamond Trading Company: DROP EVERYTHING FOR LOVE

Credits & Description:

Category: Best Use of Online Advertising

Advertiser: DTC

Product/Service: EVERLON DIAMOND COLLECTION

Agency: JWT

Date of First Appearance: Feb 14 2010 12:00AM

Entrant Company: JWT, New York, USA

Entry URL: http://www.weworkweekendsforbrands.com/2010/dropeverything

Chief Creative Officer: Ty Montague (JWT North America)

Chief Creative Officer: Harvey Marco (JWT New York)

Executive Creative Director: Andrew Clarke (JWT New York)

Creative Director/Art Director: Rob Omodiagbe (JWT New York)

Digital Creative Director/Art Director: Mason Hedgecoth (JWT New York)

Copywriter: Bee Reynolds (JWT New York)

Digital Copywriter: Nancy Strange (JWT New York)

Producer: Greg Tharp (JWT New York)

Digital Producer: Argentina Morales (JWT New York)

Digital Producer: Vanessa Scanlan (JWT New York)

Editor: Joe Lombardi (JWT New York)

Editor: Adele Free Pham (JWT New York)

: B-Reel

Media placement: Website - Dropeverythingforlove.com - 01/02/2010

Media placement: Homepage Roadblock/Takeover Banners - LATimes.com, NYMag.com - 02/02/2010

Media placement: Site Banners - LATimes.com, NYMag.com, Style.com, Glamour.com, GQ.com - 08/02/2010

Media placement: Email Blasts - Various Recipients - 02/02/2010

Media placement: Social Application - Facebook - 18/02/2010

Media placement: Print - LA Times Insert & Wall Street Journal Cover Wrap - 03/02/2010



Results and Effectiveness

In the end, we brought real couples together in a way that chocolates, flowers and traditional advertising never could. Our site helped people create an elegant filmed declaration of love, and our real-life challenges gave real couples memories that will last their lives.

Over the course of our two week campaign, we earned over $2.5 million in free PR, doubled our user engagement and reached a truly national audience – all with a fraction of our client’s usual budget.



Creative Execution

In the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day, we used traditional media and takeover banners to encourage people to drop what they were doing and visit our website. Once there, a virtual interviewer guided each person through creating their own simple, honest films to declare the strength of their love. Each participant created an elegant black and white web video to share with their partner, and the world.

What no one knew was that we were live-moderating the video submissions. We chose couples with moving love stories. And we immediately dispatched crews to bring our online challenges into people’s real lives.

Each of our unexpected real-life challenges lives on as a short documentary film online at dropeverythingforlove.com



Insights, Strategy & the Idea



“A Diamond is Forever” is more than just a tagline. It stands for the enduring strength found in every love story. In a year when luxury spending was nearly non-existent – and with a mere third of previous years’ budgets – our goal was simple: remind people that even when the economy is weak, true love is strong.

We did not set out to get our audience to buy diamonds this year. We simply asked them to remember what it is that diamonds stand for. We wanted real people to set aside their real worries and their real schedules in order to make what really matters, matter most.

We asked our audience to Drop Everything for Love.