Using a physical newspaper to convince young blokes to stop driving while under the influence of alcohol isn’t necessarily the first thing that springs to mind when plotting out a new drink driving awareness campaign. But the combination of print, then online, satire – in the form of the Betoota Advocate – and two years of persistence by the Queensland Department of Transport team paid off, triggering millions in reach and a +10.5 per cent baseline increase in belief in the consequences of drink driving. It’s an effort that’s now won four awards and counting, most recently the Australian Marketing Institute’s Marketing Excellence Award for Content Marketing.