High in (Alto em)

Role / Services

Creative, Copywriting, Campaign Concept

Credits

Project: IDEC

Copywriter: Augusto Barros

Art Director: Renan Belmiro

Location & Year

Brasil © 2022

Does Brazil read labels? No. Brazil scrolls the feed, sends voice messages and buys on feeling.

When Brazil's health authority mandated warning seals on food packaging. High in sugar. High in sodium. High in saturated fat, they solved half the problem. The other half was ours. Getting Brazil to want to look at that little black magnifying glass.

Challenge

A mandatory seal is not a campaign. A law is not a message. And a logo on the corner of a package is, for most people, invisible. The real problem wasn't awareness. It was indifference. Consumers had spent decades surrounded by nutritional information and learned, very efficiently, to ignore it. The food industry knew this. And was counting on it. How do you make people care about something they've trained themselves not to see? How do you turn a regulatory update into a cultural moment? How do you make public health policy feel urgent, relevant and, against all odds, shareable?

Approach

We stopped thinking like a health campaign and started thinking like a creator. Instead of educating, we provoked. Instead of informing, we entertained. Instead of speaking at people, we handed them something worth passing along. The tone wasn't institutional. It was human, sharp, a little irreverent, native to the internet. The format followed the logic of the feed: carousels, stories, video, memes. The strategy wasn't reach. It was resonance. We translated regulation into culture. Technical language into everyday language. Obligation into relevance.

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Results

26 million unique people reached online. 5.6 million complete video views. 2.3 million clicks with a CTR of 1.95%. 242K likes. 13.6K shares. 3.8K comments. 8,157 leads via paid social. 1,796 via landing page. Cost per click up to 92% lower than previous campaigns. The campaign exceeded every performance and engagement benchmark. It spilled beyond paid media into meme pages, influencer reposts and organic press coverage. The seal was on the package. The work got it into people's heads.