HERSHEY’S Campaign Hits the Sweet Spot with Cord Cutters and Saves $1.5M

The setup

HERSHEY’S wanted to drive awareness of their #NotSorry REESE’S campaign by targeting a new advanced audience to drive incremental reach while managing ad exposure frequency.
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HERSHEY’S, in partnership with VideoAmp, helped scale REESE’S efforts across digital with data-driven insights, using historical linear performance and cross-screen measurement to unveil new audience attributes. HERSHEY’S discovered that the most effective way to reach their qualified audience of cord cutters ages 18–34 was to optimize toward OTT and mobile.

Ultimately, the REESE’S campaign was able to maximize incremental reach at a controlled average frequency of 2.3. To achieve equivalent reach on linear TV, however, HERSHEY’S would have had to spend an additional $1.84 million. By partnering with VideoAmp, HERSHEY’S successfully achieved their goals while executing at a fraction of their linear investment. In total, HERSHEY’S was able to save $1.5 million on their #NotSorry REESE’S campaign.

Goals

Reach

cord cutters ages 18–34 who have never seen the REESE’S linear TV ad spot.

Reach

cord cutters ages 18–34 who have never seen the REESE’S linear TV ad spot.

Reach

cord cutters ages 18–34 who have never seen the REESE’S linear TV ad spot.

Approach

Measure

Historical linear performance and discover new audience attributes to identify cord cutters ages 18–34 who never saw a REESE’S linear TV ad spot, and create additional suppression segments for those who had already been exposed.

Activate

Against the new advanced audience segments across digital, while excluding the suppression segments, to maximize campaign reach and manage frequency at the user level.

Deliver

Granular, data-driven insights highlighting the allocation of budget across tactics and advanced audiences to scale and diversify the campaign, decreasing cost per reach and increasing on-target incremental reach across screens and devices.