BC Cancer Agency

BACKGROUND: BC Cancer Agency provides a comprehensive cancer control program for residents of BC. The organisation’s mandate includes the full spectrum of cancer care, ranging from prevention to screening and diagnosis to treatment, and research. Each of BC Cancer’s centres delivers cancer treatment based on provincial standards and guidelines established by BC Cancer.

OUR WORK: Sunflower Media’s multicultural marketing team worked with BCCA on a province-wide alcohol moderation campaign. The campaign targeted a broad population of those who consumed alcohol on a weekly basis in order to advance a message of the importance of moderation. Our digital planning team used geofencing and location targeting to build custom audiences for this campaign and our work included ad-ops services and reporting.

Edmonton Police Services

BACKGROUND: Canada’s northernmost ‘big city’, Edmonton is Canada’s fastest growing metro region and with over one million residents. Over the past generation, the city has attracted tens of thousands of immigrants. Edmonton Police Services is a modern police service committed to increasing community safety by establishing strong community partnerships, leveraging data-driven evidence and cultivating an innovative workforce reflective of the city it serves.

OUR WORK: Given Edmonton’s diverse population, communication from Edmonton Police in languages such as Chinese Vietnamese, Punjabi, Somali, Tagalog, and other is critical to maintaining order and security. Our multicultural marketing team has worked with this client on various outreach campaigns, ranging from hate crime reporting to community safety issues. Work includes copy writing, ad copy translation, graphic design, digital execution, and reporting.

Real Canadian Superstore

BACKGROUND: Owned by Loblaws, Real Canadian Superstore is one the largest grocery, and housewares retail chains in Canada. Outlets feature in-house brands such as President’s Choice, No Name and Joe Fresh and sell a wide range of merchandise ranging from electronics to clothing. Real Canadian Superstore, with dozens of locations across the country, is as iconic a Canadian brand as Costco or Walmart are to the United States.

OUR WORK: Our multicultural sponsored content team assisted Real Canadian Superstore promote its locations as one-stop shopping destinations for all things from Back To School to Christmas. For these campaigns, our ethnic marketing agency drafted story copy in English but also additional languages such as Punjabi, and Hindi. We also created in-language creative and executed multicultural digital campaigns.

Sunlight

BACKGROUND: One of the world’s most recognizable brand names for the past century, Sunlight detergent was the world’s first packaged, branded laundry soap. Launched by Unilever in 1884, the brand today is running as strong as ever. Sunlight is still the quintessential CPG (Consumer Products & Goods) brand with distribution worldwide, including in Canada where it is today manufactured by Henkel.

OUR WORK: Our multicultural sponsored content team assisted the brand reach and engage with diverse Canadian households for its “Helping Canadians Shine” campaign that Sunlight was sponsoring. Our team provided a number of sponsored content services, ranging from multi-language story composition (English, Punjabi, and Hindi), as well as creating digital creative, media execution, conversion tracking, GA4 metrics and analysis, and final reporting.

Research Institute for Aging (RIA)

BACKGROUND: Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging (RIA) is recognized as a leader in a number of key areas related to ageing and wellbeing: dementia, culture change, workforce development, technology-based senior living, and more. The organisation works directly with caregivers, health professionals, families as well as also the end recipient of care services in order to improve health outcomes, care practices, healthcare services, and training for the senior living sector.

OUR WORK: As part of its mandate the Research Institute for Aging (RIA) has created ‘toolkits’ that help caregiver organisations as well as families who are caring for elders living with dementia. Sunflower Media’s digital marketing team worked with this client to engage these mid-level providers to ensure they had the resources required to best serve their clients/ patients. These omnichannel campaigns ran across different digital platforms and also in various languages including Chinese, Punjabi, Hindi, Italian, Urdu, and more. Our services included pixel placement & conversion tracking, copywriting, translation, graphic design, reporting, and more.

Canuck Place

BACKGROUND: Canuck Place is a children’s hospice and community-based facility set in the heart of Vancouver. Care staff at this facility care for children aged 0 to 19 who have progressive, life-threatening illnesses. Canuck Place offers family support, respite care, management of pain and symptoms, end-of-life care, and grief and bereavement counselling.

OUR WORK: Canuck Place is a one-of-a-kind care facility that provides palliative care to children. Our Canadian multicultural agency worked with the team at Canuck Place on its initiatives such as its annual Light A Life campaign to attract donors. We provided media planning, buying, execution as well as ad-ops services like copywriting, translation, and graphic design to help spread the life affirming mission of this unique facility among diverse Canadians.

Go2HR

BACKGROUND: Go2HR is the human resources and health & safety association for BC’s tourism and hospitality industry. The organisation helps British Columbia tourism sector employers by offering programs, tools, and consulting services to boost employer human resources and health & safety practices.

OUR WORK: The association launched a province wide Job Board to help businesses in the sector recruit and retain staff. Our digital ethnic marketing team planned, executed, and reported on these omnichannel digital campaigns. This work included copywriting in various scripts/ languages such as Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Punjabi and others.

Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA)

BACKGROUND: The Health Quality Council of Alberta (HQCA) is an Alberta provincial agency that engages with patients, families, and service providers from across healthcare and academia in order improve patient safety, person-centred care, and health service quality. HQCA values engagement with Albertans of all backgrounds and, where possible, relies on empirical data to evaluate, review, and analyze information objectively, from all relevant healthcare sources.

OUR WORK: It is well established that seniors are one of the most vulnerable cohorts when it comes to patient care. Within this demographic, seniors from diverse communities are even more at risk given they may have internalised cultural expectations on how active a role they can take in their own care. Our ethnic marketing team assisted this client with omni-channel and tactic campaigns to reach seniors and their caregivers from Alberta’s diverse communities. Our work included media planning, buying, execution, and reporting, as well as strategy advisement.

Gulf & Fraser Credit Union (G&F)

BACKGROUND: Operating as Gulf & Fraser or G&F, Gulf and Fraser Fishermen’s Credit Union is a member-owned financial institution in Canada.  The history of G&F goes back to 1940 and the credit union’s servi ces include borrowing, investments and financial planning.

OUR WORK: Our multicultural marketing team has worked with this brand to assist its efforts in engaging with New Canadians and immigrant households, particularly in areas serviced by its brick-and-mortar locations. For these campaigns we have employed both traditional and digital media, including executing campaigns on Chinese platforms such as WeChat.