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NCAA: Talking Bench


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The NCAA is changing its eligibility requirements for Division I athletes - from a 2.0 GPA in core courses to a 2.3 GPA - starting in 2016. To help raise awareness, NCAA’s advertising agency since 2012, Leo Burnett Detroit, created Talking Bench, a campaign informing high school athletes of where they’ll sit if they don’t make the grade. The campaign kicked off by surprising high school athletes in a candid video shoot. As students get sent to the proverbial bench, they get a wisecrack earful from The Bench. It jokes with one basketball player, “I hope you’re better at passing tests than you did passing that ball.” The Bench asks another student for her GPA. When she says she doesn’t know, the bench responds, “You don’t know?! Now I know exactly why you’re over here.”

Talking Bench will include a :30-second PSA on Turner networks, ESPN, CBS Sports and CBS. The spot will also run in select cinema. The initiative will reach students via in-school collateral such as wall posters and sticker talk bubble decals that will go on actual gymnasium benches. In addition, dozens of short-clip videos as well as an enter-to-win contest will run in social including Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and SnapChat.

Learn more about the campaign at http://2point3.org and talk to The Bench on Twitter at twitter.com/talkingbench.
Other credits

Client: NCAA

Agency: Leo Burnett Detroit

Campaign: Talking Bench

Chief Creative Officer: Steve Chavez

SVP, Creative Director, Art: Bob Veasey

SVP, Integrated Creative Director, Copy: Glen Hilzinger

VP, Executive Producer: Erik Zaar

AD, Operations: Jessica Harold

Integrated Group Director: Skip Drayton

Print Producer: Steve Lyons from Prodigious

Planner: Melanie Reynolds

Production Company: Prettybird

Director: Billy Rainey

Social Media Company: Renegade

PR Company: Coyne PR

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