Bupa, the leading international health care company, has appointed Brando to deliver a consumer PR programme for its UK health business. Brando was awarded the account after a competitive pitch and will be developing a strong brand personality for Bupa that celebrates its wellness and healthcare credentials. Sue Moore, marketing and customer development director, Bupa UK membership, said: "We are delighted to welcome Brando on board. We were impressed with their strategic approach and knew straight away that their creative campaign was right for us." The Bupa account will be headed up by Brando Managing Director, Mandy Sharp. Brando will look to implement a mix of media relations, digital and social media activity over the next six months. Brando’s Mandy Sharp said: "This is a great win for the agency and a fantastic way to start the year. We’re looking forward to delivering a campaign with a strong digital element alongside creative news generation and social media. It’s great to be able to use Brando’s unique combination of skills and experience to bring such an established and respected brand to life."

EA engaged Brando to launch the hotly anticipated Left 4 Dead 2 zombie survival game in November 2009. Brando was tasked with targeting a youth gamer audience, but with the added zombie/horror fan-base thrown into the gruesome mix! We decided to tease the audience by preparing them for the inevitable outbreak of L4D2 zombie flu with a spoof webcast instructional film in survival techniques, hosted a subsequent press experience to train journalists in zombie combat and turn a famous London boozer into the Severed Arms pub, where zombies ran the pub for the weekend of game launch, with the help of Hollyoaks’ gorgeous Jennifer Metcalfe as the ‘L4D2 infected’ barmaid. The viral achieved over 150,000 views to date, and the campaign resulted in an AVE of over £900,000, PR value of £2.7m, social media outreach of 45m per month and an ROI of 10:1…and a ‘dead happy’ client!

Brando were briefed to develop an engaging, newsworthy, Xmas experience for Gatwick passengers. We created the Gatwick Factor – a karaoke competition…hosted in a snow globe complete with fake snow and Christmas trees! We launched three days after the X Factor TV final and negotiated runner’s up, Stacie and Olly to make it their first ever public gig and open the event. Santa came early for Gatwick as the event was covered by London Tonight, BBC, Channel Five News and most major print, radio and digital media. The campaign results were outstanding; a PR value of nearly 3m and an ROI of 20:1 - which meant everyone could have a very Merry Christmas!