Who we are.
- Toby Harrison
- Boris Garelja
- Andrew Hankin
Creating conditions for growth
“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves”
Marcel Proust
The Makeweather story
Most businesses have a strategy.
Most agencies have a creative response to that strategy.
Neither of those things reliably moves the people whose behaviour actually determines commercial outcomes.
Makeweather finds the human reason a brand or business isn't growing, then builds the conditions required to change things.
What we do
We start with the friction. Identifying the specific human behaviour that's blocking the commercial result.
Once that's visible, we build the creative and strategic conditions that make it easier for people to move.
Not just campaigns. Not just communications. The full set of conditions required to shift behaviour and prove it has shifted.
How we work
We are small by design.
Every client works directly with the founders.
No layers, no learning on your dollar.
No senior team on the pitch and juniors on the job.
We are ego-free(ish) collaborators between each other, clients and partner teams
The types of weather we've made
Share a Coke
We turned a product into a social act.
Share a Coke sold more than 250
million named bottles in Australia in a
single summer.
The campaign has been deployed in
over 120 countries, making it
Coca-Cola's most successful
promotional mechanism ever.
KFC Australia
We diagnosed a shame-based friction
that was suppressing public participation
in the brand, and then gave Australia
the emotional permission to participate.
This delivered $3.20 returned for every $1
invested and over $1 billion in compound
revenue growth over five years.
And KFC overtook McDonald's as
favourite restaurant brand.
La Roche Posay x BMS
We created a growing melanoma for
Sculpture by the Sea that continued to
evolve over the two week show to
demonstrate the effects of sun exposure on
our skin. By engaging thousands of people
within the relevant context, we sparked a
national conversation, inspiring thousands
of Australians to get a skin check.
White Lion
We called 15,391 payphones across
Australia all at once, knowing they'd
be more difficult to ignore than the
46,000 homeless youth also out on the
street. Our tiny $3,770 investment
saw one phone message raise
$76,000 for Whitelion.
Soothers
We turned the sore throat category on its
head, ditching the seasonal cold sufferers
trope and positioning Soothers as just the
thing for soothing everyday sore throats.
Our category-busting campaign saw
Soothers fight back from a devastating
31% loss in distribution and threat of being
delisted by Coles to achieve 20% growth.
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