Planters: EVERYDAY ADVENTURES

Credits & Description:

Advertiser: KRAFT FOODS
Agency: STARCOM MEDIAVEST GROUP
Category: Best Use of Ambient Media: Small Scale
Advertising campaign: EVERYDAY ADVENTURES
Experience Designer: Amy Karr (Starcom MediaVest Group)
Associate Director: Matt Bogusz (Starcom MediaVest Group)

Effectiveness
Planters NUTrition interacted with more than 300,000 Zipsters across platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and email and over 25,000 live samples and coupons were distributed. DaringDetours.com earned more than 10,700 unique visitors, spending approximately 1:30 minutes per visit. Judging by these results, we’re well on our way to achieving the annual goal of 4% trial rate among health enthusiasts. Most importantly, we reached overlapping social media-ready communities that hadn’t been the focus of our client’s marketing strategies. Subsidizing Zipcar travel, while increasing Planters’ brand awareness, was a true symbiotic relationship.

Execution
The “Daring Detours” program began with a curated collection of exciting itineraries in each of Zipcar’s 14 cities. To fuel the campaign, Zipcar brand ambassadors distributed NUTrition Peanut Butter samples and “Ticket to Adventure” stubs were placed in vehicle cupholders. Nearly every Zipster uses a smartphone, and those who snapped the corresponding QR tag on the stub entered the “Daring Detours” mobile experience. We offered suggestions for active hot spots such as trampoline parks, rock-climbing gyms and zip lines. People who participated also found a downloadable digital coupon for NUTrition. We encouraged Zipsters to share their adventures on social media. Listening as the social chatter increased, we amplified Zipster stories through Klout activations. Participants posted photos of themselves on Instagram with hashtags #NUTritionPB and #zipcar to earn a $25 account credit and the chance to win a free Zipcar for a year.

Strategy
It’s hard to improve on something as perfect as peanut butter. Kraft decided to meet that challenge by formulating a delicious version for active adults, adding extra ingredients like granola and berries, resulting in a protein-packed fuel called Planters NUTrition.We knew our health enthusiast audience was diet conscious, active and inherently mobile. We needed to introduce a fresh take on an old staple, and the result was Everyday Adventures - a program that integrated traditional product giveaways with mobile outreach. But we didn’t limit “mobile” in our campaign to wireless communications. We found significant overlap between health enthusiasts and car-sharing subscribers. Zipcar is the most popular U.S. car-sharing service and Zipsters, Zipcar customers, rely on their cars to navigate local hotspots, take road trips and most importantly, go to the grocery store. In a first-of-its-kind experience, Kraft partnered with Zipcar for the centerpiece of its mobile execution.