Monday, June 18, 2018

Week 3: Reach or Frequency?



Reach: Red Bull
Red Bull’s strength is in organizing events to drive brand awareness. Obviously, their multi-pronged reach ranges from online TV, live streaming, movies, and documentaries to offline promotions, such as music festival, fashion show, and even car racing. Count how many audiences they are reaching through these events. While the “Space Project” is reaching out to an international audience, there are also local events to target specific audience in each city.

References:
Red Bull Stream/TV, which also available on AppleTV and distributed digitally on connected TVs, smartphones, tablets, and on its website

Space Project - mission to the edge of space

GoPro & Red Bull - "Stratos"

Movie - sport film, documentary

Music Festival - Lollapalooza

Fashion Show

Red Bull news/media/news report

Local events all around the world

8 Marketing Lessons We Can Learn From Red Bull

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Frequency: SK-II
The beauty industry still focuses a lot of its resources on the traditional media, such as television commercials, print advertisements and live demo in shopping malls. The reach might be site-specific but the frequency is extremely high as if it is all around the potential consumers every week in every season. When it comes to creativity and design, the advertisements do not offer much. While they are professionally produced, the advertisements are almost always characterized with a closeup of smooth, vibrant, and perfect face as well as that of the featured products. If not for the high frequency of the message, it would be hard to differentiate it amongst all other cosmetic brands.

I think the main reason leading to the two brands’ different media strategies is primarily the product itself. While people from all walks of life can consume Red Bull (an energy drinks), only women use SK-II products generally. Also, Red Bull is a popular choice of refreshment after athletic events, so sports sponsorship uses the direct marketing approach to build brand awareness.

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