How Doug Pitt helped Virgin Mobile redefine retention marketing
Agency: Havas WW Sydney and One Green Bean
Advertiser: Virgin Mobile Australia
Author: Phil Johnston
Total Campaign Expenditure: Under $500K
Strategic communications challenge
Virgin Mobile is a challenger brand in the Australian telecommunications (telco) market. It provides prepaid (ie no contract) and post-paid phone plans, in most cases accompanied by handsets.
The market is dominated by 3 big competitors, Telstra, Optus and Vodafone, who between them account for 82% of the market (Source: Roy Morgan). They dominate in terms of market share and customers and also enjoy...