World Cup

To ensure the 2018 World Cup delivered a significant impact on like-for-like sales for pub and brewing brand, Greene King.

As part of this, the business wanted to dominate share-of-voice in earned media throughout the tournament.

We recognised that earned media coverage would hinge on an agile newsjacking approach.  At this stage, no one thought England would get through the group stages but we were braced for the best and, as the team progressed through the knockout rounds, we moved to holding daily brainstorms, seizing every opportunity the tournament presented.

This saw us supplying goal reactions to key media, changing the name of Kane’s local from the Golden Fleece to the Golden Boot, and renaming the Southern Cross, near the waistcoat-wonder’s place of birth, to the Southgate Cross.