ANZ launches new ‘Simpler Home Loans’ campaign with overblown ads via Special
ANZ has today launched its “Simpler Home Loans” campaign via Special, announcing to all Australians its new package-free offering.
The campaign is the next attempt by ANZ staffer ‘Pete’ to make ads for ANZ, this time comically using advertising tropes familiar in overblown fashion-style ads – the exaggerated storylines and over the top techniques often seen on screen – all to really land the point that ANZ’s new home loan offerings are actually incredibly straightforward.
Says Luana Hughes, head of home loans marketing at ANZ: “ANZ is the first major bank to move away from bundled home loan packages, which customers can find hard to understand and value. Customers no longer need to take out a home loan package and pay an annual package fee to access interest rate discounts. So not only do we have a breakout product but we have the advertising to match. We are thrilled with the output, as not only will it stand out in the category but it also remains consistent with ANZ’s playful tone of voice and builds on our new “For Financial Wellbeings” brand work.”
Says Tom Martin, CCO and partner at Special: “A man stares down a stag and then floats in the air in his bedroom… Advertising itself has a way of sometimes getting a bit too convoluted and complex for its own good, so railing against that seemed like the perfect way to highlight that ANZ home loans have now taken a much more simplified approach with their offering.”
Says Rebecca Stambanis, strategy partner at Special: “Taking out a home loan is a massive financial decision but it doesn’t need to be a complicated one. For too long, Aussies have been overwhelmed with home loan packages full of ambiguity, asterisks and unwanted extras. So, when it came to communicating ANZ’s new simplified approach, we were delighted to have some fun with it and celebrate the pure essence of uncomplication directed by our very own brand character Pete.”
The campaign will be brought to life across TV, OOH, social and digital.
Client: ANZ
CMO: Sweta Mehra
Head of Brand Strategy & Marketing: Kjetil Undhjem
Head of Home Loans Marketing: Luana Hughes
Campaign Lead: Dean Lisina
Project Marketing Lead: Gary Burch
Marketing Journey Expert (Digital): Ayesha Mullan
Marketing Journey Expert: Felicity Reddy
Marketing Journey Expert: Annie Vu
Content Expert: Hannah Sutton
Marketing Chapter Lead: Ivana Pappalardo
Marketing Journey Expert: Jess Boehm
Creative Agency: Special Group Australia
CEO & Partners: Lindsey Evans & Cade Heyde
CCO & Partners: Julian Schreiber & Tom Martin
Strategy Partner: Rebecca Stambanis
Strategist: Jack Gilbert
Creative Directors: Nils Eberhardt, Simon Gibson, Matt McCarron
Creatives: Shaun McFarlane, Janice Ko
Designer Director: Keir Vaughan,
Designer: Maggie Webster
Finished Artist: Jen Bailey
General Manager: Paige Prettyman
Business Director: Emma Salmon
Business Manager: Ben Deville
Head of Production/ EP: Sevda Cemo
Senior Producer: Alyce Guy
Stills Producer: Glen Mcleod
Digital Producer: Shiv Prabhavalkar
Production Company: FINCH Company
Director: The Bobbsey Twins
Managing Director: Corey Esse
Executive Producer: Loren Bradley
Producer: Alexandra Taussig
Director of Photography: Jeremy Rouse
Post Production House: The Editors
Offline Editor: Jack Hutchings
Colourist: Matt Fezz
Online Editor: Stuart Cadzow
Sound House: Rumble Studios
Music & Sound EP: Michael Gie
Composer: Jeremy Richmond
Sound Designer: Cameron Milne
Stills:
Photographer: Andreas Smetana
Production Company: Flint
Retouching: Cream Studios
Media agency: PHD
Group Business Director: Jordan Smith
Business Director: Lizzy O’Connor
Planning Directors: Natalie O’Hanlon, Georgina Debenham
Strategy Director: Brendan Dodd
Investment Director: Kaitlin Despott
Digital Manager: Anastassia Choutova
Activations Manager: Jason Cheung
Investment Manager: Kim Stockdale
Account Executives: Brandon Rice, Isabelle Barton
PR agency: Thrive PR
Managing Director: Leilani Abels
APAC General Manager: Kelly Stambanis
Group Account Directors: Elisabeth Corcoran and Victoria Fruean
30 Comments
That was pretty funny
This is nice. Gave me a laugh
Special might be killing it when it comes to business, but the creative lately has been woeful! Also remember when the Bobbsey Twins were the exciting directors to watch out for?
Bobbsey was cool when they did big budget ads with great creative in London. Falls apart with bad creative and smaller budgets in Australia. Also wouldn’t say ‘directors’, I’d say x agency creatives who thought they could make more money from directing. Where’s the awful truth when you need them.
The new idea for bank ads is to not do a bank ad but in a self aware way.
The strategy is ‘you hate banks but we’re less banky than the other banks. You’ll hate us less, promise’
Another cracker from S+J
….which is hilarious, because I reckon customers actually just want a Big 4 bank to be a bank.
Offer financial excellence, financial competence etc. If someone could do that in an interesting way, I’d be in.
Love the low-rent Jared Leto.
Yup me too
Feels like Goodby’s 15-year-old Commbank work crashed into ANZ.
Yeah Shauny boy !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGjwZ3XMDes
Um….no, not even-close relevant….
great casting !
So this ad is for a home loan? Ok.
So confused by this. What on earth are they trying to say. How has that got anything to do with Home Loans, Banking. Financial Well-beings or ANZ. Another Special big budget special bereft of any customer or category insight.
Wow…. is advertising THAT dead and out of ideas, that a talented agency like Special has to dig into the vault and imitate the Goodby campaign for CBA from 2007?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTG0_jEvOnA
shaun, and crew, this is funny.
Yep we’re here
🙂
All the banks are saying the same thing. This is a nice spot really well crafted but strategy feels lazy. Can’t really blame creative this time.
https://youtu.be/GguNetv_vb4
Because what director ever wears a suit?!!
Very lame sorry
I’m not sure it is well crafted. It makes sense but falls a bit flat. The start i thought ok you got me interested, then i thought ok a bit obvious, then i thought oh the reveal, what a surprise, and thought ohhh, sigh and stopped watching. Has been done before but could have been more captivating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTG0_jEvOnA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGUE7Nm9gbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLVlTNjHCVM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIsSWgC6zhY
aussie girls and boys… speechless (negative)
Perhaps there should be a rule about not making an ad that’s about making an ad. I feel like that’s about enough please.
Time to move on from ads revealing they’re ads halfway through the ad. At least five TV ads this year have become self-aware now. McCain. AAMI. Iselect. ANZ. YouFoodz… there’d be more. Ads within ads. Done. Move on.