With six million customers and 35,000 employees across the world but primarily in Australia and New Zealand,ANZ (or Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, for long) is one of the top fifty international banking and financial services groups in the world and certainly one of the top banks in Australia and New Zealand, now with its sight set to expand on Asian markets. After conducting a reportedly "record amount of research — 1550 interviews in seven countries in three successive waves," ANZ began rolling out a new identity and advertising campaign over the weekend, both created by the Auckland, New Zealand office of M&C Saatchi and its internal identity design group Re.The three shapes in the new signage reflect ANZ's three core markets — Australia, New Zealand and Asia Pacific - while the central human shape represents customers and staff.The icon has what appears to be the leftovers from Cingular knocked out of three random shapes that, all together, form a very strange alien-like form. The shapes of the icon have no reference to the typography and the overall lock-up is downright unpleasant. Unfortunately, the whole thing looks like bad 1980s bank identity work and for a financial organization going head-first into the twenty-first century into new markets, there is no sense of innovation to be found.
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The We Live In Your World campaign was developed at M&C Saatchi, Melbourne, by executive creative director Tom McFarlane, creative director Steve Crawford, head of art Murray Bransgrove, copywriter Doogie Chapman, art director Connor Beaver, copywriter Ben Keenan and agency producer Karen Muxworthy.
Filming was shot by director Christopher Riggert via Radical Media with producer Julianne Shelton. Editor was Stewart Reeves at Guillotine, Sydney. Post production was done at Fuel VFX. Music was produced at Song Zu
Last month, Intuit, the personal finance software firm that owns Quicken, paid $170 million in cash for Mint.com, a two-year-old personal finance site with 1.6 million users. That corporate embrace comes after much frustration on Intuit’s part. At one point the company wrote Mint a letter demanding “substantiation and evidence” of the rival site’s rapid-fire growth. Compounding the vexation was the cost of acquisition for those consumers, whose numbers are currently growing by more than 130,000 each month: virtually nothing.
owerful cementing tool. They become ambassadors for you,” said Westergren, who cautioned about the need to take in the bad with the good. “In this day and age, it just takes a few enthusiastic people to do some damage to you on the Web; there are so many ways to evangelize.”
Aviva wanted to engage consumers when they would be in the right frame of mind to think about car insurance. The obvious solution was to target motorists when they were actually on the road, so the insurer decided to advertise with In Your Space.
In Your Space displays advertising on the sides and back of its trucks. According to the media owner, 64% of motor vehicle traffic is via motorways and major A-roads, which are covered by its moving billboards. It recently carried out a £70,000, 12-month long research programme to provide the likes of Aviva with specific targets.
Aviva’s campaign is running on a total of 210 ad sites - termed as ‘high reach billboards’. The lorries carrying the ads will cover more than one million miles of road. If estimates prove correct, the campaign will communicate to over 24 million motorists every month, with each motorist expected to see the adverts at least 7 times, delivering a total of 508 million impacts over the three-month campaign period.
With TV advertising overloaded with insurance companies, it makes sense for a car insurance firm such as Aviva to move its advertising into a more relevant space for its target market, although the environmental impact of such advertising may concern insurance customers in the future.
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Property website Rightmove wanted a way to further engage the increasing number of mobile users accessing its website. Its solution was to create an iPhone app providing real-time information about properties in the neighbourhood the customer is searching.
Rightmove currently receives over 40,000 iphone visitors to its site each month, accounting for around 95% of its mobile traffic. Creating an iPhone app was the next logical step in continuing to add value for these consumers.
The app uses real-time GPS technology, allowing users to find nearby properties available to buy or rent. It provides a variety of information, including address details, price, agent details and pictures. Details of interesting properties can easily be forwarded to friends and there is immediate access to the agent through a "Call Me" button.
The house-hunting app is the first of its kind, and helps cement Rightmove’s status as the UK’s number 1 property website.
At first glance, our diagrams look quite straightforward. But when people look closer, these graphs tell funny and interesting real-life stories. Stories that show your target group why it’s always better to be insured by the DEVK.
Client:Alfa Insurance
US-based estate agent Coldwell Banker wanted to demonstrate the brand’s investment in innovation and the fact that it welcomes consumers any time, anywhere.
The company has a long track-record of embracing new technologies to sell its wares, and its latest endeavour is no different. The brand has taken over a billboard in Times Square, New York, to showcase some of the houses it has for sale. But there's a twist: the interactive billboard will display homes from requested post codes in real time. Passers by just text the word “homes” and any post code to a number on the billboard and a range of three houses appears in three different price ranges. They also receive a text from Coldwell Banker directing them to a link with more information about the listings.
The campaign also features portraits of the company’s founders, Colbert Coldwell and Benjamin Arthur Banker, who started the company in 1906. The founder portraits offer witty comments about New York and modern-day technology, mirroring the commentary they provide in related TV spots.
o increase its appeal to youngsters in Belgium, Axion, Delta’s youth bank, decided to run a competition for up-and-coming bands. The idea being that by assisting young people in an activity they are passionate about – music; they could be encouraged to bank with Axion.
And with the international music industry struggling to survive, it seemed an ideal time for Axion to give financial and logistical assistance to young people to help them achieve their goals.
Axion Banner Concerts streamed live gigs in the frame of traditional banners. A media plan was booked on popular websites, and 25 young bands competed to play an exclusive gig at Ancienne Belgique, one of Belgium’s biggest concert halls. A voting system was installed to select the winner.
In total the gigs were screened through 6,807,442 banner impressions. An embed option on the banners generated another 40,000 impressions via viral embeddings on fan pages and blogs – some of these generated more than 20% click-through. The campaign website attracted 44,845 unique visitors with 7,581 voting for their favourite band.
