The EU Ecolabel indicates low environmental impact and is granted to ecofriendly products and services. It reassures the environmentally conscious shoppers. Since it's hardly known within that target group, we needed to create awareness for the Ecolabel logo.To achieve the goal of spreading the Ecolabel Logo we created a fun and entertaining live event contest based on the principles of ecology and sustainability.The concept consisted of planting 10,000 flowers in an ecologically certified greenhouse surrounded with 23 camera’s and 2 webcams. One flower was granted to each participant who answered the contest questions correctly. The prize you won depended on the colour of the flower. So the participants had to follow their flower on-line during a period of 2 weeks to know what prize they won. And each visit the participants were exposed to the Ecolabel logo, as it was planted amidst the flowers. When the flower blossomed the participants needed to claim their Eco-labeled prize.

The results largely exceeded the initial goal:The Ecolabel was viewed more than 50m times during the campaign through the website, Facebook and Twitter, paid media on-and offline and more importantly via earned media as well as in print, brochures, TV, websites and blogs. The PR elements and earned media were crucial as the media budget was very limited. On top of that the target group is very vocal and we counted on them to help spread the message. Game participants saw the logo on average 17 times.

Filling the glasshouse with 10,000 flowers in 5 colours was the first step. Each plant was individually labelled and every 2 hours cameras snapped the blossom of each plan resulting in 2.5m pictures.In the middle of the field the Ecolabel logo was planted. This way participants were exposed to it every time they checked if their flower revealed its colour.Participants could check their flower via the site and Facebook so the logo was shared with their friends at multiple moments during the contest.Once the flower was visible, the participants had to claim their prize that was determined by the colour of the flower. Both paid and earned media led to the contest website where the contest questions had to be answered correctly before a plant was granted.Although this was an 'organic' campaign, the original campaign could be executed as planned.

Online the action resorted in 17m impressions. 30,395,820 readerships were counted in offline advertising. 15,000 unique participants entered and generated 3082 branded interaction hours (54% of visits lasted up to 30 minutes) (not bad for a country with less inhabitants than Paris). On average each player was exposed 17 times to the logo.The original effort led to a lot of earned media: 23.5% registered via a referral site. All this generated 75,590 Facebook posts and 4,185 Facebook and Twitter shares. The major distribution companies (Intermarché, Colruyt, Delhaize) decided to create their own Ecolabel product page in their weekly folder referring to the contest. The action resulted in 3 items on national television, 7 articles in the national and specialised press. 32 local blogs and websites reported on this innovative contest. During 4 trade fairs we received unexpected attention with an extra 170,000 visitors being exposed to the logo.