Shiran Atuan Rachamim | DesiCreative

BBR Saatch & Saatchi Presents : Hacking Spotify

Bekol, Israel’s Organization for the Hard of Hearing, hacked Israel’s Spotify launch to deliver a message to the country’s young music lovers.

Spotify has been available abroad for years, but in Israel it just landed this week! As an anticipated launch by Israel’s many youngsters and music lovers, it was a dream opportunity for Bekol, Israel’s Organization for the Hard of Hearing, to speak directly to youngsters.

Why? Because with most youngsters using earphones to listen to music at increasingly higher volumes, the average age for getting a hearing aid is dropping. In fact, medical authorities have reported that people as young as 40 are now finding they need a hearing aid.

With this in mind and knowing fully well that Israeli youngsters would automatically search for Spotify on google, we bought google adwords and promoted a site with a very similar domain name as Spotify: spotify.org.il.

Youngsters who fell into our trap were taken to our Spotify lookalike website and presented with a message they did not expect:

‘Spotify is now available in Israel, but not for the thousands of hard of hearing.

Playing music too loudly means many youngsters are finding out they may need a hearing aid by the age of 40. Bekol, Israel’s Organization for the Hard of Hearing, is here to help prevent that and you can help’.

So as not to antagonize Israeli youngsters who’ve waited for Spotify long enough, we gave them 30 seconds to read our message (&donate) and then we automatically redirected them to the real Spotify website.

Hacking Spotify paid off as we managed to get up close and personal with the internet’s hardest to reach demographic and confront them with a message which they may not want to hear, but may not be able to in the near future.

Credits:

Agency Credits: BBR Saatchi & Saatchi
Client: Bekol, Israel’s Organization for the Hard of Hearing
CEO: Yossi Lubaton
Chief Creative Officer: Idan Regev
Creative Director: Kobi Cohen
Creative Technology Director: Roy Zoaretz
Copywriter: Ran Even
Art Director: Shani Sofer
VP Content & Production: Dorit Gvili
VP Client Services: Ben Muskal
Account Executive: Shiran Atuan Rachamim
Marcom Director: Eva Hasson
Video Editor: Leehou Porat

Bekol : Sound Changes Everything : BBR Saatchi and Saatchi

A clickbait campaign designed to test the hearing of the video-muting Facebook generation

We’ve all fallen prey to clickbait. Those small innocuous looking posts in our Facebook feeds with ‘interesting’ headlines created to combat banner blindness. Posts most of us cannot resist clicking which usually lead to a double digit lift in click through rates.

With that in mind, we decided to put this knowledge into practice for ‘Bekol’, Israel’s Organization for the Hard of Hearing, and get people to take a hearing test in spite of their reluctance to do so.

Appealing to the 85 percent of Facebook users who usually view videos with the sound off, we dared them to click on our post. Those who clicked were surprised to discover a video with a soundtrack that did not quite match the cute picture portrayed. A soundtrack which once added, presented in fact a whole new and creepy narrative. Viewers who still thought our campaign video was cute, fun or even romantic were invited to get their hearing tested by Bekol.

Credits:

Agency Credits: BBR Saatchi & Saatchi
CEO: Yossi Lubaton
Chief Creative Officer: Idan Regev
Creative Director: Kobi Cohen
Creative Team: Ronni Azulay, Idan Levy
Creative Technology Director: Roy Zoaretz
VP Client Services: Ben Muskal
VP Content & Production: Dorit Gvili
Account Supervisor: Reni Bracha-Landau
Account Executive: Shiran Atuan Rachamim
Marcom Director: Eva Hasson
Digital Studio Manager: Michael Shelly
Video Editor: Eyal Vinizer