This present tender offer is aimed at the creation of two short TV adverts (known as “billboards” in technical jargon), whose primary objective is to increase awareness of the new brand (currently the api IP brand is acknowledged as holding 3rd place in the petroleum market) and secondarily, the official partnership with the FIGC (Italian Football Federation). For years IP has viewed this partnership as strategically importance, and it also provides benefits that can be used to increase consumer's; desire to choose the new brand.
The focus of the communication will be the new IP brand and its Italianness. Italianness is a cardinal value deeply linked to the origins of the two Italian companies (api and IP) and is today expressed in the new "IP Gruppo api" trademark, whose colours are the blue background of IP and the green, white and red on the api group's spark.
The main message that should emerge from all the formats is the brand, through the use of the new IP logo.

The Italianness should emerge through a characteristic look and feel, which can be combined with images and/or musical accompaniment. Here is the detailed information required for the development of the various formats:
Two different adverts are to be created, each with double versions and mutually coherent:
5 SECOND ADVERT
A. Brand TV Advert - this will be centred on the communication of the new IP brand (followed in a second frame by GRUPPO API), animated by graphic effects (e.g. animated/moving balls);
B. Brand and FIGC Partnership TV Advert - this will repeat the look and feel of the previously-mentioned brand TV advert, with the addition of the FIGC logo together with the copy: “IP PARTNER UFFICIALE DELLA NAZIONALE ITALIANA DI CALCIO” (IP OFFICIAL PARTNER OF THE ITALIAN NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM).
10 SECOND ADVERT
A. Brand TV Advert - also here the main aspect will be the centrality and recognition of the new IP brand (followed in a second frame by GRUPPO API). The communication will feature photographic images or graphic effects (e.g. animated/moving balls) or video (by choice);
B. Brand and FIGC Partnership Advert - this will feature the same graphics as the brand TV Advert mentioned previously, with graphic integration of football through associated images, for example: cheering fans; celebration; power; footballs, etc.

The video should highlight the official sponsorship between IP and the Italian Football Federation and show the FIGC logo together with the words: “IP PARTNER UFFICIALE DELLA NAZIONALE ITALIANA DI CALCIO” (IP OFFICIAL PARTNER OF THE ITALIAN NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM).
The creative work in all the proposals, for each format, should be supported by an audio/musical accompaniment. The choice of audio and musical (not vocal) accompaniment should coherently accompany the animated graphics.
In the adverts where space permits, the new IP trademark should be combined with the pay off “L’ENERGIA DELL’ITALIA” (THE ENERGY OF ITALY), which is currently used in the company's institutional campaign. The creative work and graphics kit for this are attached to the brief.

The target audience includes all motorists/motorcyclists from 18 to 60 years of age.

The message that the adverts should manage to communicate is that IP is a great, all-Italian company.

For both subjects:
“IP is a great, all-Italian company” because it unites that which makes Italy great and unique, namely Passion and Energy.

Addition for subject B only:
“The desire to be together”, confirming the partnership that binds the company to the FIGC, to Italy and therefore to the national team that represents it on the field.

Here below is a list of adjectives and values that could best describe the new brand:
  ∞ Italianness: a fundamental value, since, as recent research has shown, both api and IP are “felt” to be Italian companies and it is fundamentally important to preserve this value and adapt it to the changed situation so that it remains a fixed point of the new defined image;
  ∞ Trust and closeness: the reasearch carried out indicated these as pillars on which to base the company-customer relationship and therefore an axis on which to establish and develop the communication of the new brand, with a more direct tone ("I'm close to you", "I understand you", "I offer you what you need");
  ∞ Renewed Tradition: the expression of tradition as a value that has been renewed arises from the need to preserve the historical experience of the two brands (customers of both appear quite attached to the past) and adapt it to the developments of the present time, combining innovation with respect for tradition;
  ∞ Leadership: this is the challenge that the new brand can bring: “being big once more”, as the IP brand managed to be during the 1980s and 1990s, in terms of sponsorships, promotions and communication.

The two adverts can be aired during football breaks (e.g. during the 2010 World Cup) and other types of break, i.e. within any TV schedule and break (e.g. during weather programmes, news, current affairs, soaps and TV films). The adverts can be at the start, during the interval, or at the end of the programme, either in full-screen or as on-screen animation within the programme (a strip across the bottom of the screen).