Warc, 28 April 2014
NEW YORK: Kellogg's, the breakfast cereal maker, has found
consumers to be more receptive to larger form digital ads when promoting
Special K, its slimmers' product.
Amaya Garbayo, Kellogg's associate director/analytics and
portfolio solutions, outlined to a recent conference its research into
consumers' unaided recall of the various larger display formats available and
reported that the results were "quite impressive". (For more,
including how a new digital mindset is emerging, read Warc's exclusive report:
Kellogg's Special K discovers power of large-form digital ads.)
Not surprisingly, full-screen interactive placements
generated the greatest response, but skin/index digital ads were close behind
and for simpler large-canvas ads consumers were still 80% more likely to
remember the brands being advertised.
Garbayo was also struck by that fact that respondents not
only remembered the placement itself but also recalled a "substantial
amount" of content from the advertisement.
"And that's very important for us, particularly for
Special K Protein, in that we're starting to convey a more complex
message," she said.
In addition to basic recall, Kellogg's also sought to
discover how "likeable" its digital pieces were. Standard display ads
evoked no emotion, but the reaction to a full-screen interactive takeover was
twice as popular as the standard unit. Skinwraps and large canvas displays also
drove a lift in ad likeability.
Garbayo attributed this to the fact that the larger ad
formats were "more entertaining and more educational for the
consumer" and were also something that people would talk about.
She concluded that consumers believed the entertainment and
educational value was worth the interruption.
Shawn Baron, director/research and insights at digital
consultancy Undertone, which carried out the research, conceded that finding
larger scale ads that broke through clutter was not
"earth-shattering", but argued the study had utility for the
commissioning brand.
"Not only did we receive greater brand recall for
Special K, but [we also learned] that consumers were more likely to recall key
elements of the creative messaging and also the product attributes," he
said.
Data sourced from Warc
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