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THE GOMERAN WHISTLE

LA DESPENSA, Madrid / WWW.BUSUU.COM / 2009

Awards:

Silver Cannes Lions
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Overview

Audience

- Visitors of the web increased 1500% in one week;- The documentary got 60,000 YouTube views;- With a budget of 20.000€, we got the web noticed in all the media in prime time (at news);- The web is very useful to learn languages. We only needed that people know it. With this campaign, we got that people visited the website. They actually learn languages on web.

ClientBriefOrObjective

Busuu.com is a very useful website where you can learn any language online. However, the website was not very well known and did not receive many visits. The objective was to make the site known.

Execution

We decided to use a different format: A cultural documentary. As one can learn any language on the website, the documentary focused on a rather uncommon language, one that is only spoken in a remote island in the Canary Islands, where words are whistled instead of spoken: The Gomeran Whistle. We then designed a viral strategy to drive our audience towards the site and be out in the media, claiming a place for this language in UNESCO’s list of Cultural Heritage.

Relevancy

We created a targeted way to reach the target audience: A cultural documentary focused on a very fun language where words are whistled instead of spoken. Busuu.com noticed this unknown language, getting the objective of making the web busuu.com famous.

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