NAB gives away giant cheques in a social experiment via Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne
Yesterday, Clemenger BBDO Melbourne and NAB conducted a social experiment to promote NAB’s More Give Mortgages.
NAB has put up four oversized cheques on billboards in Sydney and Melbourne, written and signed to the value of $2240. All they need is for someone to write their name on the cheque and take it to a NAB branch to have it honoured (after they’ve managed to detach it from the 48-sheet billboard, of course).
NAB head of marketing Sandra De Castro says the experiment highlights how much money a customer of the other major banks could save by switching to a NAB More Give Mortgage.
Says De Castro: “Our experiment is a bit of fun, but it also has a point: the people who find and take down the cheques know what it feels like to have a NAB More Give 
Mortgage. The $2240 they now have is what they would have saved over the last four years on NAB’s standard variable rate compared to that of the other majors.”
Clemenger BBDO Melbourne executive creative director Ant Keogh says that almost immediately after the billboards went up, social media lit up with chatter asking 
whether the cheques were real.
Says Keogh: “A cheque can be written on anything – a man once tried to cash a cheque written on a cow. So these cheques, while the size of a billboard, are legal tender, to be honoured in full when taken into a NAB branch.”
Once the cheques are removed, they reveal different billboard artwork which reads: “The person who took this cheque for $2240 now knows what it feels like to have a NAB More Give Mortgage.”
Jodie Rochetich Brand Management NAB
Sally Denniston Marketing Manager NAB
Aleisha Armstrong Campaign Consultant NAB
Rachel Donohue Consultant Social Media NAB
Ant Keogh Executive Creative Director
Rohan Lancaster Creative Director
Darren Pitt Creative Director
Ben Keenan Digital Creative Director
Ben Birchall Social Media Director
Emily Naismith Social Media Lead
Ben Knighton Group Account Director
Kyle Abshoff Account Director
Kate Joiner Account Manager
Sonia von Bibra Executive Producer
Helene Carter Post Production Manager
Benjamin Nash Production Manager
12 Comments
不错。
Cute, but did it get mainstream press coverage? Will live/die as an execution through the extended media and viral aspects. I like it though
Bank steals Banksy
bullshit, didn’t banksy give artwork away if you stayed in a hotel.
Clems in MEL is shite… boring / old / poo / poo….h
Nice work Nash-bags…
Director, Director. So many Directors at Clemenger. But only one Emperor.
So because there was a campaign which involved stealing artwork from a hotel for a hotel, these guys can’t do a campaign that involves stealing a cheque from a billboard for a bank?
If we’re going down ‘here’s’ rabbit hole, I guess we may as well all quit our jobs.
(BTW, I like the campaign. Nice one.)
不好
I like it. but as Mack says, will it get any mainstream coverage? I honestly doubt it, like the massive majority of these things.
Apparently “social media lit up with chatter asking whether the cheques were real…”
Oh yes, I’m sure it did. We all saw it, right?
So many Clemenger haters. It’s a nice idea, who cares about the rest. Geez.
Did it work? Pretty sure most people would consider pulling down a billboard vandalism and be pretty reluctant to do so? Well done if people actually did.