Today, February 13th, marks World Radio Day 2019 and to celebrate, a new case study has been revealed about Flahavan’s use of radio to increase sales.
Choose Radio, the umbrella organisation for the promotion of radio advertising in Ireland, and Flahavan’s, carried out the multi-platform collaboration study over a three-week period in September 2018.
The teams donned their creative hats, developed a campaign that ran on air and online showcasing the many varied possibilities that radio offers.
Overnight Oats was a brand new to market product as well as a first in category item when launched in early 2018. Flahavan’s worked with Choose Radio to create a case study to demonstrate the wide breadth of what a well-planned campaign with radio can achieve. It featured a combination of radio ad spots devised by BBDO and radio stations creating their own local video content which was then pushed out across their social channels and websites.
The case study results, were revealed at a breakfast briefing this morning, attended by many of Ireland’s leading advertising and media buying organisations.
Independent research from B&A, market data analysis from Stephen Rust, Joint Managing Director of Visualise.ie and Tom Harper, Director of Annalect Ireland showed that during the campaign:
- Awareness of Flahavan’s Overnight Oats improved from 29% in August to 37% post the advertising campaign in October. This is a statistically significant improvement of the order of 28%.
- While a brand new product to the Irish market and off a small base, sales had increased 269% during campaign versus the 3 weeks prior; with sales more than doubling across all major retailers.
- During the Radio campaign sales of Overnight Oats had a stronger uplift, at full retail price, than when a price reduction was run as a standalone promotion.
Chairperson of Choose Radio, Gabrielle Cummins said: “The special, loyal relationship that each individual listener forms with their favourite radio station cannot be taken for granted. We wanted to demonstrate how all our radio presenters understand and connect with their specific target audience in every single county in Ireland.
“34 radio stations utilised their own social platforms in an innovative & relatable way which augmented the powerful, traditional, radio tool of spot advertising. This proved to be both entertaining for each station’s target audience while at the time effectively communicating Flahavan’s key brand messages.
“Advertising agencies have been demanding case studies and now Choose Radio has produced the first of many all industry, collaborative case studies. We look forward to engaging more with advertising agencies and their clients to further demonstrate the unique power of radio advertising.”
John Noonan, Sales & Marketing Director of Flahavan’s said: “We were delighted to partner with Choose Radio for this case study. It was an easy decision as Flahavan’s has identified radio as a key medium for the brand over many years and it is an important component in our annual communications plan.
“As leader in the Irish oats market, we are keen to keep to the forefront of new trends in oat consumption. Oats are already well recognised for their health benefits and Overnight Oats introduces a new way of enjoying them. We felt that our Flahavan’s Overnight Oats was ideal to use for this case study as it has an important role to play in the evolving lifestyle needs of consumers at breakfast time.
“We were pleased with the success of the campaign at stimulating interest, increasing brand awareness and ultimately encouraging trial and education of this new breakfast concept. The campaign delivered strong results for this new product launch.”
We’re delighted @gokathrynthomas will be hosting our breakfast briefing this Wednesday where we’ll share impressive results from our first of its kind, multi platform case study with @FlahavansIRL #WorldRadioDay #ChooseRadio @IBIreland @LearningWaves pic.twitter.com/mylK1U9z0C
— Choose Radio (@ChooseRadioIE) February 11, 2019
Pictured (l-r) were radio and television presenter Kathryn Thomas, Gabrielle Cummins, Chairperson Choose Radio, John Noonan, Sales and Marketing Director Flahavan’s and Newstalk’s Dr Ciara Kelly on World Radio Day for the release of Choose Radio and Flahavan’s case study results. The Choose Radio Group and the Flahavan’s team developed a campaign that ran on air and online showcasing the many varied possibilities that radio offers that had outstanding positive impact on sales. Picture Conor McCabe Photography.