Great to see a big brand realising that people use ad-blockers and that the place to be is where their customers are. On Social.
With a measurement not on eyeballs or impressions but on engagement.
As with any sports brand there is a big use of influencers. Influence marketing, always puts your products and services in front of people a new audience and the brand also understands that people don't buy into "Adidas" they buy into the fact that Pharrell Williams uses Adidas. Subtle difference, but a difference anyway. This is the same for B2C and B2B.
They are also taking a brave risk by using user generated content (UGC) but after-all who wants to see some Adidas corporate marketing, nobody does, what we want to see is user generated content (it will be funnier, provide more engagement, be more of the now). We will then share and amplify, making sure that the Adidas message gets far and wide. You could call it free advertising, but the sort that isn't blocked in fact we like it.
If this is interesting also check out Copa90, as Alex Low says "They don’t buy any football footage at all, it is all crowd sourced from the fans, employee advocacy on steroids and massive brands use them because it is genuinely authentic." Boom!
Adidas is building a media strategy that values ads not by impressions, but on the audience attention and engagement they deliver. Adidas’ core consumers are big ad-blockers, so moving away from traditional digital media buying is the most effective way to reach its audience, said four separate executives with knowledge of Adidas’ plans. That means instead working directly with publishers and influencers that have loyal audiences, rather than relying on proxies for reach.
https://digiday.com/marketing/adidas-tests-new-media-strategy-world-cup-campaign/
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