In Belgium, more than 1.500 patients are currently waiting for a transplant. Each donor can save up to 8 lives. The non-profit organisation Re-born To Be Alive encourages Belgians to become organ donors and asked Publicis Groupe for help. Even though Belgians are automatically considered organ donors, lots of families opt out when asked after seeing their loved one pass away. Unless the victim gave explicit permission before their passing.
We all love to be scared to death, especially during Halloween when death is celebrated. Making this the perfect moment to break the taboo surrounding death and organ donation. Because if you are ready to be scared to death, you may as well register as an organ donor before you die.
During several Halloween events at Plopsaland De Panne theme parks, Kinepolis movie theatres and Virtual Factory VR gaming centres, Death showed up. In a light-hearted and humorous way, Death tried to convince people to register as organ donors before dying of fear on a roller coaster, during a horror movie or a virtual zombie game. Those who registered as organ donors received a free session or game. Or they could even die of fear faster thanks to a special pass.
A video of the action was shared on social networks, to scare even more people and convince them to become organ donors as well.
This professional campaign titled ‘Sign up before you die’ was published in Belgium in November, 2022. It was created for the brand: Re-born To Be Alive, by ad agency: Publicis Groupe Benelux. This Experiential medium campaign is related to the Health and Public Interest, NGO industries and contains 3 media assets. It was submitted 8 minutes ago.
Credits
Client: Re-born To Be Alive vzw, Raymond Van Ryckel
Agency: Publicis Groupe Benelux
CCO: Eduardo Marques
ECD: Mathieu Cardon
Creatives: Bill Bilquin & Sebastien Stevens
Brand & Campaign Strategist: Nicolas Vergauwen
Account Director: Allen Marchant
Production Coordinator: Saartje Goris
Print Producer: Marleen Hemeleers
Moving Images Lead: Marc Van Buggenhout
Moving Images Producer: Daan Feytongs
DTP: Thierry Staes
Sound Lead: Tom Garcia
Sound Producer: Sarah Tanghe
Sound Engineer: Mathias Lewis
Video Editor: Mohamed Nafaa
DOP: Bas Van Hoof
DOP: Filip Hellings
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