Traveloka has unveiled a sequence of “low-budget” trying adverts to promote its upcoming mega sale in Singapore, titled “Traveloka Singapore Epic Sale”. Posted throughout its Facebook and Instagram platforms, Traveloka used seemingly unpolished adverts with working bins round its textual content and pictures. In one explicit Instagram publish, Traveloka additionally posted an image of one in every of its out-of-home (OOH) adverts that options an ad introduced on a Microsoft Word doc.
The ad was accompanied with the caption: “Did we actually simply create a billboard with out design funds? Well, it was a alternative between supplying you with guys an epic low cost or this. Easy determination.”
If you’re questioning why this advertising execution rings a bell, it could be as a result of Subway used an analogous advertising messaging when it was selling its Meat Stack sub final yr in October. Subway created “unpolished” adverts that it claimed to be created by an intern.
Running throughout each Singapore and Malaysia market, Subway mentioned in one in every of its adverts that it had to select between utilizing contemporary meat for a hypervalue sub with poor advertising, or only a typical sub with professionals dictating its adverts.
In a dialog with MARKETING-INTERACTIVE, Pascal Gekko, head of worldwide lodging, Traveloka, mentioned the primary inspiration behind the art work of its “no design funds adverts” was taken from an analogous sale it ran in Indonesia in 2020, the place its OOH was introduced in an e-mail screenshot. “The OOH placement generated loads of buzz on social media. We needed to see how we may carry that profitable guerilla marketing campaign from Indonesia to Singapore, while showcasing the model’s enjoyable facet on this comparatively new market,” Gekko mentioned.
Gekko additionally mentioned that the adverts have been created by placing its viewers first. “We knew Singaporeans would resonate with a model that’s sincere and daring sufficient to poke enjoyable at themselves. We knew we had a fully unbelievable sale that will promote itself, so it got here down to doing copy-based adverts, stripped of its normal attractive vacation visuals,” he added.
“We actually did go all out with the low cost and reduce on every thing else, together with the design of our adverts. All the static visuals you see on OOH, social media and our personal media have been developed internally. So certainly, an enormous chunk of our advertising funds was channelled into the sale itself,” Gekko mentioned.
While Traveloka claims its adverts are performed in-house, Subway’s earlier adverts have been performed in collaboration with its artistic company VaynerMedia APAC. MARKETING-INTERACTIVE has reached out to Subway and VaynerMedia for an announcement.
While bearing a lot resemblance, Traveloka is just not the one model to have created an analogous advertising messaging that tells shoppers that it lower on design funds to carry the very best merchandise to them. In November final yr, Circles.Life additionally created a poorly-designed ad for its Black Friday sale, paying homage to Subway’s Meat Stack sub ad a month in the past. The ad, which was pictured to be performed on Microsoft Paint, mentioned that the telco spent all its advertising funds giving its shoppers “limitless every thing”. It even cheekily signed off the artwork work as James, aged 25.
Marketing essential for Traveloka’s sale
Besides creating these “no design funds” adverts, Traveloka’s Gekko additionally advised MARKETING-INTERACTIVE it’s trying to promote its mega sale by 360 diploma advertising actions to be a magnet for its viewers combine in Singapore that may construct their pursuits, want, then flip it into actions. Traveloka might be targeted on leveraging on each advertising channel, and amplifying its earned and natural advertising channels for the marketing campaign.
“With the rising wants of frugality and low-cost attain, rising fields of experience in search engine optimisation, content material advertising, social media, and neighborhood advertising would full the standard advertising channel. Lastly, utilising new advertising channels akin to livestreaming and new social media platforms akin to Telegram have been additionally a part of the technique,” Gekko added.
Earlier final month, Traveloka additionally launched the identical mega sale in Indonesia. It reportedly partnered with over 27,000 of its enterprise companions for the sale, which is aimed to revive the tourism sector in Indonesia. Quoting VP of market administration lodging at Traveloka, John Safenson, Kompas mentioned the sale is a possibility to assist its enterprise companions enhance gross sales, in addition to encourage shoppers in Indonesia to preserve travelling and buying journey and life-style merchandise. The sale will include journey and life-style merchandise that might be closely discounted, some even up to 80%, Safenson added.
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