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1 Year for £20

Campaign
Black Friday
Client
The National
Newsquest Scotland
Discipline
Out-of-home
Print & digital
Deliverables
Bus stop · Underground
Print DPS · App & web display
The National Black Friday advert in a city bus shelter at night

A Black Friday subscription campaign for The National — one bold offer, fronted by the Editor, carried from the bus stop to the front page.

About project

The National's Black Friday campaign offered a full year of the paper for £20, fronted throughout by Editor Laura Webster. The work covers city-centre out-of-home at bus stops and on the underground, the double-page spread that ran in print, and matching display creative for the app and web.

The National Black Friday poster beside an underground escalator
Black Friday display ad on iPad

Project overview

CHALLENGE: Make one subscription price cut through the noise of Black Friday, across formats as different as a bus shelter and a phone screen.

STRATEGY: One bold offer, one consistent headline, fronted throughout by the Editor's own voice rather than a generic sales pitch.

Black Friday display ad on iPhone
Black Friday double-page spread in The National

What I did

EXECUTION: City-centre out-of-home at bus stops and on the underground, a double-page spread in print, and matching display creative for app and web.

APPROACH: From commute to phone screen to the printed page, the same message and the same face carried the offer everywhere readers already were.

The National app icon on a smartphone home screen

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