Founded in 1933, api is considered a historical brand for the distribution of petroleum products in Italy and has consolidated its leading position among the main Italian players in the reference market.
2005, the year in which api acquired IP, marked an important milestone in the company’s history. The acquisition signified an important change that allowed api to affirm its leadership position in Italy, increasing to over 4,200 sales points, with a market share of around 10%.
One consequence of this acquisition was the merging of two business realities with different cultures and identities:
∞ api, a brand with a noble past, is small, close and reassuring.
∞ IPis the stronger, more dynamic brand.
For more than 12 months, the merger has been undergoing physical implementation throughout the network as a single new commercial brand, “IP Gruppo api”. This trademark originates from the union of the two existing brands and from the need to give equal value to each one, with the api group ensured the rank of corporate company and IP becoming the commercial brand.
The process of rebranding the entire network will continue throughout 2010 and conclude in 2011. The new IP will be officially presented to the general public in May 2010, for the occasion of the World Cup in South Africa.
这是什么？
在这一步中，您将看到要求您提供解决方案的品牌 Builder 相关信息。他会自我介绍 (当然是作为品牌 :) 您对品牌的了解越深入，您的作品被接受的可能性越大。
重要事项：可能出于保密原因，品牌 Builder 不愿透露自己的身份。此类 Brief 将以匿名方式发布。这种情况下，品牌 Builder 想介绍多少，就介绍多少。
这里有两个例子
如果愿意透露其身份（可见）：
“NMN -No More Nicotine- 是一个承诺能抵消吸烟对皮肤造成的损害的品牌。NMN 通过药房销售，价格定位处于中高档；该品牌主要通过专业人士推荐，没有大量的广告宣传。”
如果品牌不希望透露其身份（匿名）：
“能抵消吸烟对皮肤造成的损害的品牌。其产品通过药房销售，价格定位处于中高档；他们主要通过专业人士推荐，没有大量的广告宣传。”
简而言之：谁是您的客户 (无论是可见还是“匿名” :)
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.
这是什么？
这是品牌 Builder 要求您完成的任务。如果您不了解，那您就彻底没戏了。
例子
“我们想让 Creator 设计一个印刷品广告宣传来增加品牌知名度。将在今春投放到全国媒体杂志上。”
简而言之，这是客户的目标，因此也是您的目标！
The target audience includes all motorists/motorcyclists from 18 to 60 years of age.
这是什么？
品牌 Builder 希望您让他们高兴，并说服他们想到、感觉到或使用您的创作做某些事的人。通常您会读到他们的年龄、性别、社会阶层和行为。您在创作过程始终应把这些信息牢记在心，因为目标受众才是最终接受您作品的人。
例子
“想要戒烟但无法做到的女子。通常是关注自己外表、注意健康的成年人。他们对于自己吸烟感到愧疚，因为他们知道吸烟有害。他们阅读相关书籍。这对他们来说是一个真正的问题，就像：“我的脑袋要某样东西，但我的身体却不听使唤”。他们和我的品牌无关，他们只是在等待值得信赖的“援助之手。”
简而言之：把握他们的想法！
The message that the adverts should manage to communicate is that IP is a great, all-Italian company.
这是什么？
品牌 Builder 想要目标受众从您的创作中，思考 / 感觉 / 有所行动的东西。
以下是一些具体示例：
∞ 人们会想到 / 感觉到的一些事：
- 出现了一个新的品牌（或产品或创意或...）
- 这个品牌比其它的或以前的更好
- 这个品牌值得多花点钱
∞ 人们会做的一些事：
- 开始购买该品牌的产品
- 更经常购买该品牌的产品
- 在零售店里库存更多该品牌的产品
上面这些例子非常具体，而通常 Brief 提案是感性的。那样更好，因为可以带来灵感！
例子
“我们想要鼓励吸烟者使用 NMN，将对他们健康的影响降至最低，让他们继续尝试戒烟（尤其如果他们已经尝试过，但是未成功）。”
简而言之：进入他们的脑袋！
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.
这是什么？
这是实现目标的关键；是支持提案，使其可信的内容。通常是理性的陈述。
例子
“您吸的每一根烟都对您的外表造成损害。最近的一项研究选取了多对一模一样的双胞胎，其中一个吸了一辈子烟，另一个则从未吸过烟。吸烟者的皮肤比不吸烟者的薄四分之一，有些差别甚至多达40%。NMN 含有能阻止皮肤变薄的抗氧化剂，抵消了尼古丁对皮肤的影响。”
简而言之：需要理由吗？就在这里！
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.
这是什么？
这是品牌的个性。对...是个性！
将品牌视为一个人，有自己的个性。了解“客户”的个性对于完成度身定制的工作来说至关重要。所以，请仔细阅读所列的形容词...
例子
“科学、值得信赖、注重结果，实现您目标的‘良师益友’。”
简而言之：将其想象成一个活生生的人物！
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).
这是什么？
列出了目标受众将能够看见您创作成果的地方（或媒介或事物）。这一步中，有时品牌还会告知您该制作的预计投资金额。此信息有助于您决定项目的规模大小。 :)
例子
“此广告活动将于 2009 年春季投放于侧重于生活方式和健康的新西兰妇女杂志上。我们计划投资 500000 美元，可以购买大约 100 张单页。”
简而言之：考虑媒介！
Operational attachments to the brief:
∞ New company communication format with spark and pantones (attachments: Sagomato75X180 – MKCover – STAR);
∞ New "IP e Gruppo Api" Trademark (attachments: Gruppo api_CMYK – IP_3D_sfumato);
∞ Graphic kit for the new "IP e Gruppo Api" Trademark (attachments: Linee Guida GRUPPO api – Linee Guida IP);
∞ FIGC Trademark in jpeg format, together with the copy “IP PARTNER UFFICIALE DELLA NAZIONALE ITALIANA DI CALCIO” and the respective font to be used (attachments: figc_ip);
∞ Printed page with the pay off "L’ENERGIA DELL’ITALIA" (attachments: ENERGIAITALIA_PAYOFF);
Useful and informative attachments:
∞ An example of a reference TV advert to be followed for the creation of the video in regard to format and length (attachments: ferroviestato2wmv);
Together with the creative proposal you should also specify:
∞ any references and images that will have to be purchased by api;
∞ musical references (preferably library and royalty-free music).
The creative proposals should be presented in a format that can be viewed with Windows Media Player on any PC and take possible creative limitations into account, i.e. seeking to use images in the advert that are suitable for all the various TV channels.
The winner of the tender offer will also be requested to adapt the formats of both creative proposals from 5” to 4” and from 10” to 7”.
如果品牌有任何的偏好选择或解决方案必须达到的技术要求，会在这里提供说明。
这部分可能包括：
∞ 指导方针或必须包含的事项（注意事项）
∞ 商业目标
∞ 市场和竞争者概述
∞ 正面和反面样本
取决于 Brief 的不同，您可能会发现一些随附的文件，比如徽标、产品图片，您提交创意时使用的模板，或任何品牌想要与您分享的其他文件。所以，开始创作前先研究一下随附文件。
简而言之：所有需要您知道的其他事项（之前七步中没写的）！
