MUSE Gold

2026

Sail Internet: The Connectivity Cup

Entrant

Vidico

Category

Video - Animation

Client's Name

Sail Internet

Country / Region

Australia

About The Entry

How do you explain the difference between internet technologies without putting anyone to sleep? Sail Internet came to Vidico with a challenge: dramatise Fibre, Fixed Wireless, Satellite, and 5G in a way that made Sail's hybrid network the obvious winner. Their original reference showed providers literally fighting it out. We steered the aggression into affection, reimagining the category as a retro, Wacky Races-inspired grand prix: The Connectivity Cup.
One race. Four technologies. No buffering.
For this job, each technology became a personality behind the wheel. Fiber, the effortlessly cool reigning champ. Fixed Wireless, the scrappy underdog in an antenna-covered buggy. Satellite, a tech-bro billionaire piloting a blimp. 5G, the flashy influencer who's already posted about the race before it starts. As real-world obstacles strike, from network congestion to bad weather to roadworks, the field falls apart, until Fixed Wireless and Fiber combine into a single all-white Sail car and cross the line together. The palette shifts to Sail's brand colors at the exact moment of the merge, turning the product truth (the nimbleness of fixed wireless with the reliability of fiber) into the story's visual payoff.
The 2D-animated campaign comprised a 45-second hero film and four 15-second cutdowns, each delivered in 16:9, 1:1, and 9:16 for Meta and Google Performance Max, with bespoke sound design down to signature character noises in every intro.
The results raced ahead of expectations. Launched June 1, 2026, The Connectivity Cup out-converted Sail's established hero video in its first month with a 15% lower blended cost per conversion, while driving 5,500+ thru-plays on Meta and a 1.64% CTR on Google, contributing to 400+ conversions across the campaign. Sail featured it in its company-wide spotlight, and the client's reaction said it best: "You are blowing me away in a good way."

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Credits

Creative Direction
Prad Sen
Illustrator
Daniela Danielyan-Forte
Animator
Gabriel Dalmaso
Sound Design
Denis Blinov
Creative Consultant
Kess Huggins
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