Google Digital Garage
Humanising social media messaging to achieve cut through.
Social media campaign
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The business challenge
Google Digital Garage came into its own over the pandemic, committed to training SMBs in digital skills coupled with a new mentoring offering. But how could Google achieve cut through and deliver real support, to the right people, in a saturated market?
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Our creative translation
To deliver on this brief, we challenged the default Digital Garage design language which leant heavily on Google’s UX colour palette with a fresh, human-centric approach through a series of static and animated ads to roll out across social media.
The impact
The new ads were A/B tested and proved to be a hit with a 5x leap in click throughs. The humanising of the brand through these assets was key.
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“It was amazing to see the uplift in click throughs with these human-centric, redesigned ads. The new static ad design achieved 15k clicks in comparison to the previous design with 3k clicks making this a valuable change of direction for Google Digital Garage!”
Anna Willatt, Hands Down!
Client Partner