Ritter Sport: Digital Campaign
Client
Ritter Sport
Industry
Retail
Great reach achieved
Meta overdelivered on reach in comparison to expectation with an extra 32% of individual viewers reached
Message delivered
The frequency on YouTube was 222% greater than forecast, but still reached the targeted audience
Start your Love Affair with the Square
Following the success of the Christmas experiential event, Ritter Sport were looking for another digital campaign to get people to fall in love with the Square. The German chocolate brand were looking at promoting their confectionary products as they continue their expansion into the UK market.
Having recently launched in Tesco stores across the UK, Ritter Sport wanted to promote their great range of flavours, their signature square bars and the synonymous colourful packaging to the UK market. To increase brand recognition, they wanted to feature their mascot, Don Choco, within their digital video. Don Choco references the Sloth reserve at their El Cacao farm in Nicaragua, where half of the forest is untouched to promote biodiversity and protect the native sloth populations.
Objectives
The main campaign objective was to raise awareness throughout the target audience and ensured they saw the advert at a high enough frequency to mean they absorb the message.
The objectives of the campaign by platform were to reach millions of people across YouTube and Meta with a frequency which would create brand recognition.
Strategy and Execution
Using the various creatives, which consisted of 6 6-second videos, 2 15-second videos and a 30 second video, we created a targeted campaign on both YouTube and the Meta platforms of Instagram and Facebook. Our audience was segmented on various profiling characteristics, which differed depending on each platforms capabilities. The basis of our audience profiles were women over the age of 25 who had particular interests in food and drink. We then served one of the adverts to them, and included both skippable and non-skippable variants on YouTube.
Successful Social Campaigns
Reporting analytics on online campaigns provide a great insight into performance, audience profiles and audience responses. Evaluating metrics such as watch-through rate, the content and context of where the advert was and the click through rate with daily updates allows close monitoring and optimisation through either the platform's algorithms serving performing creatives to the right audience, or by manually switching creatives.
By using fun, engaging creatives coupled with understanding how Meta and YouTube can help serve adverts to the desired audiences ensured we were able to help start people's "Love Affair with the Square".