The Christmas holiday season is a crucial time for business profitability. During the last month of the year, they can achieve up to 20% of their annual sales.

One of the keys to engaging consumers during this sales period is to anticipate your campaign by multiplying contact points. in the run-up to December 24th. In fact, it takes an average of 8 interactions between a prospect and the brand before a sale is concluded.

In this article, we’ll take a look at a marketing mechanism that’s particularly relevant to Christmas campaigns. This is the Advent calendar, which allows you to multiply the number of interactions with your audience. Here we share tips for creating a memorable digital Advent calendar, as well as concrete examples to inspire you.

SUMMARY

• The mechanics of the Advent Calendar
• 3 tips for a successful digital Advent Calendar
• 5 inspiring examples of Advent Calendars

The Advent Calendar is a particularly popular marketing tool during the Christmas season. The principle is simple: every day, participants discover a new animation through “boxes” to be opened. This can be a competition or an interactive animation such as an Instant Win, through which users can unlock free rewards and gifts.

Creating a digital advent calendar is a great way to boost your Christmas marketing campaign because, in the minds of consumers, this mechanism is directly associated with the end-of-year festivities. It’s also a great way to capture and hold your audience’s attention, by giving them a daily appointment and offering new surprises with each new slot.

What’s more, this marketing activity is ideal for animating and rewarding your customer community..
Durant les fêtes de Noël, les consommateurs sont en effet à l’affût de bons plans et réductions pour faire des économies sur leurs achats de cadeaux.
En distribuant des bons de réduction et des dotations attractives tous les jours, la marque peut fidéliser ses clients et convertir de nouveaux prospects, générant plus de ventes.

1. Plan your content for the 25 squares of the digital advent calendar

2. Customize animations and prizes

Le Calendrier de l’Avent sera plus efficace pour atteindre les objectifs stratégiques que la marque s’est fixée s’il est personnalisé. Cela suppose, en amont de la campagne de Noël, d’affiner sa connaissance client, en collectant par exemple des données démographiques et des préférences produits. L’entreprise pourra ainsi proposer un contenu et des récompenses ciblées, plus efficaces pour engager son audience et générer des ventes. 

3. Diversify distribution channels

To engage as many prospects and customers as possible, brands also need to think of their digital Advent Calendar as an omnichannel animation. The different Playable Marketing formats are particularly relevant in this context. The brand can engage its audience across all these channels with native animations that adapt to its website, shopping application or advertising campaigns (interactive ads).

1. Floa Advent Calendar

2. Galeries Lafayette Advent Calendar

Galeries Lafayette’s Advent Calendar game aimed to engage customers and prospects via a multi-channel campaign. By showcasing its famous Christmas windows on all its digital channels, the animation functioned as a sales generator. It also enabled the chain to capture customer data via a lead recruitment form. This data then enabled Galeries to effectively retarget its audience throughout the year.

3. Ouest France Advent Calendar

La campagne a permis à Ouest France d’animer ses audiences pendant tout le mois de décembre et de recruter 81K inscrits. 

3. Carrefour Advent Calendar

Carrefour uses marketing games to enrich and qualify its database throughout the year. For Christmas, the supermarket chain has chosen to adapt the mechanics of the Advent Calendar.
Le formulaire était scindé en 2 pour optimiser les performances.
Résultat, l’animation a permis de recruter 321K inscrits dont 77 % ont rempli la totalité des données de qualification.

5. Kiabi Advent Calendar

Conclusion

Créer un Calendrier de l’Avent digital est idéal pour animer et convertir votre audience pendant les fêtes de fin d’années. Planifiez votre campagne et diversifiez vos animations de Noël pour maximiser son impact. Avec Adictiz, vous pouvez booster sa visibilité, générer plus de leads et de ventes grâce à un plan média personnalisé !