New campaign for Bupa

Bupa Australia has launched a new campaign.

The campaign seeks to relaunch the three retail brands under Bupa’s umbrella on a single creative platform. Bupa hopes the campaign will consolidate its marketing to create a consistent offering.

“This innovative approach is markedly different to the bulk of our competitors, who traditionally focus on price and offer based campaigns,” said Mark Engel, Bupa’s marketing director.

“And while we remain committed to being price competitive, we decided the creative focus should centre around the millions of unique ways we help customers’ lead longer, healthier and happier lives.”

The campaign was developed by the Sydney Clemenger BBDO team responsible for Vodafone’s ‘Someday’ execution. Richard Maddocks, executive creative director, explained the creative response:

“The thing is that consumers tend to see most health insurance advertising as a little dull, so our challenge was to do something that felt fresh and new but still remained relevant. I think the thing we’re most excited about is a new tone of voice for the brand that’s positive but at the same time let’s us have a bit of fun and talk to consumers in a way they can relate to.”

Bupa Australia overarches three retail brands: HBA, MBF and MutualCommunity.

Viocorp moves to Melbourne

Viocorp has extended its operations by opening a Melbourne office.

The move follows the acquisition of several new Victorian clients including Aviva. The company already held significant interests in Victoria, working with BUPA, CGU, Film Victoria and Essendon AFL among others.

“Victoria based clients have been of increasing importance to our business, and with recent wins such as Aviva, our growth into Melbourne is a natural step,” said Nick Bolton, general manager of Viocorp.

“Despite the current economic challenges, we’re continuing to experience high levels of interest in both Viostream and VioTV, so our new presence will enable us to manage existing accounts better and meet with clients regularly face-to-face. We decided it was important to provide local support.”

Dean Lupton, Aviva’s ecommerce manager, explained the companys selection saying online video was a huge growth area and would enable Aviva to communicate with its audiences more personally.

“By taking this step, we will be able to offer a full range of sales and support services for Viostream, Vio TV and production work out of our Melbourne operation, and, in doing so, we can also look to target new business and build the Viocorp team, Bolton continued.

Viocorp is an online video specialist and developers of Viostream and VioTV.