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Nate Martin

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Lyre's Global Campaign

Lyre’s is the most awarded and most globally available non-alcoholic spirit on the planet, and thanks to this growth we had the opportunity to launch our first global TTL campaign.

With the campaing to eventually be live in over 50 countries, social and cultural norms became a huge challenge to address. Our solution was to bring our fun and quirky characters to life in on-liner style joke constructs that talked to nothing but what was in the frame ensuring comprehension in any language.

Creative Director: Nate Martin

Design Director: Lloyd Shiers

Senior Creative: Tiff Harrison

Senior Producer: Jeff Edwards

Account Director: Hannan Hannah

Animation: Visual State

Sound: Rumble

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GOLD - Direct
BRONZE - Effectiveness

Shop ANZ:
SILVER - Digital
BRONZE - Occasion Based

Red Cross Calling

For the Launch of The Australian Red Cross’ biggest fun raiser of the year, they had a challenge to overcome.

With such a large range of services offered, Australian’s only understanding of the charity is that they collect blood.

In came Artefacts of Disaster.

We discovered that of all the causes supported by the charity, the most relevant to every day Australians is natural disaster relief.

CLIENT: The Australian Red Cross

AGENCY: The Kinetic Agency

Creative Director: Nate Martin

Senior Art Director: Damien Quinn

GAD: Sarah Hobson

Senior Account Manager: Georgie Gettings

Senior Producer: Jeff Edwards

Kellogg's Colour & Win

Kellogg’s regularly updated the back of their packs with games, quizzes and colouring in exercises to add a little fun into kids breakfasts, and this brief was exactly that but we decided to push the brief a little further.

Kellogg’s lives in an aisle filled with loud colours and shouty claims, which makes competing for attention a different kind of challenge, so rather than yelling louder we went the other way.

We redesigned every one of Kellogg’s packs across cereal and snacks to stand out in a different way, and to make it even more fun for kids we expanded the back of pack colouring in game to the whole box.

To add a little extra excitement we developed a WebAR app that captured your artwork and wrapped it around a 3D AR experience for kids to engage with.

Creative Director: Nate Martin

Design Director: Lloyd Shiers

Senior Art Director: Damien Quinn

Junior Art Director: Michael Wilds

Development: Chook

Lyre's Non Acoholic Spirits

As part of a new innovation pipeline being tested at The Kinetic Agency, i was involved in the creation of new products from insights to product intrinsics, brand strategy and design all the way down to launch and execution.

Lyre’s is to date the most successful of the brands i have created with the team at Kinetic, at last count being available in over 50 countries with a valuation of over $500M

CEO: Mark Livings

Creative Director: Nate Martin

Design Director: Lloyd Shiers

Senior Art Director: Tiff Harrison

Senior Art Director: Michael Gettings

Senior Art Director: Damien Quinn

NRL 2017

To launch the 2017 season of the NRL, we were tasked with the simple brief of "get bums on seats".

Running from a previously successful campaign surrounding the moments of history that you could miss, we shifted strategy towards community involvement.

The campaign "Let's Make History" ran in TVC, OOH, radio, press, social, experiential and will continue for the entirety of 2017.

Art Director: Nate Martin

Copywriter: Mark Rosenberg

ECD: Matt Gillmore

CD: Johnny Brown

Director: Scott Otto Anderson

Production: Photoplay

Maximus "Handle It"

Maximus is the non-sports-sports-drink that challenges conventions through its tongue in cheek, aussie bloke voice.

To drive awareness of this massive bottle of man water and encourage trial, we were tasked with "Getting hands on bottles".

Harnessing the power of Aussie one-upmanship, we produced a campaign that leveraged the preconception of hand size.

 

This integrated campaign saw high volumes of OOH placements that used short cheeky headlines to draw parallel between a blokes manhood, and their ability to pick up a Maximus.

 

Driving the social end of the campaign, we used digital placement on porn websites, and various media partnerships to direct blokes toward content explaining various types of grips.

Using a cheeky pack change and an impressive prize, we got guys all across australia to measure their grip on a bottle and share the resulting picture under the hashtag #ICANHANDLEIT.

Resulting from this work and various other campaigns, Maximus won the Effie award for New product or service.

 

AGENCY: GIVE ART SCIENCE

ACCOUNT MANAGER: CARLY OSMAN

PROJECT MANAGER: JAMES LEVY

CREATIVE: JOEL CHAPMAN, NATE MARTIN

Kinder Adventure Board

Kinder was launching their first Australian range of toys and wanted to do something special to commemorate it.

Our brief was to drive engagement with the Aussie toys and increase collectability. Our solution was the Adventure Board.

We designed and created a board game that brought cheeky fun and animal education to youngsters across the country.

Creative Director: Nate Martin

Design Director: Lloyd Shiers

Senior Art Director: Damien Quinn

Junior Art Director: Michael Wilds

Meet Purina

To launch the new Meet Purina global campaign, we crafted a series of stories about real Purina team members and how their personal passions are intimately linked to Purina's passion for pets.

Citibank

To usher in chinese new year, Citibank wanted to show investors that their wealth management offering doesn't require luck.

For a prosperous new year, we created the campaign "Make your fortune perform".

Using the ancient artform of chinese shadow puppets, we created new and more valuable puppets out of cold hard cash.

Rolled out globally, we developed a tool kit for each country to swap out currency and denominations easily.

This campaign ran across OOH, print, digital, social and in-store for 3 months.

Ballistic Beer Co

Ballistic Beer Co make some very tasty beer, but with brand loyalty in craft beer in the dumps we were tasked with driving new consumption occasions and increasing brand awareness.

The solution came through illiteration, boards beers & banter? sounds Ballistic to me

Creative Director: Nate Martin

Senior Art Director: Tiff Harrison

Senior Producer: Jeff Edwards

Contiki USA

Milennial travellers love the USA, but they always seem to hit the same coastal locations. 

To bring new life to what are traditionally known as the "fly-over states" we leveraged FOMO and presented the message "The best bits happen in the middle".

To show all thats on offer through middle america i jumped on a plane with a bunch of social influencers and spent 3 weeks on a Contiki bus, creating content from the road for both owned and borrowed channels that inspired jealousy in all that followed our journey.

Pepperjack Fathers Day

PepperJack came to us wanting to play a role in Father’s Day gifting. As one of Australia’s highest selling portfolios of wine we know that they are enjoyed by Dad’s around Australia, but Pepperjack also wanted to create something that added a personal value to the gifting experience.

The tension point? People often get Father’s Day gifts last minute and arrive at their Father’s Day gathering with no card or pen.

Our Solution? By partnering with Ironlak and supplying a marker with our wine, we turned the Pepperjack bottle into both the gift AND the card. Two birds with one stone. Last minute personalisation. Quick and easy.

Creative Director: Nate Martin

Design Director: Lloyd Shiers

Senior Art Director: Tiff Harrison

Nespresso Mornings in Motion

Nespresso is an adored brand by many, however Australians love a barista made coffee first thing in the morning.

In a global campaign, each territory was tasked with bringing the morning Nespresso moment to life through various archetypes, to ultimately align Nespresso with the perfect morning.

Through a partnership with Donna Hay, 5 recipes were created to reflect different kinds of morning activity that were housed on a bespoke morning moment landing page.

 

To amplify this campaign through social channels and reinforce the premium look and feel of Nespresso, we created bespoke cinemagraphs that bring beautiful morning moments to life through simple repeatable animations.

 

PROJECT MANAGER: GERT LEPPERS

PRODUCER: MARGO LOWRY

CREATIVE LEAD: NATE MARTIN

DIRECTOR / CINEMATOGRAPHER: NATE MARTIN

FINISHED ARTIST: NATE MARTIN

Kit Kat Breakers Break

Although Kit Kat owns arguably the most well known slogan of all time, they were struggling with relevance with a younger mobile savvy market.

For the Australian leg of their 2015 global campaign they banked half their ad spend on digital to celebrate and enhance breaks while they are happening.

Rather than add to the flurry of advertising pre-rolls and targeted facebook videos with pretty visuals and branded messages, we used the social mini-break occasion for what its best for, zoning out with funny stuff.

We commissioned 4 top Aussie commedians to star in branded content with only two objectives: 

1 - Be humorous

2 - Celebrate breaks

 

HEAD OF PRODUCTION: CLIVE BURCHAM

ACCOUNT SERVICES: CATHERINE DONNELLY

DIRECTOR: TOBY MORRIS

PRODUCER: MARGO LOWRY

CREATIVE LEAD: NATE MARTIN

Nespresso Variations

Contiki WInter

CHALLENGE

ALTHOUGH CONTIKI TRIPS ARE BOOMING, SALES OF EUROPEAN WINTER HOLIDAYS ARE DOWN. 

WE NEEDED AN IDEA THAT WOULD ENTICE AUSSIE MILLENNIALS TO ABANDON THE SUMMER THAT THEY LOVE - FULL OF FESTIVALS, FLINGS AND BEACH FUN - AND INSTEAD, BUY A EUROPEAN WINTER CONTIKI TRIP. 

 

INSIGHT

AUSTRALIANS DON’T KNOW PROPER WINTER. 

WE ALSO KNOW THAT LOSING OUT ON SOMETHING IS A STRONGER LEVER TO USE THAN GAINING SOMETHING WITH THIS FOMO-DRIVEN AUDIENCE. 

SO OUR MESSAGE WAS CLEAR - DON’T MISS OUT ON REAL WINTER.

 

ACTIVITY

WE ABANDONED THE STANDARD CONTIKI FORMULA OF INFLUENCERS AND FAMILS AND TOOK A COMPLETELY DIGITAL APPROACH, DRIVEN BY MEDIA CONSUMPTION DATA. 

OUR CAMPAIGN CHEEKILY FOCUSED ON WINTER EDUCATION. AND WE FLOODED CONTIKI’S SOCIAL AND DIGITAL CHANNELS WITH TAILORED CONTENT AIMED ON EDUCATING AUSSIES ON HOW TO DO A REAL EUROPEAN WINTER - THE CONTIKI WAY.  

 

RESULTS

SALES UP 26% YOY

1.6 MILLION VIEWS (NO PAID MEDIA)

14,000 ENGAGEMENTS

5,500 CLICK THROUGH TO THE CAMPAIGN LANDING PAGE

 

ACCOUNT MANAGER: CATHERINE DONNELLY

HEAD OF DELIVERY: GERT LEPPERS

PROJECT MANAGE: CAROLINE AITKIN

CREATIVE STRATEGY: MORGAN FIEBIG

CREATIVE LEAD: NATE MARTIN

ILLUSTRATOR: STEPHEN ONG

Lattissima Touch

To present the new Lattissima Touch as the perfect gift for mothers day, We explore a cheeky glimpse into what a perfect mothers day could be.

 

CREATIVE LEAD: NATE MARTIN

DIRECTOR: TOBY MORRIS

PRODUCER: MARGO LOWRY

12 Pets of Christmas

Lyre's Global Campaign

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Red Cross Calling

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Kellogg's Colour & Win

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Lyre's Non Acoholic Spirits

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NRL 2017

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Maximus "Handle It"

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Kinder Adventure Board

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Meet Purina

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Citibank

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Ballistic Beer Co

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Contiki USA

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Pepperjack Fathers Day

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Nespresso Mornings in Motion

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Kit Kat Breakers Break

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Nespresso Variations

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Contiki WInter

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Lattissima Touch

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12 Pets of Christmas

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