Carlsberg has sponsored Liverpool FC for 30 years this season, making the partnership the longest-running within the Premier League. To mark the event, the Danish beer model has launched a brand new multi-channel marketing campaign, dubbed Endlessly Followers.
By The Community took the partnership between Carlsberg and Liverpool FC and introduced it to life. The brand new marketing campaign reveals a “three-decade lengthy visible pub crawl down reminiscence lane by way of legendary moments, frozen in time,” expressed Carlsberg.
The thought was to faucet right into a behavior doubtless acquainted to many soccer followers: “cheering in your membership with one hand, whereas defending your beer with the opposite”.
A number of founding companions of The Community collaborated on Endlessly Followers, together with Danish company Value Your Whereas, SMALL from New York, London-based The Council, and Drive Studios, which is predicated throughout Copenhagen, Berlin, and Oslo. Endlessly Followers, which is working throughout 26 nations worldwide, goals to “encourage pleasure and fervour amongst Liverpool FC followers the world over”, based on Carlsberg.
The marketing campaign launches alongside six limited-edition Legends cans designed by Taxi Studio, every of which depicts a “legendary Liverpool FC fan favorite from the previous three a long time”: Ian Rush, John Barnes, Sami Hyypiä, Robbie Fowler, Jamie Carragher, and Luis Garcia.
Louise Bach, head of world sponsorships at Carlsberg says that the marketing campaign highlights “what nice partnerships actually are” by wanting again on the model’s historical past with LFC. These partnerships are delineated by “spotlighting moments from the final 30 years – some large, some small, some unforgettable; and sharing it by way of legends current and previous, and the followers”.
Alongside the movie and limited-edition can designs, varied different marketing campaign actions will likely be launching all through the season together with mini-documentaries “connecting Legends and followers over a beer” and “fan-centric activations that pay tribute to long-time loyal followers”.
Credit:
Inventive: The Community (Value Your Whereas, The Council, SMALL, Drive)
Hero movie director: Tore Frandsen
Can designs: Taxi Studios, Everland
Mini docs: Drive Studios
Composer: Lasse Martinussen