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Chernigivske's Yes I Am Ukrainian campaign is a digital initiative launched in August 2012 in Ukraine, created by Grape Ukraine, in which a Facebook application structured as an interactive book invited ordinary Ukrainians to publicly declare their identity and contribute their own viewpoints as co-authors of a collective national statement.
The campaign emerged at a moment of heightened national consciousness in Ukraine. Grape Ukraine designed the Facebook application not as a passive branded experience but as a participatory medium — what Clapboard's editorial team describes as a Grape Ua.clapboard.com/blog/producing/development/film-pre-production-steps">digital documentary structure — where the creative output was shaped entirely by the contributions of the Ukrainian public, according to En Wikipedia. Each user who added their declaration became, in effect, one of a record number of authors of a single living document, giving the initiative a cumulative cultural weight that static advertising could not replicate, according to Adsoftheworld.
Chernigivske, at the time a beer brand of SAN InBev Ukraine, the Ukrainian business of Anheuser-Busch InBev, according to Clapboard's archive research, had by 2009 already been recognised as Ukraine's leading beer brand and the country's number one alcoholic drinks label, per Clapboard's lineage documentation. The Yes I Am Ukrainian campaign extended that brand equity into the territory of civic identity, positioning Chernigivske not as a product but as a facilitator of Ukrainian national dignity. The geographic market was Ukraine exclusively, and the campaign's language, cultural references, and emotional register were calibrated entirely for a Ukrainian audience. It was submitted to the Clapboard ad archive, where it carries a Clapboard Score of 63 out of 100.
Grape Ukraine identified a precise cultural tension as the strategic foundation for the campaign. In Ukraine, per-capita beer consumption stood at approximately 60 litres per person in 2012, according to Brewery History, and the total Ukrainian beer market consumed approximately 3.3 billion litres that year, also according to Brewery History — more than three times the volume recorded in 1992. Yet despite this scale, Carlsberg's full-year 2012 report described the Ukrainian beer market as slightly down in the second half of the year, with economic deterioration driving consumer downtrading. Carlsberg had forecast growth of three to four percent for 2012 in June of that year, partly supported by UEFA EURO 2012 co-hosted in Ukraine, according to Interfax. The reality proved more mixed, with Carlsberg reporting approximately three percent growth in the first six months before conditions softened, per the same Carlsberg reporting cited by Clapboard's market research.
Within this contracting competitive environment, Chernigivske faced pressure from international rivals including Carlsberg Ukraine and AB InBev's own portfolio stablemates. The strategic response from Grape Ukraine was to move the brand's conversation away from product attributes entirely and anchor it to something competitors could not easily replicate: the singular experience of Ukrainian identity. Strategic Planner Sergey Kuzmenko, credited in the campaign's Effie Awards Ukraine 2013 entry as documented by Sovetskaya Reklama, shaped a brief that positioned the brand as a medium for collective self-expression rather than a sponsor of it. The interactive book format was chosen precisely because it collapsed the distance between brand and audience, making every participant a named contributor rather than a passive viewer. In the Ukrainian digital landscape of 2012, where Facebook had become a primary public forum, this mechanic carried genuine civic resonance.
Grape Ukraine built the Yes I Am Ukrainian campaign around a single creative idea executed with disciplined digital craft. The core format — a Facebook application designed as an interactive book — was both the medium and the message, collapsing the distinction between brand communication and user-generated civic declaration. Creative Director Sergey Milyuk led the creative team, working alongside Art Director Nataliya Strelchenko and Copywriter Oleksandra Alokhina, with Agency CEO Yuriy Hladkyi overseeing the project, as credited in the campaign's Effie Awards Ukraine 2013 documentation reported by Sovetskaya Reklama.
The interaction design placed the user at the centre of the creative act. Rather than consuming content, each participant in Ukraine authored a page of the book — a structural decision that transformed the application from a branded channel into a living archive of Ukrainian self-identification. The record number of authors the campaign ultimately accumulated, as noted in Grape Ukraine's own project description cited by Clapboard, was not incidental to the creative idea but the direct measure of its success. Every additional contributor deepened the cultural legitimacy of the whole.
Clapboard's editorial team characterises the campaign's format as a participatory digital documentary — a category that sits between social media activation and long-form digital storytelling. The production was lean by design. The Facebook platform carried the distribution load, and the application's visual and structural language referenced the physical gravitas of a book — permanence, authorship, record — while operating entirely in the digital environment that Ukrainian audiences in 2012 inhabited most actively. The campaign contains one media asset as archived on Clapboard, which reflects the campaign's strategic emphasis on participation over production spectacle.
No verified independent performance data for the Yes I Am Ukrainian campaign — including reach figures, application installs, or declared user numbers — is publicly available in the sources consulted for this analysis. What is verifiable is the campaign's recognition at the Effie Awards Ukraine 2013, as documented by Sovetskaya Reklama, which reported the award entry in December 2013. The Effie Awards measure advertising effectiveness against stated objectives, and entry alone into the Effie process signals that Grape Ukraine and Chernigivske believed the campaign's results were defensible against effectiveness criteria.
Structurally, the campaign's participatory mechanic created conditions for measurable earned reach. In Ukraine, where the Facebook platform served as a primary public forum in 2012, each user declaration functioned as an organic content event visible to that user's network — a distribution model that compounded without paid media support. The interactive book format, with its record number of authors as cited in Grape Ukraine's project description, generated a collective artefact whose cultural weight increased with every contributor, creating a network effect that conventional broadcast campaigns cannot access.
Clapboard assigns the campaign a score of 63 out of 100. That score reflects a campaign with a clear and original strategic idea and culturally coherent execution, marked down for the absence of publicly documented performance metrics and the single archived media asset that limits assessment of creative range. Within the Ukrainian food and drink advertising landscape of the early 2010s, the campaign remains a documented example of a legacy beer brand successfully navigating a tightening market by investing in identity rather than product claims.
Yes I Am Ukrainian was a digital campaign launched by Chernigivske in Ukraine in August 2012. Created by Grape Ukraine, it took the form of a Facebook application structured as an interactive book, allowing any Ukrainian to publicly declare their identity and viewpoint, collectively producing a record number of authors.
Grape Ukraine, based in Kyiv, created the Yes I Am Ukrainian campaign for Chernigivske. The credited team included Creative Director Sergey Milyuk, Art Director Nataliya Strelchenko, Copywriter Oleksandra Alokhina, Strategic Planner Sergey Kuzmenko, and Agency CEO Yuriy Hladkyi, as documented in the campaign's Effie Awards Ukraine 2013 entry.
Yes I Am Ukrainian received recognition at the Effie Awards Ukraine 2013, as reported by Sovetskaya Reklama in December 2013. The Effie Awards evaluate campaigns against effectiveness criteria, and the entry indicates Grape Ukraine and Chernigivske considered the campaign's results strong enough to submit for formal effectiveness assessment.
Ukraine's beer market consumed approximately 3.3 billion litres in 2012, according to Brewery History. Carlsberg forecast growth of three to four percent for the year, partly supported by UEFA EURO 2012, per Interfax, but the second half saw economic deterioration and consumer downtrading, per Carlsberg's own full-year reporting.
Clapboard assigns Yes I Am Ukrainian a score of 63 out of 100. The score reflects a strong and original strategic idea with culturally coherent digital execution in the Ukrainian market, moderated by the absence of publicly verified performance metrics and a single archived media asset limiting full creative assessment.
Grape Ukraine built a Facebook application structured as an interactive book in which Ukrainian users could contribute their own declarations as individual pages, making each participant a named co-author. This participatory mechanic turned the platform into a distributed civic medium, generating organic reach across Ukrainian social networks without relying on passive content consumption.
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