
The Department of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Zaragoza had been losing students for years, with the admission grade stuck at 5. It was not a problem of academic quality, but of recognition. No seventeen-year-old knows exactly what studying Geography is or why it is interesting.

ANUARIA 2025 Awards:
ANUARIA Award for the best commercial advertising campaign



The challenge
Filling the degree with a recruitment campaign. And doing so by speaking to a seventeen-year-old who has never heard of the course, and to parents who worry about what will become of their children tomorrow in terms of employment.



Our work
We discovered the campaign concept thanks to a student in one of the focus groups. She told us that after studying Geography, you end up seeing everything in a different way. The neighbourhoods, the rivers, the mountains. What was noted down in that session became the core of the campaign, a spot in which a person sees life differently thanks to geography.
From there came Put on your geography glasses. A concept that, instead of trying to sell a degree, talks to future students about a different way of looking at the world around us.
This set the pattern for how the message is reordered in any communication. First the emotional, which is what persuades and differentiates; and then the rational, which informs and explains. Career opportunities, syllabus, the University, living in Zaragoza, etc.
The campaign was executed as a funnel where the central piece was the spot. We also developed a campaign-specific website outside the university domain for measurement purposes, a course guide as a lead magnet, campus visit bookings, continuous content on social media for a year, and paid campaigns segmented into five groups, two of which were parents.


Results
The campaign was launched in December 2024 for enrolment in the 2025-26 academic year, the first for the newly renamed degree.
Nobody adjusts the cut-off mark; it is driven by demand.
Behind this lies a year of continuous work and less than €4,500 in advertising investment: 246 published pieces of content, +3.6 M impressions, +801,000 organic reach, 3,819 new followers, +28,000 website visits, and +300 downloads of the subject guide.
ANUARIA 2025 Selection for the best commercial advertising campaign.
Organic reach of posts
Paid ad impressions
Social media followers
Published content
Website visits
Download Subject Guide
Increase in the grade boundary
Pre-registered students for the Degree. All places filled.
Testimonial
"The result exceeded our expectations. What we valued most was their ability to understand a product that is unconventional in advertising: a university degree, with all that it implies in terms of identity, career prospects and value proposition. 'Put on your geography glasses' is a good example of that understanding: simple, evocative and perfectly aligned with what we wanted to convey."
Ana Escalona


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Auditoría de marca
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Creatividad publicitaria
Guión y redacción
Dirección de arte
Grabación y edición
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