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Request reference number: MGLA260723-2716
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Your request
The total cost of Sadiq Khan’s ‘Say Mate’ campaign advertising campaign.
Please Include a breakdown of the costs related to research, costs related to consultancy and costs related to the delivery of the campaign
Our response
The total cost of 'Maaate' campaign is £219,143.34. This includes a behavioural study and underpinning research, the production of physical and digital posters, the creation and adaptation of social media assets, the development of an interactive, educational video, and all paid advertising spend to date. By comparison, the Home Office's equivalent campaign budget was £8 million (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/01/home-secretary-launches-3mi…).
Our campaign partners have also contributed additional value-in-kind, completely free of charge, worth over £1.5 million, which includes free media space, content creation, and the voices of people with large reach into our target audiences.
The ‘Maaate’ campaign is only one of the many ways the Mayor of London is tackling violence against women and girls. Separate to this campaign, the Mayor has overseen a record investment of over £117million since 2016, including £17.7million for support services. His strategy places an emphasis on partnership working, prevention, and education across a wide range of services, as well as helping to make venues, transport and public spaces in the capital safer for women at night.
Last year, the Mayor launched the ‘Have a Word’ campaign, which plays a small part in the overall strategy by recognising that violence against women and girls often starts with words before it leads to violence and abuse. Research showed that 85 per cent of men who saw the campaign said they wanted to intervene when their peers’ language went too far but more than half of men interviewed also said they didn’t know how. ‘Maaate’ is the second phase of the ‘Have a Word’ campaign, speaking to young men and giving them a safe method of intervening. 61 per cent of men aged 18 – 34 who saw the ‘Maaate’ campaign said that they now felt more confident in calling out misogyny.
The cost breakdown is as follows:
- Production - £130,179.34
This includes creative concept development, multiple asset artwork, casting, voiceovers, permissions, editing, sound mixing, printing and distribution.
- Advertising - £15,964
This includes digital and outdoor channels.
- Research - £73,000
This includes development, collection, analysis and reporting of data towards audience insight, creative testing and campaign evaluation
No consultancies were paid as part of the campaign. However, we consulted more than 30 experts and organisations from across the violence against women and girls sector for their input and guidance, as well as to review of campaign materials, at zero cost.