Case Study: Growing support for The Red Cross
In 2018, Unruly launched a pro bono charity ad campaign in Sweden to help The Red Cross, the global charity dedicated to supporting communities around the world when crisis strikes.
The ad campaign was designed to generate awareness among donors, increase support of humanitarian causes and compassionate values. The charity also wanted the campaign to generate new leads to grow future donations.
Harnessing the power of emotional data
The Red Cross partnered with Unruly to harness the power of emotional data and targeting, to ensure the ad campaign was as effective as it could be.
The charity produced three videos which evoked emotions of sadness, pride and warm-heartedness. Audiences also said they felt informed when watching the videos.
The intended audience was urbanites aged 25 and over. In order to reach this audience, the brand used Unruly’s proprietary targeting tool UnrulyEQ to test the videos and find the most engaged audience (bullseye group) to target and increase the core key performance indicators.
The ad was then targeted at the bullseye audiences and distributed at scale across our Premium Publisher Network. The video players were customised with bespoke brand bars and sharing buttons to boost brand recall and interactions.
Smashing the campaign results
The results were extraordinary. The campaign delivered an amazing 279,769 full completed video views!
What’s more, with the use of the custom audience targeting (building the audience with the most intense emotional response to the video) the campaign achieved an extra 90,000 completed views. The UnrulyEQ Customer Audience targeting video also achieved an uplift click-through rate of more than 28% and more than 10% uplift in average time spent with the video.
The campaign over delivered by of 3%, which resulted in 7,042 views in added media value and brand awareness. The total completion rate for both films was 51.25% which is a great result in comparison to our benchmark. Viewability scored 73.30%, beating MOATs industry benchmark in Sweden of 59.3%. The campaign delivered a total of 3,246 hours spent with the brand!
The Red Cross was extremely impressed with the results which hit all of its campaign objectives and smashed expectations!
“Unruly was quick to understand the needs of our charity ad campaign. Through both analysis and optimisation, Unruly contributed to an increase in engagement and distribution of Red Cross material. The Unruly custom analysis and the emotional data targeting generated increased donations to the Red Cross. This was valuable in helping us hit specific campaign goals and in generating insights which will help to inform our future communication strategy.”
