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Keep Their Future Bright

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Keep Their Future Bright by Icon Agency

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Title
  • Keep Their Future Bright
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  • Icon Agency

About This Project

Summary

In response to rising underage alcohol consumption, and secondary supply by parents in the home, the ‘Keep Their Future Bright’ campaign targeted parents with an empathetic approach. It used values-based messaging, proven to motivate parents, and distinctive creative assets to raise awareness of the dangers of underage drinking. By emphasising empathy and positivity, the Social, Digital OOH and Search campaign highlighted the risks of even small amounts of alcohol consumption for teens?.

Goals & Objectives

The campaign sought to shift beliefs, increase awareness of harms, and reduce the perception that supervised drinking is safe, by using evidence-based messaging and the metaphor of the night sky, symbolising the delicate state of the teenage brain.

Results & Impact

Significantly more parents were aware that ‘disruption of brain development’ (79% vs. 92%) and ‘risk of sexual assault’ (79% vs. 88%) were key harms associated with underage alcohol use after seeing the campaign. Parental approval of providing alcohol to teens also dropped 51% to 33%.

the team

Kate Griffiths
  • Director of Behaviour Change & Brand
  • ICON
Michael Knox
  • Executive Creative Director
  • ICON
Sam Cairns
  • Head of Production
  • ICON
Saskia Dodds-Painter
  • Junior Strategist
  • ICON
Cinzia Marrocco
  • Heading of Marketing & Communications
  • Alcohol & Drug Foundation
Sophie Fredheim
  • Marketing Manager
  • Alcohol & Drug Foundation
Chris Lewis
  • Senior Designer
  • ICON
George Stone
  • Post Producer
  • Pancho
Andrew Stevenson
  • Managing Director
  • We Love Jam
Sophie Fysh
  • Account Manager
  • OMD Media
Mark Chenery
  • Co-founder & Director
  • Common Cause