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Building character for the food and 'tude
Erik’s was born with character, but hadn’t quite carried it through the advertising and marketing. What better way to display character to the world than to characterize the food itself?
We created a year-long series of character-driven advertising campaigns that played up the product and unique attitude of the brand and product itself. The creative spanned multiple media and channels from on-premise activations through paid digital media. The paid media channels included YouTube preroll, Spotify ads, paid social, and display.
Characters on the move
On-premise, activations broke up the monotony of multiple touchpoints with two creative directions: one that was character-focused, the other product-focused. In addition, we applied this approach to the display advertising initiatives to get a full suite of data for future optimizations.
Combined with email marketing, and paid social media on Facebook and Instagram, the Made with Character campaign took hold and resulted in fantastic metrics for the brand. Needless to say, these characters are on the move!
Results
The character-based campaign helped position Erik’s DeliCafé as an approachable, quirky, fun brand that was equally as great for young families as it was for the older generations.
Each character added to an ever-building momentum from campaign to campaign. The result was increases in awareness, traffic, and sales.