Cannes Lions

BERLITZ LANGUAGE CENTER

MEMAC OGILVY & MATHER, Dubai / BERLITZ LANGUAGE CENTER / 2010

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In the UAE, administrative papers (like parking fines) are in Arabic only. A delight for 74% of all residents: They’re expats and don’t understand a word. A great opportunity for an idea in true guerrilla style: We produced a simple stamp to be used on all those Arabic-only documents. In particular, on parking fines, because our team could easily access them (after all hundreds of thousands are issued in Dubai every year).

Outcome

This is as guerrilla as it gets, “abusing” official documents. We know: each stamp achieved 100% attention. We don’t know how many tickets got stamped in total, but consider this: a $40 investment into a stamp reached hundreds of people – a single sign up for an Arabic course resulted in a ROI of $2180.

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