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A Piece of Me
KPN
Netherlands
2025
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Entrant Company
Dentsu Creative
Program
Clio Health 2025
Advertiser Category
Consumer Brand Health Initiative
Medium
Creative Effectiveness
Category
Local / Regional
KPN, the Netherlands’ leading telecom, is committed to a #betterinternet: safer, more sustainable and socially inclusive.   1 in 2 Dutch consumers are concerned about online safety. For our family audience, that means protecting their kids in an increasingly alarming world.   Online shaming is rapidly growing, with devastating consequences from depression and loneliness to suicide.   We captured insights through a unique TikTok TalkShow, unlocking a powerful strategic pivot: Sexting isn’t shameful; forwarding intimate images without consent is shameful. But this problem lives deep in internet culture. To tackle it, we needed to raise it into the spotlight of popular culture. We often say our campaigns sparked a conversation. In this case we realised the conversation itself could be life saving. Collaborating with Dutch musician MEAU, we co-created a heart-wrenching song, every lyric informed by her young fans’ experiences of online shaming.  We crafted a music video bringing the horrifying consequences of forwarding intimate messages to life; our message clear: think twice before you forward.  We followed a music release, not an advertising plan, releasing the track on streaming platforms and digital stores, premiering the video on MEAU’s social channels, promoting through PR and live performances before branded cutdowns appeared on TV, in cinemas, online. Influencers spread the word further. We provided concrete support with educational resources on owned channels and flooded TikTok with helpful content. “A Piece of Me” created a powerful cultural movement, achieving extraordinary scale in a country of only 17.7m people: A Platinum record, No.2 trending YouTube video, 43M organic views, 242M PR impressions. We changed the conversation, with +236% uplift in conversations on online shaming, focused on thinking before you forward and hundreds of schools using the video as education. We changed brand perception, with brand consideration +9%, associations with online safety +19%, Trust +16% and “A brand that creates societal impact” + 16% . We helped change the law, making it illegal to share intimate content without consent. And made KPN the most valuable Dutch brand in the Netherlands. Following its impact in the Netherlands, the song was rerecorded in English, and set to the same powerful video, to spark a global conversation. We now take the #betterinternet mission to the industry to protect vulnerable teens worldwide.
Credits
Creative Agency
Dentsu Creative
Amsterdam
Advertiser / Brand
KPN
Amsterdam
Creative Agency
Dentsu Creative
Amsterdam
Media Agency
Dentsu
UK
Media Agency
Dentsu Group
Tokyo
Production Company
Wefilm Creative Agency
Amsterdam
Public Relations Agency
HPB | Het PR Bureau
Amsterdam
Music/Sound Company
Amp.Amsterdam // The Sonic Branding Company
Amsterdam
Media Agency
Mindshare
Amsterdam
Chief Brand, Communications & CSR
Bartho Boer
KPN
VP Brand, MarCom & Sponsorships
Dave Frauenfelder
KPN
Spokesperson & PR Manager
Gerd De Smyter
KPN
Manager Marketing Communicatie
Chantal van der Walle
KPN
Manager Brand & Media
Sonja Vroling
KPN
Creative Director & Concept
Gijs Sluijters
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Creative Director & Concept
Joris Tol
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Executive Creative Director
Mark Muller
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Co-CEO
Boris Nihom
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Co-CEO
Sven Vening
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Managing Director
Pim Beekman
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Account Director
Eveline Rooders
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Head of Account
Dirk Jan de Krom
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Agency producer
Amber Akkermans
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Account Manager Social
Maarten Withoos
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Strategist
Tobias Vermeiren
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Motion Design
Tomas Freriksen
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Title artwork
Hayley Smith
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Director of Creative Excellence EMEA
Veronique Rhys Evans
Dentsu Creative
Global Practice Creative Excellence Leader
Jayme Blasko
Dentsu
Chief Strategy Officer
Patricia Mcdonald
Dentsu Creative
Chief of Staff
Paola Motka
Dentsu Creative
Global Communications Director
Antonia Collins
Dentsu Creative
Artist / Songwriter
Meau Hewitt
Film Director & Scenario
Emma Branderhorst
Case Study Edit
Tim Arnold
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Case Study Design
Arthur Miller
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Case Board Design
Tunchan Kalkan
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
Case Study Voice Over
Imogen Hayward
Dentsu Creative Amsterdam
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