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Mother’s Day: 3 examples of original marketing competitions

by Agnes Constant | Mar 18, 2025 | Animation, Animation, Captivate the audience, Captivate the audience

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.

SUMMARY

Mother’s Day: a key commercial event for brands
1. Mother’s Day competitions to stimulate your community
2. A Mother’s Day sales promotion to engage customers
3. A marketing game to generate sales for Mother’s Day

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

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.

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

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!

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Home and garden marketing: 3 examples of spring competitions

by Agnes Constant | Feb 20, 2025 | Branding, Captivate the audience

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.

SUMMARY

Marketing challenges in the home and garden sector
Why organise a spring competition game?

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.

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.

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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Corum L’Épargne: sports marketing and gamification to boost brand awareness

by Agnes Constant | Dec 3, 2024 | Branding, Captivate the audience, Use Case

CORUM L’Épargne is just one of the brands that have embraced gamification as a communications tool.This French company, which offers transparents and accessibl savings solutions, has chosen Playable Marketing coupled with sports sponsorship to raise its profile and effectively address its audience.

In this article, we’ll look at the relevance of gamification in meeting marketing challenges of the banking sector in general, and CORUM l’Épargne in particular. Through examples of playable campaigns she has run alongside Adictiz, Lucie Odoux, Head of Sports Sponsorship, shares with us the best practices she has learned from them.

SUMMARY

Why has CORUM l’Épargne chosen gamification to optimise its marketing campaign ?
2 examples of successful gamification campaigns
3 tips for boosting marketing awareness through gamification

Why has Corum l’Épargne chosen gamification to optimise its marketing campaigns?

The banking sector is facing a number of challenges: creating a closer relationship with a younger audience, improving the customer experience, increasing user loyalty, adapting to new digital communication and usage channels, and so on.

To meet all these challenges, and in particular to strengthen its reputation, CORUM l’Épargne has decided to implement a gamification strategy. As the company has been heavily involved in sport sinces 2018 (supporting 21 athletes in a wide variety of disciplines), gaming is part of its brand DNA. But above all, playable marketing enabled it to achieve several of its commercial objectives.

Boosting awareness marketing through gamification

Above all, gaming is an excellent way to satnd out from the crowd and reach a wider audience.

As Lucie Odoux, Head of Sports Sponsorship, explains in her testimonial:

Gamification allows us to address a new audience, or at least our audience, but in a different, more playful way. It allows players to spend more time with the brand, without really realising it.

By offering fun marketing games, CORUM l’Épargne’s primary objective is to develop its brand awareness. The idea is to multiply the points of contact with its audience via interactive and engaging experiences, in order to work on the presence of mind.

The games enable the company to collect new contacts (via opt-in forms for subscribing to its mailing list and sharing opt-in forms)). New contacts that the company would not necessarily have been able to reach with more traditional communications, such as members of GenZ for example.

Generally speaking, playable marketing is an excellent way of modernising your brand image and humanising your branding. Interactive formats are highly effective in engaging audiences around unifying values and creating a strong emotional bond that traditional communications (static advertising, etc.) are unable to generate.

Raising awareness of the need for better financial management

In a sector as complex and sensitive as banking and savings, play-based marketing can also be a way of raising awareness and educating customers. This is especially true when you’re targeting a fairly young audience, for whom it’s important to share good practice in a fun way.

With these marketing games, CORUM l’Épargne is making its saving message much more accessible. It is also demonstrating transparency, a strong value for the company, by helping its users to understand where they are investing their money.

Improving customer relations and building audience loyalty

Finally, gamification helps to strengthen the bond with its audience: a major challenge for a 100% digital player like CORUM L’Épargne. Gamification makes it possible to extend the time that users spend with the brand: qualitative time that creates a stronger customer relationship, based on positive emotions such as surpassing oneself, creativity, etc.

It’s also a lever for maintaining contact that has been established with prospects and new customers by collecting opt-in data. But also by collecting customer data (via a participation form or by analysing interactions within the game) so that they can be reactivated later with personalised, and therefore more powerful, content.

2 examples of successful gamification campaigns

To achieve these objectives, CORUM L’Épargne has set up two gamification campaigns:

A customizer to boost your marketing profile

The company was involved in sailing, with a boat taking part in various races such as the Vendée Globe and the Route of Rhum, and decided to use this as a lever to raise its profile. With the boat due to undergo major modifications before its next participation in a race, CORUM L’Épargne took the opportunity to involve its audience in the project to decorate the hull and sail.

The Customizer mechanism was ideal for inviting users to suggest ideas for decorations (with elements chosen by the brand beforehand). The players were then able to submit various proposals for the artistic decoration of the boat.

The campaign worjed very well with the CORUM L’Épargne audience, as it allowed them to take an activa part in a mjor project for the brand and let their creativity shine through. The Customizer enabled the company to achieve an excellent opt-in rate (via subscription to its newsletter) and thus raise its profile with its target audience.

A game mini-site to optimise your sports marketing

CORUM L’Épargne has also used Playable Marketing to engage its audience and reaffirm its commitment to sport. As a reminder, the company supports 21 athletes in a wide vartiety of disciplines, from fencing and climbing to judo and Formula 2 racing.

As sport is a powerful lever for reaching a wide audience, but also for engaging its public and uniting them around strong values, the company has combined its sports marketing to its gamification strategy. To this end, it has launched a site with six mini sports games allowing users to discover six of the athletes supported by the brand.

This immersive experience enabled CORUM to bring participants into the sporting world of its athletes, while maximising the time spent with brand.

3 tips for boosting marketing awareness through gamification

Drawing on her experience of gamified marketing, Lucie Odoux shares 3 tips on how to optimise your campaigns and turn them into powerful levers for building brand awareness.

Choosing the right entertainment format, depending on tis strategic objective and target audience. They key is to offer an interactive experience that is aligned with the brand’s universe (in this case, sport) and the results you want to achieve. To boost its brand awareness, CORUM relied on popular sports games, but also on initiatives that anebled its audience toget involved in a major renovation project.

Track the right KPIs to assess the effectiveness of your campaign and improve what needs to be improved. CORUM L’Épargne wanted to raise its profile, so it monitored its brand image with a sufficiently large panel. The company also monitored its number of subscribers on social networks and its opt-in rate (two key metrics for assessing its ability to reach a new audience).

Equip yourself with an effective gamification marketing tool. CORUM chose Adicitiz to give it access to a wide variety of games that are both highly adaptable and easy to customise ot its challenges. It also enlisted the support of the Adictiz teams to create high-quality, innovative experiences and work on the media coverage of its campaigns to reach the right targets.

Conclusion

Gamification is a highly effective way of boosting brand awareness in marketing. Expand your audience and strengthen your brand image with our fun, interactive advertising tools!

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What are Playable Ads? Examples

by Agnes Constant | Nov 21, 2024 | Captivate the audience, Media

Against a backdrop of advertising saturation, brands need to redouble their creativity to capture the attention of their audience. To vary from traditional advertising formats, display banners can now be interactive and even playable. This is what is known as Playable Ads, a playable marketing advertising format that involves gamifying banner ads to make them more captivating, engaging and memorable.

In this article, we’re going to take a look at playable advertising and the many advantages it can offer your brand. W’e’ll also share some concrete examples to inspire you and some practical tips to boost your advertising strategy!

SUMMARY

What are Playable Ads?
What are the objectives of playable advertising?
5 examples of playable advertising to inspire you

What are Playable Ads?

Playable Ads are an interactive advertising format designed to capture the audience’s attention by offering them a playful experience. Drawing on the codes of video games, this format engages users by encouraging them to actively interact with the content, whether to solve a challenge, explore a world or complete a task.

Unlike traditional static banners, Playable Ads transform passive interaction into an immersive experience in which the user becomes an actor. This active participation stimulates attention and helps the message to be better remembered, increasing the chances of conversion and boosting the overall impact of the advertising campaign.

By playing on the pleasure of interaction, this advertising format not only improves engagement, but also key indicators such as click-through rates and time spent with the brand.

Playable Ads KPI’s

To assess the effectiveness of a Playable Ads campaign, several key performance indicators (KPIs) are used to measure both the traffic generated and the level of engagement. These KPIs include:

Number of impressions: corresponds to the number of times the ad has been loaded.
Visibility rate: indicates the proportion of impressions during which the ad was actually seen.
Click-through rate (CTR): for Playable Ads, this rate far exceeds the standards for traditional display formats, where the average CTR is around 0.46% (source 2023). For Playable Ads, it can be as high as 3.8% (internal benchmarks 2023/2024).
Click-to-play rate: this KPI measures the percentage of users who interact with the ad content. It is around 9.6%, demonstrating the ability of Playable Ads to generate interaction and engage a qualified audience.
Landing rate: calculates the ratio between clicks and visits to the site, indicating how many users continue their journey after interacting with the ad.

These indicators show that Playable Ads are particularly effective at capturing attention, engaging users and maximising the impact of campaigns.

The different display formats for Playable Ads

Playable advertising comes in different display formats. Each can be adapted to different display distribution networks:

The pavé: this is the most popular advertising format. It makes it easier to integrate Playable Ads into (or close to) editorial content. This has the advantage of limiting the effect of banner blindness and capturing consumers’ attention more effectively.

Interstitials: this format is compatible with a wide variety of creations. It can appear during natural transitions in an application or in an online gaming experience.

The wide angle or half-page: this stands out because of its size. It therefore has a greater impact and allows the advertiser’s animation and content to be displayed in greater detail.

The different mechanics of Playable Ads

Depending on the objectives it has set itself, the brand choose a suitable playable advertising mechanism. For example:

Engaging mechanics that display promotional codes and reproduce the idea of winning, such as scratch cards or wheel of fortune. The principle is simple and the reward immediate (display of a simple promotional code, for example), making it an excellent lever for visibility and engagement.

Interactive mechanisms such as Memory, Battle, Swiper or Quiz to capture product preferences and get to know your audience better while engaging them.

What are the objectives of playable advertising?

Like any traditional advertising format, Playable Ads enables brands to generate leads and convert new customers by highlighting their products and services and emphasising their value proposition.

Playable ads are a way of meeting strategic marketing challenges for retailers. Here are the main objectives of Playable Ads:

Brand awareness. The format allows you to stand out in a saturated advertising landscape while maximising engagement. As a fun, interactive experience, the Playable Ads format makes it easier to capture the audience’s attention and therefore gain visibility and brand awareness.

L’engagement. Contrairement à une publicité classique que l’on se contente de regarder, le format interactif encourage les prospects à passer du temps avec la marque. Les avantages sont évidents : les produits sont plus visibles, le trafic est optimisé, et l’engagement supérieur.

Qualification and conversion. The interactive mechanics of playable advertising are also a powerful lever for collecting customer data. For example, format such as Swiper or Battle are ideal for capitalising brand awareness and also attracts potentially more qualified traffic, making conversion more likely.

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5 examples of playable advertising to inspire you

Before you get started with Playable Advertising, you can take inspiration from the foolowing examples:

1. Raise your profile

Nickel used the Playable Ads format to promote the personalisation capability of its bank cards. users had to choose a card color via a Wheel of Fortune mechanic Once the wheel had been launched, users clicked om a map to discover the offer via one of 15 personalised messages.

2. Present the advantages of an offer

To support its TV advertising campaign on the connected station, Sowee used the Playable format to enable its audiences to discover the benefits of its product.

The Memory format was particularly effective here in familiarising prospects with the company’s unique value proposition. Participants had to reform pairs with items such as “fixed prices for 3 years” or “an offer with no commitment”.

Reinforce interaction with your audience

Neo-bank Floa has used Playable Ads to promote its available payment services and appeal to a younger audience segment that appreciates the flexibility offered by banks.

Users were invited to discover the payment facilities available to them (payment in instalments, no need for proof of payment, etc).

4. Reinventing the customer experience

Carrefour has decided to modernise its brand image by launching an interactive advertising campaign. Thanks to the playable advertising format, the brand offered its audience an immersive experience inspired by slot machines. Offering instant gratification, this format, customised to respect the brand’s universe, enabled Carrefour to better engage its prospects and customers. It was a fun and memorable experience that not only raised brand awareness, but also boosted sales by giving away vouchers.

5. Improve recall of the promotional message

Uber Eats has also opted for Playable Marketing to engage its audiences. The company opted for a captivating game mechanic called Rattrape-tout. Customised to reflect the world of Uber Eats, this marketing game enabled the brand to multiply and extend interactions with its audience by totally immersing them in its world. This unique and engaging experience encouraged the creation of an emotional connection, while giving the company the opportunity to anchor its key messages in the minds of consumers.

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3 ideas for Valentine’s Day campaigns to win over your customers

by Agnes Constant | Nov 19, 2024 | Animation, Captivate the audience, Non classifié(e)

Valentine’s Day is not a celebration for lovers. It’s also a commercial festival that has become a key date in the marketing calendar for brands. In 2024, Valentine’s Day spending in the UK reached significant levels, with an estimated total of over £1.5 billion, according to a study by Finder. This total reflects a notable increase in spending over the years, largely driven by around 65% of Brits who celebrate the day and have an average planned spend of £50 per person.

Valentine’s Day is actually one of the most important commercial holiday in UK, with Christmas and Halloween. It’s therefore an opportunity for brands to capitalise on consumers’ purchase intentions by offering them romantic gift ideas to give to their significant other.

To stand out from the crowd during this highly competitive time of the year your business can rely on a powerful marketing tool: gamification. By incorporating interactive mechanics into your audience’s attention and encourage them to purchase their gift from your brand.

In this article, we share 3 examples of gamified Valentine’s Day campaigns. You can draw inspiration from them to enhance your communication, engage your target audience more effectively, and boost your sales during this key commercial period.

SUMMARY

What goals should you aim in for your Valentine’s Day marketing campaign
3 Examples of gamification marketing campaigns for Valentine’s Day

What should you aim in for in a Valentine’s Day marketing campaign

Even though it remains the ultimate romantic holiday, Valentine’s Day is also an opportunity for brands to promote their offerings. This commercial holiday serves as a prime showcase for businesses that sell potential gifts for couples in love.

Of course, we think of the traditional bouquets of flowers. Industry professionals expect over a million flowers to be sold for Valentine’s Day this year, with two-thirds being red roses. However, florists are not the only merchants celebrating Valentine’s Day. Fashion, beauty, culture, hospitality… Many sectors are involved in Valentine’s Day marketing.

Don’t forget about singles, who are also targeted by brands during this key commercial period. On dating apps, the annual peak of activity tends to occur at the beginning of the year. Singles often make New Year’s resolutions, and apps like Happn see an increase of over 20% in their sign-ups during the month of February.

The main objective pursued by companies in their Valentine’s Day marketing is therefore to increase sales and revenue. The goal of the campaigns implemented is to raise consumer awareness of their offerings and encourage them to buy their Valentine’s Day gifts in-store (physical or digital).

But beyond the conversion objective, brands can also design their Valentine’s Day campaigns around other strategic goals.

Increase brand awareness

Valentine’s Day is an opportunity to gain visibility with a new audience. The aim of the campaign will be to boost brand awareness among couples (or singles) by leveraging viral marketing strategies (such as marketing contests, influencers collaborations, or co-branding).

Engage your customer community

After a quiet January following the holiday season, the marketing calendar kicks off with a bang thanks to Valentine’s Day. Businesses can take advantage of this key period to engage their audience. The idea is to increase interactions with the brand, particularly through gamification mechanics.

Contests, for example, encourage users to be creative and allow businesses to create user-generated content (UGC).

Collect data

Customer knowledge is also a significant aspect of Valentine’s Day marketing. Brands can leverage interactions with their audience to collect relevant data, particularly regarding product preferences, as well as opt-ins for their future communication campaigns. This information can be used throughout the year to better segment their clientele and send personalized content and offers.

Foster loyalty and strengthen brand attachment

By offering attractive rewards centered around love (such as romantic gateways, gift boxes, etc.), brands can boost customer retention. Marketing games can be offered post-purchase (to encourage repeat buying) or reserved for members of a VIP program to enhance loyalty. By rewarding its best customers, the company can strengthen brand attachment and secure significant revenue.

3 Examples of gamification marketing Campaigns for Valentine’s Day

To stand out from their competitors and boost the performance of their Valentine’s Day marketing strategy, an increasing number of companies are betting on gamification. Here are 3 inspiring campaigns to achieve commercial goals and engage their audience more effectively.

1. Electrolux: a Memory game to enrich their database during Valentine’s Day

On the occasion of Valentine’s Day, Electrolux launched a campaign aimed at enriching its database, specifically encouraging product registrations. Through an engaging game mechanic, the Memory, the brand was able to collect opt-in very effectively while showcasing its Duos product range.

Electrolux’s campaign generated significant enthusiasm, showcasing an excellent engagement rate (31K users and an average of 2 minutes per game session) and very good results in lead qualification. This campaign allowed the brand to retarget and retain acquired leads, highlighting the ability of a gamification marketing campaign to create meaningful interactions while achieving notable results in qualification.

Del Arte: a Shooter game to generate new leads

As every year, the Del Arte brand celebrates lovers on Valentine’s Day. The interactive campaign invites participants to play a Shooter game. They are then redirected to an instant-win opportunity to win particularly attractive prizes for the target audience (gift vouchers, Interflora bouquets, trips to Paris, etc)

The campaign primarily enabled the company to generate over 40k new sign-ups to its mailing list and opt-ins. These leads were then reactivated throughout the year through strategic marketing campaigns for the brand.

3. M&M’s: A shuffler game to boost Valentine’s Day sales

On the occasion of Valentine’s Day, My M&M’s launched a game to attract new customers by showcasing its product range. Users had to form all the pairs within a set time to access a Shuffler and immediately discover if they won their Valentine’s Day gift box. This highly engaging mechanic allowed M&M’s to generate 30k new leads.

Conclusion

Consumers are particularly attentive to brand content around Valentine’s Day. Capitalize on their purchase intentions and engagement to achieve your strategic goals by launching a gamified marketing campaign. To enhance your communication and boost your results, all you need to do is customize one of our marketing game mechanics!

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

by Audrey Edart | Feb 10, 2023 | Captivate the audience, Media

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 papier. Des 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 ?

SUMMARY

Between the environment and the RGPD, why are printed flyers doomed to disappear?
Social networks and e-catalogues: all the solutions you need to prepare for the end of printed flyers
Our advice on how to stand out from the crowd and kick-start your digital transition
Conclusion

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!

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.

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

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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