Building a Passion for Tap Water
A movement, a product, a campaign.
DIGO took a marketer’s approach to ending the world’s burgeoning love affair with bottled water, an overpriced and resource-draining product that just ends up overcrowding our landfills.
Our idea was simple: if people had a brand to associate with tap water and could visibly share that brand as a badge of honor, then they would.
Tappening encourages people to “Think Global. Drink Local.” Essentially, we’ve decided to ditch the bottle. And we hope to convince some other people to do the same. It’s a frivolous and wasteful habit, and we think that we could live without it.
The campaign has a website, print ads, a YouTube presence, buzz work and a Facebook page. Tappening also sells reusable water bottles for $14.95 each (Leonardo DiCaprio was one of our first customers). The Tappening movement is even linked to a film about our incessant creation of landfill mass, called Garbage!
So take a look, and feel free to order a good-looking, non-disposable water bottle.
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