Virgin Media has today launched a major new campaign that brings to life the unparalleled football offering that its customers enjoy through superior, ultrafast connectivity.
The multi-million pound campaign will run over 11 weeks across TV, VOD, social, radio and OOH with the TV ad launching on Sunday 16 July during the British Grand Prix, on Channel 4, at 14:50.
The campaign, created by BBH London, continues to celebrate the uniqueness of Virgin Media’s cables, this time delivering the best football experience of ‘All The Football’ to the living room.
Kerris Bright, Chief Marketing Officer at Virgin Media, said:
> Our position in football is about all the football for all the fans. Every time a big game is on BT, 3.5 million Sky Sports customers can’t watch it; only we give you all the football on Sky Sports & BT Sport in one package.n> n> n> Football needs awesome connectivity, the power of our proposition is that we bring the two together. We champion the live experience through our sponsorship of Southampton FC and Twenty’s Plenty with the FSF, but if you’re a fan and you can’t support your team in person then you can be there for every game with Virgin Media.
Set to the soundtrack by Kasabian, the film focuses on a boy’s experience of a football match, underpinned by All the Football moments, replicating the match day experience. With his Dad, he travels down a gigantic, futuristic fibre cable navigating his way alongside the crowds of from multiple football teams, of all ages and backgrounds, including one particular famous football fan, Usain Bolt. The film features a real-life father and son team of Peter and Josh Scorer.
As the boy leaves the tunnel, he steps out as the club mascot inside St. Mary’s Stadium alongside Southampton FC footballers, where Virgin Media is the official sponsor. It ends with the line: ‘Every match on Sky Sports and BT Sport. This is football from Virgin Media.’
The film was shot by award-winning director Mark Jenkinson through Rogue Films. An epic production, it was shot in a bespoke tunnel in Budapest spanning 200ft. Media activity was planned and bought by Manning Gottlieb OMD.
The full TV advert can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/xDIaWU2b99s
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Stills can be downloaded at: https://link.beam.tv/folder/34364/cmFscGhAYmVhbS50dg==
Client name and title:
Kerris Bright – Chief Marketing Officer
Lloyd Page – Director of Brand & Communications
Ellie Tory Norman – Head of Brand Advertising & Sponsorship
Lawrence Hamilton – Senior Advertising Manager
Ellen North-Row – Advertising Campaign & Sponsorship Manager
Film credits:
BBH Creative Team: Felipe Guimaraes and Lambros Charalambous
BBH Creative Director: Carl Broadhurst
BBH Strategist: Ed Kurland
BBH Strategy Director: Elle Graham-Dixon
BBH Business Lead: Zoe Eagle
BBH Account Director: Laura Brady
BBH Account Manager: Matt Sims
BBH Producer: Georgina Kent
BBH Assistant Producer: Sophie Hughes
Production Company: Rogue Films
Director: Mark Jenkinson
Executive Producer: David van der Gaag
Producer: Tom Farley
DoP: Tom Townend
Post Production: The Mill
Editor/Editing House: Quin Williams & Brendan Jenkins @ tenthree
Sound: Factory
Print credits:
BBH Creative Director: Carl Broadhurst
BBH Producer: Sarah Pascoe / Aileen Grebovic
BBH Account Director: Laura Brady
BBH Account Manager: Rob Evans
BBH Assistant Producer: Jasmine Jones
Photographer: Paul Plews
Typographer: James Townsend (Made By Blah)
Radio credits:
BBH Creative Team: Matt Welch & Simon Welch
BBH Creative Director: Carl Broadhurst
BBH Account Director: Laura Brady
BBH Account Manager: Rob Evans
BBH Assistant Producer: Billy Dupee & Sophie Hughes
Social credits:
BBH Creative Team: Andrew Stone and Rich Kivell
BBH Creative Director: Carl Broadhurst
BBH Account Director: Brooke Hannan
BBH Account Manager: Matt Sims
About Virgin Media
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The company’s dedicated, ultrafast network delivers the fastest widely available broadband speeds to homes and businesses. We’re expanding this through our £3bn Project Lightning programme, which will reach 17 million premises by the end of 2019.
Our interactive TV service brings live programmes, thousands of hours of on-demand programming and the best apps and games in a set-top box, as well as on-the-go for tablets and smartphones.
We launched the world’s first virtual mobile network, offering fantastic value and services. We are also one of the largest fixed-line home phone providers in the UK and Ireland.
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