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This calls for the crabs! Zoopla goes crustacean again with new TV ads
Zoopla has launched its second wave of ‘hermit crabs’ adverts to highlight the portal’s latest house moving tool for consumers, an interactive check-list. Its Zoopla Move Planner launch is also supported by a video fronted by Location, Location, Location star Phil Spencer, and the campaign will last for seven weeks across TV and radio including new 30-second and 60-second TV adverts and half-minute radio adverts. Although Gareth Helm (pictured, left), parent company ZPG’s Chief Marketing Officer, will only say it’s a “multi-million pound” spend, the campaign can’t be cheap; the portal is hoping to reach 83.5% of the UK population or 42.2 million adults. But it’s clearly the season to launch your TV ads if you’ve got the budget. Like easyProperty and Savills, both of which recently launched their TV advert campaigns, Zoopla has decided to advertise during ITV’s Sunday period drama Victoria about the early years of the queen’s reign, as well as slots during the new series of Grand Designs, X-Factor and Coronation Street. The huge advertising splurge couldn’t come at a better time – resurgent competitor OnTheMarket says it is to spend a considerable slice of the £50 million it hopes to raise from the City on…
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22% of public recognise OnTheMarket, says Zoopla research
The marketing mountain that OnTheMarket must climb to catch up its two main rivals has been revealed today after Zoopla published its latest brand awareness figures. Parent group ZPG paid market research firm Harris Interactive to quiz 1,100 people about which of the three main portals – OnTheMarket, Zoopla and Rightmove – they recognised. It found that 22% recognised OnTheMarket, an increase of 1% compared to May this year, while 90% recognised Zoopla and 83% Rightmove. The responses from the research were prompted – meaning the people surveyed were shown the portals’ logos and then asked if they recognised them – but Zoopla in addition asked them to recall the main portal brands unprompted. Zoopla says this research revealed that 47% of respondents recalled its name while 39% remembered Rightmove and 3% recalled OnTheMarket. The fruits of Zoopla’s ‘always on’ promotional activity is clearly bearing fruit. In recent years it has often outspent Rightmove on TV and, for a time, had a virtual monopoly on London’s black cab advertising. Also, in July this year it wrapped an entire fleet of London buses in purple. Gareth Helm, Group Chief Marketing Officer for ZPG (pictured), says: “Our ongoing investment in brand resulting in consumers…
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