DANIEL CRAIG VS JAMES BOND

TitleDANIEL CRAIG VS JAMES BOND
BrandHEINEKEN
Product/ServiceHEINEKEN
Category B01. Talent: Film, Series & Audio
Entrant PUBLICIS ITALY Milan, ITALY
Idea Creation PUBLICIS ITALY Milan, ITALY
Production SMUGGLER London, UNITED KINGDOM
Post Production THE MILL London, UNITED KINGDOM
Additional Company HEINEKEN INTERNATIONAL Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Credits
Name Company Position
Bruno Bertelli Publicis Italy Global Chief Creative Officer Publicis WW
Cristiana Boccassini
 Publicis Italy Chief Creative Officer Publicis Italy
Marco Venturelli Publicis Italy Global Executive Creative Director
Luca Cinquepalmi
 Publicis Italy Global Executive Creative Director
Luissandro Del Gobbo Publicis Italy Global Executive Creative Director
Fabrizio Tamagni Publicis Italy Associate Creative Director Publicis Italy
Michela Talamona Publicis Italy Associate Creative Director Publicis Italy
Mihnea Gheorghiu Publicis Italy Global Executive Creative Director
Milos Obradovic Publicis Italy Digital Creative Director
Gustavo Lacerda Publicis Italy Associate Creative Director
Sandra Bold Publicis Italy Digital Creative Director Publicis Italy
Andrea Parra Vinasco Publicis Italy Digital content creator
James Moore Publicis Italy International Strategic Planner
Mariella Maiorano Publicis Italy Head TV Production Publicis Italy
Carla Solaro Publicis Italy TV Producer
Sabrina Sanfratello Publicis Italy Producer Publicis Italy
David Pagnoni Publicis Italy Worldwide Account Director
Francesca Baldrighi Publicis Italy Account Director Publicis Italy
Silvia Ghiretti Publicis Italy Account Director
Colin Hickson Publicis London Head TV Production
Stuart Williams Publicis London Senior Strategist
Miles Jay Smuggler Director
Chayse Irvin Smuggler Director Of Photography
Fergus Brown Smuggler Managing Director
Gustav Geldenhuys Smuggler Producer
Sam Jackson Smuggler Production manager
Robin Brown Smuggler Production Designer
Sean Hill Smuggler BTS Director
Ben Jordan Smuggler Editor
Hasani Franke Smuggler Editor
Stuart Greenwald Smuggler Editor
Misha Stanford Harris The Mill Executive Producer
Raj Sehgal Grand Central Recording Studio London Sound Engineer

Why is this work relevant for Entertainment?

Heineken® has launched its latest James Bond TV commercial featuring Daniel Craig. The launch comes ahead of the 25th James Bond film, No Time To Die. Heineken® has been the proud partner of the Bond franchise for the last eight films. The TV commercial gives a fresh perspective on Daniel Craig’s iconic portrayal of James Bond. Focusing on the premise that Daniel Craig will always be James Bond in the eyes of his fans around the world. Starting with a high-speed taxi sequence, Daniel Craig is constantly recognized as James Bond by surprised locals as he hunts down his missing

Background

Business Objective: Drive penetration of the Heineken brand Campaign Objective: Drive partnership awareness of No Time To Die & Heineken to reinforce Heineken as a premium, cool & aspirational brand in the minds of LDA+ beer/NA Beer drinkers to drive brand consideration

Describe the creative idea

The partnership with No Time To Die was interpreted with a fresh point of view. Everyone thinks that playing James Bond is the coolest job in the world, but there are also drawbacks. And for the famous actors that play him, they will always be James Bond in the imagination of his fans, even in real life.

Describe the strategy

We took a common belief about James Bond, the fact that James Bond was just a movie character and turned it with an unexpected point of view: Once James Bond, always James Bond, on screens and real life.

Describe the execution

One third of the world’s population has seen a Bond film. Bond is a universal reference point for those brands, like Heineken, who want to consolidate their premium positioning through the sponsorship. And Daniel Craig, an icon of style and by most of the fans associated with James Bond, is the perfect testimonial. We worked closely with the partners and with Daniel Craig himself to build his character, mixing premiumness, style and irony. After more than 2 years from the brief, the campaign was launched with a long form video and many shorter assets for tv, cinema and digital. The campaign has been aired so far in 71 countries and more will follow when the No Time To Die film will be finally be released in April 2021.

Describe the outcome

444 Total news article 100+ Countries reached 92% of articles included links to the commercials 7.2K Total mentions 1.4M+ Video views of TVCs