ACORD has announced the launch of an advocacy campaign featuring original print and web advertising that takes a humorous look at a world without standards.
The aim of the campaign is to widen and deepen the global standards group’s significant footprint among insurers, reinsurers, distributors, and their business partners, reported ACORD. The new ads encourage business leaders to look anew at the value of data standards.
“We want to grab the attention of senior business leaders and technology leaders who aren’t yet fully engaged in the world of standards, and invite them to a dialogue about the value,” said Rick Gilman, ACORD’s vice president of corporate communications. “Standards have been proven to increase efficiency, reduce duplication of work, and cut down on ambiguous communication. We want to let business leaders know about those benefits-and deliver the message that standards make life better for the insurance consumer by strengthening competitors that use them.”
The advocacy campaign revolves around a series of advertisements featuring cartoons drawn by renowned cartoonist Peter Steiner, a regular contributor to The New Yorker magazine for 20 years. The ads recently began appearing in major insurance trade publications in the United States, and will expand to European publications early in 2005.
A new web site (http://cartoons.acord.org) allows viewers to e-mail and print their favorite cartoons. The new site also provides case studies, implementation information, and membership information for each of ACORD’s three industry segments: life and annuity; property and casualty/surety; and reinsurance. Another aspect of the campaign is a syndicated column in insurance industry publications.
The cartoons reflect Steiner’s widely-recognizable wry style. They picture situations in the world where the use of standards readily could improve productivity and communication.
“There are thousands of insurance technology executives who know and support the value of ACORD standards,” Gilman said. “But we want to take our message to the next level. This is a serious campaign – directed right at senior business executives – that takes a lighthearted approach. We’re asking business leaders to consider in a fresh light the strategic value of insurance data standards.”
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