Shifting target audiences and reframing how consumers use a product can be risky for any brand. Jack Link’s CMO shares how the brand expanded its marketing to include an entirely new target audience without alienating its core customer. How did its media and messaging strategies deliver sales lift and an increase in key brand metrics, maintaining Jack Link’s as the #1 meat snack brand.
5. HOW TO DO IT
REFRAME
WIN
OCCASIONS
DRIVE
CONVERSION
From Jerky to Everyday Protein Snack
HOME WORK FITNESS OUTDOOR
EACH OCCASION WILL HAVE ITS OWN UNIQUE WAY TO WIN
Out of Store, In-Store, Search, E-COMM
14. RESULTS AND OPPORTUNITY AREAS
We believe our balanced approach to expanding our target audience while still
being true to our core consumer has aided in our success over the last 2 years.
KEY WINS OPPORTUNITY AREAS
• Revisit the role of occasions
• More Surgical audience targeting
• Product-specific messaging & targeting
Brand
Awareness
Aided +10
Unaided + 6
HH
Penetration
+2pts
Web
Traffic
+62%
Sales +5%
Our research showed that our desired consumer, the Protein Seeker, consume snacks at home and work, as well as on-the-go. We opted to focus on home and work as our primary locations to link meat snacks with various tasks in those locations (grass cutting, working late, etc.) We also wanted to reach an active audience, so we targeted a more fitness oriented audience with relevant messaging.
Top-down, bottom up approach to media allowed us to generate awareness and consideration at the ‘Notice/Engage’ level of the funnel with tactics such as linear TV and OLV. The bottom-up approach enabled us to focus on driving into retail with tactics like geo-fenced mobile and programmatic out of home and driving to the website with performance-driven digital media like paid search, social, and display banners.
We went from focusing our media spend predominantly on linear TV to diversifying our spend across a multi-channel media mix. Our channel selections included linear TV, online radio and video, online and mobile banners, outdoor billboards, paid social, and gas station video.
We showcased how meat, as the original protein, helped people power through tasks in the past and today. We also decided that despite a shift in direction for our creative to appeal with a new audience, but not forget the current consumer, we made an effort to ensure Sasquatch continued to play a role.
For positive correlation: When we turn media on, we see a similar trend in sales data