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Post Summary:
- The Top Performing Content Formats
- Best Time of Day to Drive Traffic, by Device
- 7 Super Bowl Campaigns
- Ad Predictions, Super Bowl ’18
- Methodology
The Super Bowl is coming up later this week, and without advertising, Super Bowl would be like Donald Trump without a tan…
…Impossible.
As you may know, we have a tremendous wealth of data here at Nudge, and this year we’ve vowed to share more of that with you guys, than ever before.
So, in this post, I’m looking closer at the best performing content formats for branded content during Super Bowl, as well as the best times to distribute your content.
I’m also sharing a few of our favorite Super Bowl campaigns from previous years, as well as advertising predictions ahead of gameday.
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The top performing content formats, by quality [i.e. attention minutes], during Super Bowl ’17:
- Video – 1.09 attention minutes
- Quiz – 0.94 attention minutes
- Video + article – 0.94 attention minutes
- Image Gallery – 0.83 attention minutes
- Article – 0.82 attention minutes
Amongst the top 5 content formats, attention is on average 14% higher during Super Bowl than the Nudge Benchmark.
In fact, each of the above-mentioned formats performed better than the overall Nudge benchmark (0.8 attention minutes), which goes to show that people are more responsive when it comes to branded content amid the Super Bowl season.
Work device type into your day parting
Different devices are more/less effective during certain hours of the day.
Based on Nudge data, I found some distribution times to keep in mind, split out by device:
7 Great Super Bowl Campaigns
The trend during Super Bowl is certainly lighter, low involvement content on game day [and not surprisingly, a lot of food content.]
These were some of our favorite Super Bowl campaigns over the past couple of years.
Article: Win Game Day with These Party Tips
I love this piece by Hormel Foods + Real Simple. This piece is centered around planning a game day party that your friends will be talking about for days to come. Its simple execution is brought to life through great storytelling.
Facebook Video: NFL Does UK Street Slang
“This lad flew out to Texas for the Super Bowl without having a clue about the NFL”, is a hilarious piece by NFL + Lad Bible. A British ‘lad’ goes around trying some quintessential American things, like line dancing and ‘some proper local cuisine’ (bbq), before finishing off his journey attending the 2016 Super Bowl. Very engaging.
Image Gallery: Puppy Bowl XIV Starting Lineup
Pedigree + Animal Planet’s ‘Puppy Bowl XIV Starting Lineup’ is a fun and creative piece, which efficiently elevated Pedigree’s brand. Who doesn’t love a good dog gallery?
Article: 9 Sweet Proposals From Pro Football Players
The Knot + NFL teamed up to present a sponsored series featuring some seriously “aww”-worthy proposals—from both players and fans.
Facebook video: Tastemade + PepsiCo [Tostitos]
PepsiCo + Tastemade show how to make, what looks to be, delicious “spinach dip onion rings”. The recipe includes a range of products from PepsiCo’s brand ‘Tostitos’, which elevates the brand nicely. The campaign anchors itself around the hashtag #GameDayGrubMatch, which is a simple, yet effective way of incorporating the big game into their campaign.
Article: Latina Tía’s VS Football Players. Who Has The Best Touchdown Moves?
‘Latina Tía’s VS Football Players. Who Has The Best Touchdown Moves?’ is a fun article by NFL + mitú’s. Gifs are used throughout the article, showing how NFL players and Latino families go head to head with their best dance moves. It’s up to the reader to decide who wins.
Article + Video: How to get NFL swag — no credit card swiping required
‘How to get NFL swag — no credit card swiping required’ is a neat piece by Visa + Mashable. They’ve included a video in their article; Nudge benchmarks show that when a video is incorporated into an article, it not only increases time spent engaging with the content (than most other formats), it also increases conversion rates.
Advertising Predictions ahead of Gameday
For this part, our good friend Joe Puglisi, Head of Branded Content at The Players’ Tribune, has shared his thoughts and advertising predictions ahead of the big game.
When asked about whether he thinks there will be any big advertising changes compared with previous years’ Joe said, “There will be more surprises than last year. There is zero incentive to release your spot before the game, many more marketers are hip to that now”.
“[There will be] Less gimmicks, more politics: brands will have spent a ton of time and energy to try and capitalize on the hyper-charged political climate and make a statement”.
Joe’s also made a prediction about this year’s halftime show, by concluding that “Justin Timberlake will NOT bring Janet Jackson onstage”!
Can’t argue with that.
Methodology: How we Come Up with These Recommendations
Content types:
One of the things marketers will be asking themselves whilst planning a new campaign is:
“Which content format should we adopt?”.
In order to create the best content, we believe that art needs to be informed by science [to some degree].
So, which content format should you be using for Super Bowl?
Easy. To understand this, we simply need to look to a metric called attention minutes; attention minutes is a quality metric that enables marketers to track each second that a person is actively consuming their content. It also discounts the empty clicks where someone barely even sets their eyes on a page.
Learn more about attention minutes in my guest post for nativeadvertising.com.
For this piece of research, I derived the best performing content formats by looking at all Nudge’s measured campaigns during last year’s Super Bowl.
Distribution Insights:
It’s important to work device type into your day parting, to ensure that your budget is stretched and utilized as efficiently as possible.
To figure this part out, I simply reviewed all impressions, by device, over the past few years of Super Bowl.
If you’ve found this data valuable and/or interesting, there’s plenty more of where that came from.
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