Sportsbet.com.au: For people who like results from their campaigns
Agency: Leo Burnett Melbourne
Advertiser: Sportsbet.com.au
Author: Patrick Rowe
Total Campaign Expenditure: $2-5 million
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS CHALLENGE
Taking on a monster monopoly while fending off a pack of rival competitors. This was the challenge facing Sportsbet in late 2009.
THE FORM - BACKGROUND ON SPORTSBET
Sportsbet had been operating in Australia since 1993 as a corporate bookmaker based in the Northern Territory. In 2008 new rules were introduced to make it easier for bookmakers to compete with the privatised Totalisator Agency Boards (TAB's), the most significant of...