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o2 ARSENAL OPUS. Back Of The Net!

As a Man Utd fan, it was hard to work up any enthusiasm for a brief about North London's 2nd best team. But I realised O2's promotional competition to win a volume of the Arsenal Opus, was a gift horse not to be ignored. Ask any football fan to tell you what they love most about their team, and you're likely to strike gold. The pro-active animation we made helped us land a full-time job. 

o2 INTERNATIONAL FAVOURITES. Blimey

When Ofcom told mobile operators to stop overcharging customers for international call rates that no longer applied, the race was

on to see which provider would turn the new rules to their advantage. O2's new International Tariff was staggeringly good value and an international game changer - whatever country you were calling from.

o2 BRAND WORLD. 

When I got my first freelance gig at VCCP,  the main attraction was the chance of working with its co-founder Rooney Carruthers.

O2's visual guidelines were incredibly restrictive, but in many ways the 'bubble police' only made us try harder to get noticed.

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o2 ACADEMY. Your Pre-Gig Phone Store 

I was always more interested in O2's Academy venues than their big glossy cousin, The O2. I'd grown up scraping money together to watch bands in venues like Brixton Academy. When we were asked to think of ways to leverage the proximity of O2 Academy venues to their nearest O2 store, I struck on a theme that put the stores at the start of the pre-gig build-up, and customer journey.

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o2 ACADEMY. The Groovenir/Gigmento

We wanted to give O2 Priority customers a bonus gift after every gig. A souvenir' that said "I was there". We made this 

prototype 'Gigmento' off the back of a Kasabian gig that shook Brixton's O2 Academy from foundations to lighting rig.

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Creative Team:

Ian Edwards

& Steve McCallum

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Creative Directors:

Rooney Carruthers 

Nicola Jackson

John Warwick

Phil Skeffington

                       

Agency: VCCP

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