The Hive Scores A Hat Trick In Campaign To Support Cancer

September 27, 2013


RHCC_bigboxAs The Hive was faced with the challenge of developing a fresh and dynamic brand personality and a companion marketing program to encourage corporate sponsors to support the annual Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer (RHCC) fundraising event, they said, “Game On!”  As part of their efforts to give back to the community, The Hive took on this pro bono assignment to challenge corporations to both sponsor the program and challenge employees and other stakeholders to take on cancer and support Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer, a rapidly-growing annual fundraising event (taking place Sept. 28 at Ontario Place) that benefits the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation in Toronto.

“The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation is committed to finding a cure for cancer in our lifetime,” says Shawn Burt, Chief Hockey Officer, Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation. “But that can only happen if our amazing research facilities continue to get financed.  And for that to happen we needed to partner with an agency as passionate as we are, and to get aggressive with our fundraising, which is what the ‘Game On Cancer’ positioning from The Hive is all about.”

“To use a hockey term, Game On Cancer is all about offence,” says The Hive Vice-President and Chief Creative Officer, Simon Creet. “Game On is a battle cry to mobilize the hundreds of thousands of people in Toronto and around the country that have been touched by cancer to enter a team, join a team, sponsor a team or just come out and cheer.”

The key elements of the marketing program included brand-focused digital and print advertisements in the Globe & Mail and Hockey News, as well as a VIP corporate sponsor invitation pack that was hand-delivered to more than 300 executive-level corporate decision makers.

The VIP direct mail package, which was at the core of driving new corporate sponsorship, featured an actual road hockey ball wedged in the centre of the delivery box, as though it had been fired with a slap shot.

In addition to providing pro bono marketing and advertising support for Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer, for the third straight year The Hive will be fielding a team in the tournament, led by Creet and The Hive VP, Client Services Trent Fulton.


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