

SECTOR:
BROADBAND
YEAR:
2021
ROLE:
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
THE BRIEF
the brief.
Broadband so fast it blew the Minions out of the media.Sky needed to drive awareness and acquisition for its fastest broadband products in a category where everyone claims speed. So instead of saying ‘fast’, we made speed visible. Using the Minions’ natural chaos and physical comedy, the campaign turned broadband into a force, blasting characters out of laptops, cracking screens, tearing through billboards, hijacking nearby ads and turning everyday media spaces into moments of slapstick disruption. The result was a campaign system that stretched from TV and radio to OOH, DOOH, digital, social and experiential, making a functional speed claim feel playful, famous and unmistakably Sky.
AV
THE IDEA
the idea.
The Ultrafast Feeling: if the broadband was that fast, what would it do to the world around it? The answer became the campaign system. Rather than claiming speed, we made it visible: a physical force that disrupted every media format it touched. The creative territory had to scale from a 30-second TV spot to a bus stop, a billboard, a shopping centre escalator and a social feed, while feeling like the same idea in every execution. That’s not adaptation. That’s a system.
OOH
The campaign became most distinctive when it escaped the screen. The brief to media partners was simple: find us placements where the idea could do something unexpected. Special builds, adjacent panels and high-footfall sites that could be turned into moments rather than just media. The adjacent billboard hijack, a Sky Sports poster and a Sky Broadband poster side by side with the Minion tumbling between them, wasn’t a media buy. It was a creative decision that made the placement part of the idea.




EXPERIENTIAL
At Westfield London, the campaign took over the physical space. The speed kiosk was the clearest expression of the whole campaign in a single interaction: stand in front of it, get hit by the blast, then see your own reaction captured and played back. The idea didn’t need explaining. It just needed experiencing. Directing the physical build alongside the broadcast campaign required holding the same creative intent across entirely different production disciplines simultaneously.




DIGITAL
Digital required a different creative approach, built for attention in the smallest formats. Where TV and OOH could rely on scale and spectacle, digital needed to work in a fraction of a second. A bespoke visual language was developed that communicated the Gigafast speed message before the thumb moved on.
SOCIAL
THE IMPACT
Gold & Bronze
Clear Channel Awards
Shortlisted
The Drum Awards — OOH 2022
Shortlisted
Kinsale Sharks 2022

