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Experian Spreads Positivity Through Storytelling

The new brand platform 'Better Your Story' is by BBH

By Creative Salon

Experian is encouraging customers to rewrite their financial future with the launch of an inspiring new brand platform: 'Better your Story'. Created in partnership with creative agency BBH, the platform injects a much-needed dose of positivity and actionable hope into the financial category.

The whole brand, from tone of voice to visuals, has had an overhaul to drive awareness and consideration of the Experian credit score, and demonstrate tangibly how Experian empowers users to make better financial decisions, ultimately leading to better financial outcomes that help them achieve their goals and aspirations.

The 'Better Your Story' platform is launched with a distinctive and high-impact creative approach, centring on well-known nursery rhymes and fairytales to underscore the universal need for a helping hand.

The hero 60-second film, radio and subsequent three Out-of-Home (OOH) executions highlight iconic stories where a small intervention from Experian could have fundamentally changed the ending. The launch campaign’s TV spot focuses on the woman who lives in a shoe, dramatically reframing her classic story to show how Experian could have guided her toward a better mortgage outcome and, ultimately, a better home to fit her growing family.

This ambitious vision was realised by director Tom Noakes through Business Club. The production featured the juxtaposition of the fictional and the modern, including two life-size shoe set builds and detailed, illustrated storybooks crafted with Curious Productions.

The music was created for the campaign with composer Tom Caruana from Wake The Town and rap artist and musician Meduulla, who voices the ad and brings a modern world feel to the traditional rhyme.

Sal Miller, Chief Marketing Officer at Experian Consumer Services, said: "Better Your Story is more than a campaign – it’s our commitment to helping people take control of their financial future. We know that life doesn’t always go to plan, but with the right tools and guidance, everyone has the power to change their narrative. This platform brings that promise to life in a way that’s bold, relatable, and full of optimism."

BBH ECD, Felipe Serradourada Guimaraes added: “Once upon a time BBH made a cracking modern day fairytale to tell the world about credit scores. And the ad world lived happily ever after. The end.”

The campaign will be running across TV, cinema, VOD, OOH, radio, digital and social for an initial three-month burst with Media handled by PHD.

Credits:

Campaign title: Experian Better Your Story

Advertising agency: BBH London

Client Creds:

CMO - Sal Miller

Head of Brand & Campaigns - Jack Jones

Senior Campaign Manager - Brea Thibobeau

CCO: Alex Grieve

Executive Creative Director: Felipe Guimaraes

Creative Directors: Philip Holbrook, Stu Royall

Creatives: Jack Gravatt, Till Dittmers

Design Director: Anthony Jones

Designers: Sophie Harper, Lucy Russell-Bates

Planner/s: Will Hawkins, Alexi Hall

Business Lead: Sarah Rodrigues

Account Director: Sammy Mendel

Account Manager: Ellise Logan

Account Executive: Ruairi Burke

Senior Agency Producer: Kreepa Naisbitt

Art Producer: Amy Grady

Media agency: PHD, Jellyfish

Production Company: Business Club

Director: Tom Noakes

Managing Director: Tom Berendsen

Executive Producer: Jason Lovelock

Production Manager: Katie Keith

DOP: James L Brown

Production Designer: Mikey Hollywood

1st Assistant Director: Jim Cole

Costume Designer: Sergei Yordanov

Service Production Company: B2Y

Line Producer: Ivan Ivanov

Editor: Peter Sciberras

Edit House: Trim

Edit Producer: Tatyana Alexandra

VFX Stray

Creative Director: Carl Norton

CG Supervisor: Nick Slade

2D Lead: Luigi Russo

Compositors: Giacomo Verri, Rebecca Clay, Evie Hammond-Tse

CG: Finlay Crowther, Charlie Bayliss, Jack Enever, Tatjana Ljubimtseva

DMP: Yigit Sanalan, Andy Wheater

EP: Bethaney Phillips

VFX Producer: Chloe Kerr

Colourist: Simon Bourne & Dominic Phipps at Company 3

Sound studio: King Lear

Sound engineer: Ed Downham

Music composer: Tom Caruana

Music supervisor: Tom Stanford

Music company: Wake The Town

Photographer: Dan Humphreys

OOH production company: Curious Productions

OOH illustrator: Kate Forrester

Studio Manager: Toni Polain

Artworker: Nigel Pullum

Artworker: Dave Walsh

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