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Dust off those commercial opportunities lurking in your virtual bottom drawer.....

If you haven’t already, it’s time to dust off those commercial opportunities lurking in your virtual bottom drawer & bring them to fruition.

Albeit, you may need to adapt implementation &/or give them a good sense check, but there is certainly a renewed energy in moving opportunities forward

As a result of the last year & a bit, many projects & initiatives understandably faltered, but clients are revisiting their plans, recognising the value they saw then to their customers & teams, & bringing them back on the table, which is a delight…..

We take those opportunities, build the strategy for implementation against the core objectives & make it happen. Our current projects range from developing new revenues streams through asset management, bringing a dynamic approach to creativity & creating bespoke commercial channels that have the power and scale for sustainable growth.

If this sounds familiar & you have untapped potential, now is the time to revisit

Diversiffi Media is an independent commercialisation and business development consultancy. Delivering strategy and implementation across media, digital transformation and commercial partnerships, commercialising creativity/content.

Accelerating AdTech integration…

Accelerating AdTech integration…

The impact of AdTech & the implications of programmatic OOH for clients has been both swiftly & widely adopted, revolutionising the immediacy with which clients can react & adapt.

Client’s curiosity is intensifying, albeit as part of their continued review of media efficiency, but DOOH’s evolution & investment has come back with renewed strength. For this sector, & some operators, these developments are long overdue.

Integrating new technologies that deliver greater efficiency & impact to marketing objectives, & align to brand strategy will always be welcome, but as ever, ‘just because you can doesn’t mean you should’ so it remains an enabler for ideas, not the base ideas are generated from.

Technologies within LED screens & the imaginations of creative teams, not only deliver impact in-situ but travel globally via social media, a great partnership, one we are seeing grow more & more. Japan £d Skinjuku cat is a great example

Diversiffi Media is an independent commercialisation & business development agency, building marketing strategies, securing commercial partnerships & advising on AdTech integration

Stay at Home campaign, from national to global.

As the UK introduces steps to ease the coronavirus lockdown restrictions, with some easing across the world, the Stay at Home Out of Home (OOH) campaign has less relevance, and frankly, that can’t come soon enough. Whilst it has created some noise in the market, I thought it would be good to add my own story

We went into lockdown on 23rd March and started to prepare and adjust accordingly. However, as we planned our new days, we became aware that many non-essential workers weren’t complying. We saw reports and social feeds showing not all had taken the instruction and understood the importance to stay at home.

That same morning, three junior doctors featured on BBC News.  They had come off a late shift, exhausted, with one message “thank you for thanking us, but the greatest help would be to just stay at home”

With that churning in my mind, and wondering what contribution I could make, the idea for a one voice OOH campaign was born.  To create an unbranded, simple, and straightforward DOOH campaign, in order to effectively support frontline workers and reinforce much needed public safety notice messaging, which encouraged people to stay home and stay safe. The creative assets needed to be free to all media owners/vendors, adaptable to different screen environments and different screen specifications

My first call was to creative director John Dean at Mullen Lowe, we used to work together some time ago. I explained the ambition and the tone needed, as well as the urgency for statements that could be easily cross borders and cultures.

John, and his colleague Gary Marjoram, were immediately onboard and over the next few days, created a series of eight direct, but witty executions, designed as text only, white-on-black to reflect the important and sombre messaging.

Initially, I put a call out to media owners/vendors on social media, asking them to get involved in broadcasting the campaign through donated space, and four days after the initial concept, the campaign went live. 

Soon, word had spread and requests were coming in from across the globe, including Europe, Lebanon to Australia.  It continued to gather pace  as more operators and vendors got involved, donated space and encouraging others to do so too.

Moved by the initiative, the Digital Signage Federation in the US contacted me, volunteering to help spread the word out across their region, contacting all members and hosting the creative files for speedy distribution. AdTech platforms Hivestack and Blip then also volunteered to work with their partners and broaden distribution further across the globe.

Although now coming to an end, the campaign has run across the UK, Europe, the US, Canada, Columbia, Australia and Lebanon.

Naturally, the greatest challenge was that everyone involved volunteered their time and energy. The campaign relied on donated space from OOH operators and vendors at a time when some screens were being turned off, as OOH bore the brunt of cancelled or deferred advertising campaigns. However, the generosity of the sector, along with their collaboration was absolutely mind blowing.

Whilst this was a non-commercial campaign, born purely to support frontline workers and reinforce their message as a public safety notice. It certainly demonstrates the power of OOH,  underlining the creative flexibility of DOOH, using the core technologically capabilities - its immediacy, adaptability and delivery of contextually relevant executions. 

But equally as important, it amplified the agility of smaller operations/agencies, such as Diversiffi Media, to make things happen, pull great teams together, bring ideas to life, adding value and strength to a sector dominated by the larger corporates. We should be seen as a complement rather than competition or in a race. Collaboration, as seen here, usually benefits everyone.