Squealing Pig releases a series of curly quarantine tales in latest campaign for Treasury Wine Estates via Wunderman Thompson
Treasury Wine Estates has released a new batch of short stories under its successful ‘Curly Tales of Squealing Pig’ platform via Wunderman Thompson Melbourne.
The 5-line stories, live on the Squealing Pig Instagram, provide some fun, light-hearted relief during what has been a serious and complex time for Australians in isolation.
Inspired by the rhyme that features on every bottle of Squealing Pig wine, the tales start with a line from the original story, before taking a modern, humorous twist.
The campaign has three iterations live on Instagram, including a tale on spending isolation ‘watching a hillbilly raise tigers’, a housemate haircut turned mullet, and an awkward conference call. The campaign is further extended via an OOH execution which keeps it simple by encouraging Australians to stay home; ‘This little pig stayed home, nice one pig’.
Says Simon Langley, national chief creative officer, Wunderman Thompson: “Squealing Pig is a brand that consistently tells authentic, humorous stories that our audience can relate to. With this campaign, we wanted to give people a break from the serious tones and news fatigue of the current COVID-19 world.”
Creative Agency, Wunderman Thompson
Simon Langley, National Chief Creative Officer
Brie Stewart, Creative Director
Lochie Newham, Creative
Jack Elliott, Creative
Sandi Gracin, Producer
Dave Wade, Editor
Elsa James, Group Engagement Lead
Fiona McGinley, Engagement Lead
Brent Morris, Senior Strategist
Treasury Wine Estates.
Ben Culligan, Marketing Director ANZ
Kate Adamson, Senior Marketing Manager
Laura Wenn, Senior Brand Manager
Pete Randeria, Marketing Strategy & Business Director
Media agency, Mindshare.
Melanie Cannington, Client Lead
Erin Shaffrey, Investment Manager
Kathleen Longstaff, Media Assistant
6 Comments
The actual product posters are fine
But the other versions where the pig learns guitar and spanish is productivity shaming and will turn a ton of people off. Do we need a drink because of stress? Yes. Nice one.
Do we need to be shamed because we’re not learning spanish while also home schooling, trying to satisfy the boss, and get groceries without being infected? Hell no. Sure it’s not directly calling us out for not learning spanish but it’s contributing to the idea we should be doing this stuff or we’re not using iso the best way. This little pig’s not happy.
Cute alert!
Looks like you’ve got too much iso-time on your hands, judging by the productivity regarding keystrokes in your comment.
Shame.
Aren’t they joking about the pig trying to be productive, but ending up watching Tiger King instead?
If you think a make believe pig in an ad for wine is productivity shaming you then I would suggest you have bigger issues to grapple with than just your lack of productivity.
Squealing shit.