THE CHALLENGE
A local client wanted to highlight the innovative and modern procedure that is now available to help relieve pain in individuals with arthritis and similar health issues. With education and awareness being a top focus for this client, we were able to produce a native advertising campaign that highlights ways to target those who might need these services.
Goals
- Create brand awareness within the Cleveland market
- Educate the target market on alternative options to living with pain
- Drive traffic to the client’s website
THE STRATEGY
Our team of experts produced a 30-day native advertising campaign that successfully grabbed the attention of their target market:
- We targeted several pages on cleveland.com that have an older demographic of readers since these are the individuals who tend to suffer from the pain of arthritis more
- We used imagery of the targeted demographic in our ad units
- We tested three different headlines, each one focusing on different pain-points, to identify which one performed best
THE RESULTS
- The CTR (click-through rate) for the native article was a 1.16% – compared to industry benchmarks of an expected 0.70% CTR
- The rate that people clicked on the links inside of the article was a 5.77% CTA (call to action) rate – compared to industry benchmarks of an expected 3.5% CTA
- The time on content was 2 minutes and 23 seconds, compared to the expected 1 minute and 20 seconds
- These display units performed at a .75% CTR, nearly 3 times the maximum CTR expectations