NETS IT, TAP IT with Tappy

Award: Gold

Award Year: 2025

Category: Finance

Executive Summary

NETS faced categorical irrelevance – a legacy card rarely tapped and invisible at checkout. Behaviour-first thinking led us to Tappy, a re-engineered Fortune Cat placed on 10,000 counters, buses and feeds. The Fortune Cat’s prosperous wave became a tap cue, while lower NETS fees gave merchants reasons to amplify it. One simple, omnipresent intervention rewired muscle memory and delivered hard proof of effectiveness.

Lead Agency

DDB

Susanna Yap, Planning Director

Subodh Deshpande, Chief Strategy Officer

Vinod Savio, Chief Creative Officer

Benson Toh, Executive Creative Director

Rodrigo Mitma, Creative Director

Yong Jun Chow, Creative Group Head

Eng Lee Sin, Creative Group Head

Abner Chong, Copywriter

Cheayeau Chin, Art Director

HAVAS

Pankaj Nayak, CEO

Boom Digital

Ming Wei Ng, CEO

Client

NETS

Huiying Chen, VP

Pamela Tan, Group Chief Marketing Officer

Xiao Yun Soh, Assistant Vice President