Royal Mail: The stamps that fell to earth

Royal Mail, the UK postal service and courier company, drove a reappraisal of its brand, capturing data and sales in the process, by creating a collector’s edition set of 10 David Bowie stamps.

Campaign background

Disruptive and different.

Iconic and interstellar.

A small budget with a big impact.

Royal Mail drove a reappraisal of their brand – capturing data and sales in the process - by creating a collector's edition set of 10 David Bowie stamps.

Strategy

To help foster new imaginings of Royal Mail – plus to grabbing sales and precious opted-in data - a campaign was built around the launch of commemorative stamps celebrating the life of David Bowie.

But to succeed, the Royal Mail had to reach beyond stamp collectors and wow those Bowie fanatics and music lovers.

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