HBO Launches Latin American Campaign

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HBO has launched a new campaign in Latin America with the tagline “Si no fuera por HBO, no escaparíamos de la rutina (If it weren’t for HBO, we would not escape from routine). The campaign, which consists of five (three of which can be viewed here, here and here) spots, shows a series of individuals having a bad day (a visit from auditors, a difficult legal case, a traffic ticket) but when they think of HBO, they realize life isn’t so bad and there’s always a way to get out of the routine.

The background music for the campaign is the David Bowie song “Heroes” which gets all aspirational. The spots are beautifully shot and, while HBO is certainly not going to solve all life’s problems, the campaign does a nice job making a connection between powerful things that happen on the screen and powerful things that can happen in life.

The campaign was created by which worked with Trebejos Films. Future efforts along this vein are planned for the remainder of 2005 and into 2006.

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