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988 Minnesota Lifeline awareness campaign

Minnesota Department of Health statewide campaign (US-MN) building awareness of and trust in the 988 Minnesota Lifeline through TV, digital video, social, radio, billboards and community toolkits; the 2025 flight reported more than 200 million impressions.

Years
2025–now
Reach
200M impressions as reported
“More than 200 million impressions and 50 million video views;”
Country
United States
Topic
Mental healthSuicide prevention
Asks people to
Seek help
Strategy
Simple instruction
Channel
OutdoorRadioSocial (paid)TV
Audience
General public

Evidence

ProcessUnknown

More than 200 million impressions and 50 million video views; agency reports a 13-point ad-recall lift on Meta. Lifeline contacts rose from about 25,000 in the program's first six months to about 83,000 in the first half of 2026, without attribution to the campaign.

Sponsor (who paid)

Credits (who made it)

Related campaigns

Sources

  1. MDH news release: 988 Minnesota Lifeline (21 July 2026) sponsor · 2026
  2. Shorty Awards: From Stigma to Support - Elevating the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline reference
  3. KAAL: MDH raises awareness for 988 Minnesota Lifeline news

Research notes

US-MN. Start year may be earlier than 2025 (KAAL piece undated). Credits checked 2026-10-22 against fetched pages: KOSE and Friends & Neighbors (Shorty Awards entry: 'In 2025, the Minnesota Department of Health set out...'; 'KOSE partnered with creative agency, Friends & Neighbors'; entrant KOSE with MDH; KOSE credits are its CEO, president, media director and media supervisor). Corrected 2026-10-22: added KOSE (role recorded as media from its listed staff; the entry does not state its role). Ad library search: "Minnesota Department of Health", "988 Minnesota Lifeline".

Record cases/mn-988-lifeline-awareness.json, updated 2026-10-22· Link to this campaign