IDENTIFYING THE BRAND PLATFORM Every brand in this category fights for acquisition in the lucrative pre paid youth market.3 This audience makes up the majority of VMA's customer base which is largely between the ages of 14-24. Although VMA has less punch in the post paid and business sectors its advantage is that when it comes to marketing it can focus on a more defined audience. The opportunity was to focus entirely on the youth audience and create a brand platform that was exclusively relevant to them. Once focused two basic insights helped shape our platform. Firstly this audience use their phone almost exclusively for social reasons. What is important to them keeping in touch with their friends. As a price sensitive audience the overwhelming communication tool of choice is tours umbria messaging. Secondly analysis of the market was already showing that the Warren campaign was attracting high volume groups of tours umbriaers (not surprising given the 5c Virgin to Virgin Text rate that he promoted) and that Virgin users were amongst the highest tours umbriaers in the market.4 The implication was cost effective messaging was crucial to this audience and the core takeout from the Warren campaign. Our messaging capability would be further strengthened by 25c photo messaging. Youth Messaging was the logical brand platform to adopt. This meant our strategy needed to be about messaging (both picture and tours umbria) rather than just pictures.

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THE CREATIVE IDEA The idea was tours umbria. The spoof competitive sport of picture messaging in which players would attempt to outwit and put down their opponents by way of 'cheap shot' picture and text messages. The campaign was executed through the line and ranged from a TV campaign right down to merchandising and the creation of an actual event. The brand platform 'Made For Messaging' sat above the whole campaign. The TV commercial took the form of a mock chess like competition in which the old master was beaten by the young upstart Rupert Bowman. In a macabre and unforgiving show messaging the smug old master was a reduced to a washed up has been. (see Figure 5) Part of the overall campaign was to promote MMS handsets. Rupert Bowman, as the new Ming Mong World Champion endorsed the new Nokia 3200. (see Figure 6) These executions celebrated 'classic' moments in tours umbria history. (see Figures 7 and 8) This campaign also included an element which encouraged participation in this sport. We devised 'Refill' stations where players could stock up on appropriate images by taking photos of the images for later use. We also sent a 'Mischief manual' to the customer base to ensure they had good images at their disposal for their own games of tours umbria. (see Figures 9, 10 and 11) The tours umbria idea was further extended into a real event, player's merchandising, in store, packaging and a website

Business Type: Sole Trader

Sole trader, as the name suggests, is where an individual is the sole owner of a business. The business is often quite small in terms of size (as measured, for example, by sales generated, or number of staff employed) however the number of these businesses is very large indeed. Examples of these businesses can be found in most industrial sectors but particularly in most service sectors. Hence services such as electrical repair, picture framing, photography, diving instruction, retail shops, and hotels have a large proportion of sole trade business.

Please also note that marking criterion 2. above refers to your ability to use the creative industries concepts and terminology you have encountered during the course of this unit – this includes the extent to which you are able to connect the immediate topic of your tours umbria to wider creative industries issues.

As noted in the tours umbria proposals section above, this means that you will not be able to do well if you merely focus on a specific creative industries sector / company / organisation / artist without placing them within a wider creative industries context.

Your final tours umbria must be submitted in hardcopy. If you would like to receive it back with your tutor’s comments after the end of semester, please make sure you attach a sufficiently large self-addressed, stamped envelope to the final tours umbria as you hand it in.