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Promoting your brand through interactive marketing

Promoting your brand through interactive marketing

by | Apr 14, 2025 | Branding, Captivate the audience

Static marketing is a thing of the past.

Consumers now aspire to be able to connect with brands, submit ideas, interact with their content or participate in the creation of their future products.

As a result, traditional one-way strategies don’t work as well as they used to. These are brands that opt for interactive marketing to engage their audience, create a real bond with their community and build customer loyalty.

In this article, we share with you the keys to interactive marketing. We also explain which levers to use and which strategy to put in place to boost brand awareness and maximise conversions.

SUMMARY

What is interactive marketing?

We’re not telling you anything when we say that capturing consumers’ attention has become the hobbyhorse of marketing professionals. This is all the more true when you consider that every day.., the average person is exposed to over 1,200 advertisements.

As a result, attracting the attention of your target audience has become increasingly complex. To engage consumers who are bombarded with advertising messages, companies need to stand out from the crowd.

And that’s where interactive marketing comes in.

Interactive marketing is a strategy that involves engaging your audience by inviting them to interact with your content in a fun way. It is not a one-way communication (like a TV ad or a promotional publication on social networks), but a two-way dialogue between the brand and its audience (prospects and customers).

The different types of interactive marketing

In theory, the definition of interactive marketing is very broad and can encompass numerous levers/media. To better understand what it’s all about, it’s therefore more interesting to go into practice with concrete examples of interactive campaigns.


Brands that opt for interactive marketing can use several types of formats:

A sports video competition to challenge game fans

Marketing games are interactive by nature. They allow you to engage your audience by encouraging them to take part in a competition to win gifts and benefits. To do this, they can take a quiz, complete a test or simply throw a one-armed bandit. C’est aussi un excellent moyen de collect first party data (via the participation form).

Launch a poll or survey

Another excellent way of engaging your audience is to ask them questions or ask for their opinion. Polls and surveys allow you to start a discussion with your consumers and find out more about their habits and expectations.

This customer feedback will be extremely valuable for redirecting their offer, improving their shopping experience, etc. For example, companies can activate this data by personalising their mailings according to the responses given by their audience.

Encourage the creation of UGC (User Generated Content)

Brands can also engage their audience by encouraging them to create content around their product and then share it on their own communication channels. UGC is not only an excellent way of enhancing the value of your customers, but also of generating reliable and authentic content, ideal for gaining visibility and animating your community.

Sharing playable ads

Unlike traditional advertising, playable ads are interactive and playable. This is what makes them stand out in today’s advertising landscapewhich is becoming increasingly saturated. The person viewing the ad will be able to take part in a marketing game to discover a new product or win a gift.

The interactive format is ideal for engaging your audience by adding CTAs directly into the video to encourage them to discover a product sheet, for example.

Personalised content and interactive storytelling

Consumers like to feel valued by brands. And personalisation is an excellent way of showing them that they are heard and understood. The simple act of sending an email to a recipient (mentioning their first and last name) can be a form of interactive marketing.

The first-party data collected through marketing games is also a good way of personalising your e-mailing or creating an interactive brand story, incorporating comments, testimonials and opinions from your customers.

What are the advantages of interactive marketing?

Interactive marketing offers a number of advantages:

Greater visibility and brand awareness

Creating fun and original interactive content gives your company a positive, unique and modern aura. According to a recent study by Ion Interactive, interactive content increases retention of the commercial message by 79% compared with static content.

Greater audience engagement

Interactive content creates a unique experience that makes the relationship between the brand and its customers both more fun and more rewarding. Consumers are not only encouraged to act (by taking part in a game or producing content, for example), usually in exchange for rewards. But above all, they feel listened to and have a sense of participating in the company’s activity.

Greater brand loyalty

Consumers are more loyal to brands whose values and message are aligned with their own. By creating an experience that is both personalised and lively, companies that rely on interactive marketing will be able to increase their website retention rate.

Instant feedback

Interactive marketing allows you to evaluate in real time how your audience interacts with your content. By responding to a survey or publishing UGC (such as a crash test or review, for example), consumers can more easily share what they think of a company, enabling it to quickly improve what needs to be improved.

Getting started in interactive marketing

To get started with interactive marketing, we recommend that you :

 

  1. Defining your target audience: this is an essential step in directing your interactive marketing strategy towards the right content format, but also towards the best distribution channels;
  2. Identify the triggers or the specific action to be takenthat the prospect will have to complete to start the interactive process. This could be a marketing game, a competition on social networks or even a chat window on their website.
  3. Determine the expected response. For example, the company may want to encourage its audience to sign up for its newsletter or generate traffic to its online shop. In this case, the interactive content and CTA should be geared towards this goal.
  4. Evaluate the impact of your interactive campaign. Determine the KPI’s to monitor to find out whether customers are reacting as expected and whether the interactive marketing strategy is really effective in maximising conversions or boosting visibility.
  5. Adjust and optimise your interactive marketing strategy. The brand can then make improvements to its interactive content based on the data collected. Ultimately, it will also be able to automate or optimise its campaigns to increase their effectiveness and profitability.

Want to get started with interactive marketing? Discover our different interactive formats to engage your audience and create a unique bond with your prospects.

Sports marketing: how to engage your audience

Sports marketing: how to engage your audience

by | Apr 14, 2025 | Engagement, Audience engagement

The 2024 Games in Paris promise to be a major global event, attracting millions of fans. As a result, many brands are looking to position themselves around this sports marketing event to engage their audiences with content around the games.

Contrary to what you might think, sports brands and sports clubs are not only ones who can communicate around sporting competitions. Whatever sector your brand operates in, it’s perfectly possible to launch a campaign or organise makreting games to the event.

Adictiz shares tips and ideas for sports marketing competitions so that you too can join in the momentum of the 2024 Games.

SUMMARY

Why your brand can’t afford to miss out on sporting events

Major sporting events are always high points for brands. Les fans ont les yeux rivés sur les rencontres, partagent leur ferveurs avec les autres passionnés et se tournent vers les marques qui supportent leurs athlètes préférés.

The Games, along with the football World Cup, are certainly among the most unifying sporting events. Just read the study carried out by Kanta and ACPM for #DemainLaPresse 2 years ahead of the Paris 2024 Games.

The results of this survey of more than 2,000 French people show that 68% of them believe that the use of games in brand communications is positive for their image. It attracts public attention, particularly when celebrities or sportspeople are featured in marketing campaigns.

The list of advertisers positioning themselves on the games is logically made up of the various official partners of the event (such as EDF, Caisse d’Epargne, Coca Cola and Visa). But they are not the only ones positioning themselves on the event and all players can take advantage of fan engagement to expand their audience and increase their visibility.

The strategy of communicating around the games, in particular by organising a sports event or game, is all the more effective given that 2 out of 3 French people say they are preparing to follow the Paris games. And they will be doing so overwhelmingly via digital channel. 58% of those questioned said they preferred live or replay television broadcasts (compared with just 9% who watched the games in person).

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Affirming your valued and commitment to sport

Because of the various formats and contexts in which you can set up a marketing game, gamification offers many advantages to your brand. But the main benefits you can reap are:

Above all, the games are an opportunity for bands to assert their values, in keeping with the philosophy of this age-old event. Parity, equal opportunities, courage, determination. The world of sport is an ideal place to communicate the idea of surpassing oneself, to encourage people to take up sport, particularly for their physical and mental health, and to promote a message of benevolence and acceptance of differences.

Brands that commnunicate around a sporting event therefore take great care with their storytelling. The FDL Group Encourages women’s sport and intends to support at least 400,000 women in this area by promoting female ambassadors. As an offical partener of the Games, Cisco has launched a program to encourage 8-16 years olds to take up sport. The fist event enabled hundreds of young people to meet athletes from a Cisco team, take part in training sessions and take part in challenges.

Over and above the valued associated with sport, many companies are campaigning for a more environmentally-friendly organisation and committing their audience to green initiatives. Renault is providing athletes with electric vehicles to transport them from the athletes’ village to the sports facilities. Maif, for its part, organised a General Assembly focusing on sport and the planet and set up a number of projects on the theme of water. Its partnership with swimming coach Philippe Lucas aims to raise fans’ awareness of water conservation through dedicated actions.

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Engaging your audience with game marketing for a sporting event

As you can see, the two key ingredients of a marketing campaign to engage fans during a sporting event are:

  • Position your brand on strong values linked to sport’s world;
  • Associate your image with that of sportsmen and sportswomen and sports celebrities to promote your brand to a wider audience.

But beyond the advertising messages and initiatives organised around the 2024 Games, the best way to engage your audience on this occasion is to use of sports’ mechanics. Gamified marketing already makes it possible to use game mechanisms (such as video games, scratch cards or board games) to bring a more playful and interactive dynamic to campaigns.

With the Paris 2024 Games, gamification takes things a step further by combining games’ mechanics with those of sport. Your brand will be able to organise competitions, create Playable ads or challenge your audience around games in general, or a particular sport.

Here are a few examples and ideas for sports competitions to inspire you.

A scratch card game to win tickets for athletics events

On 3th July, La Française des Jeux launched a scratchcard game offering participants the chance to win tickets for the athletics events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The short-lived game, entitled “Mon ticket for Paris 2024” (My ticket for Paris 204), will give players the chance to win two “highly-placed” tickets for the athletics events, as well as transport to Paris, accommodation and catering. Ten million tickets will be drawn and the brand has announced around a hundred winners.

Example of a sporting event game

A sports video competition to challenge game fans

The instant win is a Christmas competition that’s really easy to sept up. It’s also highly engaging, as participant know instantly if they’ve won a prize.

For this year’s Olympic Games, the organisers have launched a video competition hosted by French tennis star Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Tsonga is challenging his fans to make a 30 second video of their best jongles. The winner could win a special training session with Tsonga.

This sport competition has enabled the organising committee to increase its visibility among a younger audience. But it also increased the commitment of its community thanks to UGC (User Generated Content).

Create a playable ad on the theme of a sporting event

The Olympic Games have also launched a nmuber of mini-games on the Paris 2024 Club area. The aim this time is to promote the platofrm and grow the 2024 Olympic Games community. Your brand can use this as inspiration to create playable ads on the theme of sporting disciplines such as hurdling, running, etc.

Make your mini-games even more engaging by adding difficulties,etc. With each game played, participants can collect points that unlock benefits (such as discounts or free gooies for the Olympcis, for example).

Looking for a good idea for a sports competition? You can also organise:

  • A photo competition to encourage your customers to show their support for the sportsman with a dedicated filter and hashtag;
  • A quiz in the hostory of the Olympic Games and the different sports represented;
  • A competition with a random drawing or a wheel of fortune to win tickets for the Olympic Games, goodies, etc.

Discover our solution to launch your sports game!

Engaging audiences at Christmas through gamification

Engaging audiences at Christmas through gamification

by | Apr 14, 2025 | Engagement, Audience engagement

Christmas is undoubtedly one of the most important times in your marketing calendar. But it’s also a time when consumers are bombarded with advertising messages. Why not take advantage of this by offering Christmas competitions to your audience?

Gamified marketing is a highly effective way of setting yourself apart from the competition and achieving your objectives.

Find out how gamification can maximise your brand’s visibility and your audience’s engagement during the festive season. We also share some original ideas for competitions to set up, depending on your audience and your objectives.

SUMMARY

What do we mean by gamification?

Let’s start with a quick reminder

Gamification is a marketing strategy that involves incorporating animations and/or games into traditional marketing campaigns (email, display, website, etc.). The aim is to boost the engagement of your audience your business objectives (such as increasing your sales, for example).

Let’s take an example. At Christmas, gamification generally takes the form of an interactive advent calendar. Every day, from.1 to 25 December, participants discover a new box behind wihich a mini-game is hidden, giving them the chance to win a gift.

It’s an excellent way of captivating your audience throughout December. But it’s also a great way to vary the fun activities by inviting your prospects to spin a Wheel of Fortune, take part in a Christmas Quiz or win an instant prize.

Why create a Christmas competition?

Because of the various formats and contexts in which you can set up a marketing game, gamification offers many advantages to your brand. But the main benefits you can reap are:

  • Capture the attention of your prospects and boost your visibility. La gamification est en effet un excellent moyen de se démarquer de la concurrence. D’autant plus lors de temps forts comme Noël, le Black Friday, etc.
  • Engage your audience. The fun aspect and the possibility to win a reward encourage users to interact with your brand.
  • Incease your conversion rate. Providing free prizes or toher benefits can encourage your prospects o buy more from your brand. As well as bringing them to your site, you can offer them a promotion to trigger a purchase.
  • Collect and activate customer data. The marketing game is also an excellent way of collecting first-party data. You can then use it to refine your marketing strategy, adapt your offer to your customer’s expectations, etc.
Christmas competition

Christmas games ideas to engage your audience

Gamification is a simple and effective way of achieving your sales objectives in the run-up to Christmas. But what format should you choose? If you’re short of ideas for Christmas competitions, here are a few examples to inspire you.

1. Create a digital advent calendar for Christmas

The most popular Christmas device is undoubtedly the virtual Advent Calendar. This digital version of the traditional calendar allows you to immerse your audience in the world of your brand by creating a reccuring appointment from the first to the 25th of December.

Every day, participants discover a new game and can win prizzes (material or otherwie). In exchange, all they have to do is fill in a form on your site.

Brands that have opted for this marketing strategy and created an online Advent calendar game are gaining in visibility and boosting their conversion rate.

Click here for more advent calendar ideas.

2. The survey

The Christmas survey is a Christmas competition based on the classic survey. You ask your customers to answer a series of questions or give their opinion. Each participant can win points or advantages on your online shop. The best answer, for example, will be rewarded with an exclusive price.

This format is an excellent way of engaging your audience and gathering feedback about your brand. You can ask thel what they would like you to improve, etc. This data is a real goldmine for refining you marketing strategy and your offering.

3. Christmas competition

Another ultra-interactive feature you can offer your audience at Christmas is a competition. It’s an excellent way of stimulating the creativity of your community and generate UGC (user-generated content).This content is valuable for your brand because 97% of buyers under the age of 30 say that content by other consumers influences their purchasing decisions.

For example, you could launch a Photo Contest and invite your subscribers to post photos with your Christmas-themed products. You can also take advantage of the opportunity to get your teams involved to create an even stronger bond with your audience and share with them what goes on behind the scenes at your company.

4. Instant Win

Instant wins are Christmas competitions that are easy to set up. It’s also highly engaging, as participant know instantly if they’ve won a prize.

You can integrate them directly into your e-commerce site, but also via your marketing emails or social networks. The one-amed bandit, the wheel of fortune or a Flip and Win mechanism are excellent examples of instant prizes to engage your audience.

our tips to maximise the impact of your Christmas games

Now all you have to do is launch your Christmas competition. To maximise its impact, remember to follow these best practices:

  • Launch your competition at the beginning of the month : get ahead of the game to grab your audience’s attention as early as possible. But also to ensure that your gifts arrive before Christmas;
  • Optimise the distribution of your Advent calendar. Utilisez tous vos canaux de communication pour amplifier l’impact de votre jeu concours. Mobilisez vos réseaux sociaux, mais relayez également votre campagne via votre newsletter, votre site web, en magasin (via un QR code) ou en vous associant à des influenceurs ;
  • Choosing the right rewards : be relevant in your choice of prizes. And be generous to encourage your audience to take part (for example, by offering delivery costs to the losers on the final page).
  • Think retargeting: increase audience retention by sending instant, personalised emails to participants to build loyalty.

Launching Christmas competitions is therefore a powerful marketing strategy for engaging your audience, generating leads, collecting qualified data and boosting your sales. To create your own interactive Christmas game and gain a significant competitive advantage during this busy period, discover our gamification platform.