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DISAPPEARING MESSAGES

FACEBOOK, Menlo Park / WHATSAPP / 2021

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Overview

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Overview

Why is this work relevant for Entertainment?

Launching WhatsApp's Disappearing messages using original composition & lyrics

When I think of us together

sending gifs just for fun

all the memories are fading away

You're always on my mind

Because you text me all the time

I know is hard it's time to let you go

All the photos you sent me

Are too much for me to keep

I need some space so now I'm gonna set you free

Fly baby fly

Beyond the sky

Last week we said hello

Now it's time to say goodbye

Your audios said hello

But now it's time to say goodbye

Background

We had to launch a technical feature in an entertaining way for our global users that made this very technical privacy feature feel like a positive and uplifting one. While our creative insight and idea was about elements leaving the WhatsApp UI, we had to make it lighthearted and comedic and music and original song became to the tool to do that in an entertaining way.

Describe the creative idea

Description:

WhatsApp launches its 7 Days Disappearing Messages feature with FLY BABY FLY – A online film crafted with unique visual style and copywriting with original lyrics.

To promote the new Disappearing Messages, feature on WhatsApp we created a global online film that communicated the value of ephemerality by educating our users on the feature’s use cases. Our farewell film bids adieu to elements inside WhatsApp conversations, such as Gifs, Good Morning Forward Messages, Audio Notes, Pictures etc., dramatically. The original soundtrack with custom lyrics also talks about the product feature on WhatsApp.

Describe the strategy

To promote the new Disappearing Messages, feature on WhatsApp we created a global online film that communicated the value of ephemerality by educating our users on the feature’s use cases.

Describe the execution

Our farewell film bids adieu to elements inside WhatsApp conversations, such as Gifs, Good Morning Forward Messages, Audio Notes, Pictures etc., dramatically. The original soundtrack with custom lyrics also talks about the product feature on WhatsApp.

Lyrics:

When I think of us together

sending gifs just for fun

now all the memories are fading away

You were always on my mind

Because you text me all the time

I know is hard but it's time to let you go

All the photos you sent me

Are too much for me to keep

I need some space so now I'm gonna set you free

Fly baby fly

Beyond the sky

Last week we said hello

But now it's time to say goodbye

Fly baby fly

Beyond the sky

Your audios said hello

But now it's time to say goodbye

Now it's time to say goodbye

Describe the outcome

the film was well appreciated with the global community and users of WhatsApp on social channels, as the song became a tip of the tong element for all our users globally.

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