BlueCross BlueShield: The Wake Up Ads

Car accidents are one of the main causes of death in Costa Rica, and many of those accidents happen because people fall asleep while they drive at night. So, as an insurance company BlueCross BlueShield Costa Rica that is always looking after every single one of our clients and potential ones, we wanted to take action into this problem.

A study from MindLab, a British neuromarketing research firm, stated that men and women wake up to different sounds, because of how our brains evolved throughout the years, it has developed sensitivity to certain sounds depending on the gender of each person.

And based on that study, we wanted to address the problem differently. In addition to the sounds, we created horror stories with some of those sounds in them, creating the first radio spots scientifically made to wake you up. We aired them on the main radio stations between 11pm and 4am, the hours where most of the accidents took place.

We did theses horror stories before anyone else became one.