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Tom Birts's Fake easyJet Half-Price Ad

Creator moment · 2024 · Niche

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Birts reported over a million impressions for his unofficial easyJet mock ad.

If I were easyJet, (If I were easyJet. What does that even mean? Some sort of half-man-half-brand? An insult to nature is what it would be.) I'd do something like this. | Tom Birts | 225 comments
LinkedIn / Karthik Srinivasan
Jet2.com, easyJet and British Airways have the highest Ad Awareness among all UK airlines in 2024
YouGov / Janice Fernandes
Window Seats: British Airways' Vibrant OOH Is Poetry in Motion | Muse by Clios
Muse by Clios
People loved this mocked-up Easyjet ‘response’ to that ever so slightly odd British Airways ad
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Spread Score

How it works
Reach0ContagionNo data yetBreadth10Velocity100LongevityNo data yet26

Numbers

Cross-platform impressions, creator claim; over this lower bound
1M
As of Apr 15, 2024 · Self-reported · The Drum / Tom Birts
Peak date
Week of Apr 6, 2024
Apr 5 ’24 to Week of Apr 6, 2024
Platforms
3
Started on Open web
Origin
Seeded
Auto & mobility

Mechanics

  • Pairing
  • Newsjacking
  • ControversyPrimary
  • Platform jump
  • Press loop

How it spread

Trace the origin

Birts posted a speculative easyJet ad on LinkedIn. It spread to X and was mistaken for real outdoor advertising. Debate about attribution and client approval reached The Drum; Birts reported over a million impressions.

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Apr ’24MayJunJulOpen webPressX
Open webPressX

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Timeline (15)

  1. March 2024

    British Airways precursor · Mar 15 ’24

    Announced window-seat portraits and planned outdoor prints, supplying the real campaign Birts later parodied.[11]

  2. British Airways / Uncommon precursor · Mar 28 ’24

    British Airways launched the window-seat outdoor campaign that Birts later answered.[1]

    Window Seats: British Airways' Vibrant OOH Is Poetry in Motion | Muse by Clios
  3. April 2024

    Tom Birts seed · Apr 5 ’24

    Birts posted his hypothetical easyJet response on LinkedIn at 12:52 UTC.[2]

Origin
Seeded
Sector
Auto & mobility
Region
AU
Cross-platform impressions, creator claim; over this lower bound
1M
As of Apr 15, 2024 · Self-reported · The Drum / Tom Birts
Evidence
Grade B

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Apr ’24MayJunJulOpen webPressX
Open webPressX

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  1. March 2024

    British Airways precursor · Mar 15 ’24

    Announced window-seat portraits and planned outdoor prints, supplying the real campaign Birts later parodied.[11]

  2. British Airways / Uncommon precursor · Mar 28 ’24

    British Airways launched the window-seat outdoor campaign that Birts later answered.[1]

    Window Seats: British Airways' Vibrant OOH Is Poetry in Motion | Muse by Clios
  3. April 2024

    Tom Birts seed · Apr 5 ’24

    Birts posted his hypothetical easyJet response on LinkedIn at 12:52 UTC.[2]

  1. peak · Week of Apr 6, 2024

  2. platform jump · Apr 6 ’24

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