12/20/2020 | News release | Archived content
The major Kleine Zeitung campaign in 2020 was not developed as a pure image campaign. From the start, it was primarily a performance sales campaign for the introduction of the new digital subscription Kleine Web + App.
To build up high awareness for the product launch, we started the campaign with an impactful image phase for the brand Kleine Zeitung.
The multi-faceted campaign sought to reach target audiences while measuring their perception of the brand.To check the achievement of the objectives, we carried out an advertising impact measurement regarding image and perception after the campaign and compared the results with the values of a zero measurement before the start of the campaign.
During the campaign period, advertising awareness for Kleine Zeitung increased by 8% and in the main circulation area by 12%.
Advertising by Kleine Zeitung was most strongly perceived in the print edition of Kleine Zeitung followed by the Kleine Zeitung Web site and Facebook posts and ads.
Overall, aided advertising recall was 27% and thus achieved an above-average value in comparison, despite the short campaign duration of only two weeks.
At 29%, those under 49 perceived the advertising more strongly than those over 50 (22%).
The most frequently unaided image positions supported correspond to the positioning dimensions emphasised in the campaign. In the supported survey, five out of seven image positions of Kleine Zeitung were rated significantly better after the campaign:
After this image phase, the campaign focus changed to the market launch of the new digital subscription. In addition to promoting the new digital subscription, the focus was on lead generation from new subscribers by using various digital channels.
We also tested different price communication (subscription price per week or month, etc.), different colours, a fact-based and image-based formulation of our new product, and different call-to-action formulations and button-designs. We surfaced many interesting insights, noted below.
We achieved the most subscriptions in those channels where potential new subscribers are already very close to us, such as on our own Web site, newsletter, and Facebook channels.
Based on the model of a sales funnel, we will focus on our fans for generation of new subscribers, who already know quite well who we are and are obviously just waiting for the proper subscription offer able to meet their needs.
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Andrea Rachbauer is head of marketing at Kleine Zeitung in Graz, Steiermark, Austria. She can be reached at [email protected].