After GDPR – Here’s how to build your customer base.
A recent survey by W8 concluded that GDPR will make 75% of UK marketing data obsolete.
“Data” is a dirty word. We have all been probably, shocked and surprised by just how many companies have our information on their databases, as the flurry of “Don’t Leave Us” emails hit our inboxes. Many customers have a nagging feeling that there is something sinister about all this data mining that routinely takes place when we shop online. Companies have shared and made money from our data for years. GDPR if anything has forced business to look at the key relationship factor with their customers – TRUST.
The Brand Safety issue is a big subject in the media right now and doesn’t look like it’s going away soon. For brands and organisations, it’s a reputational nightmare. You make some entertaining and informative video content and suddenly you get calls asking why your video is linked to or surrounded by other content that is extremist, offensive, pornographic, or at its simplest just contrary to your own brand’s ethics and values. For example, you are a family brand selling healthy cereal and you find yourself linked with a very explicit lyrics and imagery from the band Cradle Of Filth, famous for their songs that are violent, sexist, and overtly sexual. That’s a PR disaster that is none of your doing but the problem is you are now in damage limitation mode.
I suppose there was a sense of schadenfreude amongst a lot of agencies when they watched the PR car car-crash that piled up around the Pepsi Kendall Jenner ad campaign. It was supposed to be an example of good advertising crafted by an in-house creative powerhouse.
In the driving seat that fateful day was Kristin Patrick, senior VP-global brand development. Mr Jakeman, President of PepsiCo Global Beverage Group had praised the ad on Twitter on Tuesday morning shortly after it was released, saying he was “super proud of the @PepsiCo #CreatorsLeague for producing this,” but the tweet has since been deleted. Another danger of deleting your soon-regretted statements of support is that news of your deletion also goes viral! Only adding to the sense of incompetence.
Far from traditional fixtures of pies and jellied things you’d wish stayed at sea, London is bewildering in it’s levels of culinary creativity. A gourmet crisp shack, pop up potato joint and grilled cheese sandwich shop all exist within 100 metres of the Toast TV towers.
New hire Harry Harryman was quick to point this out and jumped to work immediately, capitalising on this booming trend. Partly transforming our video production shop into an aerial street food delivery service. Toast TV introduces a new wave, artisanal breakfast slice. A pinch of tradition with a punch of modernity. Toast by drone.
For a closer look at Harry and his work process check out the video below.
Each slice is being sold for £7.99 which includes a butter, one topping and includes drone delivery within Soho. This fascinating new segment for London’s foodie history will lift off on National Toast Day, 23rd February 8am-11am purchasable through the ToastTV app.
With our expertise in programmable drones and Harry’s extensive knowledge of cheap supermarket foods we invented a new experience we think Soho will be enjoying for decades to come.
EDIT
11:36 23/2/17 Toast delivery service has been suspended for the foreseeable future due to safety concern involving a minor and the aerial delivery system. We apologise for the inconvenience to those who did not receive their orders. We are not looking to reimburse you at this time or in the future. Thank you very much for your understanding. The Toast Team.
So, you have a great product or service. Maybe you’re a new-to-market challenger brand wanting to take on the big boys and win? You do your research and everyone in marketing with any intelligence is telling you to setup a brand video production. Because more people engage with brands and share video than any other form of content. If content is king, then video is God.
So you have a great product or service and you want the best way to let people all about it. Then TV advertising is the best choice and will certainly outperform your online marketing in terms of trust, target audience and crucially the bottom line.
And right now making your first TV advert and getting it on air on the right channels for the right audience has never been more affordable, simple and effective in terms of ROI. In fact we have a unique offer that allows you to Test the water with your first TV Ad and measure its effectiveness.
– If you’re like startup Tootle, a new challenger and you want to drive traffic to your website where do you start? They aim to disrupt the £45 billion UK used car market. Tootle matches private sellers to dealers wanting to source specific cars directly from the public. By streamlining the sales process and removing middlemen, they aim to drive better prices and a smoother experience for both sellers and dealers.
With the advent of Netflix, HBO, Amazon and other VOD sites some say we are in a golden age of premium content choices.
Inspired by the growing numbers of subscribers to Netflix and Amazon, brands have realised that they too must become publishers of owned, and highly original content. Not just advertising around it, or sponsoring it, but creating it from scratch.
TV advertising is effective because research shows it reaches viewers when they’re at their most attentive. One of the main advantages of TV advertising is being one brand message at a time unlike the blizzard of banners, ads, pre rolls, and click-bait articles that clamour for your attention on any given webpage.
The growing number of terrestrial, cable and satellite channels have made TV advertising much more affordable for brands. Crucially this proliferation of channels means you are able to promote your offer to ever more relevant audiences.
The power of advertising can turn around a brand in a short timeframe, but there are some big players that have done this more obviously than others. Innocent are one brand who, with help from a 30 second clip, became a challenger brand and grew their business across the last 6 years to unimaginable heights, highlighting the power that TV advertising holds when done right.
