The brief was to sell AUSTAR sport (a pay TV package) to Australian country pub owners. The high price point for AUSTAR sport is a significant barrier for pub owners. To break through this, the agency needed to convince them that AUSTAR sport is absolutely essential for attracting customers - as essential as beer! To do this, they took the iconic Australian song “The pub with no beer” and rewrote the lyrics so the song became “The pub with no sport”.
A mailing of a real cake to get the attention of financial controllers in a highly competitive marketplace and celebrate CBA's high interest rates.
To persuade clients to switch to a more expensive product, Fuji Xerox sent them a swear jar that could be used everytime an annoying paper jam occurred and to save the extra pennies to afford a more reliable office equipment.
To celebrate its first birthday, Sports channel Setanta sent a referee's kit (including whistle, pencil and notebook) to Australia's top 80 sports journalists to make sure they didn't miss any big game.
To help Optus cut through in the small-to-medium business (SMB) market, the agency developed a truly integrated relationship building and lead generation campaign. The core of the campaign was a content-rich small business website, containing a reality TV show called 'Yes Coach'. They drove traffic to the site using press, radio, banners, eDMs and advertorials.
This second viral, a follow-up to last year's successful 'Moonwalking Bear', was designed to shock viewers into realising how easy it is not to notice things – like cyclists.