{"id":21552,"date":"2012-05-26T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/virgin-atlantic-puts-the-great-in-great-britain-3\/"},"modified":"2012-05-26T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T10:40:00","slug":"virgin-atlantic-puts-the-great-in-great-britain-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2012\/05\/virgin-atlantic-puts-the-great-in-great-britain-3\/","title":{"rendered":"VIRGIN ATLANTIC PUTS THE GREAT IN GREAT BRITAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div lang=\"EN-GB\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-gB_fFX9vdew\/T8CzIbwDaHI\/AAAAAAAAVH0\/4Ma2F3pYI_c\/s1600\/image002-732963.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5746790081994385522\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-gB_fFX9vdew\/T8CzIbwDaHI\/AAAAAAAAVH0\/4Ma2F3pYI_c\/s320\/image002-732963.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>Virgin Atlantic and Visit Britain launch a jointly funded marketing campaign, Great Britain by Virgin Atlantic, marking the beginning of a year-long partnership aimed at inspiring more Australians to visit Britain in 2012 and 2013. <\/p>\n<p>The $1million partnership uses elements of Visit Britain&#8217;s current &#8216;This is Great Britain&#8217; branding and Virgin Atlantic&#8217;s &#8216;London by Virgin Atlantic&#8217; creative to deliver a bespoke multi-platform, integrated marketing campaign. Creative was developed by Virgin Atlantic&#8217;s creative agency RKYR London and GPYR Sydney, with media planning and buying by OMD Sydney.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgin-atlantic.com\/au\/en\/index.html\">Virgin Atlantic<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitbritain.org\/mediaroom\/pressreleases\/greathunt.aspx\">Visit Britain<\/a> have combined marketing resources to increase the share of voice of both brands in a very competitive environment. Leveraging their strengths both have aimed at creating a campaign that communicates the multiple attractions of the destination in a uniquely Virgin way.<\/p>\n<p>Margy Vary, Marketing manager of Virgin Atlantic says; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Union Jack flag is one of the most recognisable brand symbols in the world. To highlight all that&#8217;s great about Britain, we built a uniquely intriguing flag collage from multiple images of British destinations and icons. <\/p>\n<p>We added the Virgin wit and flair for cut-through, and the crew girl who symbolises the sparkling premium service that we are famous for. <\/p><\/div>\n<div>Finally, we seamlessly integrated Visit Britain&#8217;s core brand elements and logos to leverage the awareness they have already built in this market with the &#8216;Great&#8217; branding campaign&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Capturing Australians at the research stage of their travel plans, the Great Britain by Virgin Atlantic campaign is focused around a two phase strategy;<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         Driving awareness and interest in the destination<br \/>\u00b7         <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgin-atlantic.com\/au\/en\/ideas-lowestfares\/london-lowest-fares.html\">Closing the sale with great offers on Virgin Atlantic<\/a>, <\/p>\n<p> The campaign will feature;<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7         Online primarily with Yahoo!7, SMH and Ninemsn travel sections<br \/>\u00b7         Weekend travel sections of all major metropolitan newspapers<br \/>\u00b7         Radio live reads <br \/>\u00b7         Social media presence on Facebook<br \/>\u00b7         Travel trade media<\/p>\n<p>With the Australian dollar at an all-time high against the British pound, Virgin Atlantic saw significant opportunities in the Australian market to grow leisure traffic to Britain. 2012 is a landmark year for Britain and Visit Britain are the perfect partner to help Virgin Atlantic capitalise on the increased awareness and attention that will be drawn to this exciting destination.  <\/p>\n<p>To mark the launch of the partnership Virgin Atlantic launched the joint creative alongside competitive sale fare to London, flying economy from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgin-atlantic.com\/au\/en\/ideas-lowestfares\/london-lowest-fares.html\">$1507<\/a> including taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Through this collaboration, the Great Britain by Virgin Atlantic campaign communicates both organisations&#8217; commitment of inspiring Australian travellers to visit Britain not just in 2012 but beyond into 2013.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Atlantic and Visit Britain launch a jointly funded marketing campaign, Great Britain by Virgin Atlantic, marking the beginning of a year-long partnership aimed at inspiring more Australians to visit Britain in 2012 and 2013. The $1million partnership uses elements of Visit Britain&#8217;s current &#8216;This is Great Britain&#8217; branding and Virgin Atlantic&#8217;s &#8216;London by Virgin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virgin-brands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}