“In Crazy We Believe”: Toyota celebrates 28-year support of Emirates Team New Zealand in latest campaign via Saatchi & Saatchi
Saatchi & Saatchi has created a new campaign “In Crazy We Believe” to celebrate Toyota’s enduring support of Emirates Team New Zealand and their unwavering belief in the team. Eight pieces of content, created in partnership with Assembly and narrated by Emirates Team New Zealand CEO, Grant Dalton, will tell the story of the team’s epic journey of innovation, invention and the challenges they’ve overcome along the way.
From the first ‘plastic fantastic’ boats of 1987 sailing against Dennis Connor to the ‘cyclor’ powered AC50 catamaran of 2017, Emirates Team New Zealand has always found a way to innovate no matter how crazy the idea may have seemed to rival teams, the yachting fraternity or the public.
Says Corey Chalmers, Saatchi & Saatchi ECD: “New Zealanders are often referred to around the world as ‘those crazy Kiwis.’ It’s a sentiment that definitely applies to our America’s Cup teams throughout the years, with a proud history of innovation, daring experimentation, colossal highs and devastating lows. It’s all part of how we play, hence the platform idea ‘In Crazy We Believe’.”
Watch the first of the eight pieces of content here
“The animation style was devised with Assembly to show Emirates Team New Zealand’s creativity in progress, in a typically hands-on and fast-paced way. We also knew we would be using footage of various ages and quality so we needed to tell the stories in a fresh, unexpected manner.”
“Grant Dalton’s voice was the obvious choice to narrate each story – he’s as Kiwi as they come, a revered leader for Emirates Team New Zealand, and pretty straight up in the recording booth too!”
Says Toyota New Zealand’s General Manager of Marketing, Andrew Davis: “Our long-term support for Emirates Team New Zealand really comes down to the team’s willingness to try anything to make the boat go faster. We draw on that innovative and sometimes crazy Kiwi spirit and see strong parallels with Toyota’s own determination to make even better mobility solutions. The challenge for the Saatchi & Saatchi team was to be able to celebrate the longevity of our partnership with Emirates Team New Zealand and they have brought this to life perfectly. It’s great to be able to share some of the highlights of the incredible journey through this campaign.”
The campaign will run over the next year across TV, Digital Video, Social and Cinema.
Client: Toyota New Zealand
Creative Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand
Media Agency: Starcom
Production: Assembly Ltd
Audio: Franklin Road
Music Composition: Mahuia Bridgman-Cooper
4 Comments
I’m a sailing fan and a sailor and I drive a hilux. This just looks like you’re not really sponsoring the America’s Cup at all.
It’s cheap, idealess and doesn’t excite me about the cup. Have you noticed that the actual sport is amazing to watch. If you can’t be bothered doing anything good or you’re too cheap just run the tape of some racing. Put the boring VO on that at least I’d have something exciting to watch.
What on earth do you mean it’s cheap and idealess. They got a great stop motion styled 3D animation litterally sailing through and talking about the legacy of New Zealand in the Americas cup, its get me excited for whatever crazy shit we come up this time.
I agree that real action would be better on this. I’m all for technique, but the story here has actual real good pictures. The line is bung too.
I think the ad is great and Grants voice is perfect (he has a future in Kiwi voiceovers!) but the whole campaign ends with a thud on ‘In crazy we believe”. I know it’s a hybrid of ‘Crazy thinking’ and Toyota’s ‘Believe’ but it’s logically a clanger. You have to to too much work to qualify the word ‘crazy’ in this context. No one believes in crazy, they believe in what succeeds, potential or talent, hence the proliferation of incredibly talented and knowledgeable designers and developers in Toyota and Emirates Team New Zealand. Crazy might be an unoffensive word, but it’s on a par with ‘dumb’ or ‘stupid’. Wild or unpredictable, ‘far fetched’, ‘out there’ or ‘long shot’, are far more accurate communicators for backing (believing in) something detractors might call illogical, different or too innovative to try.