A look at how GForce Grey and inlab helped inDrive Kazakhstan transform the daily school commute into a platform for addressing bullying and encouraging parent-child conversations.
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GForce Grey and inlab
“Cancel The School Ride?” Created by GForce Grey and inlab for inDrive in Kazakhstan, turned the everyday ride to school into a moment of intervention. Built on the insight that the school commute is often one of the few uninterrupted moments a parent and child share, the campaign addressed bullying by using the ride itself as a space to notice, ask, and act.
When a ride to school was ordered, the app triggered a push notification and guided parents with simple, psychologist-backed prompts on how to start a difficult conversation. The idea then expanded beyond the app through the Green Back Seat inside cars, public installations in Almaty, influencer content, PR, and school-platform integration.
According to the campaign, in just 10 days, 2,600 parents engaged with the campaign, and more than 4,000 people visited the website for guidance.
We caught up with the team behind the campaign to learn more.
The campaign started with two connected insights. First, bullying remains a real issue for children in Kazakhstan, with nearly 1 in 5 having experienced it at school. Second, the ride to school is often one of the few uninterrupted moments a parent and child share during the day. It is a quiet, routine moment, but also one where emotional distance and physical closeness exist side by side.
That made it a powerful point of intervention. Instead of addressing the issue only through awareness messaging, the idea was to use a real moment already owned by the brand — the school ride itself — and turn it into a chance to notice, ask, and act.
The idea began with the product moment: if the ride to school is a rare private space between parent and child, then the app itself could help interrupt routine and start a difficult conversation.
The ride to school is often one of the few uninterrupted moments a parent and child share during the day. It is a quiet, routine moment, but also one where emotional distance and physical closeness exist side by side.
From there, the work evolved into a broader creative system. The in-app intervention became the functional core, using push notifications and psychologist-backed prompts to guide parents. That logic was then translated into a physical symbol: the Green Back Seat.
First introduced inside inDrive cars, it later moved into public installations across Almaty, extending the idea from the app into the real world. This helped the campaign feel both useful and visible, turning one product feature into a wider social and visual platform.
The campaign builds on inDrive’s existing brand values of fairness, human connection, and real-life relevance, but expresses them in a more intervention-led way. Instead of using communication only to describe the brand’s point of view, the idea placed that point of view directly inside the service experience.
Visually, it stayed rooted in the brand through the use of inDrive’s signature green, but gave that color a new role: it became a symbol of safety, openness, and the right moment to begin a difficult conversation.
Narratively, the project also shifted the brand from mobility as utility toward mobility as a meaningful human moment — showing that the ride itself can be more than transport.
The campaign showed both early engagement and strong behavioral response. In just the first 10 days, 2,600 parents took the first step toward an important conversation with their child by engaging with the campaign journey, while the website drew more than 4,000 visits from people seeking guidance. At the top of the funnel, the initiative was also supported by 32,000 push notifications delivered through the app.
Beyond performance metrics, the campaign generated local visibility across Kazakhstan, including placements in Forbes Kazakhstan, ELLE Kazakhstan, and Harper’s Bazaar Kazakhstan.

inDrive team:
Senior Brand Director: Mikhail Chernyshev
Marketing Director EMEA & APAC: Anna Migal
Marketing Lead KZ: Aleksei Pontus
Head of Non-violence Program: Anna Rivina
Head of Sustainability Marketing: Irina Shubina
Growth Program Manager: Dana Gabbas
Communications Team Leader EMEA: Sergey Avakyan-Rzhevskiy
Communications Manager: Aigul Aliyassova
Regional Content Marketing Manager: Temirlan Yermekov
Influencer Marketing Manager CIS: Tomiris Kopbayeva
Senior Media Manager: Olga Golubok
CRM and Product Marketing Director: Aleksey Kurdup
Product Marketing Team Leader EMEA: Aleksei Chirkov
Product Marketing Manager: Anna Chobanian
inlab team:
Creative Team Leader EMEA: Eugene Gavrilchenko
Marketing Communications Manager: Alina Shadrina-Stepanova
Marketing Localization Manager: Polina Karabalaeva
Senior Designer: Anastasia Zimina
Senior Digital Producer: Ivan Loktev
Digital Producer: Nataliya Bogdanova
Digital Producer: Daniyar Tabyldiyev
Production Producer: Xeniya Andreyenko
GForce Grey team:
Chief Creative Excellence Officer: Yuliya Tushina
Executive Creative Director: Yevgeniy Kostylev
Creative Group Head: Victor Yershov
Creative Group Head: Diana Moldagulova
Client Service Director: Anastasiya Ivanova
Account Manager: Veronika Sorokovskaya
Motion Designer: Alexander Filatov
Consulting Psychologist: Ksenia Lych
Landing Page Design & Development: DIGITAL BUTLERS agency