BRADESCO. POUPA TROCO

Turning spare change into a savings habit.

Client
Bradesco
Year
2016
Role
Creative · Art Direction
Made with
One Digital
Category
Financial · Behavioral product launch
Status
Still on Bradesco's product menu in 2026
Poupa Troco key visual · a glowing holographic piggy bank rising from a card machine receipt, with a coin dropping in and an on-screen statement showing each purchase rounded up into savings.
poupatroco-hero.jpg
10+
Years on Bradesco's product menu.
5
Surfaces: TV, web, app, banners, social.
Round-up
Every debit purchase rounds up into savings automatically.

The Reason

The brief

A digital-first bank, one behavioral product

Bradesco was pivoting toward digital-first products and wanted a behavioral one, not another feature bolted onto the app.

The mechanic was small and clever: every debit transaction rounds up, and the difference plus a fixed amount lands in your savings the next business day. Saving without deciding to.

Our job at One Digital was to launch it.

The campaign

Several little faces

The idea had been in the air at the agency for a couple of years before Bradesco moved on it. When they did, we got to put a face on the product, or more accurately several little faces. The piggy bank universe gave the savings mechanic a tone that wasn't earnest, wasn't preachy, and didn't sound like a bank.

It ran across every surface the audience was likely to meet it on: a TV commercial, a responsive site, an in-app flow, digital banners across major media, and a social presence to keep the piggies turning up where people already were.

The Strategy

The strategic call

Designed for the screen first

The behavioral hypothesis had to land before the product settled into being a banking feature, which put most of the conversion weight on the digital surfaces: website, app, banners.

strategy · campaign key visual
Poupa Troco campaign key visual · 'Poupe até quando pagar uma conta. Poupa Troco Bradesco. Você poupa sem perceber.' Three pink piggy banks beside the holographic piggy, a phone showing the service, and the Rio 2016 official sponsor mark.
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The proposition in one frame. “Você poupa sem perceber”: you save without noticing. The mechanic stated as a benefit, with the piggies carrying the tone the copy couldn't.

The Process

The banners

The campaign at scale

Banners ran across digital media to drive product adoption. Same piggies, same proposition, sized for every placement.

campaign · every format · mosaic
The Poupa Troco Facebook Canvas unit, shown on a phone held in one hand: the holographic piggy, a 'Saiba mais' button and 'ou fale com seu gerente'.
The Poupa Troco mobile site: 'Chegou o Poupa Troco Bradesco, você poupa sem perceber', with a worked example showing R$2,50 debited, rounded to R$3,00, R$0,50 saved.
Poupa Troco 300×250 banner: the holographic piggy beside the Poupa Troco Bradesco lockup and a 'Clique e conheça' button.
Poupa Troco banner: 'R$ 0,40 vão para a poupança', the round-up stated as a single number.
The Poupa Troco piggy, three-quarter view, winking.
The Poupa Troco piggy in profile, wireframe hologram.
The Poupa Troco piggy facing forward, smiling.
The same piggies, sized for every surface a Brazilian internet user might encounter them on. Social canvas, hotsite, mobile site, standard banner units, and the character poses underneath all of it.
Watch the TV commercial

Music, voicework, and several little piggies

Music composed with the team at Instituto, and I voiced one of the piggies. The playfulness wasn't decoration. It was the product proposition made visible and audible.

signature · the TV film
The full TV film. Music with Instituto. The voiceover on one of the piggies. That's me.

The Results

Outcome

Almost a decade later, still on the menu

Poupa Troco launched in 2016 and is still listed among Bradesco's products in 2026, with a Prime tier added along the way. Behavioural products at retail-bank scale rarely last that long. Most get a launch, a campaign, and a quiet removal from the app the year after.

The piggies we drew for the launch still belong to a service people are using. That is a strange kind of afterlife for a campaign character, and the part of this project I'm proudest of.

Ten years on, the rounding up continues in silence. The campaign that launched the product is long gone; the product it launched is still on the menu.
Credits

Client · Bradesco (2016)
Agency · One Digital · São Paulo
Creative & art direction · Davi Serrano, with the One Digital team

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