2024 Brief: TBWA\Melbourne ✖ NAB




2024 Brief: TBWA\Melbourne ✖ NAB


Partner: TWBA/Melbourne
TBWA\Melbourne and their client, NAB, created a challenging, fun and exciting brief entitled Gen Z Awareness. They asked student teams to develop a strategy that would find new and creative ways to reach, connect and engage with Gen Z, in ways that are meaningful to them, ultimately making them feel positive towards NAB (and remember who NAB are).
Brief Objectives:
- Commercially Gen Z is a future growth pipeline for NAB. If NAB can grow awareness and appeal with this audience, it will set up future growth as they mature (along with their banking needs).
 - Reach at least 85% of P18-28
 - Increase Awarenes of NAB with P18-28 by 250K
 
Winning Pitch: Pocket money (You got #NABBED)
Key insight: To Gen Z, cash in their pocket is different from balances in the bank.
Key idea: Get into their Gen-Z’s minds through their pockets through ‘reverse pickpocketing’. Trained agents (professional magicians) will slip actual cash ($500,000) into the pockets of jackets and coats of Gen audiences at music festivals and in shopping malls, in unobtrusive and ethically vetted ways. The cash will be ‘marked’ with a removable sticker saying, for example, “You’ve been reverse pickpocketed –  #Nabbed”. People will experience joy of the windfall cash and can keep the money (and use it after removing the sticker). Backed by an intense social media campaign, the campaign aims to reintroduce Gen-Z to NAB’s clever, cool, street-smart banking apps and services.
Winning Team
| Team Name | Bullseye | 
|---|---|
| Student Names | Amber Ayers-Hughes, Logan D’Souza and Levi Mcmillian | 
| University | Auckland University of Technology (AUT) | 




















