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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
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