Ad Nut
Oct 30, 2024

This GPS tool helps parents avoid fast-food routes

Kiwifruit producer Zespri has developed an online navigation tool to avoid driving routes that feature fast-food restaurants and junk food ads.

As the saying goes, 'you are what you eat'. And for Ad Nut, that means a diet consisting mostly of seeds, nuts, fruit and vegetables, which is healthier than most. Admittedly, the occasional cashew nut binge doesn't help the waistline, but temptation is sometimes hard to resist.
 
However, the woodland is a far cry from the urban jungle where humans are confronted with fast-food outlets at every turn. It's easy to fall prey to unhealthy eating habits, especially for the young and impressionable. 
 
That's why the world's largest kiwifruit marketer, Zespri, has launched its Healthier Ways initiative to help parents in the healthy eating battle for children. The new online navigation tool, first launched in Western Sydney, will support the six in ten (59%) parents avoiding travelling routes with junk food ads or generally avoiding taking their kids to fast-food or junk food restaurants, according to commissioned research by Zespri Kiwifruit.
 
By scanning a QR code, either on the Healthier Ways website or featured on OOH ads, parents can access an online map tool that will enable them to take the healthier way to their destination by avoiding travelling routes with junk food ads or fast-food restaurants.
 
 
"We’re giving families the choice to go the Healthier Way with our online navigation map tool and a chance to grab a healthy fruit snack on their way via our Zespri SunGold Kiwifruit pop-up," said KokHwee Ng, general manager, global marketing, Zespri. "Western Sydney is densely populated with fast-food outlets, so we wanted to increase kids' exposure to healthy food choices."
 
Zac Pritchard and V Wassim Kanaan, creative directors at Dentsu said: "It’s been a monumental production effort across all sectors of the Dentsu business; Merkle, Dentsu Creative PR and our creative production team, and we’re super lucky to be able to partner with clients like Zespri to make brave ideas like this happen, because they’re ones that make the world a little better (healthier).”
 
A 15-second TVC that supports the campaign is very energetic... perhaps a little too energetic. Featuring singing and dancing cartoon kiwifruit characters, it may catch your attention and appeal to younger children, but 15 seconds was more than enough for this old nut.
 
Nevertheless, kudos to Zespri for launching a campaign and a useful tool to help tackle the issue. Come to think of it, have you any tools to help an old squirrel avoid the very likely event of another cashew nut binge?
 
CREDITS
 
Zespri:
KokHwee Ng – General Manager, Marketing
Janice Byrnes - Senior Marketing Manager, APAC South
Sally Burtonwood - Brand Manager, Australia
Norman Tan - Global Digital Marketing Strategy Leader 
Nina Yusman – Global Lead, Health Strategy & PR
Wei Nian Tan - Brand Development Manager, APAC South Cecelia Low - Media & Digital Manager, APAC
 
Dentsu:
Ben Coulson – Chief Creative Officer
Zac Pritchard - Creative Director
V. Wassim Kanaan - Creative Director 
James Bush - Creative Technologist
Marcel Moniaga - Digital Creative Director 
Craig Sloane - National Head of Production
Graham Alvarez-Jarratt - Strategy Partner 
Mike Papa - Senior Designer
Nicky Webster - Group Account Director 
Ruby Tonkin - Senior Account Manager 
Emilija Landi - PR Account Director 
Madeleine Page - PR Business Director 
Anna Harty – PR Account Manager
Sarah Male - PR Senior Account Executive
Nadia Othman – PR Senior Account Executive
Gabriel Tamborini - Chief Experience and Gaming Officer 
Sam Graham - Principal Developer
John Dooley - Lead Developer/Engineer
Cade Wilson-Saul - Senior Project Manager
Priyanka Hunka - Senior QA Engineer
Activation – The Park
Erika Morton Allen – Managing Director 
Mabel Tu – Account Director
Sasha Hopkins – Senior Account Manager
Amination – Perceptual Engineering
Jon Baxter – Director. VFX.
Charles Cumming - 3d, modelling, animation 
Taylor Hewtson – VFX
 
Mindshare Australia
Kirsty Hunter - Client Partner
Elise Stark - Marketplace Director 
Jelynne Go - Performance Manager
 
Sampling – Direct 2 Consumer (D2C)
Clarissa Santiago – Account Director
 
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Source:
Campaign Asia

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