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Entrant: SERVICEPLAN GERMANY, Munich
Brand: Herconomy
Title: "Breastmilk Money"
Corporate Name of Client: Herconomy
Client Company: Herconomy, Lagos
Client CEO: Ifedayo Durosinmi-Etti
Clients: Precious Armstrong/Durowaye Kofoworola Omobolaji/Jane Obioha
Expert Consultant - The BestFeeding Club: Dr. Lope Adejuyigbe
Expert Consultant - Milky Express: Titilayo Medunoye
Media Company: MEDIAPLUS GERMANY, Munich
Media Company Chief Creative Officer: Maximilian Florian Schöngen
Media Company Director Creative Media & Awards: Sabrina Duchow
Media Company Creative Media & Award Manager: Oliver Porwol
Media Company Senior Digital Media Consultant & Creative Media Manager: Maximilian Zorg
Media Company Senior Client Consultant & Director Creative Media: Lukas Pachoinig
OOH Media Agency Company: Curiosity Africa, Dubai
Managing Partner - Curiosity Africa: Carine Haffejee/Alexei Pashkov
Country Manager/Account Director - Curiosity Africa: Eniola George/Oksana Konoreva
PR Company: Tulom, São Paulo
PR Consultants: Karan Novas/Felipe Turlão
Agency: SERVICEPLAN GERMANY, Munich
Agency Global Chief Creative Officer - SERVICEPLAN GROUP: Alex Schill
Agency Executive Creative Directors: Lorenz Langgartner/Franz Röppischer
Agency Creative Director: Dennis Fritz
Agency Copywriters: Shruthi Subramanian/Babi Puttini/Javier Granados
Agency Art Directors: Camille Nizet/Tanvi Phalak/Rohil Borole/Kai West Schlosser
Agency Motion Designers: Klas Batschkus/Margarita Nikolajeva/Michal Kuśmierz
Agency Global Head of Creative Operations - SERVICEPLAN GROUP: Sabine Gwinner
Agency Creative Operations Manager - SERVICEPLAN GROUP: Martina Ahrens/Susan Horn/Alexandra Grimm
Agency Account Manager: Nina Joster
Agency Director Fundings and Partnerships: Ivana Radovanovic
Digital Company: PLAN.NET GERMANY, Munich
Digital Technical Creative Director: Carsten Popp
Digital UX Designers: Helen Birke/Ursula Jäger
Founder & Creative Director - Cotton Design: Talia Cotton
Designer Coder - Cotton Design: Chris Kim
Creative Director - Eat, Sleep + Design: Frank Gräfe
Founder - Persuasion Communications: Jane Austin
Head of Creative Strategy - Persuasion Communications: Alexandra Jardine
Brand Strategy Director - Persuasion Communications: Anisha Vekaria
Account Executive - Persuasion Communications: Alissia DeGregory
Production Company: We Make Them Wonder, Munich
Director: Fariba Buchheim
Production Companies Executive Producer(s): Paul Jax/Maximilian Valentin
Production Company Producer: Daniela Boldt
Director of Photography: Manuel Lübbers
Assistant Camera: Sebastian Krenn/Silverlyne Asugo
Production Company Post-Production Supervisor: Maximilian Porsche
Production Companies Production Assistant(s): Nina Koch/Noah Nitschke/Linus Oswald
Colorist: Adrian Honsberg
Set-Design: Bola Belo/Gbolahan Ifeoluwa Jacob
Line Producer: Korbinian Maier
Post-Production: János Kiss
Motion Designer: Federico Leggio
VFX Company: SERVICEPLAN GERMANY, Munich
VFX Company Managing Partner: Alexander Nagel
VFX Company Head of Postproduction: Maggy Fischer
VFX Companies Lead Artist(s): Tony Nitschke/Christoph Struber
Edit Company Editor: Marie Izard
Sound Design Producer: Jürgen Branz
Sound Design Company Sound Designer: Martin Linka
Sound Design Company Sound Engineer: Prince Onwutuebe
Sound Design Company Composer: Christoph Groß
Photographers: Yagazie Emezi/Nengi Nelson
Development Company: Standardabweichung, Munich
Creative Coder - Standardabweichung: Daniel Kuhnlein
Journalist: Ogechi Ekeanyanwu
Managing Partner - Octerra Capital: Ashim Egunjobi
Casting Agents: Olasunkanmi Adebayo/Victoria Okogwu

Cultural Context:
In Nigeria, exclusive breastfeeding is surrounded by cultural pressure, financial stress, and social misunderstanding. Formula is often promoted as aspirational, even when it strains household budgets.

Mothers who breastfeed often feel alone in their efforts, unsupported by workplaces, public systems, or financial tools. At the same time, digital banking is on the rise and women are becoming a powerful user base.

Yet there was no solution that brought health, finance, and culture together in a way that felt holistic and relevant to mothers' lived experiences.

The Problem:
Most initiatives that promote breastfeeding focus only on health messaging. They tell mothers what to do, but do not give them tools to help them do it.

Meanwhile, financial platforms operate in a separate space, ignoring the realities of care. The opportunity was to bring these worlds together. To connect health behavior with financial reward. To build a system that integrates science, savings, design, data, and emotional impact into one seamless experience.

The Solution:
Breastmilk Money is an integrated innovation within the Herconomy app, Nigeria’s first digital bank for women.

It allows mothers to input their baby’s age and feeding level. The app uses WHO standards and real time formula prices to calculate how much they are saving by breastfeeding. That amount is automatically transferred into a sub account earning 14.3% interest.

The product experience merges data and emotion. Financial logic meets maternal design. The launch was not just a feature release, but a fully integrated campaign that brought the story to life across multiple touchpoints.

It started with a major announcement at Nigeria’s largest women’s finance conference. From there, it rolled out with regional out of home messaging, educational video content, mom influencer collaborations, WhatsApp group outreach, and PR placements in both financial and maternal health media.

The tone was consistent across all platforms: you are already doing something valuable, now let it grow.

The Results:
In just three months Breastfeeding rates increased by 9 percent in target areas, Herconomy app sign ups rose five times, Over 35 million US dollars in potential savings were tracked, More than 150 million dollars in earned media was generated.

By integrating health, finance, and technology into a single digital ecosystem, Breastmilk Money created a new category of service — one that honors invisible labor, celebrates maternal contribution, and proves that care work belongs at the center of innovation.