Ad Nut
Mar 25, 2025

Bankwest’s new brand platform is playful, relatable, offbeat

Yet another zany, memorable campaign by creative studio Bear Meets Eagle on Fire.

When Western Australian digital bank Bankwest needed to launch a new brand platform it turned to creative studio Bear Meets Eagle on Fire. True to its zany name, the agency conceptualised an integrated campaign called ‘Just Enough Bank', centred around the idea that the time one takes to bank should be proportionate with one’s other life tasks.

Now, this may not be sounding too novel so far. But this is where Ad Nut thinks the power of excellent copy and bang-on execution can have incredible impact. In the three films released by the bank, each features a person-next-door character who simply wants to do the weird things they love.

Ad Nut absolutely endorses that humans should spend the time they have not banked taking big bites from a whole round of brie, dwelling on that thing they said to a co-worker at that party, hating on Debbie, who keeps talking over them in the chat group, and attempting to speak to birds. The deadpan tone is made all the more hilarious with the voiceover’s AI inflexions.



The campaign also includes DOOH visuals that will roll out nationally over the coming weeks. These incorporate a new, colourful graphic identity for Bankwest that Ad Nut finds refreshing for a bank. Interestingly, instead of targeting a millennial or Gen Z audience the way most digital banks do, the new brand platform is actually aimed at a more grownup audience, or what Bankwest calls “the adult in the household who looks after the family banking”.

The first iteration of the campaign will run across cinema, broadcast, online video, OOH, digital and social.

Well, for a 130-year-old bank, Ad Nut tips Ad Nut’s hat for the brand having the pluck to be a little bit weird.


 

CREDITS

Client: Bankwest
Creative Agency: Bear Meets Eagle On Fire
Media Agency: EssenceMediacom
Production Company: 3&7
Director: Steve Ayson
Producer: Allison Lockwood
Director of Photography: Adam Stone
Production Designer: Ruby Matthews
Post Production: ARC
Editor: Peter Sciberras
2nd Editor: Harrison Carr
Colour: Trish Cahill
Online: Eugene Richards
Sound House: Rumble Studios
Lead Sound Designer: Tone Aston
Sound Designer: Daniel William
Sound EP: Michael Gie
Music Supervision: Trailer Media
Music Supervisor: Anton Trailer
 
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Source:
Campaign Asia

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