Walt Connelly
Executive Creative Director at TBWA\Chiat\Day New York
London, United Kingdom
TitleBazooka
Agency
Campaign A Different Brand of Baseball - Oakland A's
Advertiser Oakland Athletics Baseball Company
Brand Oakland A's
Date of First Broadcast/Publication 2004 / 2
Business Sector Sports Teams, Sports Events
Story Triple Gold Glover winner Eric Chavez can catch anything hit his way, but can he catch balls fired from a bazooka - of course he can.
Philosophy From the front office to the players on the field, the Oakland A's approach to the game is different from the rest of the major league. Nobody plays the game like the A’s. Nobody innovates like the A’s. Nobody challenges baseball’s conventional wisdom like the A’s. Year after year, the team’s personality, tradition, style of play, and approach to the game is proprietary, unique, and one-of-a-kind. The advertising’s job is to demonstrate and evidence that fact. We’re not selling generic baseball. We’re selling A’s baseball.
Problem The A's have a small season ticket base and play in a ball park built for NFL football (60,000+ seats). They live and die by day-of-game walk-up sales. These casual fans come out a couple times a year. We need to drive incremental attendance of these casual fans - get the 1 or 2 timer to come out 4 or 5 times, the 4 or 5 timer to come out 7 or 8 time, and convert the 7 or 8 timer into a season ticket holder.
Media Type Television
Length
Market United States
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