Betway launches ad campaign with Above+Beyond

(PRESS RELEASE) -- Betway, the global betting site, is launching a new advertising campaign created by Above+Beyond. The work is the second campaign by the agency under the "For the Love of the Game" platform, which breaks with category conventions and takes a lead from the golden age of cinema to connect with audience culture and behavior.

The campaign, which broke on 6 August, features 30-second TV commercials, as well as online video adverts in multiple time lengths, digital and press ads.

Above+Beyond has infused the campaign with a distinct tone of voice that reflects the "For the Love of the Game" positioning by emphasizing that when the game's on, especially if you have money on it, then everything else is just a distraction.

The campaign, which features two main storylines, Temple and Lair, was produced using Above+Beyond's Modular approach. With Modular, multiple storyline variants are tightly plotted and shot to create a highly flexible, rapidly deployable toolkit that can be combined to create a large number of distinct narratives and different communication needs throughout a campaign's lifecycle.

The campaign was delivered by some of the leading talent in the film-making world. Hanna Maria Heidrich, the director of the ads, is one of the hottest directors breaking into the U.K., following her work on acclaimed campaigns for Trivago and Stella Artois.

Tim Maurice-Jones, the director of photography, was Guy Ritchie's DOP on films including Sherlock Holmes and Snatch, as well as Kick-Ass 2 and The Woman In Black.

Marketa Korinkova, the set designer on Casino Royale and The Chronicles of Narnia, among others, used techniques honed on Hollywood sets to create the Temple and Lair interiors in the Betway films.

Continuing the golden age of Hollywood theme, the adverts' special effects were largely shot "in camera" rather than relying on computer graphics to give scale and physicality to the action.

Anthony Werkman, Marketing and Operations Director at Betway, said, "After a very successful campaign with 'For the Love of the Game,' it's great to be continuing our work with Above+Beyond, and our latest ad is very exciting.

"We've brought in an extremely talented and very select group of individuals to work on this latest campaign, and we're delighted with the outcome."

David Billing, the executive creative director at Above+Beyond, said, "For this second year of 'For The Love Of The Game,' it really feels like the dream team has come together. We were hugely lucky to happen on Hanna Maria just as she's landing some big projects in the U.K. And we were blessed with the quality of the team around her. We've had another year to live with the characters and explore the cinematic worlds they can inhabit, and it feels like it's paid off with the most visually ambitious, funny and engaging campaign we've created for Betway yet."