#MyGameMyName
Telefonica’s Vivo/ Wonder Women Tech
Issue 48 | September 2018
Agency
Africa
Creative Team
CCO Sergio Gordilho Creative Directors Sophie Schonburg, Marco Bezerra, Sergio Gordilho Copywriters Felipe Lermen, Sophie Schonburg Art Directors Linus Oura, Sergio Gordilho Designer Matteus Faria
Production Team
Agency Producers Rodrigo Ferrari, Patricia Melito Special Projects Monique Lopes Lima, Juliana Mendonca, Julia Newman, Isabela Levy Production Company Associados Technology, Digital Production Webcore
Other Credits
Client Services PC Freitas, Jose Boralli, Paula Salvarani, Isabel Castro, Marcelo Marques, Andrea Rizzoei Media Luiz Fernando Vieira, Rodrigo Medeiros, Rafael Pascoal, Hully Sa, Victor Casimiro Planning Rodrigo Maroni, Aldo Pini, Marcelo Germano, Priscila Meldonian, Anna Tie Galisi
Date
January 2018
Background
Vivo was the biggest internet provider in Brazil, completely committed to gender equality. So, when the brand found out that the online gaming in Brazil was rife with sexual harassment, it decided to take a stand. After all there were 1.8 billion gamers online everyday and nearly half of them were girls. Almost all had suffered some form of harassment while playing.
Idea
Many girls felt they had to hide their identities behind male nicknames in order to protect themselves from abuse while playing.
So, some of the biggest male influencers in online gaming were invited to do the same and change their names too but change to female names and play online for a day. Then they were asked to video themselves while playing and share the video of their experiences with their fans.
Millions of their followers saw for themselves how unacceptable the online behaviour of some male gamers was and were prompted to speak up.
Results
The movement spread beyond Brazil and around the world. There were over 115 million media impressions with no investment, more than 200,000 social media interactions on different platforms, 98.6% of positive mentions, more than 40 hours of organic content posted on YouTube either of people taking part in the experience or talking about the problem. Countless girls were encouraged to never hide again, which is important given that many boys and girls interacting with this campaign were still making up their minds about gender and their roles in society.
Our Thoughts
Influencers are media owners in themselves, bringing huge audiences to advertisers for better or for worse. For better in this instance. For me, the crucial part of this is how the message is getting to young men before their attitudes have become hard-wired.
It is a beautifully simple idea, allowing men to experience what it’s like to be a female gamer and then getting those men to share the experience with their followers.
Between them, they created over 40 hours of content on YouTube. Editing that down to a single, short video that told the whole story was a neat way of getting the idea rapidly and widely out into news media.