Bruketa&Zinic&Grey
The Tunnel
Awards: Brand Advertising Campaign (Silver)
Campaign summary
Together with Adris, Croatia Osiguranje Insurance Company, Brigada and Millenium promocija, we organised a historical exhibition in a tunnel bellow Zagreb to mark the 133th anniversary of Croatia osiguranje Insurance Company. We were engaging the citizens to take an active part on an everyday basis and change the physical layout of the exhibition by adding their own historical accounts posting them on the social media with the hashtag #PovijestPisemoSami (#WeWriteOurOwnHistory). Throughout 7 weeks we used digital channels to raise awareness, incentivise people to see the exhibition and take an active part, with the budget allocated for Facebook (15%), Instagram (8%), Google (11%) and Twitter (6%), and direct media buying on top sites (60%). We targeted all online users, making adjustments according to real-time results. Every week we came up with new creative ideas accommodated to suit different digital channels. The photographs of users not only composited the exhibition’s layout, but also generated content for further online and offline communication. The online campaign reached over 1.5 million people and exceeded the targeted number of photographs eventually received (5,370).
Objectives and Strategy
The agency’s task was to increase brand awareness, generate buzz and incentivise social media engagement. The objectives of the campaign:
The task was to showcase 133 years of the activity of Croatia Osiguranje Insurance Company in a creative and appealing way. The tunnel bellow Zagreb was turned into a multi-media project that is an exhibition spanning 13 decades characterised by interesting events, people and items from a specific historical period. Its specificity was allowing citizens to actively engage in compositing its layout over digital channels changing it on a daily basis and embedding bits and pieces from their own past. The project was foreseen as a historical account accommodating each and every one of us.
Execution and Media
The strategy was centred round digital media. They were used to raise awareness about the exhibition itself, incentivise people to go and see the tunnel and engage users to take an active part in the exhibition’s layout by posting their own photographs from the past on their own social media profiles with the hashtag #PovijestPisemoSami (#WeWriteOurOwnHistory) and a short caption. The campaign took 7 weeks, with the budget allocated for Facebook (15%), Instagram (8%), Google (11%) and Twitter (6%), and direct media buying on top sites (60%). The digital campaign was used to post content in order to pique the interest of users, incentivise them to take an active part in the exhibition’ layout and become brand ambassadors. We targeted all online users, making adjustments according to real-time results.
Creative
The underlying idea for the launch of the campaign was raising awareness about the event itself. Throughout 7 subsequent weeks, to optimise the campaign and achieve best possible result, every week we came up with new creative ideas for different digital channels, adjusted to suit their own individual specificities. The photographs from the users’ past composited the exhibition’s layout on a daily basis and generated content for further online and offline communication.
Innovation
The exhibition was composited offline in real-time every day with online content posted the previous day (offline/online fusion). Custom messages were used to micro-target all people in close vicinity of the tunnel (>1km).
Results
Different communication channels were used to create effective synergy and huge media outreach. The online campaign reached over 1.5 million users and exceeded the targeted number of photographs. Eventually, the number of photographs received with hashtag #PovijestPisemoSami (#WeWriteOurOwnHistory) amounted to 5,370.
Number of ads: 1,264
Number of key words: 725
Number of video views: 290,000
FB engagement rate +366%
No. of shares +185%
The achievement rate by the objectives:
- Brand awareness: 500,000 users -> 300% achievement rate
- Number of photographs received: 3,000 - > 180% achievement rate
IAB Europe revealed the AdEx Benchmark 2018 study results at its annual Interact conference today in Warsaw. The results show that digital advertising grew 13.9 percent in 2018 to €55.1bn, driven by strong growth in video, mobile and social spend. This is the fastest growth since 2011 and has seen the market more than double in size since 2012.
The AdEx Benchmark study is the definitive guide to the state of the European digital advertising market, covering 28 markets, and is now in its thirteenth year. In 2018, a total of twenty-one markets saw double-digit year-on-year growth.
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Market grows 13.9%, fastest growth since 2011
Out-stream video surges 44.7% YOY
Warsaw, Poland 4 June 2019 – IAB Europe, the leading European-level industry association for the digital advertising ecosystem, announced at its annual Interact conference today in Warsaw that digital advertising grew 13.9 percent in 2018 to €55.1bn, driven by strong growth in video, mobile and social spend. This is the fastest growth since 2011 and has seen the market more than double in size since 2012.
The AdEx Benchmark study is the definitive guide to the state of the European digital advertising market, covering 28 markets, and is now in its thirteenth year. In 2018, a total of twenty-one markets saw double-digit year-on-year growth
Out-stream video and mobile both dominated results in 2018, as they both grew by double-digits in all twenty-eight markets in the study. Out-stream video grew by 44.7 percent on average, compared to in-stream at 19.7 percent. Overall, video grew by 30.9 percent, to €7.6bn, accounting for 33 percent of the display market.
Search remains the largest online advertising category in terms of revenue with a growth of 12.5 percent and a market value of €25bn.
Social is fueling display growth across Europe, growing 33.7 percent year-on-year and now accounts for 49 percent of display.
Total mobile ad spend grew by 31.4 percent in 2018, to €22.8bn, and now accounts for 41 percent of all digital ad spend across Europe.
Commenting on the results, Townsend Feehan, CEO, IAB Europe said “It is encouraging to see such healthy, double-digit growth across the entire region, driven largely by mobile and video. The digital advertising industry now contributes €55bn towards European Gross Domestic Product and is adding value to both mature and emerging markets. With digital advertising now accounting for 45 percent of all paid media advertising across the region and new European data protection rules making users more aware of their choices about how their data is processed, it is important that we focus on delivering privacy-first ad experiences that protect consumers and support Europe’s digital economy”
The IAB Europe AdEx Benchmark study divides the digital ad market into three categories: Display, Search and Classifieds and Directories. Growth in these advertising formats has been underpinned by shifting uses in devices and changing consumption patterns. In 2018, Display has closed the gap with Search, growing by 17.5 percent to account for 42.2 percent of all spend.
Dr. Daniel Knapp, Chief Economist, IAB Europe continued “Mobile, video and social continue to drive growth across the region, with mobile now closing in on 50 percent of both display and search, and video accounting for a third of all display. These formats and environments reflect consumer engagement with a range of devices, for entertainment, utility and connection, demonstrating the diverse power of digital advertising to influence consumer decision-making.”
In 2018, the top five largest growth markets all came from the CEE region:
Norway entered the top 10 in 2018, with further gains by Spain and Sweden.
Top 10 rankings (by market size)
The full AdEx Benchmark 2018 Report will be published towards the end of June 2019.
Access the IAB Europe AdEx Benchmark Study here.
For more information, please contact:
Helen Mussard, IAB Europe (mussard@iabeurope.eu)
Alison Fennah, IAB Europe (fennah@iabeurope.eu)
Marie-Clare Puffett, IAB Europe (puffett@iabeurope.eu)
About IAB Europe
IAB Europe is the leading European-level industry association for the digital advertising ecosystem. Its mission is to promote the development of this innovative sector and ensure its sustainability by shaping the regulatory environment, demonstrating the value digital advertising brings to Europe’s economy, to consumers and to the market, and developing and facilitating the uptake of harmonised business practices that take account of changing user expectations and enable digital brand advertising to scale in Europe.
About the AdEx Benchmark study
The data has been compiled by IAB Europe based on information provided by the national IAB offices around Europe. The report includes market size and value information for 2018 for the following markets: Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, UK and the Ukraine. The data represents the calendar year 2018 January- December. This is the thirteenth AdEx Benchmark study which began in the calendar year 2006.
Display includes PC-based and mobile banners, rich media and video formats.
See further explanatory note on data below.
Explanatory note on IAB Europe AdEx Benchmark figures
Each national IAB in Europe runs its own annual online advertising spending study and the IAB Europe AdEx Benchmark figures are based on these studies. As the methodology of the studies varies market by market, IAB Europe has defined methodology rules to represent the figures in such a way as to make them realistically comparable. This involves:
Data reported by national IABs is supplemented with data from company filings and econometric models.
