The need of a more appealing advertising tactic was triggered by the decline in the power of traditional media. Nowadays there is greater demand for point-of-sale communications and need to precise audience targeting (2). Most of the traditional media compete in crowded categories generating a decrease in the perception and assimilation of the advertising message. The placement of ads at unusual places makes a surprising effect on the target audience enabling the receiver to improve the perception and assimilation of the message (2). One sub-segment of Ambient Advertising is In-the-Hand Advertising.
Ambient Marketing
This concept relies on placing ads on consumables that the target audience cannot ignore as they have to take them in their hands. Such consumables can be: drink coasters, pizza boxes, coffee cups, door hangers, pharmacy bags. This is also often referred as guerrilla tactics.
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Ambient Marketing ideas:
1. Hotel Key Cards
Travelers are affluent audience. Hotel guests are high spend consumers as they are constantly looking for new shopping, food and tourism experiences. The guests receive the hotel key cards with ads on it with promotions and discounts from the best restaurants and touristic events. The advertisement cannot be ignored, hotel guests must take the keys (and the Ad) in their hands. Each hotel guests views the ad 6-8 times per day. The average hotel will have 115 rooms and 65% average occupancy rate and 3 nights stay. This deliver a total reach of 970 guests per hotel and 0.1M impressions per month.
3. Pharmacy Bags
healthcare message
The advertisement is printed on pharmacy prescription bags and distributed to the stores the advertiser selected. The consumer literally touches the ad and eventually bring it to their home. Pharmacy Bag Advertising creates additional exposure to other viewers since sometimes the consumers place the bags on their table at home. Pharmacy Bag Advertising is an outstanding tactics to reach consumers with their mind in healthcare.
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Adzze has been working with its clients to adapt to a more sensitive message. The team has been extending the capabilities to offer advertising options that can reach the consumers at their safest place: at home.
One of these concepts uses bar coasters as ad space that gets delivered together with your ordered drinks at the homes of the audience.
Read More: https://www.adzze.com/product-bar-advertising/
