Susan Coghill is the Marketing Director at Tourism Australia and they've got one of the best performing ads on the System1 database, with their new campaign "G'Day". But this wasn't without taking some risks, such as introducing a new brand mascot, getting high profile stars to feature and producing a 9 minute film.

Watch the ad here.

What we covered in this episode:

Why Susan has the best job in the World
How to set KPI’s for a tourism brand
Why Tourism Australia kept advertising through the pandemic
What System1 learnt about advertising during covid
Winning the only Effie for a travel company during lockdown
Planning ‘Come and say G’day’ a new global campaign to announce Australia is open again
Which distinctive assets are the most Australian
Creating Ruby Roo the new brand mascot
What we can learn from the Entertainment industry
Putting on a show rather than selling
Why it’s important to remember you are not the audience
Making a new version of Men At Work’s ‘Down Under’
The role of celebrities in making the ad more distinctive
Justifying spending $125m on the new campaign
How System1 testing gave confidence to make creative decisions
Getting a 4 Star in the animatic testing
How to reassure your stakeholder the creative will work
Inspiration from the best Christmas adverts
Adapting creative for different markets
The long term plan for Ruby
The decline of fluent devices and why you should use them
Whether Ruby will appear as a character in real life
Why we should all be more like Churchill the dog
Revealing the official countdown of the UK’s best advertisers

How entertainment, brand mascots and creative testing delivered a winner for Tourism Australia - Susan Coghill

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How entertainment, brand mascots and creative testing delivered a winner for Tourism Australia - Susan Coghill