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Hudl's 'Raspberries, Sausages, Make up, Belgium, Grandma dancing,...' is a 2013 film campaign created by Wieden + Kennedy for Tesco's own-brand Android tablet, launched in the United Kingdom in October 2013, presenting the device through a rapid montage of recognisably ordinary British moments rather than technical specification.
Tesco announced the Hudl in September 2013, positioning it as the brand's first tablet computer, according to Clapboard. Priced at £119, the seven-inch Android device was made more accessible to loyal shoppers through a Clubcard Boost scheme that reduced the effective price for eligible customers, per Clapboard. The product sat at the centre of a Tesco digital ecosystem that encompassed blinkbox movies and music, Clubcard TV, banking services, YouTube, Google Maps, and Google Play, making it a credible all-in-one proposition for UK households seeking affordable connected technology in 2013.
The campaign comprised seven media assets, all in the film medium, and was published in the United Kingdom in October 2013, as documented by Clapboard. Wieden + Kennedy London handled the creative work, with Joseph Ernst serving as creative director, Eddie Fisher and Charlie Hurst as creatives, and Tomas Leach directing through production company Moxie Pictures. Post-production was delivered by MPC. The work earns a Clapboard Score of 62 out of 100, reflecting competent strategic alignment and strong cultural legibility against a backdrop of crowded electronics advertising in the UK market that year.
Where rival electronics campaigns in the United Kingdom leaned on product close-ups and benchmark comparisons, this campaign chose human texture — sausages sizzling, makeup being applied, a grandma dancing — as its primary creative language. The result was a launch film that made a piece of consumer electronics feel embedded in everyday British life before a single specification was spoken.
Hudl entered the United Kingdom tablet market at a moment of extraordinary category expansion. Global tablet sales reached 195.4 million units in 2013, up from 116.3 million in 2012, representing year-over-year growth of approximately 68 percent, according to Gadgets360. IDC reported 47.6 million tablets shipped worldwide in the third quarter of 2013 alone, up from 34.8 million in the same period of 2012, as cited by BGR. In this environment, the UK consumer faced an increasingly crowded shelf: Apple held leading global mindshare with its iPad range, while Samsung aggressively expanded its Galaxy Tab lineup across the United Kingdom.
Android became the leading tablet operating system globally in 2013, with approximately 61.9 percent market share, according to Telecoms.com. Hudl's positioning as a seven-inch Android device at £119 placed it in direct competition with entry-level Samsung tablets while undercutting Apple on price. Tesco's strategic advantage was not hardware specification but ecosystem loyalty: the Clubcard programme gave Tesco a pre-existing relationship with millions of UK households, and the Hudl was designed to deepen that relationship through digital services including blinkbox and Clubcard TV, per Clapboard.
Wieden + Kennedy's strategic response to this market read the Tesco customer accurately. Rather than competing on the technical terms set by Apple and Samsung, the campaign reframed the tablet as a window into the texture of British domestic life. The insight was that for the mainstream UK buyer in 2013, a tablet's value was not its processor speed but its presence in the household — the moments it captured, enabled, and accompanied. That insight shaped every creative decision that followed.
Director Tomas Leach shaped the campaign's defining creative gesture. Working with production company Moxie Pictures and post-production house MPC, Leach assembled a film built from rapid, unpolished vignettes of British domestic experience — raspberries, sausages, makeup routines, references to Belgium, a grandma dancing — that accumulate into a portrait of household life rather than a product demonstration, as documented by Clapboard.
Creative director Joseph Ernst and creatives Eddie Fisher and Charlie Hurst at Wieden + Kennedy London constructed a campaign that refuses the conventions of electronics advertising. There are no slow-motion product reveals, no interface animations, no celebrity endorsers. Instead, the film operates on the logic of a family photo album or a group chat scroll: fragmentary, affectionate, and knowingly mundane. The campaign's title itself — an unfinished list of random words and images — signals that the Hudl belongs in the same chaotic, unedited space as real British family life.
Producers Jess Ensor, Andrew Shelton, and Lou Hake, credited in the archive record at Clapboard, oversaw a production approach that prioritised warmth and recognisability over polish. The montage format served a dual purpose: it communicated the breadth of the Tesco Hudl ecosystem — shopping, entertainment, banking, and everyday Google services — without itemising features in the manner of a specification sheet. Each vignette implied a use case without stating one. MPC's post-production work maintained the grain and rhythm of the source material, preserving the informal aesthetic that gave the campaign its cultural credibility in the United Kingdom.
No verified performance data for the 'Raspberries, Sausages, Make up, Belgium, Grandma dancing,...' campaign is publicly available. What the structural evidence does support is a campaign well-calibrated to its moment and market.
Hudl launched at £119 into a United Kingdom tablet market experiencing exceptional growth. With Android commanding approximately 61.9 percent global tablet market share in 2013, according to Telecoms.com, Tesco's choice of platform aligned the product with the category's dominant trajectory. The campaign's montage format and deliberately anti-specification creative approach addressed the primary barrier for mainstream UK consumers: not price alone, but relevance — the sense that a tablet was a device for people like them, not for early adopters or premium buyers.
The seven-asset campaign, documented by Clapboard, deployed across the film medium in a form designed for broadcast reach in the United Kingdom during the pre-Christmas retail window — historically the highest-value period for consumer electronics. The creative team at Wieden + Kennedy London, under Joseph Ernst's direction, produced work that earns its Clapboard Score of 62 out of 100 through strategic coherence and cultural attunement, even as the absence of formal performance documentation limits a fuller assessment. The campaign's lasting structural value is its demonstration that an own-label electronics brand in the United Kingdom can compete against Apple and Samsung not by matching their production registers but by occupying a different emotional frequency entirely.
The Hudl campaign is a 2013 UK film created by Wieden + Kennedy to launch Tesco's first Android tablet. It presented the £119 device through a montage of ordinary British domestic moments rather than product specifications, making the technology feel relevant to mainstream UK household life, per Clapboard.
Tomas Leach directed the Hudl campaign through production company Moxie Pictures. Creative direction was led by Joseph Ernst at Wieden + Kennedy London, with Eddie Fisher and Charlie Hurst as creatives and post-production delivered by MPC, as documented by Clapboard.
Hudl was Tesco's own-brand seven-inch Android tablet, priced at £119 and announced in September 2013. Tesco positioned it as an affordable entry into its digital ecosystem, including blinkbox, Clubcard TV, and Google Play, targeting mainstream UK households during the peak pre-Christmas electronics retail period, according to Clapboard.
Hudl avoided direct specification comparisons with Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tab range. Wieden + Kennedy instead used culturally familiar British imagery to reframe the tablet as a household companion, exploiting Tesco's existing Clubcard customer relationships rather than competing on premium brand terms in the United Kingdom.
The Hudl campaign receives a Clapboard Score of 62 out of 100. The score reflects strong cultural alignment and strategic coherence for a UK electronics launch in 2013, balanced against the absence of publicly verified performance data and the competitive pressure from dominant global tablet brands in the market.
The Hudl campaign comprised seven media assets, all in the film medium, published in the United Kingdom in October 2013, according to Clapboard. The multi-asset structure gave Wieden + Kennedy flexibility to deploy the campaign's montage-driven creative across different broadcast and digital contexts during the pre-Christmas retail window.
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