Hello in Elephant: Translating an endangered language to help save an endangered species
Agency
whiteGREY
Client
David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Awards
Bronze
Most Original Thinking
Summary
The war on the ivory trade has been both public and successful, yet elephant populations continue to be decimated. Poaching’s well-publicised decline made people feel the threat to elephants was over.
To reignite passion for this fading cause, we inspired people to feel for elephants in a radical way.
Hello in Elephant is a world-first human-elephant translator – part utility, part sharing generator, part donation mechanism.
With zero paid media budget, the campaign went global garnering 400m opportunities to see. Importantly it created renewed energy to save elephants – DSWT’s donations rose 34% and it delivered a projected profit ROMI of 19.1:1.
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Credits
National Executive Creative Director | Chad Mackenzie | whiteGREY | |||||||
Senior Creative | Brett Terblanche | whiteGREY | |||||||
Senior Creative | James Blow | whiteGREY | |||||||
Senior Creative | Richard Taylor | whiteGREY | |||||||
Senior Experience Strategist | Matthew Simms | whiteGREY | |||||||
Lead Developer | Hoang Phan | whiteGREY | |||||||
Full Stack Developer | Yohan Mocho | whiteGREY | |||||||
Group Account Director | Justine Leong | whiteGREY | |||||||
Business Manager | Alex Sunier | whiteGREY | |||||||
Head of Production | Terry Kerr | whiteGREY | |||||||
National Head of Technology | Matt Sayer | whiteGREY | |||||||
Project Director | James Wright | whiteGREY | |||||||
Associate Experience Design Director | Dom Wright | whiteGREY | |||||||
Digital Art Director | Cohan Banfield | whiteGREY | |||||||
Executive Director | Rob Brandford | David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust |