ESPN: Go With Your Gut - Husky

Every year, millions of fans turn to multimedia sports company, ESPN to carefully curate their brackets for the largest college basketball tournament in the U.S. From fans and novices to former players and coaches alike, no matter your knowledge of the sport, everyone makes their picks and holds their breath. Correctly filling out a bracket can seem daunting, especially to casual fans. So this year, ESPN is encouraging everyone to trust their instincts and "go with your gut"!
Agency: Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners

In a new integrated campaign for its annual Tournament Challenge bracket game - aimed at bringing previous fans back and engaging new, casual sports fans - ESPN is launching three new spots on today, Monday 2.27, ahead of the men’s and women’s brackets opening on Sunday, March 12th where the brand plays into the uncertainty, madness and chaos surrounding brackets. Created alongside long-time agency partner Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners (BSSP), the new “Go With Your Gut” spots highlight how, when it comes to the tournament, anything can happen. Like top seeds losing early or underdogs going all the way, there is no surefire way of predicting the outcome. From a woman coming across an azure-hooded blue jay and believing “Creighton will fly through the early rounds” to a man feeling a little husky, “like UConn” in his dress shirt, the creative shows fans going with their gut based on epiphanies. Building on the momentum from last year’s Tournament Challenge, and ESPN’s equal focus surrounding the Men’s and Women’s games, this new campaign empowers everyone to embrace the madness of it all, ignore the statistics and analytics, and just trust their intuition (or signs from the universe) when filling out their brackets.