Aspire Mastercard — Rewards Narrative

Category

MOTION
CAMPAIGN

TIMELINE

2024—2025

CLIENT

ASPIRE® MASTERCARD

Credit cards live in the stressful parts of life: transactions, balances, obligations. The brief was to flip that. Eleven hand-drawn animation loops built for paid placement, showing the Aspire Mastercard® as a companion to the good parts of daily living. Against roughly $7M in media, the work became the campaign's top performer by click-through rate, and Aspire greenlit a second series off the back of it.

Phase 1

Concepting

Find the feeling before the frames.

Copy and concepting first, then storyboards, then a range of branded styleframes for the client to choose from. The brief underneath it all: make a financial product feel like a companion to daily life, not a tool for managing it.






Phase 2

Animation

Timing first, then personality, then polish.

Loops ran rough and endless until the movement felt honest, because styling a motion that isn't working just makes a prettier problem. Once the timing earned it, the hand-drawn treatment went on. Eleven loops, every one a glimpse of effortless living.







Phase 3

Performance

Built to be tested, not just admired.

Several loops shipped in alternate versions so paid had something to run against rather than a single bet. The set outperformed everything else in the campaign on click-through, and Aspire funded a follow-up series.






Creative Direction - Pooyan Alizadeh
Concept & Animation: Pedram Taghavi
Sound Design: Andre Angelo
Copywriting: Megan Okrand

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