Consumer packaged goods are the biggest advertisers in online video, regularly accounting for about one-quarter to one-third of online video ad spend. But does the money actually
work? Are consumers going to stores and buying more toothpaste, soap, cereal and so on?
A case study from online video technology provider Videology says yes. Videology recently worked with a CPG brand — a food product with particular health
benefits -- on a targeted online video campaign to augment a TV buy, although the firm declined to share the name of the marketer. The targeting was designed to reach women 35 to 44, with behavioral
targeting layered in to reach those with children and those who were interested in health, diet and fitness, and using purchase behavior to reach those women who had bought within the product category
before, Videology explained. The tech shop then partnered with WPP’s Kantar Shopcom shopping data platform to compare the purchase behavior of those exposed to the online video ads to a control
group not exposed to it.
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The result during the four-week study was an 8% increase in dollars spent on the brand for those exposed to the ads, a 9% lift in the percentage of
households purchasing the brand, and a 10% increase in units sold per 100 households.
Those are powerful boosts especially in a category that relies on 1% to 2%
increases.