Accountants and marketers are targeted
in two new campaigns by The Trade Desk (TTD) and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) that both address working in today's digital landscape.
TTD's first newspaper advertising
campaign seeks to entertain advertising, marketing and business communities, while raising awareness about its services.
The creative, developed by creative agency VSA Partners, includes three
print ads with sarcastic headlines in large, bold white font: “Possibly The Worst Ad We’ll Ever Run,” “Buying This Ad Was Excruciating,” and “This Pretty Much Goes
Against Everything We Believe.”
The messaging is counterintuitive, designed to capture the transformational shift taking place in modern marketing, from mass media to data-driven,
customer-targeted digital channels, says Susan Vobejda, CMO, TTD.
The campaign first appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times International, The Wall Street Journal
and The Mercury News through the week of September 10.
"Although this is the first time TTD has done a newspaper advertising campaign, we think it will be the last -- but we
never say never," jokes Vobejda.
Separately, the IMA is emphasizing how accounting and finance professionals who earn the group's Certified Management Accountant are better positioned to
thrive in the digital age.
The multichannel campaign, developed in partnership with The Gate/New York, plays like a buddy film. A CMA discusses his friendship with a robot when they cook
together, sing karaoke and work "hand in glove." The robot points out the hand has an office, while the glove doesn't.
"They’re just not equals -- much to the chagrin of the robot," says David Bernstein, Chief Creative Officer, The Gate/New York.
The spots end with the IMA's tagline "You've got to earn it" -- building on last year’s campaign, which focused on the fact
that robots are coming into the world of accounting and a CMA credential could help accountants survive.
Here is a link.
The media
buy uses programmatic television, radio, digital, social media, and search engine marketing in the U.S. In addition, IMA is extending select campaign components in Europe, the Middle East, India,
China and Southeast Asia, according to Beau Fraser, president, The Gate/New York.