Battersea Dogs & Cats Home

A stray dog follows you on digital billboards around a shopping centre to raise awareness of the charity

Project details

Brief

Increase the number of leads for Battersea Dogs & Cats Home

Strategy

A stray dog looking for a home follows you around a shopping centre

Implementation

RFID sensors detect when targeted users pass a digital outdoor screen and interrupt the current advertising to display a dog

Deliverables

  • Design intervention
  • Campaign website

Client

Battersea Dogs & Cats Home

Agency

OgilvyOne WorldWide
Senior Developer

Markets

  • United Kingdom

Audience

  1. Dog lovers

Lifespan

Launched: 27 April 2015
Retired: 06 May 2015

Outcomes

  • 2,500 unique visits to the campaign microsite
  • Over 320,000 video views
  • 99% positive social sentiment
  • 79% increase in main site traffic during the campaign from new visitors

Key technologies

  • Adobe FlashAdobe Flash
  • RFIDRFID
  • Node.JSNode.JS
  • HTML5HTML5

Campaign

Concept

This campaign video was designed for distribution on social channels to broaden the audience reach of the event. It received over 320,000 video views during the campaign period.

Making-of video

Enter for the 2015 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

Artefacts

Campaign website

Barley walks on screen and greets visitors by telling his story. The content encourages visitors to find out more information about the charity and provides a call to action to adopt or donate.

Pamphlet Handouts

We targeted the potential audience directly by distributing these RFID‑enabled pamphlets. Visitors to the shopping centre would opt-in to the experience by accepting the collateral.

Total pages: 4

Exhibitions

Westfield Stratford

London, United Kingdom

Launched: 27 April 2015
Retired: 06 May 2015

Accolades

Campaign

Top 10

10 December 2015

Collaborators

Bashkim Isai

Senior Developer

Emma de la Fosse

Executive Creative Director

Charlie Wilson

Executive Creative Director

Arthur Parshotham

Creative Director

William Godfrey

Concept Creator

Jana Geary

Digital Producer

Beccy Juliusberger

Business Director

Nicole Yershon

Director of Innovative Solutions

Lorenzo Spadoni

Creative Technologist

Justin Cairns

Print Production

Alison Cooper

Framestore
Film Producer

Milan Mladenovic

Exterion Media
Digital Infrastructure Leader

Tim Cartwright

Exterion Media
Head of Digital Sales