Gymshark tasked Ultra to develop their 2022 brand strategy, narrative and global campaign.

United We Sweat

When the world wants to pull us apart, we pull together.

Gymshark is built by the fitness and conditioning community. But this is a brand that has been unfairly associated with a superficial image of fitness. To many, that is intimidating and we were asked to shift the perception to better reflect their inclusive beliefs and unify their brand point of view. 

United We Sweat – a brand narrative that champions how diversity and unity through fitness and sport enables us to overcome the bullshit the world throws at us. Moving away from beautiful bodies and bulging biceps, by showing how fitness connects us all; no matter how different we are, or what we face.

We were tasked with creating the brand anthem and global campaign that featured protagonists from a spectrum of sport and fitness. Each with their own unique story that proves that alone you can only go so far, together is what takes us further.

Maserati tasked Ultra with developing the creative strategy and campaign for their first electrified vehicle.

Spark The Next

Maserati

The Ghibli Hybrid is Maserati’s first step into an electric future. We needed to reimagine the car launch formula to create impact and reignite the brand with its new audacious mindset.

Hybrid car marketing is well-trodden. We set out to avoid sameness by focussing on the cultural and creative hybrids, who would ignite tomorrow. Those who get behind the wheel of the Ghibli Hybrid and drive the world forward.

'Spark the Next' was our campaign rallying cry to those daring enough to own their future. We shocked the system with teasers that audaciously ignited Maserati Tower. Then launched the car with a film that sparked the attitude with a live digital launch.

Spark The Next﻿

EA tasked Ultra with developing the launch story for the PSG 4th kit in Fifa.

Out Of This World

Don’t launch a kit in our world. Launch it in theirs.

PSG’s 4th kit collection is a unique collaboration with Jordan. This moment in the football calendar needed more than a normal kit launch, it needed a moment that stops players and gamers in their tracks.

Don’t just reveal the kit for the game. Reveal it in the game. Launch the kit in FIFA21 with all the swag and attitude that connects three iconic brands.

Three World’s. Same energy. We created a film fused with an ‘Out of this World’ mindset and cosmic, urban, energy that flows through Parc de Princes and the streets of Paris, in the game and out of it.

Out Of This World 

Nike London tasked Ultra with developing creative concepts for their membership services.

Member Unlocks

When nearly every brand have a membership and loyalty plan, it’s difficult to stand out. Even for Nike. We needed to connect the brand’s services to the London community by bringing a fresh take to memberships concepts and how they manifest digitally and physically.

London Unlocked - a series a membership experiences, from invite to experience, tied to Nike services and seasonal stories served through the app and in real life.

The hottest club in London. From training sessions with Chelsea coach Emma Haynes, to product upscaling with Greater Goods, we created a series of unique experiences that put Nike Members at the heart of the brand world, unlocking exclusive access to sport and culture in the city like never before.

Unlocks

Nike and Ultra partnered to produce a story about Giannis Antetokounmpo's academy in Athens. 

No Hoop Is Too High

Nike

When the world sees you only as the uniquely gifted physical athlete you are, how do you inspire beyond what you do on the court.

The Giannis Academy - a place where the basketball is not just about how you shoot or pass the ball. A place where life and the game are the same. A community where we learn from each other and everyone can find belonging, through the game. 

We told the story of Giannis' purpose behind his academy and how it was the perfect place for him to inspire people from anywhere and any background to find belonging, be open minded and reach for their dreams. 

Everyone has their own story, their own life, their own skin colour ... when we're all together, we always learn something new.

Nike tasked Ultra with developing their first-ever athlete story for Emma Meesseman, an athlete like no other.

 New Perspectives

For a new generation and Emma Meesseman, there is no blueprint for 'making it' or what happens to you when you do. 

You don't have to change who you are to change the game. We flipped the perception of what it takes to be a modern athlete while achieving greatness and staying true to yourself.

We told her grassroots story of growing up in Ypres, Belgium, juxtaposed with her on court accolades, eulogised by ESPN commentator Christy Winters-Scott. A ‘Ying and yang’ tale to inspire the next generation that you can fly high, but stay rooted.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO ACT LIKE A CERTAIN PERSON, OR COME FROM A CERTAIN PLACE TO REACH YOUR DREAMS

New Perspectives

Ultra created a story that reflects where Alex Morgan finds her inspiration to be one of the best.

Together Faster

To launch Nike Women’s football training apparel, develop a fresh narrative around the training experience built from a core insight; even when you train alone, you never are.

It is said to go fast, you go alone, and to go far you go together. But what if we do both? Together Faster is a reminder that it takes more than ourselves to move the game further – it’s every coach, team mate, friend, family member who push us along the way.

World class US footballer Alex Morgan was at the centre of a narrative that saw her training alone. But with her are the people who inspire and drive her every day on the pitch, to motivate and push her game further. A reminder that progress isn’t made alone, it’s made with those who get you there.

Vaha tasked Ultra with developing the brand positioning, brand idea and UK launch campaign.

Move With Meaning

Vaha is a digital fitness mirror that tracks movement in real time to push you further. The brand was well known in Germany but aspired to bust out and become a global brand while entering key markets. First up was the UK.

We created Move With Meaning, a brand platform that became the anchor for all brand creative, trainer and product content. Redefining the possibility of how we move, to enable us to become fitter, faster stronger. No movement wasted. Every movement measured to reach your maximum potential.

An anthem was at the centre of the campaign that described the ‘Vaha feeling’. That feeling of when you move the right way, everything just flows.
Alongside this we created a visual lexicon written by the flow of movement itself that formed the heart of the brand identity.

Nike tasked Ultra with developing a story about sport in lockdown with Ada Hegerberg, using the ball as an invitation back to football.

PLAY WITH LOVE

NIKE

YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE WHO YOU ARE TO CHANGE THE GAME

With the world and football on hold, provide a reminder that the ball is the common language that connects us all. Leverage the new Nike Flight ball as an invitation back to sport.

A love letter to the game that inspires us to come back stronger. It all starts with love and the ball at our feet. No matter what we face, as long as we have the ball at our feet, there’s nothing we can’t overcome.

The World’s most impactful footballer on the planet, Ada Hegerberg, has achieved it all with the ball. Even with her recent injury, the ball is what pushed her through. She writes a letter of inspiration to a young girl who was like her. And gives her a gift, that will help her set the world a light.

When I first fell in love with the ball it was like a light that brought joy and never stopped shining.

Play With Love

Nike tasked Ultra to create for Bebe Vio story and her view on sport and belonging.

New Belonging

We're made to think sport is for the elite but to belong in sport doesn't take being great, it means taking part.

We developed the concept of New Belonging -  the notion that no matter who you are or what you do, sport belongs to all of us.

We put Paralympic Athlete Bebe Vio at the heart of the concept to juxtapose the old world of sport with the new. We told her story of unifying the two Olympics competitions as a symbol of sport's impact and unifying force.