Got an athlete in the making? Lucky you’re with AAMI says new campaign via Ogilvy Australia
When young athletes’ aspirations exceed their skill, it creates a unique challenge for Australian households. Showing how AAMI helps easily put things right, is the focus of a new campaign developed by Ogilvy.
Called Athletes in the Making, it is the second execution in the new AAMI brand campaign, which first launched in March. The brand platform reminds Australians across the country that when unique quirks happen here in Australia, ‘it’s lucky you’re with AAMI’.
This new execution leverages the context of an upcoming global sporting event that will captivate the nation, and is live from this week across TV, BVOD, cinema, social, radio, Spotify and OOH.
Says Hilary Badger, ECD, Ogilvy Australia: “Kids love pretending to be their favourite sporting heroes. Especially when the world’s biggest sporting event is about to happen. Realistically, though, they don’t have the silky skills of their heroes. But when things go wrong, the parents of Australia can take comfort if they’re covered with AAMI.”
Says Rapthi Thanapalasingam, head of brand and content, AAMI: “At a time when most of Australia will be unified around supporting our athletes, we want to reinforce how Australia’s leading national insurer is there to support our little athletes in the making when things don’t quite go to plan.”
Client: AAMI (Suncorp)
CMO/EGM Brand & Customer Experience: Mim Haysom
Head of Brand & Content: Rapthi Thanapalasingam
AAMI Brand & Marketing Manager: Toby Gill
AAMI Marketing Lead: Liza Friedman
Mass Brands Marketing Specialist: Breanna Webster
AAMI Marketing Specialist: Sally Frank
Strategy & Creative Agency: Ogilvy Australia
Production: Hogarth
Production Company: Scoundrel
Director: Tim Bullock
VFX: Blockhead VFX
Sound: Squeak E Clean Studios
Media: OMD
Photographer: Chris Tovo
Retoucher: Aaron Foster @ Studio ADFX
28 Comments
Lovely ad for the Canadian Olympic team
Love this. Good job to all that’s involved!
John Lewis did it better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqgoUWPx4eE
Pretty pretty good.
Saw this over the weekend, long version- loved it! Beautifully observed, great characters, well done to all.
Nice John Lewis insurance ad. Blatant
Oops, and ouch.
This is lovely.
lovely.
Yeah, that John Lewis spot was all of the wonderful things that this AAMI spot is, only first.
Really good until the AAMI lucky sting at the end.
Ah the creative industry still harping on about some notion of originality instead of worrying about effectiveness.
But to those of you saying John Lewis did it better…you’re wrong. That John Lewis ad in no way whatsoever hijacks the Olympics without being a sponsor. Because that’s what this AAMI ad is.
And pretty sure you’ll find a montage of accidents has been used to advertise insurance long before that John Lewis ad (which wasn’t a montage so maybe it’s a different idea?)
Yeah nah.
I know nothing of the John Lewis campaign and neither would 99% of the Australian public.
This work actually had me engaged. Well done to all involved.
It’s a beautifully made, well observed piece of work, but the real genius is doing an Olympic ad without being an Olympic sponsor. Well played on that.
Love this. Beautiful insight
Hey CB Bingo, I think you’ll find the reason the John Lewis work is so brilliant is it never actually shows any accidents. Just close calls. Plus a banging track. And if we all just copy ads from overseas we may as well just use AI to write them.
I’m with you on all those points.
Hey Phil
I agree the John Lewis ad was brilliant. One of my points was that this AAMI ad isn’t a copy of it. It is much closer to a thousand other insurance ads in Australia that show a montage of accidents than it is to the John Lewis ad.
The percentage of genuinely original ads made in Australia is incredibly small. Same could be said globally. Most things borrow from something else but one of my other points is it doesn’t matter. The job of advertising is to achieve sales, either directly or indirectly via creating brand awareness and salience. Originality can help an ad be effective, but it is not essential. It’s only the creative industry’s ego/jealousy that care about that 😉
Nice work gang
@CB Bingo. – We’re supposed to be a ‘Creative’ industry not a ‘Copying’ industry. The most effective campaigns are original in their creativity.
Amen again!
Colour by numbers stuff. Time for some new voices for these kinds of big brand campaigns I think, because this feels tired.
Can someone please tell me the name of the music used in this ad ?
Love the music on this ad, where does it come from?
music is Emerson, Lake And Palmer’s version of “Fanfare For The Common Man”
What a brilliant ad. It is funny. It is honest. It is reality, especially when you have had children! Very cleverly orchestrated. Never get sick of watching it. Love it.
Does this mean that AAMI will cover the cost of your kids doing silly things and breaking stuff. I checked my policy and this sort of stuff does not look like it would be covered.