Recent Hispanic front-door marketing campaigns have been deployed by PowerDirect for clients including Clorox, Hillshire Farms and Fingerhut. Front-door marketing represents an uncluttered, highly-visible avenue for message placement – and provides a vast and largely untapped channel for Fortune 500 brands to deliver personalized, special treatment to their target audiences.
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Digital Coupons prove Strong but lag in generating ROI.
A new analysis from Knowledge Networks suggests that digital print-at-home coupons are more powerful than print FSI (free-standing insert) coupons at getting consumers to try a product for the first time – but yield an 18% lower ROI than print FSI coupons. DOWNLOAD REPORT HERE.
Consumers prefer Digital Coupons over Paper/Printed Coupons.
Cellfire Inc. announced that consumers ranked its digital grocery coupons higher in a number of key shopping and convenience factors than coupons from newspapers, the mail or printable web coupons, according to a recent survey* of its save-to-card customers by Market Dynamics.
DIRECT MARKETING to Hispanics: Present & Future.
Any Hispanic who isn’t a recent transplant from Mars is familiar with big advertisers like Inglés sin Barreras and the myriad companies offering legal services via DRTV. This media type is a primary sales driver for many Hispanic-focused companies. For some verticals (think telecom and insurance) DRTV is also the main branding medium. For the purposes of this article we will focus on more highly targeted media such as direct mail, email, and paid search (SEM). By Cynthia Clotzman / VayaDirect
FSI Coupon Activity +7.2% during 2010.
Kantar Media reported that Free Standing Insert (FSI) coupon activity increased 7.2 percent during 2010 versus the previous year to more than 291 billion Coupons Dropped. This is the highest level of activity observed during the past decade by Marx, a Kantar Media solution and the indus
The Power of the Hispanic Consumer.
Mercury Media released “The Power of the Hispanic Consumer,” a new whitepaper measuring the impact Hispanic consumers are having on direct response advertisers’ ROI. Part of the Mercury Media TV Perspectives series of whitepapers, this report also offers new insight regarding U.S. Hispanic consumers and tactics for effectively reaching this growing market through direct response advertising. DOWNLOAD HERE.
The Rise of Direct Response Advertising
While global ad spend has softened in many sectors, one format, the direct response ad, or infomercial, has seen a remarkable 18% growth in total units in the U.S. since 2007 according to Nielsen. In total, direct response comprises 14% of all TV advertising, a figure that may continue to grow as blankets with sleeves, super absorbent towels and language learning CDs gain a mixture of mainstream awareness and web virality.
The Coupon Comeback.
Once on their way to extinction, coupons made a strong resurgence in 2009. While they offer consumers a chance to stretch their dollars further, they also offer real growth opportunities for retailers and manufacturers—if they know exactly who to target and how to leverage established and emerging coupon delivery vehicles.
