McCann unveils ‘This is me’ spot for Metro Trains
Metro Trains has launched a new brand campaign that portrays its everyday customers – in this instance an elderly Bulldogs fan – as the life and soul of Melbourne’s transport system.
The campaign, the first brand effort for Metro Trains since it took over from previous operator Connex, was created by McCann Melbourne.
Makes sense, the only people who get seats on trains are oldies.
What’s not to love? It combines two of my favourite things: Melbourne & the mighty Doggies. Beautifuly done.
Kudos to the research team at McCann. They found the only Bulldogs fan in Melbourne thats still got their front teeth. Mind you, with CGI, they could have been digitally added.
Yep, It’s footy season in Melbourne, bring on the replies!
Or should I say, ‘Beautifully done’
Why don’t Metro just run the trains on time. That alone would advertise the service itself.
Typical old person taking up a seat with their bag whilst people are standing! Give up metro. You took over a piece of sh!t thinking you could change the smell!
Could it get any tackier? It’s not Metro’s fault. McCann please do SOMETHING original…..
This ad just annoys me..
A) It’s boring; and
B) It paints the picture that the train service is all lovely with sunshine and rainbows and it’s just not true at all! You catch the train in peak hour times and they’re rediculously crowded, late or cancelled. Catch them during the day and it’s uncomfortable trying not to make eye contact with the junky deros that are on their way to their closest Centrelink. Catch it at night – at your own risk. Catching the train is not fun! And it makes me even more annoyed that Metro would spend all this money advertising and lying about how good their service is, when they should be fixing it!
Now unlike the earlier Nikon Ad, this makes me want to run away from advertising. Very fast. But I understand that sometimes you just have to do what you get from the brief. I concur with Matthew; just run the trains on time and quit harping on about emotional connections to trains.
They left out the bit where she missed her train because she couldn’t work the Myki Machine and then got fined for having a zone 1 when she really needed a zone 1 +2.
for you information this is my nana and yes they are her teeth! and as for you ‘Masterful’ its a bloody add of course they put her bag next to her. ur obviously not smart enough to know whats tv n wats real life.
To me this is yet another example of a marketing department that sits around being creative amongst themselves so the result is a campaign that misses the mark dismally because (A) they don’t bother to get to know their actual customers are and (B) they don’t know the business that they actually work in. What a lost opportunity
@kelly, I really do believe this is your ‘nanna’, (note the extra ‘n’ in the word). because your spelling and grammer is that of a Western Bulldogs fan…
@ Kelly – you hit the nail on the head – this ad IS obviously TV because it’s not believable at all – in REAL LIFE taking the train is often a terrible experience!