MUSE Platinum

2024

Stop late payments drowning small businesses

Entrant Company

Xero

Category

Strategic Program - Comm / Marketing Campaign

Client's Name

Xero

Country / Region

United Kingdom

Late payments from big businesses to small businesses are crippling their cash flow and drowning them in debt. In 2023 the cost of late payments to small businesses was £1.2bn.

At Xero we’re fighting for fairer practice, legislation and cultural change, which kicked off with an event at Westminster for small businesses, Accountants, officials from No. 10, the Treasury, and HMRC.

We’re campaigning to:
Stop late payments drowning small businesses

Using Generative AI, we created simple, visual, OOH and social ads to support the campaign and bring the biggest threats to small businesses into sharp focus - generating awareness with voters and putting pressure on political parties to make it an election priority.

As well as some valued press coverage in national newspapers, the campaign resonated on social media and around Westminster - with Shadow Small Business Minister Rushanara Ali and Small Business Minister Kevin Hollinrake both raising the issues raised by our campaign in Parliament.

Credits

Hub Creative Director
Jez Cripps
Senior Copywriter
Jai Harji
Senior Designer
Steph Kirkham
Hub Producer
Jamie Pond
Partner Community Manager
Raquel Gómez Frías
Communications Director
Adam Keal
Global Hub GM
Fraser Clark
Hub Production Director
Clare Ralston
More Platinum Winners
Website
2024
MUSE Advertising Awards - Decathlon
Decathlon

Entrant Company

Work & Co

Category

Website - Sports

Country / Region

United States

Branded Content
2024
MUSE Advertising Awards - Hyundai - Pod Meets World Roadtrip to IHRMF

Entrant Company

iHeartmedia

Category

Branded Content - Auto & Auto Services

Country / Region

United States

Experiential & Immersive
2024
MUSE Advertising Awards - AMD Advancing AI

Entrant Company

Sparks

Category

Experiential & Immersive - Hologram / Projection (NEW)

Country / Region

United States

Video
2024
MUSE Advertising Awards - Accelerate [Efficiency] Opportunity
Embraer Commercial Aviation

Entrant Company

Gravity Global

Category

Video - Business to Business

Country / Region

United Kingdom