Nestle Cereal Partners wanted to investigate the benefits of working directly with Morrisons.com to assist with driving awareness and sales of cereals. To optimise their approach in converting a wider audience, we used a combination of both Branded advertising units and Product placement. Key search terms
were recommended and defined along with a set of taxonomy pages
to help us ensure the shopper saw the brand at the right time and place during their online shopping journey.
1. The Brand advertising units
were delivered across 1 million impressions; generating a CTR of 0.93%, (ie: 9,930
incremental clicks). The top three taxonomy pages affected by this campaign were:
- Favourites | +3.59%
increase
- Fruit Veg | +0.71%
increase
- Milk | +0.68%
increase
The brand advertising units also had a broader impact on what customers searched for on Morrisons.com. The term ‘Milk’ increased by +2.1%, ‘Cereal’ rose by +1.63%, and ‘Bread’ went up by +1.03%.
2. The Product placement ad units
delivered 851,000 impressions; generating a CTR of 0.42%, (ie: 3,633
incremental clicks). The same taxonomy pages were affected:
- Favourites | +2.53% increase
- Fruit Veg | +0.64 increase- Cereal | +0.58% increase
Other breakfast item search terms saw an increase, such as ‘Orange Juice’ which rose by +1.88%, ‘Bread’ by +1.29%, and ‘Juice’ by +0.91%.
The data proved that the advertising was highly effective at driving incremental ‘add to baskets’, and the client has subsequently upweighted their on-going presence on Morrisons.com.