Pizza Advertising: Your Ads on the Boxes
The Impact of COVID-19 on the billboard industry
As the effects of the economic impact of COVID-19 crisis continue to spread and spill over the advertising industry, advertisers are facing the challenge to adapt the advertising message and tactics. At the end of March, Gartner reported that 65% of chief marketing officers (CMOs) surveyed were planning to cut marketing budgets as a result of business disruptions from the coronavirus. The survey showed that 34% of businesses expect “reduced levels of business operations” due to COVID-19.
Agencies will be required to change their advertising method. The traditional out-of-home advertising in malls, at bus shelters, will be fast replaced by in-home advertising. The lockdowns will keep people more distanced and inside their homes. Hence, the best ways to reach the audience will be to take your advertising message to them indoors.
Adzze has been re-imaging the advertising tactics and adapting to a more sensitive message. The operation team has working on extending its capabilities to offer advertising concepts that can reach the consumers at their safest place: at home. One of these methods uses pizza boxes as advertising space. Think of this as small moving billboard that that consumers will receive in their home. Surveys indicated that this type of tactics can trigger an 80% recall rate (8 out of 10 individuals recall seeing an ad on the pizza box) with an average ROI of 150%. This means, for every 1 dollar the advertiser invested in a pizza box advertising campaign, they received at least additional 2.5 dollars of sales. For more details in the article Estimating the ROI of Pizza Box Marketing.
A 2015 research showed that millennial do not respond to ads. If this scenario is to play out in most of the period ahead, it will be a nightmare for advertisers. Fortunately, advertisers have access to innovative ad avenues like pizza advertising. Through the medium, the advertisers are able to overcome the challenges that traditional media experience.
Why is pizza advertising unique?
Traditional media, and even a majority of the new media, relies on the same playbook to reach target audience. Typically, ad agencies create beautiful messages and place them on billboards, TV and other platforms. For TV advertising, the messages play more than ten times per day for a whole month. On the other hand, billboards can display a single ad for three months or more. This kind of monotony and repetitiveness is what gets on the nerves of the audience. The targeting methods of pizza ads is discussed in this article: Pizza Box Advertising: Effectively Reach Consumers at Home.
Interestingly, here is where pizza advertising diverges from traditional media and other advertising alternatives. Unlike traditional media that relies on repetitiveness, advertising using pizza boxes is one off but more effective. Notably, an advertiser prints the message and the business logo on the top side of the pizza box. Then, the advertiser delivers the pizza boxes to the targeted pizzerias. From there, buyers will pick their pizzas, or the pizzeria will deliver them to the buyers’ homes. When the buyer opens the pizza to eat, he/she interacts with the ad on the box in a unique manner.
Pizza Advertising: place your message in front of your audience