4 Halloween marketing campaign ideas to boost your visibility

4 Halloween marketing campaign ideas to boost your visibility

Halloween has become an unmissable highlight for brands wishing to boost their communications and increase their visibility. Last year, spending on the holiday in France reached some 300 million euros, marking a 5% increase on the previous year. This trend testifies to the growing enthusiasm of the French for Halloween, with some 40% of them taking an active part in the festivities.

This holiday, once seen as purely commercial, has been transformed into a moment of sharing and conviviality, offering companies the opportunity to connect with their audience in a fun and original way. Brands can reinforce their image by offering engaging and entertaining Halloween experiences.

In this article, we explore the value of gamification in capturing consumers’ attention and actively engaging them. We’ll also share four examples of relevant marketing games to boost your Halloween communications.

Halloween, a key moment to engage your audience with fun mechanisms

Halloween is a strategic moment in an already busy marketing calendar, especially during the crucial fourth half of the year. It’s a time when brands redouble their efforts to capture the attention of an over-solicited public – and that’s precisely where gamification comes in.

The interactive, immersive nature of the game fits perfectly with the fantastic, offbeat world of Halloween. It allows us to create original, engaging and memorable experiences, totally in keeping with the festive atmosphere. Rather than blending into the mass of classic promotional campaigns, brands that rely on playful mechanics succeed in standing out from the crowd and forging a stronger bond with their audience, eager for unique experiences and the rewards on offer.

Gamification also offers great flexibility. It can be used to boost brand awareness, collect qualified data, generate traffic in-store or on an e-commerce site, or stimulate sales via prizes or discount vouchers. In short, it’s a powerful lever for achieving business objectives in the run-up to the festive season.

4 examples of marketing games to boost your Halloween communications

Brands communicating on Halloween can therefore target different strategic objectives, particularly in the run-up to other major commercial holidays such as Black Friday and Christmas. To capitalize on the strategic leverage of gamification, it’s important to clearly identify the results you want to achieve. Based on these key KPIs, companies can then choose the right mechanics to share with their audience and fine-tune their Halloween marketing strategy.

1. Develop your reputation

Halloween is a particularly interesting commercial holiday for brands wishing to reach a wider audience. By surfing the graphic universe of Halloween and offering experiences linked to this special time, they can capture the attention of new audiences and boost their visibility.

Which marketing game to choose?

Score-based modules (such as Flappy or Rattrape tout) are simple, addictive and viral. They are therefore ideal for capturing a wide audience, including users who are not yet familiar with the brand. The gameplay, based on repetition and challenge, encourages sharing and organic distribution, maximizing the brand’s visibility on social networks.

Practical tips

  • Offer attractive prizes (e.g. high-tech prizes, gift cards, flagship products) to maximize participation.
  • Adapt the design to the world of Halloween: dark backgrounds, pumpkin or bat-shaped obstacles, spooky music.
  • Integrate storytelling elements to immerse the user in the party atmosphere.
  • Broadcast the campaign on social networks with a dedicated hashtag to encourage virality.

Example : Sowee set up a campaign during Halloween to reinforce its positioning as a Smart Home player, while developing its brand awareness. The operation recruited qualified leads, in particular encouraging newsletter sign-ups. The campaign, supported by a Flappy game in Halloween colors, also played a key role in increasing traffic to Sowee.fr.

Sowee - Halloween communication
Sowee - halloween mobile

2. Collect new leads

Halloween represents an excellent opportunity to enrich your customer database in a fun, non-intrusive way. Through engaging game mechanics, brands can encourage participants to sign up for their newsletter, give their consent to receive communications (opt-in), or share valuable information about their preferences and purchasing habits.

Which marketing game to choose?

Instant Win is based on the mechanics of chance, with immediate gratification. It’s the perfect way to capture attention quickly and encourage users to share their personal data in a bid to win rewards.

Practical tips:

  • Integrate an optimized entry form before revealing whether the player has won.
  • Add an animation or visual surprise in the event of a win, to reinforce the positive emotion.
  • Set up post-participation email follow-ups to convert the leads collected.

3. Generate traffic

Halloween is also an ideal time to generate traffic, whether in a physical store or on an e-commerce site. Gamified campaigns, playing on curiosity and the desire to win, encourage consumers to visit the point of sale or key pages of the site.

Recommended mechanic: Object hunt
With this mechanic, the player has to find items hidden in a setting, which encourages him to navigate between several pages of a site or explore all the shelves of a physical store.

Practical tips:

  • Hide objects on strategic pages of your site to encourage visitors to view them (new products, bestsellers, high-margin categories).
  • Provide clues or aids to avoid frustration.
  • Couple the operation with a Google Ads campaign or push notifications to maximize traffic.

Gamification idea: A home decoration chain launches a “pumpkin hunt” on its website. Each day, a new pumpkin is hidden in a different product category. Players must find a total of 5 pumpkins to enter the final draw. The game is promoted on Facebook and via the newsletter, with a reward at stake: a complete Halloween decoration to be won.

4. Stimulate sales

Gamified communication around Halloween can also enable brands to trigger purchases in a natural and engaging way. By offering exclusive discounts, limited offers or gifts to be won via a marketing game, brands create a sense of urgency and encourage shoppers to go to the checkout or validate a basket.

Recommended mechanics: Wheel of fortune

The Wheel of Fortune ‘s appeal lies in its playfulness and randomness. As well as being easy to use, it can be used to offer discounts or strategic advantages to encourage purchases.

Practical tips:

  • Integrate the wheel as a pop-up on the website or in-store via QR code.
  • Offer rewards that trigger immediate purchases: discounts, free delivery, 2 for 1, etc.
  • Add a time limit to encourage quick purchases (e.g.: the code is valid for 48 hours).
  • Segment endowments according to purchasing profile or behavior for greater personalization.

Conclusion

Gamification is the strategic ally for your Halloween communications. It enables your brand to animate its audience by offering immersive experiences perfectly calibrated for this commercial highlight, and to reach the objectives it has set itself for the crucial end-of-year period. Discover our fun mechanisms and engage your audience for Halloween!

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Playable ads, the solution to ad fatigue ?

Playable ads, the solution to ad fatigue ?

Le saviez-vous : chaque jour en moyenne, un individu est exposé à plus de 1200 publicités! Ce chiffre vous paraît exorbitant ? Cela signifie peut-être que vous êtes victime de banner blindness ou burn-out publicitaire. Ce phénomène d’aveuglement touche notamment les internautes et fait l’objet de nombreuses études. Mais, si elle n’est pas appréciée de tous, la publicité est indispensable à toute stratégie marketing. Elle a pour objectif de cibler une audience et l’inciter à adopter un comportement (achat, inscription,…). Découvrons comment faire passer un message à un public qui ne cesse de détourner le regard, grâce au display interactif et aux Playable ads.

Banner blindness: consumers blinded by advertising, how can we restore their sight?

Digital advertising desperately seeks audience

Banner blindness is an Anglicism widely used in marketing. It refers to a form of selective attention in which an individual ignores the information presented in banners. This attitude (whether conscious or unconscious) is adopted to avoid interacting with advertisements. indeed, the latter are perceived as likely to disrupt user experience.

But when is an ad visible or invisible to a user?

A classic display ad is considered visible if at least 50% of its surface is displayed on the screen for one second. In other words, the display banner has to stand out to attract interest in such a short space of time.

But there’s a world of difference between seeing and remembering.

 

After this time, 62.5% of Internet users have left the ad. For the remaining 37.5%, a phenomenon emerges: ad recall. In fact, there’s a link between observation intensity and memory. Basically, the duration of viewing is positively correlated with memory. This means that the more you watch an ad, the more likely it is to be remembered.

There is none so blind as those who won’t see

It may seem surprising, but while 2.5 seconds may seem like a very short time, in the world of advertising it’s a very difficult time to achieve!

Why is this? It’s a phenomenon linked to human nature. Studies show that users have trained themselves to ignore elements that resemble advertising. This makes it more difficult for advertisers to stand out in the mass of information and ads encountered

Moreover, it turns out that 35% of French people block Internet advertising with software such as Ad blockers. This shows a clear rejection of this mode of communication.

And for those who are touched by advertising?

A recent study gives us an overview of the average click-through rates of display campaigns for different formats:
Bloc format: 0,14%
Megaban: 0,08%
Skyscraper: 0,10%

Playable ads campaign display

These low rates don’t necessarily mean that the ads featured are poorly designed or inappropriate, but rather that consumers are too used to seeing them and therefore more likely to ignore them. The Megaban and Skyscraper formats are the hardest hit, as they are considered advertising formats from the outset.

As a reminder, the formats available on Adictiz Playable Ads are:


Pavement (300 x 250)
Wide angle (300 x 600)
Cladding (1800 x 1000)
Interstitials (640 x 960)

Playable ads adictiz display campaign

The lack of innovation in the advertising world is causing fatigue, and the solution may well be to be more creative in order to stand out from the crowd.

Ensure the visibility of your display formats with Playable Ads

Playable advertsing: a solution to counter banner blindness?

To answer the question we’ve just raised, it’s worth looking at the Playable Ads model.

This interactive display format is ideal for boosting campaign visibility, performance and brand awareness.

Integrating a game mode into a advertising has many advantages and meets several objectives:

  • Raising awareness: publicizing and demonstrating the added value of an offer
  • An engagement objective: to encourage users to spend time and interact with a brand.
  • A qualification objective: capitalize on preferences by recovering user insights

The interactivity and playfulness of the format allows display advertising to stand out in today’s advertising landscape.

Would you like to discover other concrete example of Playable Ads? We invite you to discover three case studies in our webinar replay!

In this respect, the click-to-play rate of playable Ads (7%) is far higher than the average click rate of conventional display (0.10%)

It’s interesting to note that a playable Ads campaign performs better in terms of clicks than a classic ad. However, if the campaign only reaches a very small audience, its value is limited. That’s why it’s essential to consider the distribution plan for a campaign to ensure its success.

 

No campaign performance without an optimized distribution plan

How do you ensure the strategic and effective delivery of a Playable Ads campaign?

The first step in this direction is the integration of a targeted audience:

  • It must correspond to your personae, thus allowing a level of qualification of the people who will see the advertisement
  • Geographical area, demographics, centers of interest and more specific audiences are all possible information to integrate into targeting.

But that’s not all. You can also reach out to hyper-qualified audiences. And what could be more qualified than your own prospects or customers?

In playable Ads, it is possible to:

  • Retargeting means making your playable visible to your database or site visitors. This type of audience is the most qualified, but very limited.
  • Doing a lookalike, i.e. make your playable visible to an audience similar to your retargeting audiences. The advantage is that you’ll be able to reach large, highly-qualified audiences.
  • Interest-based targeting, i.e. making your playable visible to an audience with interests or hobbies consistent with your campaign.
Playable ads diffusion

Increase recall and time spent with your brand thanks to interactive displays

As you can see from Dale’s learning cone below, the game format drastically increases memorization around an activity, product or brand.

playable ads cone learning dale

The time a user spends with a brand is greater when he or she is viewing a playable format.

The strength of playable Ads is that they enable users to make direct and prolonged contact with offers, benefits or a message throughout the gaming experience.
What’s more, they can increase their level of qualification at every stage.

Conclusion

Congratulations, you’ve reached the final line! Want to find out more? Watch the replay of our webinar on the subject. In the company of Léa, Adictiz’s Acquisition Manager, discover our concrete customer use-cases on the subject, and take part in the QA session at the end of the webinar.

Webinar playable ads

Mother’s Day competition: 4 scenarios for your campaigns

Mother’s Day competition: 4 scenarios for your campaigns

Mother’s Day is a tradition that has been rigorously respected and perpetuated since childhood. This year, once again, all mothers are expecting a gesture from their children, often with the support of their spouses for the younger ones. According to a Yougov survey, 61% of French people think this is an important holiday. It’s the perfect opportunity for brands and chains to launch a competition to mark this commercial highlight and promote their flagship products!

There are 3 main reasons for consumers to take part in a promotional game on Mother’s Day:

  • Finding the perfect gift for their mum
  • Win an attractive prize to give away on the big day
  • Declare their love for their mother in a fun and original way

A marketing game to identify the tastes and preferences of mothers

On Mother’s Day, consumers give themselves around 2 weeks to find the ideal gift, and almost half make up their minds in 2-3 days at the last minute. This usually leads to a spike in sales, particularly online, with a growing proportion of mobile purchases.

Influence their buying habits by guiding them in their choice of the ideal gift using a marketing game! Children know their parents well enough to indicate their preferences.

mother's day mobile game

The swiper, perfect for collecting user preferences

Help players find the perfect Mother’s Day gift by collecting their preferences, thanks to an easy-to-use and highly entertaining mechanic. Swiping right or left, depending on product preference, is as easy as child’s play. At the end of the journey, enter a Mother’s Day competition to win the selection.

Personality tests are ideal for segmenting a database

With the personality test, players determine which profile their mother matches by answering a number of questions, and discover the most suitable products via a profile-based selection.

Shopping-list: a mechanism for gathering crucial information about products and services.

Players create their own special Mother’s Day wishlist from the brand’s products and submit it to a photo gallery, a simple way of generating user-generated content.

An instant win game to win the most beautiful Mother’s Day gift

Here, it’s important to choose the right equipment

Looking for something simple and effective? Instant-win games are a sure bet! The ideal way to reach a wide target quickly. Offer a particularly attractive prize for the occasion, or vouchers to spend on your site or at points of sale. Dress up your brand with festive branding via a One-Armed Bandit, a Scratch Game, a Wheel of Fortune or a Shuffler!

A creative competition to declare your love on Mother’s Day

Encourage your users to create their own content

Take advantage of the general craze to promote User Generated Content around your brand on this occasion. Photo, video or text competitions… encourage players to put themselves in the picture to wish Happy Mother’s Day in a fun, original and personalised way. It’s an excellent way of engaging users and developing your brand equity around a sacred holiday!

Why not capitalise on Mother’s Day with a post-purchase game?

Take advantage of this opportunity to generate in-store traffic

With a high level of purchase intent and an allocated budget, Mother’s Day always generates a spike in traffic and sales among the French. Take full advantage of the crowds to collect qualified data using a game. With Gatecode, encourage users to enter the code for their Mother’s Day gift and fill in a form to win a cash-back offer on their purchase, for example. A great way to collect leads and opt-ins!

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Mother’s Day: 3 examples of original marketing competitions

Mother’s Day: 3 examples of original marketing competitions

With the arrival of Spring and the return of fine weather, the French are looking forward to the May bank holidays, as well as Mother’s Day. This is a symbolic event and therefore a key moment on which brands can capitalise.

Mother’s Day marketing campaigns are a strategic way of raising visibility, stimulating a community and boosting sales. In this article, we share some ideas for Mother’s Day competitions based on the objectives to be achieved.

Mother’s Day: a key commercial event for brands

Mother’s Day (which takes place on the last Sunday in May in France) is an event celebrated by more than 80% of French people. It’s a time to celebrate mothers and spend time with loved ones. It generates major spin-offs for brands. This is the second biggest marketing event in France in terms of gifts, just behind Christmas.

It has an impact on company sales and is a major boost to revenues. In France, the budget for Mother’s Day is 66 euros. Brands use this opportunity to showcase their products and services or share gift ideas with their customers.

Mother’s Day is an opportunity to communicate values. Retailers can share campaigns that will strengthen their brand image, raise their profile, increase their sales strengthen relationships with their audience.

Gamification to communicate around Mother’s Day

To stand out from the crowd at this major event, companies can engage their community with fun, interactive experiences. Gamified marketing, or the introduction of playable elements into campaigns, is a lever for capturing an audience’s attention.

Companies can turn to different marketing game formats. A photo contest can engage the community around a challenge while generating content (or UGC for User Generated Content) that the brand can share.

The sales promotions, in-store or online, enable you to :

  • Collecting data to understand customer expectations around Mother’s Day;
  • Share gift recommendations based on collected product preferences;
  • Generate sales by sharing incentives such as e-coupons, gift cards, etc.
  • Build loyalty among the leads generated by collecting opt-ins so that they can be retargeted throughout the year.

Here are 3 examples of original interactive campaigns inspired by gamification, such as the Mother’s Day marketing campaign.

1. Mother’s Day competitions to stimulate your community

Mother’s Day is an opportunity to forge closer links with the community. The campaigns surrounding this special day are an opportunity to promote family values.

Brands can take advantage of Mother’s Day to create a close relationship with their audience. Using sales events to extend the time spent with the brand.

Example: Galeries Lafayette’s Mother’s Day game

For Mother’s Day, Galeries Lafayette have come up with a 100% winning One-Armed Bandit via a game terminal installed for 3 days in 6 shops in France. Results exceeded expectations, with above-average participation. The 1 minute 20 second game time demonstrated an interest in the animation, confirming the success of this campaign.

Galeries Lafayette Mother's Day terminal

Mother’s Day competition was available in mobile format via a QR code. This strategy increased the reach of the campaign. It made it possible to animate all the shops, with
a 100% winning concept. In addition, this co-branding operation made it possible to collect opt-ins for Galeries Lafayette and its partner brand, Rosemood.

Galeries Lafayette Mother's Day competitions
Galeries Lafayette - 100% winning<br />

2. A Mother’s Day sales promotion to engage customers

To build customer loyalty, brands need to multiply the number of points of contact. Trade fairs are strategic in terms of engagement because they offer opportunities to connect with the audience.

For Mother’s Day, many people turn to social networks to find gift ideas. It’s a good idea to create a competition to engage prospects and customers and move them along the buying funnel.

Example: SFR’s Mother’s Day campaign

SFR’s Mother’s Day campaign in the Caribbean aimed to raise brand awareness by engaging its audience. The mechanics Match 3 was a resounding success, boosted by Adictiz Ads media coverage. Participants were highly engaged, spending an average of 11 minutes on the game per user.

SFR - Mother's Day competition
SFR - match3

3. A marketing game to generate sales for Mother’s Day

Finally, Mother’s Day is an opportunity to encourage consumers to buy their gifts. The competition is a tool for generating sales, as it allows you to share attractive incentives (vouchers, discounts, free products, etc.) with your customers.

Gamification makes it easier to personalise recommendations by offering retailers methods of collecting product preferences.Via mechanisms such as Swiper or Gift Finder. Brands will be able to offer customised gift guides that are effective in generating conversions.

Example: Galeries Lafayette’s Mother’s Day marketing campaign

To mark the occasion, Les Galeries Lafayette offered its customers the chance to win gift cards. This instant win strategy ( the Pinata) has enabled us to collect qualified leads and boost conversions.

This strategy, based on encouraging purchases, was based on an end page that directed users to offers, while encouraging them to use the gift card on the merchant site.

Galeries Lafayette - Mother's Day Piñata
Galeries Lafayette - pinata

Conclusion

Stand out from the crowd this Mother’s Day by offering your prospects and customers the chance to take part in a competition. Thanks to our 100% customisable mechanics, you’ll be able to capture buyers’ attention and move them up your sales funnel!

In 30 minutes, we show you how to launch your own high-performance interactive marketing campaign

Home and garden marketing: 3 examples of spring competitions

Home and garden marketing: 3 examples of spring competitions

Marketing in the home and garden sector is booming since the pandemic, with the French investing in their living spaces. According to a study by the Fédération Française du Bricolage, spending on home improvements has risen by 6.2% in 2020. The gardening market is expected to grow by 16% in 2021.

This growth has been accompanied by increased competition, with :

  • The arrival of new players,
  • The rise of digital commerce
  • The ehigher expectations of consumers, more and more of whom are taking up DIY without necessarily being experts.

Faced with these challenges, it’s essential for brands to adapt to trends and offer solutions tailored to the audience’s expectations. In this article, we share advice and examples of how to capture attention and boost sales through competitions during spring.

Marketing challenges in the home and garden sector

The home and garden sector has a number of characteristics:

  • a wide range of products, from home furnishings and decorations to garden equipment;
  • its seasonality, with demand influenced by trends and the weather;
  • more complex logistics, for stock management, for product delivery and assembly/returns, etc.

Because of these particularities, the marketing challenges faced by retailers are different from those faced by other sectors.

1. Marketing based on trends and product innovation

The home and garden sector is influenced by trends, in terms of design, materials or technology (think of connected home tools). Brands must innovate to meet consumers’ changing needs. They are looking to improve their quality of life and personalise their space.

2. A seasonal sector requiring effective demand management

Demand for products related to gardening, home maintenance and decoration peaks according to the season. Garden equipment and plants are popular in spring and summer. Heating and home decoration products can experience a sales surge in winter.

The major vertical brands need to optimise their campaigns around the seasons. What’s more, they are banking on an ultra-wide catalogue in order to be attractive and profitable throughout the year.

3. The omnichannel challenge and the digitalisation of the shopping experience

The home and garden sector has undergone a digital transition, with an increasing number of consumers researching and purchasing products online. An omnichannel trend is a challenge for brands, who need to offer a consistent experience online and in-store.

Castorama has incorporated digital technology into its sales strategy, offering customers the option of reserving items online and collecting them in-store. The chain uses digital solutions to advise customers, with video tutorials and advice. As for Leroy Merlin, its application allows users looking for a product in the catalogue to consult stocks in real time in the nearest shop or to check delivery availability.

4. A personalised offering and a focus on sustainability

Consumers are sensitive to product quality, origin and environmental impact. The home and garden sector is affected by the sustainability trend, and is being called on to offer eco-responsible products and sustainable renovation solutions.

5. Customer loyalty and brand experience

The home and garden sector relies on building customer loyalty, as these products are purchased on a recurring basis (home improvement, renovation, maintenance). Building customer loyalty involves reward programs, personalised advice and high-quality after-sales service.

One example is Leroy Merlin, whose ‘Leroy Merlin Club’ loyalty program offers discounts, tailor-made advice and access to free delivery services to the brand’s best customers. Leroy Merlin also offers DIY workshops to build loyalty among shoppers and encourage them to return to the store.

Why organise a spring competition?

Spring is a strategic time for brands in the home and garden sector, as it marks the start of the gardening and landscaping season. It’s a time when consumers start to take an interest in renovation projects and home maintenance (after the winter and the famous spring cleaning).

This is important for brands that don’t communicate on other spring highlights (like Easter) and need to boost their communications at this time of year.

Home and garden retailers can capitalise on the arrival of spring by organising a competition. This strategy will enable them to achieve commercial objectives, including visibility, an increase in their conversion rate and customer retention.

1. Boost awareness with a spring competition

Spring is the time to raise the profile of your home furnishings brand, as consumers are focused on improving their environment and DIY projects.

For DIY chains, the challenge is to remain ‘top of mind’ during this time of year and to position as the essential brand for getting spring projects off the ground. The competition is the ideal format for widening the audience (using fun mechanisms and the promise of attractive rewards) while promoting their seasonal offers.

Example: Showroomprivé’s ‘Garden Party’ campaign, based on a one-armed Bandit instant win, highlighted seasonal products to celebrate the arrival of spring. This fun in-app feature gave visibility to the brand and its partner brands, and encouraged sales.

Showroomprivé - one-armed bandit garden party

2. Attract shoppers to the shop and generate more conversions

Spring is a time when consumers, motivated by the warm weather, want to take action. Spring campaigns can encourage customers to visit shops to buy gardening, DIY or outdoor decoration products.

Competitions are effective here, as they enable retailers to share incentives to buy (in the form of exclusive, time-limited discount vouchers). Gamification acts as a drive-to-store lever. By organising events directly in-store (such as DIY workshops, demonstrations, prize draws), companies attract customers to their point of sale and encourage them to make purchases.

Example: Aushopping chose Outrun to raise the profile of its shopping centres. The scheme, which focused on customer engagement and recruiting new leads, encouraged web-to-store traffic at this time of year. The campaign achieved an conversion rate: all visitors to the game filled in the form and played, underlining the appeal of the operation.

Aushopping - spring competition

3. Increase your retention rate

The issue of loyalty is crucial for brands, which need to encourage their customers to return to the shop and buy from the brand. To do this, they rely on a high-quality after-sales service or offer an innovative loyalty program, giving access to attractive benefits (discounts, etc.) as well as personalised services.

The competition can be reserved for the company’s VIP customers. But it also serves as a data collection tool. By refining its customer knowledge, the brand can then share recommendations, targeted resources and advice, depending on the project.

Example: The main aim of Lidl’s ‘Les rendez-vous jardin’ campaign was to increase the visibility and awareness of the chain’s garden catalogue. It aimed to generate leads and collect opt-ins so that they could be ‘fed’ via marketing campaigns throughout the year.

Lidl - tape taupe spring competition

Conclusion

Spring is a crucial time for your home improvement or DIY store. By organising a competition on this theme, you can more easily highlight your seasonal offers, attract shoppers to your shops and win their loyalty with recommendations and personalised content. Find out more about our fun ways to boost your communications during this key sales period!

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The end of printed flyers – why turn to e-catalogues?

The end of printed flyers – why turn to e-catalogues?

Le prix du papier s’envole, et les questions environnementales deviennent de plus en plus pressantes, c’est pourquoi on parle depuis quelques temps de la fin du catalogue papierDes initiatives comme Stop Pub ou Oui Pub existent depuis maintenant des années. L’inquiétude face aux prospectus n’est donc pas récente. Mais pourquoi entend-on subitement parler du e-catalogue ?

Cela est dû à l’annonce d’un grand groupe agroalimentaire qui a fait trembler le monde de la publicité et du marketing. E.Leclerc a décidé de ne plus distribuer de catalogues papiers dans la boîte aux lettres des Français. Ce qui a lancé le sujet de la digitalisation des catalogues papier.

Bien sûr, cette annonce n’est pas au goût de tous. Le catalogue représente une certaine nostalgie, toutes générations confondues. Mais alors que la durée de vie d’un catalogue tient au temps qu’il passe sur la table basse des Français, la digitalisation de celui-ci apparaît comme une solution plus simple et écologique, qui pourra suivre le consommateur partout où il va. 

Non seulement impactant écologiquement, il s’agit également pour ces enseignes de grande distribution d’entrer en conformité avec les normes de confidentialité des données. Alors comment toucher ces consommateurs qui ont déjà fermé leurs boîtes aux lettres aux catalogues et quelles sont les solutions existantes pour anticiper la fin des prospectus dès cette année ?

Between the environment and the RGPD, why are printed flyers doomed to disappear?

Why say goodbye to paper catalogues?

Créer un prospectus demande beaucoup de ressources et d’énergie, il est considéré comme un déchet non recyclable. Alors que l’Europe s’engage à réduire son émission de gaz à effet de serre, le transport de ces catalogues jusqu’à nos boîtes aux lettres est considéré comme trop polluant. 

En ce qui concerne la norme RGPD, le prospectus papier est très difficile à rendre conforme aux exigences de confidentialité et de sécurité des données. Ainsi, les entreprises choisissent de plus en plus de passer au format numérique pour leurs campagnes publicitaires afin de respecter les impératifs environnementaux et réglementaires.

Digital solutions as an alternative to flyers

Les médias numériques, qui peuvent offrir des contenus plus riches et plus interactifs, attirent aujourd’hui plus de consommateurs. Les technologies de l’information et de la communication permettent aux entreprises de communiquer directement avec les clients. Tout en leur fournissant des informations pertinentes et personnalisées, ce qui enrichît le e-catalogue. De plus en plus d’entreprises optent pour la promotion digitale pour promouvoir leurs produits et services. De plus, le coût des médias numériques est beaucoup plus faible que celui du papier, offrant ainsi de nombreux avantages aux entreprises.

When will flyers be a thing of the past?

Il n’est pas possible de déterminer avec certitude quand le prospectus papier disparaîtra définitivement. Cependant, de plus en plus de marques et de détaillants optent pour des alternatives numériques. Les solutions de promotions digitalisées permettent de réduire les coûts de production et de collecter des données en respectant le RGPD. Ces nouvelles solutions offrent des avantages en termes de traçabilité et d’engagement.

Social networks and e-catalogues: all the solutions you need to prepare for the end of flyers

How do you set up digital promotions?

Il existe des solutions pour se préparer à la fin des prospectus vers le e-catalogue. Plusieurs plateformes peuvent être utilisées comme canaux de communication et offrent de nombreux avantages, liés à l’engagement et au tracking des données. Il est vrai qu’un catalogue dans une boîte aux lettres ne garantit pas qu’il soit lu. 

Le catalogue numérique est facile à mettre à jour et à partager, il peut être libre d’accès pour un large public en ligne. C’est un outil très utile qui ravira les plus nostalgiques puisqu’il garde l’essence même du catalogue papier. Le e-catalogue peut également détailler des offres ou des produits, tout comme son prédécesseur.

Les newsletters peuvent contenir les offres du moment ou une redirection vers le E-catalogue, le site marchant ou l’application mobile. Les e-mails peuvent faire découvrir de nouvelles gammes de produits, avec des bons de réduction personnalisés selon les préférences clients, tout comme un catalogue.

Aujourd’hui il n’est plus possible de se détourner des réseaux sociaux, c’est indéniable. Vous avez sûrement vous-même déjà plusieurs comptes à votre actif ! Ces plateformes sont un excellent moyen de promouvoir un catalogue mais aussi d’interagir avec une audience. La possibilité de détecter des tendances et de répondre directement aux clients rend la diffusion du catalogue plus complète. Entre les “j’aime”, les partages et les commentaires, ce sont autant de moyens que les clients ont pour faire part de leurs avis !

What would it look like to create an interactive catalogue?

Le temps du client qui tourne passivement les pages du catalogue est révolu ! 

Aujourd’hui vous pouvez non seulement faire passer du temps avec votre marque, mais également détecter les préférences clients, faciliter le parcours utilisateur et ainsi faire découvrir vos offres de manière plus efficace. 

L’avantage de ce nouveau modèle est le nombre d’options qui peuvent y être ajoutées. Filtres, recherches ou options de navigation, toutes ces données peuvent-être collectées et utilisées pour fidéliser une base client mais aussi convertir à l’achat. Des images, des vidéos, des avis ou encore des liens vers des services supplémentaires permettent d’augmenter l’engagement d’un e-catalogue. Les possibilités sont infinies.

Our advice on how to stand out from the crowd and kick-start your digital transition

Capturing users’ attention can be difficult. Games remain an effective way of interacting with consumers and getting them to spend time with your brand. Promoting an e-catalogue through games is simple and will also enable you to meet your marketing objectives, whatever they may be. Enough to make you forget about the paper version!

End of e-catalogue flyers

A native gaming experience in display slots

La bannière display interactive booste l’engagement et la performance des publicités. Elle optimise la visibilité des bannières publicitaires et favorise l’interaction au service de vos objectifs marketing !

Idéales pour donner de la visibilité aux campagnes, ces bannières display augmentent la mémorisation et le temps passé sur les campagnes. Il sera possible d’y mettre en avant des produits ou des promotions. Grâce à une redirection vers le e-catalogue ou le site marchand, optimisez le parcours utilisateur tout en engageant votre audience.

interactive display format

Social networks such as Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok are ideal platforms to promote a digital catalogue. Adapt your strategy to the age, format and trend of your target consumer. It’s just as precise as putting a flyer in a letterbox, I promise!

Each social network offers a different interface with specific advantages. All of them can promote an e-catalogue and redirect users to a website, Facebook shop or Instagram shopping page. In this new digital age, creating an interactive catalogue is simple and effective.

Facebook / Instagram & Tik-Tok examples

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Conclusion

The end of flyers may frighten some people. After all, they have been part of our daily lives for decades. But as consumers increasingly question their ecological impact, it’s time to look at other alternatives for promoting products or services.

Whether through games, emailing, display banners or social networks, let consumers tell you what they want by interacting with them. This will be more effective than monitoring the stickers stuck on the letterbox!

You’re now ready to take the plunge and anticipate this change this year. We look forward to leafing through your new catalogues… and swiping, of course!

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