EPISODE 4: THE THING ABOUT EVERYTHING
EVERYTHING TOGETHER
CHEVROLET INDONESIA
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Wednesday, 19 November 2014
Friday, 14 November 2014
This Is How Automotive Advertisers Are Building Their Brands With Data Both local and relevant
According to a recent study conducted by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), 96 percent of consumers research online before making a large purchase, especially when considering a new car. During this period, these prospective auto buyers were more likely than the general population to be influenced by digital ads, including search and pre-roll ads.
This is why automotive advertisers must position themselves to be both local and relevant, and that means targeting the right audience through digital channels including online, display, video and television using programmatic, multiscreen solutions.
Monday, 10 November 2014
Thursday, 6 November 2014
EVERYTHING TOGETHER:
CHEVROLET INDONESIA
Chevrolet Indonesia has recently launched a series of online drama shows via its website. Produced on three beautiful islands in Indonesia, the story surrounds a family and the importance of togetherness, despite busy schedules.
The film also tells about how a family atmosphere and the spirit of togetherness can be created by family drives taken together.
The online videos are aimed at sharing and connecting Indonesians with what they like, being drama, family and the Internet.
Episode 1 has since been launched, with Episode 2 currently being aired, and the other 2 episodes on their way.
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Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Study: Buick, Chevy See Increase in Consumer Satisfaction GM ads helped
While overall consumer automobile satisfaction dropped for a second straight year, two brands saw an increase: General Motor’s Buick and Chevrolet. The findings come from the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), which said declining customer satisfaction showed scores for automobiles and light vehicles falling 1.2 percent to 82 on a 100-point scale.
The only cars to improve were Chevrolet, with a 4 percent increase, and Buick, with an increase of 1 percent, bringing both U.S. brands up to the industry average of 82.
ACSI found that 16 of 21 brands they track saw declines in overall satisfaction ratings, with imports faring only slightly better than domestic vehicles.
As the only U.S. brands to see an increase, Buick and Chevrolet saw improvement in large part because of GM’s advertising push for those models—despite the active recalls the company is experiencing. (In fact, ACSI found that consumers who had a recalled vehicle overall rated their brand 6 percent lower than consumers of the same brand who did not experience a recall.)
“A considerable investment in Buick appears to be paying off for General Motors,” noted the report. “Sales are up 12.5 percent for the first half of the year—the largest increase for any GM car—led by a surge in sales for Buick Encore.”
Mercedes-Benz saw its ranking drop 2 percent, but, according to ACSI, the brand still has the highest overall score of 86. Subaru dropped 1 percent to a score of 85; Lexus fell 3 percent to match Volkswagen’s unchanged score of 84; and Toyota and Honda each slipped 3 percent to 83. Other changes include Ford, Nissan, Hyundai and Chrysler all coming in with a score of 81; Cadillac dropping a full 6 percent in satisfaction to a score of 80; and the Jeep and Dodge brands ranking last among all brands at 79 and 78, respectively.
“There are two aspects of these findings that are somewhat unusual,” Claes Fornell, ACSI chairman and founder, said in a statement. “The first is that although the domestic car industry has deteriorated in customer satisfaction over the past couple of years, the gap to imports has narrowed due to a weakening of the latter’s customer satisfaction. The other notable finding is that several of the luxury brands do poorly. That didn’t use to be the case, and suggests that consumers now expect more for their money when they pay a premium price.”
To compile the report, ACSI interviewed 4,360 consumers, chosen at random, via telephone and email between April 22 and May 29, 2014. Consumers were asked to evaluate their recent purchases, as well as talk about their experiences with automobiles manufactured by the companies the study tracks. The group follows a wide range of consumer product categories and releases reports detailing each one throughout the year. Automobiles and light vehicles rank sixth overall in consumer satisfaction, according to their statistics.
Thursday, 16 October 2014
Samsung's Top 15 Media Integrations Over the Past Two Years Includes everything from traditional TV to digital content By Lauren Johnson
Over the past two years, Samsung's director of media and partnerships Amber Mayo has worked with a nimble team of three at Starcom MediaVest Group—made up of Chip Johnson, Madison Bohunicky and Lerna Terpanjian—to integrate its brand and product into pop culture.
In total, the phonemaker has run more than 40 different initiatives since June 2012, most of which span television and sporting events. While each of the executions is different, all are aimed at rethinking the traditional product placement.
Click here to read a two-part interview with Mayo and check out Samsung's top 15 media executions since 2012 below.
Samsung ran its first live commerical, which plugged a Samsung Galaxy S III device in a skit on Jimmy Kimmel Live in June 2012. In July and August, similar integrations happened onLate Night With Jimmy Fallon. Then in August, the brand teamed up with Craig Ferguson from the Late Late Show.Collectively, the ads garnered more than 15 million viewers.
The Notre Dame versus Navy football pre-game in September 2012 marked the first time CBS Sports used a Samsung device to capture photos from the game. The 30-second segment aired during CBS Sports College Football Pre-Game content.Samsung also worked with Fox to run four 30-second vignettes across the National Football League, college football and World Series games. The spots ran 40 times during fall 2012.
The Korean electronics company has worked with multiple TV shows over the years to feature products in programs, including NBC's The Voice, The CW's Hart of Dixie and ABC's Nashville.Vignettes in all three programs in November and Decemeber 2012 utilized talent from the shows. The on-air integrations also built up some online buzz. The Nashville integration resulted in 12.5 million digital impressions from online-exclusive content.
One of Samsung's most well-known integrations is with awards shows, starting with the 2012 American Music Awards. The brand swapped out traditional paper envelopes and presented awards using Galaxy Note 2 devices. The integration spurred 17 media articles and more than 8 million impressions after the show aired.Since then, the strategy has evolved but still focuses on integrating the actual devices into the shows. During the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, Taylor Swift fans held their mobile phones together to reveal a photo mosaic.At the 2014 Latin Billboards, Samsung homed in on the hispanic market. The brand created a new Milk Music app that was integrated into the mobile app category.
After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Samsung was a platinum partner at 12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief, which took place at New York's Madison Square Garden.The event claimed to be the first time that a live call-in event swapped out land lines with mobile phones. The cast of HBO's The Sopranos were integrated in the show and raised more than $50 million for the Robin Hood Relief Fund.- Despite all of Samsung's out-of-the-box executions, sometimes a good old TV ad does the trick, even if it does cost nearly $4 million.In 2013, Samsung ran a two-minute ad after the two-minute warning starring LeBron James, Seth Rogan and Paul Rudd. After the game, the spot racked up more than 25 million digital video views.
- 2013 was the first year Samsung tried to inject some product magic into the Oscars.A series of six spots starring Tim Burton aired during the Oscars to show off how the devices can double for both personal and work use and depicted an office of app developers who created a fictional game called Unicorn Apocalype.
Samsung's partnership with Jay-Z in 2013 is one of the brand's highest-profile deals, costing an estimated $5 million.In exchange for downloading an app that was exclusively available to Galaxy S III, Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note II devices, music fans could download Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail album 72 hours before it went on sale.Samsung, the NBA and ABC also ran a three-minute TV ad during the NBA Finals. The spot was set to run in the stadium at the same time as the broadcast ad.The campaign resulted in Jay-Z's album going platinum in one day while raking in 2.6 billion impressions and 55 million video views across eight countries.
The 2013 Samsung NoteSeason Experience campaign asked fans to craft creative headlines for the MLB's photo of the day.Winning captions were featured on MLB.com's content the next day and also included prizes like tablets and tickets to a World Series game.MLB claims the campaign resulted in the most engagement the brand has ever seen on a Twitter contest.
Last year, Samsung started replacing traditional game assets—like score cards and coaching materials—with branded tablets and monitors as part of a multi-year, $100 million deal. For example, the devices are now used for instant replay reviews and game prep.
As part of a sponsorship around the 2013 NBA Opening Night, Samsung set up a digital activation outside the American Airlines Arena, where the Miami Heat play.Samsung asked fans to post selfies on Twitter with the #TogetherWeRise hashtag. The 10,000 pictures were then collected into a video mosaic outside the stadium.The campaign won R/GA a Grand Clio Sports Award this year (Adweek and the Clio Awards are owned by affiliates of Guggenheim Partners.)- Known as the World's Most Famous Selfie, Samsung's integration between Ellen DeGeneres and this year's Academy Awards is arguably the brand's most buzzed execution to date.According to Mayo, two celebrities were planned to take a selfie with DeGeneres, but instead, a group of 11 actors huddled around the talk show host as she snapped a tweet using a Samsung device. The picture then took off on Twitter, nabbing more than 267 million impressions.Later, the team at Twitter turned the tweet into a poster to hang in the San Francisco headquarters.
In addition to the Jay-Z and Unicorn Apocalypse mobile apps, Samsung has also built apps for several of its other sports-related media deals.From May to June of this year, Samsung developed the LeBron James app to let fans follow the NBA star, who is notorious for shutting down social media during the playoffs. The app displayed game recaps and an inside look at James' workouts, fashion, meals and favorite music. The LeBron James app was downloaded more than 375,000 times with more than 9.5 million sessions (it was removed from Google Play after the playoffs ended).Back in April, Samsung carved out an exclusive branded section within the NBA Gametime app for the 2014 playoffs, which included custom lock screens and wallpapers. Seventy-two percent of Samsung devices with the NBA Gametime claim to have utilized the custom content.A similar initiative in August integrated with the MLB At Bat app during baseball season. More than 200,000 Samsung devices accessed the branded section.
When the MLB launched its new review system this year that lets umpires review close calls, Samsung signed on as the official sponsor.Samsung's deal includes product integration, branding during live games and ownership of the @MLBReplays Twitter account, which has amassed more than 36,000 followers.Samsung's branded moments popped up on more than 630 instant replays during the second half of baseball season.- Samsung loaded up the field at this year's MLB Home Run Derby with Twitter Mirrors—devices that capture content from events and then upload it to the social site.In addition to the on-field technology, Samsung set up a similar initiaitive for Vine on the red carpet for the All-Star Game and in the stadium.This year's All Star Week raked in Samsung's highest average social engagement to date—12.36 percent—and included more than 12 million impressions.
Tuesday, 14 October 2014
What Automotive Marketers Stand to Gain From Multiscreen Campaigns $11 billion through 2018
Today’s car shoppers are universally connected, and today’s automotive marketers understand the characteristics and demographics of a good, qualified buyer. Yet conventional targeting methods are less effective than ever, thanks to the proliferation of channels, screens and digital choices.
On average, consumers who are near- or in-market can be expected to research a vehicle on nine different websites, half of which are controlled by third parties. Consequently, automotive advertisers must position themselves to be both local and relevant, and that means targeting the right audience through digital channels.
Through a combination of in-house profiling, past purchase data, and rich demographic insights, marketers can define and then target near- and in-market consumers with solutions like Collective Wheelhouse, which effectively merges online and offline data and insights from JD Power, Insight Express and Nielsen XCR.
The US Automotive industry’s digital advertising spend is expected to grow to nearly $11 billion through 2018. Learn more about using multiscreen programmatic solutions for your next automotive campaign by downloading the full text of our free guide:
Thursday, 9 October 2014
Volvo Really Takes the Plunge in Powerful Ad That Leaves the Car on Shore Grey London's 'The Swell'
September 29, 2014, 1:02 PM EDT
September 29, 2014, 1:02 PM EDT
In its first global campaign for Volvo, Grey London strives for a "quietly epic" tone to position the Swedish nameplate more firmly in the premium auto space. Director Marcus Söderlund, working through Academy Films, delivers the goods with a visually compelling minute-long film called The Swell.
We open on a moonlit beach, where a Volvo XC60 sits in the sand, the hum of its radio melding with the sounds of the sea. "To feel, to really feel, is a rare thing these days," a voiceover says. We watch a woman paddle her surfboard through dark, choppy water as a huge wave rises with thunderous force … and the tagline, "Seek feeling," flashes on screen.
The Swell weaves its tale in moody hues, offering glimpses of the car as it focuses on the lonely surfer and approaching wave. (Söderlund also directed Grey London's fiery Vodafone ad about emergency responders.)
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It's an unexpected approach, and the first campaign from global creative director Hollie Newton, who joined Grey last year from Wieden + Kennedy, where she contributed toaward-winning efforts for Lurpak butter. For Lurpak, she designed sensory experiences with cheeky, playful subtexts that reminded viewers not to take the ads too seriously.
The Swell shares this "sensory" sensibility, but ratchets up the intensity to a point where I imagine some viewers might be put off. Even so, Grey deserves credit for making a commercial that ripples with energy without drowning in car-ad clichés.
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Melbourne indie wins global pitch for Suzuki Swift ad
Full-service independent agency The Sanford Partnership has created a new global campaign for Suzuki Swift after winning a competitive pitch for the work.
The new campaign sees some Melbourne laneway street art come to life to chase the vehicle around the city, before turning into a real man.
D Graeme Stanford said: “We have a really strong relationship with Suzuki Australia and now to again be awarded this global responsibility by Suzuki Japan, is extremely gratifying”.
The campaign includes 45, 30 and 15 second TV spots which are supported by magazines, online, outdoor and point-of-sale.
It launched during Suzuki’s sponsorship of Channel 9’s The Block: Glasshouse.
Credits:
- Agency: The Sanford Partnership
- Managing Director: Graeme Sanford
- Creative Director: Matt Burgess
- Art Director / Copywriter: Matt Burgess
- Agency Producer: Jo Alach
- Account Service: Daniel Loukidis / Sophie Norman
- Client: Suzuki Motor Corporation
- General Manager Suzuki Automobiles: Andrew Moore
- Production Company: Zoom Film & Television
- Director: Mark Toia
- Producer: Keri Grant
- Animation: Liquid Animation
- Sound/Composing: Nylon
- Photography: Garry Moore, Miss Bossy Boots
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