Case Study: Finding the Edge of the Creative Cliff

Powerful, successful advertisements often push audiences to the edge of emotion, but never over. With a life-threatening cause on the line, it was crucial that DKMS, a blood cancer donation center, deliver its emotional message carefully in order raise awareness and elicit action from the audience. DKMS set out with Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience pro bono to test its impressionable creative, an ad that serves as an allegory for the dangers of blood cancers and the repercussions of low donor rates.