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The new $9 million Epic Holidays campaign urges Australians to travel further, book a longer stay, and enjoy the benefits of a bigger domestic holiday
The next phase of Tourism Australia’s Holiday Here This Year campaign via M&C Saatchi Sydney has launched today, with ambassadors Hamish Blake and Zoe-Foster Blake showcasing some of Australia’s most epic holiday experiences.
Federal Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Dan Tehan, said that now is the perfect time for Australians who have been holding out for a holiday, to take an epic one: “This new campaign aims to get Australians to travel further afield, take a longer holiday, and visit those parts of the country typically reliant on international tourism.
May 6, 2021 9:58
Tourism Australia is rolling out the next phase of it of its Holiday Here This Year domestic campaign featuring Hamish Blake and Zoe Foster-Blake, calling on Aussies to “go big” by booking an “epic holiday”.
The new $9 million Epic Holidays campaign seeks to stimulate demand for the “epic experiences” on offer in Australia available when booking a longer domestic holiday.
Trips of five nights or more contributed over $20 billon to the Australian economy in 2020, and over $30 billion in 2019. However, of the 29.4 million holiday trips that Aussies took in 2020, only 18% of these trips were 5 nights or more. In 2019, before COVID-19 hit, the average duration of overnight trips that Australians took was 3.6 nights. If this average duration increased to five nights or more, the projected value to the economy is over $30 billion annually.
March 1 2021, 10:02 am | BY Lynchy | 71 Comments
Ladbrokes has launched its latest brand campaign in Australia, ‘Ladbroke It’, featuring Hollywood A-Lister Mark Wahlberg via creative agency Thinkerbell and production company Finch
The new national campaign is aimed at making horse racing even more exciting, and sees Wahlberg star as ‘Mike Iceberg’, Ladbrokes new (CEO) Chief Entertainment Officer. Iceberg has coined the term ‘Ladbroke It’, which is all about turning up the dial on excitement and entertainment.
The ‘Ladbroke It’ campaign will run nationally in Australia throughout the year across broadcast, print, digital, social and out of home platforms.
Says Jim Ingram, National Chief Creative Tinker at Thinkerbell: “Part of our creative challenge was literally this: Use Mark Wahlberg to help us make racing even more exciting. Cue big shiny red Harley Davidson Horse and a dancing ATM.
Mark Wahlberg fronts Ladbrokes campaign as chief entertainment officer Mike Iceberg
March 1, 2021 10:25
Hollywood actor Mark Wahlberg has taken the lead in Ladbroke’s latest brand campaign, starring as the betting brands’ new chief entertainment officer, Mike Iceberg.
The campaign, from Thinkerbell, sees Iceberg inject some excitement into the Ladbrokes office, coining the brand’s new tagline ‘Ladbroke It’.
“Part of our creative challenge was literally this: Use Mark Wahlberg to help us make racing even more exciting. Cue big shiny red Harley Davidson Horse and a dancing ATM…” said Jim Ingram, national chief creative tinker at Thinkerbell.
“Our creative strategy in this was to use Mark as an actor playing an actual role, Mike Iceberg, rather than a celebrity endorsement. Christopher Riggert brought all his crazy and the whole Finch team did a brilliant job bringing Iceberg to life.”