'It's a Smart Good Life' in Musical Annie-Inspired Spot for LG

Every innovation of LG has the power to change life for the better. That belief is the basis of LG’s message 'Life’s Good', and the brand’s motivation to kick off a pan-European brand campaign at a time when the good parts of life are returning. After an international pitch against major agencies from the UK and France in March 2021, Serviceplan Hamburg has unveiled a new pan-European brand campaign for LG European Marketing, LG Deutschland GmbH, LG UK, and LG France. Kicking off in the UK, France and Germany, the campaign will run from June until December 2021.

Titled 'The Smart Good Life', the campaign features TVCs in different lengths as well as digital and social media formats, produced by Tony Petersen Film GmbH and directed by Bastian Glaessner. The hero family starring in the campaign showcases the surprising and positive changes that consumers experience with LG’s innovations, by performing a completely new version of 'It’s a Hard-Knock Life' reworked with the tag line 'It’s a Smart Good Life'. After months of lockdowns all over Europe, it’s finally time to celebrate the good life again, with the positivity and lightheartedness that originates in the LG brand claim 'Life’s Good'.

The campaign features a specially recorded version of ‘It’s a Hard-Knock Life’, the iconic theme tune from 1976 musical ‘Annie’.  It’s designed to appeal to technology enthusiasts and smart home users, as well as aesthetic design lovers, while showcasing the LG brand’s ability to innovate the lives of customers via differentiated technology, such as OLED evo TV, InstaView refrigerators, TurboWash washing machines with Energy A, Gram laptops and TONE Free earbuds with noise cancelling.

This Europe-wide co-operation of experts from within the Serviceplan Group was able to deliver a multi-platform campaign that works in all major European markets according to: local language, cultural nuances, differences in brand perception, product emphasis, media and performance planning. The main objective of this new campaign is to strengthen the LG brand identity in the UK, Germany and France, where it will air on all major TV stations and streaming & VOD platforms such as RTL, VOX, Nitro, N-TV, Super RTL ZDF Welt Tele5 ARD RTL2 Sport1 DMAX, HGTV Sky DAZN, ALL4, TF1, France TV, M6, and digital platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Spotify etc. The campaign also features radio ads which will debut on Spotify and UK radio stations this month, as well as a social media element featuring digital banners, social media ads, and a website designed by LG.

Marina Clowes, head of marketing, LG UK, commented: “We are a company that changes lives and makes life good. We look into your life to see how we can add value and make it smarter, so your time becomes more available to do the things you love. Our technology starts from your imagination, and the capability and potential of our products only come to fruition once they become an essential and integrated part of your daily life. Making your life better today than it was yesterday is what motivates LG and what we consider to be true innovation.”

“The Smart Good Life brand campaign offers an exciting opportunity for LG to position and explain its brand heritage to the local UK market. It’s great to convey the LG story to the UK audience via a positive, universal message.

“In order to showcase our philosophy, we worked closely with Serviceplan to develop a European campaign including touchpoints on TV and online. With our innovative LG products and functionalities as the subject matter, we wanted to portray how our technology can enhance our customers’ daily lives and help our customers to experience it via our creative campaign activities.”

Florian Klietz, managing partner, Serviceplan Hamburg, is happy to finally see this idea literally come to life: “Right from the beginning, the whole team had the feeling that this brief was a chance to make a bigger statement connected to the innovative products of LG. Optimism is what guided everyone of Serviceplan and within the LG team. That positivity I can see in every frame and hear in every line!”