The upcoming year will bring a new director to IO DONNA and a new multimedia project will be launched with the objective to integrate print, web, TV and events.
IO DONNA will generate contents and concepts delivered via all media channels. The new project has an emotional and interactive dimension: “IO” will give life to both a woman working as a professional journalist and a woman reading the magazine who will be asked to interact and get involved with the magazine.
We consider that such a radical change should be communicated in a very innovative way by adding to the more traditional media the latest communication tools and channels.

Update as of 22.02.2010!!!
The objective remains unchanged but we sharpened it in order to help you better focus your creativity. Think only about a guerilla marketing initiative to generate buzz and high expectations the day before the launch of the new DONNA magazine.

We are addressing two potential targets:
  ∞ Readers: all women who leaf through Corriere della sera; all ladies who thanks to the communication campaign - transmitting the changes going on inside newspaper - will gain interest and start reading it or reading it more often.
  ∞ Advertising investors: all companies acquiring advertising space in the newspaper considering IO DONNA the right means to reach their target.

We want both targets to understand that the newspaper has changed and to see clear the new direction. Ideally every single woman would identify herself with the universe described by IO DONNA and will understand the benefits of reading it.

Update as of 22.02.2010!!!
The new IO DONNA universe is where women have little time for themselves but a lot of wants and curiosities to satisfy. And this is why we exist – to address this need in a very easy and comforting way investing as little as 30 minutes a week for a more pleasant, practical and worry-free life where relaxation is a key word.

The target should believe in us because IO DONNA is an exponent of the contemporaneous woman, both in terms of content and aspirations. Another reason is that inside the emotional environment created by IO DONNA, the ontemporary woman will find all the news, encouragements, solutions and ideas that she was looking for.

Update as of 22.02.2010!!!
“A pleasant, practical and worry-free life” thanks to a multimedia interactive project where the magazine is only a spark opening a wider range of solutions for today’s women. Indeed, practical solutions and a great inspiration to ease and improve the challenging but always exciting life of now-a-days multitasking woman: one who cooks and works, commutes and travels for both work and pleasure and still finds time for shopping (locally of in foreign destinations).

Should the new IO DONNA be a lady she would be a young lady in her 40s:
  ∞ dynamic;
  ∞ international;
  ∞ proactive;
  ∞ intelligent;
  ∞ seducing;
  ∞ curious;
  ∞ independent;
  ∞ practical;
  ∞ up to date with the latest trends and following a media diet composed by all the essential ingredients.

All media channels involved in the campaign should be appropriate and powerful to talk to the double target. Of course we aim at using the classical channels – print, TV, radio, posters, web but we consider even guerilla marketing and events. We intend to use any media able to connect even physically IO DONNA with the two targets. In this context the event gains the power of a media channel as it can generate real contact and the right buzz (word of moth) around the communication campaign. The main attributes of the magazine’s new version to be highlighted and developed are interactivity and engagement.

Update as of 22.02.2010!!!
Initially we were asking for an interactive solution combining traditional media channels with the most innovative ones like internet and guerilla marketing. That brought us to receiving a lot of partial solutions like an advertising print campaign or a mega launch event. However none of them was fully addressing our needs. Therefore we decided to ask you to concentrate all your creative input in one direction: guerilla marketing initiative to communicate/promote the re-launch event that definitely becomes a multimedia phenomenon.