Optus | Football

Office: Sydney
Client: Optus
Date: October 2011
Offering: Integrated

The problem

There was low awareness of Optus’ sponsorship of Australian Football, from the Socceroos to grassroots level. The brief was to differentiate Optus from its competitors during the cluttered FIFA World Cup, demonstrating the brand promise of “anything’s possible” and showcase streaming mobile technology.

Consumer insight

Even though the Socceroo’s are underdogs on the global stage, I want to get behind them for the World Cup.

Brand insight

Optus is committing to supporting football in Australia all the way from grassroots level to the Socceroos to help anyone playing the sport achieve more than they have before.

The powerful truth

With Optus and football, anything is possible.

The solution

Position Optus as the ‘secret weapon’ behind Australian football by using wild animals to help train the Socceroos in a secret location.

Every channel expressed our creative idea, from sponsorship TVC activity on broadcast partner SBS, to product-skewed version of the TVC which promoted live streaming of the World Cup for Optus customers

From all of this we leveraged communications with a strong call to action to get the World Cup live to your mobile by going to the Optus football sponsorship site.