Radio Case Studies

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Exploiting sonic identity on radio
Airtime
Awareness
Telecoms
AA
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How radio helped AA launch their new brand campaign on the road to success
Airtime
Awareness
Motors
Commuting & School Run
Audi
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Using radio to drive awareness within a multi-media campaign
Branded content
Awareness
Motors
Audi
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Audi Cabriolet Week 2009 – preaching to the convertibles
Airtime
Footfall
Motors
Audi
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Radio extends the customer base
Airtime
Response
Motors
Travelling in Car
Autoglass
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How radio directly drives business and brand
Airtime
Awareness
Motors
Travelling in Car
Autoglass
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Using radio to drive business efficiency
Airtime
Sales
Motors
Travelling in Car
BACARDI DJ
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Exploiting radio’s credibility and response power
Branded content
Response
FMCG
Eating/Drinking
Barclays
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Using local radio to connect with small businesses
Airtime
Awareness
Finance
British Airways
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Radio advertising helps BA’s web traffic and online ticket sales ‘take-off’
Airtime
Response
Travel
British Airways
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Exploiting radio sponsorship to change brand perceptions amongst a wider audience.
Branded content
Awareness
Travel
Commuting
Cadbury
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Using radio for a deeper engagement with a specific target audience
Branded content
Awareness
FMCG
Canon
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Using radio to achieve standout in a busy marketplace
Airtime
Awareness
Technology
Hobbies
Change4Life
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Using beyond the spot to mobilise listeners and drive behavioural change
Airtime
Consideration
Government
Channel 5
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New “Minder” on Five: using radio to create word-of-mouth
Both
Awareness
Entertainment
Churchill
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Using radio to multiply the effect of TV
Airtime
Consideration
Insurance
Clinique
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Using Radio to reach women during their morning routine for a beauty product range
Both
Awareness
FMCG
Washing
Comfort
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Radio successfully multiplies the effects of a TV campaign
Airtime
Awareness
FMCG
Housework & Shopping
Comic Relief
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Using radio to extend the brand across the year
Branded content
Awareness
Charity
Shopping
Department for Transport
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radio encourages drivers to think of bikers as real people
Airtime
Response
Government
Travelling in Car
Department for Transport
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Radio encourages drivers to think of bikers as real people
Airtime
Awareness
Travel
Travelling in Car
Diet Coke
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An integrated radio led media idea drives brand measures and consumption
Both
Perception
FMCG
Domino's
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Using radio in conjunction with TV to deliver a sales uplift
Both
Sales
FMCG
Eating/Drinking & Commuting
Dove
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Utilising radio’s cost efficiency and ability to reach listeners at a key time of the morning to increase saliency
Branded content
Perception
FMCG
Washing
EE
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Using radio to help build awareness of EE’s ‘Love to Share’ message
Branded content
Awareness
Telecoms
Egg Money
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Getting a new brand talked about on a huge scale
Branded content
Awareness
Finance
Five
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New “Minder” on Five: using radio to create word-of-mouth
Branded content
Awareness
Entertainment
Relaxing
Ford Galaxy
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Targeting families with compelling content to drive consideration and sales
Branded content
Consideration
Motors
Travelling in Car
Frank
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Using radio to get inside the world of teenagers
Airtime
Response
Charity
Relaxing
Garnier
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Using radio to drive awareness at a targeted level
Branded content
Awareness
FMCG
GiffGaff
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Using radio to help drive awareness and understanding of a new brand
Branded content
Awareness
Telecoms
H&M
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Driving a specific community in-store to support a new store opening
Branded content
Footfall
Retail
H&M - Fashion Against Aids
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Leveraging radio’s power to access the world of music
Branded content
Sales
Retail
HP
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Using Radio to drive engagement with Millenials across multiple platforms.
Branded content
Awareness
Technology
Halifax
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Harnessing radio’s ability to connect with young audiences
Branded content
Perception
Finance
Studying
Halifax
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Radio was successful in targeting 11 to 15 year olds
Airtime
Awareness
Finance
Studying
Heinz
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Encouraging existing customers to use Heinz as an alternative cooking ingredient
Branded content
Perception
FMCG
Cooking
Heinz - VIDEO
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How brands can harness fully the emotional influence of radio to drive their business.
Both
Perception
FMCG
Cooking
Heinz Baked Beans
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Using radio scheduling to maximise profitable levels of business
Airtime
Sales
FMCG
Cooking
Intel
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Driving understanding of a product benefit to generate Sales
Branded content
Awareness
Technology
Intel Core 2 Duo Processor
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Driving excitement in new technology by association with music
Branded content
Perception
Technology
Journey Latin America
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Dramatising the Core Values of a Boutique Travel Brand to Increase Web Traffic
Branded content
Response
Travel
Kleenex
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Using radio, during the cold and flu season, Kleenex Anti-Viral needed to build awareness of its core benefit
Airtime
Sales
FMCG
Shopping
Lights Out London
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Mobilising people to be green with a unique radio experiment
Both
Awareness
Charity
MORE TH>N
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Maintaining brand status using ongoing ad funded content
Branded content
Consideration
Insurance
MORE TH>N
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Using radio to build trust and loyalty
Branded content
Perception
Insurance
Household Admin
Macmillan Cancer Relief
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Changing donors’ understanding of cancer
Airtime
Response
Charity
Magners
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Radio delivers exceptional ROI £8.66 return for every £1 spent
Branded content
Awareness
FMCG
Socialising & Relaxing
Maltesers
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Reinvigorating a brand through listeners’ love of music
Branded content
Sales
FMCG
Housework
Martell
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How a well targeted radio promotion can efficiently drive online response and a high conversion rate
Branded content
Response
FMCG
Mattesson's Smoked Pork Sausages
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Radio is the crucial ingredient in driving consideration
Airtime
Perception
FMCG
McDonald’s
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Using radio to help target a young audience and make them fall back in love with a product
Branded content
Sales
Restaurants
Met police anti knife crime
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Using radio to engage youth in an online conversation
Airtime
Response
Charity
Mitsubishi
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Using the localness of radio to generate text response amongst working men
Airtime
Response
Motors
Nando's
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Building brand understanding to drive business
Both
Awareness
Restaurants
Eating/Drinking
Nando's
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Using radio to change people’s minds
Airtime
Perception
Restaurants
Commuting
National Autism Society
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Driving understanding of autism with a classic Big Idea
Airtime
Response
Charity
Nescafe
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Repositioning Nescafe as a ‘Kick start your day
Branded content
Perception
FMCG
Commuting
O2 Guru
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How a well-targeted radio campaign can drive online response and reinforce brand identity.
Airtime
Response
Telecoms
Commuting
One Scotland
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Using radio’s credentials to mobilise young audiences behind a serious issue
Branded content
Response
Charity
Operation Trident
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Involving a resistant audience through the listener DJ relationship
Branded content
Perception
Government
Orange
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Using radio to target 16-24s
Branded content
Footfall
Telecoms
P&O Ferries
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Exploiting radio’s ability to mobilise local audiences
Branded content
Sales
Travel
Pepsi Max
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Taking the ‘No Sugar’ message through radio into podcasts
Branded content
Perception
FMCG
Peugeot 107
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Harnessing radio’s ability to create coolness
Airtime
Sales
Motors
Travelling in Car
Powerade
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Creating stand out in a competitive market
Branded content
Sales
FMCG
Royal Mail Special Delivery
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Building brand credibility through beyond the spot activity
Branded content
Awareness
B2B
At Work
Sainsbury's
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Using radio to deliver impressive ROI
Airtime
Sales
Retail
School Run
Sing Up
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Using the power of local radio to sign up nearly 1,000 schools to a new initiative
Branded content
Response
Charity
School Run
Sky
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Radio branded content drives re-appraisal within challenging audience
Branded content
Awareness
Entertainment
Sky Movies
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Radio cost-efficiently recruits movie fans at Christmas
Branded content
Sales
Entertainment
Southern Comfort
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Using radio to bring the meaning of a brand to life
Branded content
Consideration
FMCG
Stolichnaya
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Using radio to re-awaken awareness of a classic brand
Branded content
Awareness
FMCG
Socialising
Strongbow
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Creating “thirst appeal” at relevant times to generate high response
Branded content
Response
FMCG
Eating/Drinking
Strongbow
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A radio promotion with a website competition increases audience involvement
Both
Response
FMCG
Eating/Drinking
TFL
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Connecting with an audience at the right time and in the right place
Airtime
Awareness
Government
Travelling in Car
The Gift
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Radio plays a key support role to TV in maintaining cinema admission rates.
Airtime
Awareness
Entertainment
Thomson Cruises
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How radio mobilises listener interest
Branded content
Perception
Travel
Three Mobile
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Using listener response to demonstrate a complex product offering
Branded content
Awareness
Telecoms
Tilda
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Using branded content on radio to drive sales
Branded content
Response
FMCG
Cooking
Ting Pepsi
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A new brand launches using solus radio
Both
Awareness
FMCG
UPS
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Re-positioning a global brand amongst a local SME audience
Branded content
Perception
B2B
UPS
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Befriending small businesses when the crunch hit
Airtime
Perception
B2B
At Work
VW Passat
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Radio’s influence among drivers increases dealer visits
Airtime
Footfall
Motors
Travelling in Car
Vauxhall
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Improving brand Perception with a football sponsorship
Branded content
Perception
Motors
Travelling in Car
Vauxhall Omega
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Using radio audience to reach an AB Men 35-54 audience
Branded content
Perception
Motors
Relaxing
Vodafone Live Hour
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Using radio programming to build a distinct brand advantage
Branded content
Awareness
Telecoms
Volkswagen Vans
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Using radio to reach van drivers in-vehicle and change brand perceptions
Airtime
Consideration
Motors
Travelling in Car
Waitrose
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How radio creates a constant, dominant presence
Branded content
Response
Retail
Commuting
West Midlands Casualty Reduction Scheme
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‘Death Calling’ on radio challenges drivers using mobile phones
Airtime
Awareness
Charity
Travelling in Car
Wilkinson Sword
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Using a regional campaign to test radio for a new advertiser
Airtime
Awareness
FMCG
Washing
Windows 7
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The launch of Windows 7 was critical for Microsoft, to fight back against the growth of Apple and other rivals
Branded content
Consideration
Technology
Xbox Lips
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Grabbing attention through innovative use of radio
Branded content
Awareness
Entertainment
Yakult
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Using radio to target at breakfast
Branded content
Awareness
FMCG
Eating/Drinking