Heathrow Airport: Welcoming you home with the Heathrow Bears

Heathrow Airport, a London airport, launched an integrated multi-channel brand campaign to increase ad recall and brand visibility, which underpins the growth in its retail sales in the UK.

Executive Summary

Heathrow’s 2018 Christmas campaign was our most integrated multi-channel brand campaign to date, underpinned by a YouTube strategy that threaded throughout every phase. From launching via the Masthead, down to Bumpers keeping the brand front of mind, YouTube was truly the backbone of the Heathrow Bears triumphant return to the Christmas advertising throne.

This was the third year of the Heathrow Bears. After a triumphant impact in 2016 the challenge was to leverage the familiarity of what audiences had seen before, whilst reaching new audiences and capitalising on the engagement to generate positivity and warmth around Heathrow Airport....

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