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GEORGE PATTERSON Y&R, Melbourne / CRICKET AUSTRALIA / 2007
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Overview
Credits
ClientBriefOrObjective
· Cricket – for over 125 years Australia and England have been fierce rivals.
·Shane Warne – Australian. No one upsets an English cricket fan more than Shane Warne. He’s taken more wickets than anyone in the game’s long history, mostly off the English.·Find a new way to ignite the rivalry between the two countries in the lead up to the 2006/2007 cricket series.
· Cricket Australia wanted to sell 1 million tickets for the series to two markets: Australia and England. (That’s a massive amount of tickets for a sporting event in Australia.)
Effectiveness
· ‘Big Warnie’ sparked a media storm. It was picked up by over 70 newspapers, websites, news and current affairs programs, as far afield as India and France. · The campaign was launched via a website attracting 130,000 hits in the first three days. · All this attention resulted in a record number of tickets (1.275 million) being sold.
Implementation
· We covertly built a 5 metre high statue of Shane Warne and then very publically transported it by truck and on foot to the very heart of London – Piccadilly Circus.
· We then held an unveiling ceremony designed to commemorate the anticipated Australian victory. · We filmed the entire event, editing the mayhem into a series of 30 second films and a viral documentary.
Relevancy
· It was a highly provocative promotion intended to draw controversy and inflame rivalry in two countries in separate hemispheres.
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