Optimism. Back In Scotland.

Following the Scottish football team has been a pretty rocky road for the past few decades with the team missing from most major tournaments. But then something happened, Stevie Clark and his boys actually got quite good. Following successful qualifiers and a win over Spain fans started to feel a strange and forgotten feeling: Optimism. It was back!

This project started live as a series of Tik Tok sketches but the client loved the scripts so much the ambition of the campaign grew and turned into 3 films that ran in cinema and on TV. With the last in the series being shown right before kick off of the opening Scotland V Germany game. We also created OOH that I'm still surprised we got away with as well as lots of social bits and bobs and limited edition merchandise.

One of the most fun projects I've ever worked on it also went down very well with fans not only in Scotland but it also made a bit of a splash in Germany.

Results were fantastic. Well for the campaign anyway, not so much on the pitch.

The Results

“Euro 2024 may have been won by Spain, but the battle of the football ad was very much won by Scotland” – Marketing Week

Mentioned in 168 countries.

The campaign had 20x more shares on social than the brands IRN-BRU tracks against. Including all major soft drinks, Greggs and KFC.

Mannschaft was in the top 1% of ads tested
for distinctiveness and humour on Kantar.

“We think Scotland may have already won
The Euros with its Irn-Bru ad” – The Drum

22 million impressions.

‘Doctors’ film was Top 20
of 423 ads tested on System 1.

Mannshaft was top 5% of all UK ads, with viewers laughing 5x the average when tested on Zappi.

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