Nsac Book 3
Nsac Book 3
MISSION :
POSS I B L E
WITH ADOBE E XPER
IENC E C LO U D F O R A DV ERTISING
TEAM 872
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Adobe’s mission is to change the world through digital experiences. Since 1982, Adobe has developed innovative technology to
achieve this mission. Adobe Experience Cloud for Advertising is an adtech solution designed to streamline multiple advertising
processes, thus saving time and money for a wide variety of businesses around the world.
Although there are a variety of adtech solutions available — Google Ad Manager, Amazon Advertising, Facebook Ads, and more —
omnichannel capabilities set Adobe Experience Cloud for Advertising apart from the rest. This is the secret that delivers users
a seamless advertising experience from inception to completion.
Adobe Experience Cloud for Advertising is the programmatic advertising tool you need to make smarter media planning and buy-
ing decisions. With it, you will truly know your audience, making your advertising mission possible.
THE CHALLENGE
Raise unassisted awareness of Adobe’s adtech Capture 10,000 new decision-maker and
solution by two percent practitioner contacts
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Drive 50,000 visits to Adobe’s Experience Cloud Secure a spot in the top three for share of
for Advertising landing page voice for earned media
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Adobe gives everyone everything they need to design
and deliver exceptional digital experiences to Make Your What are the target audience professional
Mission: Possible. motivations?
OVERVIEW
TARGET THE TARGET
The target market for this campaign consists of buying centers. Key members throughout
the buying stage make up the personas within this target market.
evaluation process.
PRACTITIONER
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ADTECH PRIORITIES “
[My adtech] needs more
omnichannel positioning that
provides new opportunities.
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FIRST-PARTY DATA
AD PERFORMANCE - A company who hasn’t experienced the secret of Adobe’s Experience Cloud for Advertising
FEEDBACK
SURVEY REACH
$
OPTIMIZED
BIDDING/ MEDIA METRICS
FUNCTIONALITY
“
We’re always looking to upgrade
software, but no adtech meets all
expectations for every Rankings and percentages reflect survey responses from
35 advertising and marketing professionals in 10 states.
SWOT
experience as opposed to deterred by the fact that industry is on a continuous in the mix of the Experience
competitors, which are all there isn’t a specific price uprise. Cloud with all of the other
missing at least one channel. point. This makes it harder products Adobe includes.
to create cost-benefit 2. It’s estimated that
2. Adobe Experience Cloud analyses. 50% of searches will be 2. Competing with Google,
for Advertising is the first through voice this year; this Amazon and Facebook is
of its kind to be an end-to- presents an opportunity to difficult because they have
end platform for managing 2. Adobe cannot tailor digital ads to voice a strong brand presence,
advertising across simultaneously promise searching. or a strong foothold in the
traditional TV & digital a true omni-channel adtech market.
formats. experience for every 3. Since 2018, Google and
customer while also Facebook have experienced 3. Customers may choose
3. Has the capability to scale allowing prospects to pick- declining interest in their Google because they can
and layer insights and data. and-choose which elements takeover over the digital ad display their advertisements
they want. market share, opening up on Google’s Search and
4. It is a transparent product, the door for Adobe. YouTube as a free product.
and has no conflicts of 3. The product can be
interest as a media owner. overwhelming and 4. Adobe can increase 4. Customers may opt for
confusing for customer to market share by offering an a product that is easier to
learn and use. omni-channel adtech that’s learn and use.
affordable to non-enterprise
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S W O T
THREATS
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
THE MISSION CAMPAIGN INSIGHT
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MESSAGE STRATEGY
The goal is to build awareness and empower advertisers to
create the best campaigns possible. By appealing to the target
audience’s needs for a simpler and smarter solution, the secret
will get out that Adobe Experience Cloud for Advertising is the
key to making their mission possible. The message of the
campaign tactics portray the product as the secret to solving
their advertising needs.
CREATIVE BRIEF
PUBLIC RELATIONS
PRESS KIT
Press kits will be sent to 200 industry publications and newspapers, including PR Week, PR Daily,
AdAge, AdJournal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Wall Street Journal, and Harvard Business Review.
Press releases, a Q&A with the Adobe team about the product, and testimonials from product
users will be included to provide publications with all the necessary information to report on
the product.
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and the informational materials in the direct mail
marketing. Participants will be asked to fill out a
form to enter the sweepstakes on the landing page.
They will be required to enter their employer’s
name, their job position, and their professional
email address to ensure Adobe is securing credible
contacts. Landing pages are 220% more effective
at garnering leads than website call-to-actions.
In addition, participants will be redirected to the
Adobe Advertising Cloud webpage upon entry.
This will generate traffic to Adobe’s requested site.
PUBLIC RELATIONS
SOCIAL MEDIA FACEBOOK
THE VOICE
With 2.2 billion active monthly users, Facebook is a top
social media platform for advertising. Facebook’s targeting
functionality allows prospects to be identified using
Creative. Empowering. Fun. This is the voice that best aligns demographic and psychographic information, which includes
with Adobe’s goals while accomplishing the purpose of this targeting prospects by their specific job title. Spending $10,000
campaign. An established voice that spans across all social on Facebook ads will create the potential to reach 1.5 million
media platforms is essential to create consistency and make impressions (CPM).
Adobe easily recognizable.
HASHTAG(S) LINKEDIN
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A unified campaign hashtag will make it easier to uncover LinkedIn offers a high level of ad customization for
the secret. Both users and Adobe will be able to find content
STRATEGY & TACTICS
WHY IT WORKS
potential to reach 2.4 million impressions (CPM). With
660 million total users and 310 million monthly users
as of January 2020, LinkedIn is an effective platform for
Revenue for social media ads is forecasted to grow at an reaching business prospects.
annual rate of 10.5%.
TWITTER ORGANIC
INSTAGRAM PAID
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Instagram will be utilized to promote the sweepstakes because of Paid social media is essential for revenue growth
its interactive user platform and visually appealing social content. and brand awareness; for this reason, Facebook
Bi-weekly posts on Adobe’s account will promote the sweepstakes and LinkedIn will be the focus of the campaign’s
and encourage the target market to enter. The Instagram posts will paid media efforts. Using the “job title” options
also refer followers to Adobe’s page for a link to the sweepstakes for ad targeting will help direct ads to industry
landing page, which will be located in the bio of the Adobe Instagram members of the target market. Allocating $10,000
page using linkin.bio throughout the duration of the campaign. Of for advertising on each platform will create the
Instagram users, 200 million visit at least one business profile every potential to achieve an estimated 1.3 million
day, two-thirds of which are viewers not following those profiles. impressions with cost-per-impression tactics.
Along with sweepstakes promotions, testimonials from current
users of Adobe Experience Cloud for Advertising will be posted in
accordance with Adobe’s current post format.
SOCIAL MEDIA
OUT OF HOME
MISSION MIRROR
Out-of-home tactics are on the rise for B-to-B advertising with 33%
of a B-to-B audience looking up information on an advertiser after
seeing an out-of-home ad. Going along with the #MissionAdobe
GEOFILTER
theme, advertisements will be placed at bus transits in six cities A Snapchat geofilter will correspond with the city
across the United States with dense amounts of agencies. These where the out-of-office ads are taking place. They will
cities include San Jose, New York City, Seattle, Minneapolis, be available for one month in a 5 million square feet
Chicago, Washington D.C., and Las Vegas. At a total of 30 bus radius of the city. Snapchat has over 100 million daily
transits per city, ads will include printed spy outfits on mirrors active users, meaning
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spy and action movie cliche of a valuable briefcase being passed
from carrier to carrier. Throughout the video, viewers follow
the breifcase’s journey until it is brought to a television studio,
where the on-air anchor interrupts his newscast to broadcast Will be a still
the secret within the briefcase to the world. He announces
that advertisers across the nation are using a new ad tech from video
solution that provides an end-to-end advertising experience,
delivers consistency across customer touchpoints, and leads
the way in omnichannel advertising with analytics, audience
data, and creative capabilities. Following the live broadcast
announcement, it is revealed that the mysterious adtech
mentioned is Adobe Experience Cloud for Advertising.
PRINT ADS
Print advertising in respected trade publications will
increase awareness of Adobe Experience Cloud for
Advertising. Because potential prospects read these
publications and trust them, credibility is created for
the product. A two-page, four-color spread will run in
Advertising Age and Ad Week in early March and one
quarter page ad will run in each of these publications
every month during the remainder of the campaign.
DIGITAL TAKEOVER
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GOOGLE & LANDING
INDUSTRY PAGE
PUBLICATIONS
GOOGLE/TRADESHOWS
TRADESHOWS
ADVERTISING WEEK NEW YORK
Adobe will be a gold-member sponsor at Advertising Week in New York City. By sponsoring an event, Adobe can build brand
image, provide opportunities for media coverage, create content for social media, and offer the opportunity to meet one-on-one
with the target audience and other businesses. A workshop seminar at the event, led by an Adobe employee, will explore the
Adobe Experience Cloud for Advertising. A gold-member level sponsorship will allow Adobe representatives to demo the product
directly for the target market, accumulate contacts, and build brand awareness.
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ADOBE SUMMIT
Trade show efforts at Adobe Summit would be the final push of the campaign. Adobe Experience Cloud for Advertising would
STRATEGY & TACTICS
have an interactive booth that follows in line with the #MissionAdobe$ campaign. Potential clients could talk to experts, learn the
benefits of Adobe’s adtech solution and interact with the software itself. According to a survey by Statista, 74 percent of responders
said they were more likely to purchase products that had been promoted at a trade show. This booth will build awareness of the
product, drive industry professionals to Adobe’s website, and encourage people to sign up for the sweepstakes.
GOOGLE
Utilizing Google Ads will be part of the campaign’s online advertising efforts. The main goal with using this program is
retargeting users. Google has a massive reach that will tailor to targeting a specific audience through keyword optimization
and pay-per-click ads. Competitors are using Google Ads, therefore there’s a need to reinforce the brand alongside these
opponents. Advertising on Google will drive website visits and continue to build brand awareness. Since the name has been
changed several times, using Google Adwords will clarify the brand name and optimize Adobe’s search results.
Launch Social Campaign Ends
Campaign Mon. 9/7 April 1
SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC. JAN. FEB. MAR. APRIL BUDGET OUTLAY
March Edition
Ad Age and Ad Week: $66,235
Two Page Spread Ad
Out of Office Mirrors San Jose New York City Seattle Minneapolis Chicago Washington DC Las Vegas
and Snap Filter $1,395,000
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Total $4.4 Million
The objective of becoming top three for earned media will be Adobe breaking the top three
measured by the amount of earned media throughout the campaign for earned media will result in
and Adobe’s rank in adtech at the close of the campaign. more awareness, internet traffic,
sales, and even more prestige.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Team 872 would like to thank the American Advertising Federation
for making the National Student Advertising Competition possible.
We are honored to have the opportunity to compete and to gain
experience for our future careers.
Lastly, we’d like to thank our advisors, Lori and Ryan. Thank you for leading us on this mission as we stepped into unknown territory.
Your expertise and endless support are greatly appreciated. Thank you, also, for reviving the NSAC team at our university. We hope you
lead many successful teams who build winning campaigns in the years to come.
SINCERELY,
TEAM 872
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