Brand Evolution Strategy | Campaign management

Award-winning campaigns for the Arts

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The Challenge:

  • Manage the delivery of a new branding strategy to counter previous approach to selling productions
  • Brief, design and deliver production imagery to reflect the brand
  • Manage copywriting to engage new audiences for increased attendance

Solution and Delivery

  • Previous creative briefs were light touch in terms of understanding audiences for advertising purposes
  • Retained award-winning design and copywriting experts providing comprehensive, clear and focused creative briefs
  • Engaged internal artistic, marketing and production stakeholders to establish efficient and transparent approval processes
  • Involving creative and artistic teams ensured images were collaboratively developed and designed for audience engagement campaigns
  • The collaborative, creative brief process developed images against the creative brief with both photography and illustration
  • Developed copywriting brief to work across all formats with short and long copy lines reflecting audience and channel requirements
  • Implemented brand concept of the book cover, giving a hint of the emotional connection audiences could expect from the story they would experience
  • Establishment of a recognisable brand for English National Opera to link high quality productions to high quality and engaging imagery
  • Formulated key asset guidelines for the use of images for both on and offline elements of campaigns driving new audiences

Results

Engagement with opera up 35%

Targeted new audiences with new creative content

47% of audience new to ENO

new audiences for future performances

Award-winning designs including D&AD, Graphis  

presenting the concept of the “unforgettable story”

Increased brand recognition by 25%