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Four confident celebrities front the latest multimillion-pound Virgin Atlantic campaign to promote the airline's Upper Class service.
The campaign, through Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe/Y&R, aims to position the airline's Upper Class facilities as first-class service at the cost of a business class ticket. It also builds on previous campaigns that have aimed to establish Virgin Atlantic as a stylish and luxurious way to travel.
The campaign focuses on the improved product benefits of the Upper Class service, and the four celebrities are intended to personify the stylish and confident ideal of the Virgin Atlantic brand.
The campaign comprises four 40-second executions where each celebrity talks to the camera from Virgin Atlantic's new flying bed, one of the Upper Class facilities.
In the first spot, Malcolm MacLaren enthuses about the onboard massage and flying on the upper deck, saying it makes him feel "closer to God". Marianne Faithful fronts the next spot, speaking of her hedonistic lifestyle of limousines, bars on planes and top-quality food, while pointing out that she can only get all these things at once on Virgin Atlantic.
In a third spot, Simon Callow delivers a series of timeless quotes that make subtle ...