TAB Celebrates Sports-Packed Spring Season With ‘Make A Date With Play’ Via M&C Saatchi
The changes to the Australian sporting landscape this year have been tremendous due to all kinds of restrictions. The silver lining? A Spring 2020 racing and sport calendar to be rivalled by no other.
Traditionally a time of year synonymous with the Spring Racing Carnival, this year, Spring is loaded with NRL and AFL Finals, NBA Playoffs, a new NFL season, the MLB World Series, French Open Tennis, Masters Golf – not to mention State of Origin Game 1 the day after the Melbourne Cup in November.
To help racing and sports fans navigate a hectic calendar, TAB is inviting Aussies to Make a Date with Play. The fully integrated campaign aims to excite Australian sports fans and fully connect them through technology and new product offerings, so they never miss a moment.
Make A Date With Play this Spring! Join the TAB Locker Room to unlock a host of features that’ll make the next couple of months that much better 👌
👉https://t.co/Cdwantl2rA pic.twitter.com/MDK7Rc4hvh
— TAB (@tabcomau) October 6, 2020
Make a date with banter this Spring with TAB's Hot Seats, where @samsimmonss & @MrABarnett will chat about all things sport & racing! pic.twitter.com/Lq6lKJSV1X
— TAB (@tabcomau) September 29, 2020
At the heart of the campaign is TAB’s Spring calendar creator. A utility created to sync user’s calendars to any racing and sport event, link them to venues and set reminders. There’s also a new way to connect with friends and family through the TAB Locker Room, a social utility using Twilio that allows users to stream in virtual rooms with each other, watch live racing as well as live content normally found in a TAB venue.
In an epic launch film shot by Revolver’s Matt Devine, classic flip-down stadium seats come to life across the country like giant keyboards to Beethoven’s 5th Symphony; inviting punters to grab a seat wherever they are.
The ‘seats theme’ continues with TAB Hot Seats in social channels, a weekly show that dives into the sporting calendar co-hosted by comedian Sam Simmons and Fox Sports presenter and sporting enthusiast Andrew Barnett. Hot Seats brings entertainment, banter, history and information to sports hungry sports fans in a fresh new way for TAB.
“The Calendar Creator is going to sort out a few headaches as racing and sport collide like never before. We’re proud of that, it’s the kind of UX that truly adds value to sports nuts.” said Cam Blackley, Chief Creative Officer, M&C Saatchi.
Luke Waldren, Executive General Manager Marketing, Customer & Product, TAB said: “Regardless of whether fans can attend racing and sporting events this Spring, we want to make sure we continue to bring Australians together in whatever way we can and ensure they enjoy every moment. That may be at the track or stadium, visiting their local TAB (in States where that’s possible) or on the couch watching live vision and chatting to their mates in the TAB Locker Room. This will be a Spring like no other and we can’t wait to see it all unfold”.
Product films promoting Venue Mode and Live Vision round out the campaign and sports fans can expect a raft of activity around TAB venues throughout Spring.
Credits
Agency
Chief Creative Officer: Cam Blackley
Creative Director: Chris Cheeseman
Creative Director: Doug Hamilton
Senior Creative: Chris Berents
Senior Creative: Ant Hatton
Nicole Conway: Copywriter
Tim Batterham: Art Director
Dan Staudinger: Copywriter
Michael Graziano: Art Director
Design Director: Simone Cherry
Craft Designer: Matthew Harrington
Director of Digital: Sarah Hetherington
Creative Technologist: Simon Kent
Acting Head of Strategy: Nick Jacobs
Acting CX Strategy Lead: Mel Lofts
Group Managing Director: Russell Hopson
Group Head: Jasmina Porter / Emma McJury
Senior Account Director: Charlotte O’Brien
Account Director: Joshua Johns
Account Manager: Kurt Griffin
Project Director: Dean Trendler
Head of TV Production: Loren August
Senior Broadcast Producer: Lill Schroeder
Senior TV Producer: Ros Payne
Senior TV Producer: Carolyn Starkey
TAB
Luke Waldren – EGM Marketing, Customer & Product
Kent Madders – Head of Brand and Marketing
John Vellis – General Manager Media & Sponsorship
Ben Willis – Senior Marketing Manager, Racing
Luke Feddema – Senior Marketing Manager, Sport
PRODUCTION
Production Company – Revolver/ Will O’Rourke
Matt Devine – Director
Michael Ritchie
Pip Smart
Ian Iveson
Lachlan Milne
Tom Churchill Brown
POST-PRODUCTION
Post Production: Heckler
VFX Supervisors: Jamie Watson & Tom Corbett
Executive Producer: Bonnie Law
Colourist: Billy Wychgel
Senior Flame Artist: Julian Ford
3D Team: Tim Jarick, Boris Fomin, Jack Scrase, Tim Quarry, Phillip Wang, Nick Kaloterakis
Senior Compositor: Maxence Peillon
I/O Team: Dan Page, Maud Chapuis
SOUND
Music & Sound: Rumble Studios
Composer: Adam Moses
Music Producer: Michael Gie
Sound Designer: Tone Aston
Audio Post Producer: Katie Harper
POST PRODUCTION
Resolution Design
MEDIA
OMD Australia
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