Cheapflights.co.uk

The Challenge:

Demonstrate the direct correlation between marketing investment and response efficacy whilst establishing brand messaging and driving site traffic, overcoming the brand generic for Cheapflights.co.uk. The campaign was timed to run during June/July 2010, with the added noise and National distraction of the Football World Cup. 

Driving Traffic, Delivering Results

Maximising Opportunity & Effect

 

What we did:

Selected 3 x core regions served by 9 x major international airports covering the vast majority of the population whilst enabling the potential to run 'controlled test' activity across the campaign period.

Radio activity ran across major regional stations delivering  brand messaging and call to action driving site visits throughout the campaign.

A focussed key day of week laydown strategy was implemented to ensure highest site visit opportunities and deliver greatest ROI potential.

A World Cup match day avoidance plan was developed to ensure no clashes. Thermochronic planning was used to take consideration for weather patterns and the relative effect of flight/holiday booking habits.

Online activity was planned to support across relevant travel and leisure sites, as well as across ad exchanges driving 000's of optimised site numbers.

The Results:

Post campaign analytics proved a direct effect against active days of week when the campaign was running in our core regions and an increase in site traffic.

This resulted in a highly profitable business outcome as ROI improved 5 fold across the campaign period.