D&AD
Masterclassics
Understanding the relationship between advertising creatives and the industry bible
Unlike most other awards shows, D&AD is not for profit. So how does it survive? Masterclasses. Run by the best, to teach the next generation of award winners. But we had a massive problem. The budget to promote D&AD Masterclasses wasn’t just small. It was tiny.
We committed sacrilege. The physical D&AD winners’ annual is cherished by creatives. So, we ripped it apart. Sending those creative leaders the torn page of their own winning work with the message: You know where great work ends up. But does the rest of your agency know where it begins?
RECOGNITION
Caples - Gold for Best Direct Marketing
Caples - Silver for Best Not for Profit
DMA Awards - Silver for Best Creative Solution
Creative Circle - Silver for Best Charity/Public Service
We needed to reach the creative training budget holders – in a dramatic, creative way. These are the creative leaders, ECDs and CCOs, who have more than likely won a D&AD award themselves – they would expect no less, right? We wanted to remind them what creative excellence takes, and how D&AD Masterclasses could help their agency attain it.
We sent direct mail two weeks before lockdown.
Two weeks before budgets started being slashed; training budgets being amongst the first to go. Despite that, we managed to get a 9.1% response with a projected ROI rate of 12.7 to 1.
Results
Response rate
9.1%
Projected ROI
12.7 to 1
