Prêt à Voter (case study) - Solar Impulse | Clapboard Ad Archive

Solar Impulse’s Prêt à Voter campaign, executed by Publicis Conseil in Year: 2023, stands as a definitive example of how precise creative strategy and rigorous communications planning can meaningfully accelerate legislative action in the public service arena. Tasked with bridging the wide gap between the chronic noise of environmental problem-awareness and the paralysis in policy execution, Solar Impulse, under Bertrand Piccard’s leadership, distilled 1,400 pragmatic, economically viable solutions into 50 concrete, pre-drafted legislative proposals, directly mailed to every one of France’s 577 newly elected deputies at a rare moment of parliamentary renewal. Rather than fueling yet another abstract call to environmental action, this project took the bold marketing stance of removing the practical barrier to change, providing MPs across political lines with ready-to-vote laws at the precise juncture when they could make immediate use of them. Carefully orchestrated OOH and DOOH placements near the National Assembly and across high-traffic Parisian sites, coupled with targeted social media outreach and widespread media coverage driven by Piccard himself, ensured the initiative saturated the lawmaking and broader social consciousness simultaneously. The rallying campaign line — as the climate changes, laws should too — acted both as a call to arms and as reassurance, distilling Solar Impulse’s eco-realism thesis into a clear, actionable offer to politicians wary of public, economic, or bureaucratic resistance. What Clapboard’s taxonomy would classify as FORMAT#1—Demonstration, the creative concept here serves to prove by direct evidence: the pre-drafted bills themselves are both message and mechanism, showing precisely how governments can convert curated environmental solutions into legislative outcomes. This disciplined, B2B-focused approach eschews emotive appeals in favor of irrefutable utility, yielding unambiguous results — three proposals folded word-for-word into government energy law, nine debated in the Senate, one before Swiss Parliament, and another at the European Union, marking a categorical shift from advocacy to action. Beyond the accolades at Clio, Cannes Lions, One Show, and Eurobest, the campaign is a case study in how precision targeting, legislative literacy, and creative ambition can short-circuit institutional inertia. Clapboard rates this 86/100. As a signal to the global creative and public affairs sectors, Prêt à Voter demonstrates that campaigns designed as tools for immediate policy implementation — rather than just rallying cries — can set new benchmarks for impact and creative accountability.