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Yale Case Study

It’s one thing to create a campaign that explains why we need to use smart home security in everyday ways. It’s quite another to tell it through song from the surprising perspective from the most important lock in our lives – our door’s.

A New Anthem For Smarter Security

Yale

Branded Content

Campaign Creative (Concepting)

Video

Services

Despite their name, many people saw smart locks as a silly purchase. Homeowners were skeptical about them being a worthwhile investment, often unaware of their purpose or value. Regardless if someone was ready to trust this smart home security solution or not, the market itself was a sea of sameness. An abundance of brands and products, websites and packaging, media and messaging – all of it all too similar and, alarmingly, underwhelming.

 Enter: “Make it Smart,” a campaign that shined a playful light on the benefits of smart locks by asking consumers, “If your door could talk, what would it say about your home’s security?” To show how a smart lock can transform your life, we let doors all over the world pay tribute to the Linus® Smart Lock by means of a whimsical anthem. The music video cuts through the clutter by humanizing an otherwise inanimate object and adding levity to an often fear-laden subject, illustrating how the product makes modern life simpler, safer and smarter.

Changing locks by changing minds

Background

By unlocking a smarter, more relatable way to speak about home security, we spiced up smart locks and made a splash in an otherwise homogenous market.

Smarter, safer and more memorable

Campaign

To highlight the product’s award-winning modern design and easy installation, we created vibrant and playful instruction videos in our “Make it Simple” series.