Business bank Tyro launches first ad campaign with new ‘Better business banking’ tagline
Business bank Tyro has launched its new brand campaign, hot on the heels of its first rebrand since 2007 and the announcement of its new ‘Better business banking’ tagline.
While previous above the line campaigns have been largely sales-driven, this is the first targeted at driving brand awareness of Tyro and its complete suite of payments and banking products, with the Tyro App playing a prominent role.
Tyro’s brand team managed the campaign from start to finish and enlisted the services of The Incredible Production Collective (IPC) to deliver a suite of brand films and radio spots for placement on traditional media and digital platforms, with media strategy and buying delivered by Frontier Australia.
CEO Robbie Cooke said the decision to manage the campaign directly had enabled the team to work in a close partnership with the creative and production teams: “We have built a reputation for bringing a fresh approach to the way Australian businesses bank and that same philosophy played a large part in both the development and the content of this campaign.”
“Working with IPC, the team was able to efficiently deliver a campaign of the highest quality that achieved our objectives, while ensuring we were able to maximise our investment towards awareness media.”
Cooke said the Tyro App gave businesses the opportunity to manage their payments and banking needs from the palm of their hand, hence its feature role in the ‘Better business banking’ campaign: “From allowing businesses to view their EFTPOS transactions, to accepting our loans and integrating with Xero, the Tyro App is an efficient way for them to bank.
“We understand business owners are often wearing a number of hats, and our view is the more we can simplify this process for them, the more time they will have to focus on their business.”
Says Sam Allison, founder, IPC: “We were thrilled to be trusted by Tyro to bring the brand campaign to life, across all platforms. We worked closely with Tyro’s marketing team, allowing us to directly understand and deliver on their objectives.”
“The tight collaborative process, and Tyro’s willingness to approach things differently, allowed us to deliver beyond the initial expectations, as well as provide better fiscal benefits to the brand.”
Says Glenn Urqurhart, creative director: “Working with Tyro has been very rewarding. We were given a clear brief from the start and set out to create a campaign with more cut- through than traditional bank ads.
“We were given the freedom to bring a holistic brand overview to the directing, copy writing and editing, from bringing their tone-of-voice to life to establishing key brand and creative mechanics for future iterations.”
Robin George – Head of Brand and Communications, Tyro
Dean Lakoudis – Brand and Communications Executive, Tyro
Sam Allison – Founder and Exec Producer , The Incredible Production Collective
Glenn Urquhart – Creative Director, Copywriter and Director
Daniel O’Brien – Commercial Director & Head of Strategy, Frontier Australia
Sanja Kosoric – Senior Account Director, Frontier Australia
12 Comments
That’s really dull and vanilla, and cheap..
The positioning is bland, the execution is bland.
This is laughable ‘We have built a reputation for bringing a fresh approach to the way Australian businesses bank and that same philosophy played a large part in both the development and the content of this campaign.’ – really?
If you think that’s laughable for a press release, you should try reading some others, you’ll be in stitches, they are all like that mate, its the way the game rolls.
However, cheap? Not sure what budgets you are used to, but I would not class the likely cost of that as ‘cheap’
Anyway, your opinion etc etc
Creating an ad is a transaction and that means both parties get something out of it. However, in this case the viewer gets absolutely nothing except wall to wall voice over, a boring end line and a rude interruption in the middle of their favourite program. Ironic given that your business is all about transactions isn’t it?
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Budgets are irrelevant, the end product is what counts, and if the ad looks like it should have ‘whats new’ as a preface, that out-take is cheap..
Having responded/pitched on this brief, it is particularly disheartening that this is the final execution they went with. Easily forgettable and cheap ad – I hope their product UX knocks your socks off, because this campaign blows.
Love the taste of salty sour grape CB tears in the comments, bye now
You pitched on it and THEN they took it in house? Gees! Thats a kick in the gooleys
I believe the agency who did the re-brand presented campaigns that were so much bloody better. What a missed opportunity for the bank.
They weren’t, they were definitely old school brand agency trying to do advertising.
Lets not even start on the rebrand and what a missed opportunity that is.
Oh ok. Well couldn’t have been much worse than this.
let’s face it, if it had a kid blubbering with their daddy and some emo girl singing a licensed track underneath with a monkeys credit..all the irrelevant sooks on this thread would be lining up to gobble on it.
Which agency did the rebrand?