Discover how TV stations of all types and sizes are finding success with promotions – and how you can too – in the How TV Is Crushing It with Promotions webinar, where I was joined by Sara Droke, the Manager of Contests and Promotions for WPSD, and Kent Oglesby, the Internet Director for KY3.
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Liz Crider
Director of Affiliate Success
Second Street
@emcrider
Sara Droke
Director of Emerging Media
WPSD-TV
@sjdroke
Kent Oglesby
New Media Development Manager
KY3-TV
@KentOgs
Welcome!
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Why TV & Promotions
• BIG Business with BIG Opportunity
• Drive Viewers
• Drive Email & Data for YOUR station
• Drive Results for YOUR advertisers
• Make TV Accessible to More Advertisers
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“Our plan takes the stress out
of working across
departments and let’s us sell
more efficiently!”
-Sara Droke, WPSD-TV
Why a Plan Matters…
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"Planning is the key! It allow us to
have an edge on our competition by
being first to market with
promotional ideas, plus it gives our
reps more time to efficiently
prospect for specific promotions.”
-Kent Oglesby, KY3-TV
Why a Plan Matters…
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How to Plan Your Promotions
1. Internal Initiatives
2. Programming
3. Local Events/Happenings
4. Historical Data
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Calendar: Seasonal PortionMonth Seasons/Holidays Local Events Initiatives Sales Top Performers
Jan New Year's
Get Fit Special
Section
Categories:
Health Care
Automotive
Financial
Restaurants
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Specific
Advertisers:
Trader Joe’s
Commerce
Bank
Children’s Hospital
Café Napoli
CONTESTS:
Kids & Babies
Sweepstakes
Custom Sports
Big Giveaway
Pets
Fan Spirit
Talent
Advertiser Specific
Travel & Vacation
Couples
BALLOTS:
Metro
High School Sports
Holidays
Wedding
Food
Sports
Family Favorites
Local Events
Bands
Thematic Deep Dive
ECOMMERCE:
Golf Card
Holiday Store
Mother’s Day Store
Father’s Day Store
Spa Card
Travel Offers
Restaurant Offers
Recreation Offers
Event Offers
Theme Weeks
Feb Valentine's Day Mardi Gras Bridal Guide
Mar St. Patrick's Day
College Basketball
Tournament
Golf Section
Basketball Section
Apr Easter Baseball Opening Day
Best Of Awards
Event
May
Mother's Day
Memorial Day
Summer Travel Issue
Graduation Section
Salute to Nurses
Jun Father's Day
Jul Independence Day
Music Festival
State Fair
Aug
High School Football
Back to School
HS Football Section
Sep Labor Day
College Football
Pro Football
Pro Football Section
Oct Halloween
County Fair
Breast Cancer 5K
Paint the Paper Pink
Nov Thanksgiving Holiday Gift Guide
Dec
Christmas
Hanukkah Holiday Parade
Contest Idea Brainstorm
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Why They Work for TV
• Local, custom branding
• Local, weekly prizes from sponsor
• Align with programming
• Sponsor coupon on contest page
• On-air Talent act as VIP Pickers
• Attract the hard to reach male
viewer
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Why They Work for TV
• Local, custom branding
• Local AND National Prizes
• Align with programming
• Fun for viewers and on air talent
• Ideal for smaller businesses like
movie theaters and concert
venues
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Why They Work for TV
• Attract a very targeted audience
perfect for small advertisers
• Drive content to use on air and
online
• Collect valuable data for
advertisers
• Social and Sharable
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Why They Work for TV
• Easy to participate means a LOT
of entries
• Run a sweeps to grow YOUR
database
• Use sweepstakes to drive
advertiser results
• Ask survey questions for even
more data
• Staple in your program
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Why They Work for TV
• Solution for smaller advertisers to
benefit from television
• New advertiser categories for you
to target
• Drive foot traffic to your
advertisers’ business
• Proven solution to generate big
revenue
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Why They Work for TV
• Incredibly social and sharable
• Fun for your onair talent
• Great way to capture data about
your audience
• Can be customized for advertiser
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Why They Work for TV
• Create niche ballots to target a
specific group of advertisers and
viewers
• Learn about your viewer habits
and interests
• Target lots of sponsors and
businesses in one promotion
• Align with programming and
inititavies
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Fan’s Choice Ballots
Category Ideas:
•Best Offensive Player
•Best Defensive Player
•Best Tailgate Spot
•Best Tailgate Food
•Best Place to Watch a Game
•Best Place to Celebrate a Win
•Best Hotel
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February
1. Watch & Win during Sweeps
2. Auto Racing
3. Oscars and/or Grammys Pick’em
4. Movie Awards Trivia Quiz
5. Date Night Sweeps
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March
1. College Basketball Bracket
2. Fans’ Choice Ballot
3. Restaurant Theme Week
4. Which MLB Player Are You? Quiz
5. Pot of Gold Sweepstakes
6. Cutest Pet Photo Contest
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Q&A
Liz Crider
Director of Affiliate Success
Second Street
liz@secondstreet.com
@emcrider
Sara Droke
Director of Emerging Media
WPSD-TV
@sjdroke
Kent Oglesby
New Media Development Manager
KY3-TV
@KentOgs
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It’s my job to help our partners succeed with online promotions
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We are a software company and are really proud to offer an online promotions suite to media companies including contests, ballots, ecommerce and quizzes – that help generate digital revenue, build social and email databases, and drive measurable results for advertisers
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Why are promotions so important to my digital revenue growth? Why should I be focused on promotions at all?
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This chart from Borrell Associates shows the growth in online promotions spending. We are currently seeing that 40BB is being spent by local advertisers in 2014.
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By 2017 that number will double to 80BB!
WHY?
Because Advertisers want to be a part of promotions because they ignite interactions with potential consumers in ways that traditional advertising alone can’t duplicate
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Why are promotions so important to my digital revenue growth? Why should I be focused on promotions at all?
Because promotions are big business with big money and bigg results. I’m really excited to have to people here that strongly believe in promotions and have invested in them – and seen some incredible results both for their station and for their advertisers. So in a nutshell – I think Kent and Sara would agree – Promotions are a business – with a LOT of opportunity!
Promotions are also a way to make television advertising more accessible to more advertisers – this is something I did when I was still on the TV side – smaller advertisers could participate in deals or sponsorships or giveaways and they were able to see the benefit and power of TV – which can turn into additional spends and more revenue in the future.
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Introduce – ask for a quick overview of the market and why promotions are important to you!
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Market landscape
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Introduce – ask for market landscape and why promotions are important to you!
KENT – market landscape
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Why is planning so important?
If you don’t put the right pieces in place, you’ll never reach your goal; these things don’t happen magically
We all have the wish to grow revenue, so let’s talk about the ways you can do that
Calendar of things that is done every year – challenge station to do $6k monthly in promotions – but the calendar helps alleviate the stress when working across departments! Also able to work further out – working in March and beyond now
KENT – why it matters
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While you don’t need to be the home of NFL football to be crusing it with your football pickem contest – if you ARE broadcasting it –you have no reason to not run the contest!
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Even if you aren’t broadcasting the actual game – you are still talking about it during sports, in the morning show, on liine – so why not capitalize on that and run a sports contest as well!
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Advertiser goal was branding –
Advertiser was thrilled
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Kent running this year for the first time w/ sponsor
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Title sponsors and secondary sponsors – doubled revenue YOY
176 submissions
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Multiple sponsors – gym, spa, clothing, hair - $4K for 3 weeks
Photo submission and why need a new you
Film the winner getting ‘made over’ and air package in news
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Kent running this year for the first time w/ sponsor
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Weekly prizes – year long contest -
1271 submissions
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Identified people in the market that wanted to buy hearing aids, want more info, who was in market to finance, book 8 consultations
Gathering data with survey questions
164 qualified leads
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4K advertiser opt ins
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GREAT for driving vieweres at a designated time – especially during ratings periods. GREAT way to get viewers to watch your air and visit your webiste to enter to win.
VERY high barrier to entry – you are asking viewers to take a lot of steps to enter so make sure your contest is fantastic!!
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Driving viewers to 5-6a newscast to see winner
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Kent running this year for the first time w/ sponsor
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FT Wayne – DMA 109
Sara – spa Card
Valentine’s Day, Mom’s Day, Christmas
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Land businesses that have not done deals in the past
Extra week of volume/revenue – daily and theme week
Year long plan – spa week, deli week, golf week, bbq, burger
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Planning ahead – looking at top deals and front loading – gives sales time to sell
Limited quantity
Started doing theme weeks - quarterly
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Kent running this year for the first time w/ sponsor
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WDAF – Kansas City – DMA 31
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KAKE – Wichita KS – DMA 66
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Cleveland – dma 19
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Wichita Eagle – a newspaper beat TV to the punch on a TV specific quiz – so we need to hop to it!
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Head to twitter or look in the GTM chat panel – we will give you the link!
Lot’s of great turnkey quizzes available – Valentine’s Day, Big Game, Golf, Bride, Movie Awards – not to mention the millions you could create on your own
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Kent running this year for the first time w/ sponsor
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Notre Dame Football
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Pick the best comic for Sunday comic section. Helped build an internal database
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Question for Kent & Sara – What is the benefit of promotions for your station? Why do you like them? Why do advertisers like them?
Sara: Promotions allow advertisers to build a database of their own – for the station you are able to follow up with another sale.
Kent: Exciting, fun, build social, build database, advertisers like them, email addresses, big splash of exposure during the promotion