Martini Media Creates Engaging Ad Units for World-Class Auto Marque

Martini Media Creates Engaging Ad Units for World-Class Auto Marque

Ad network Martini Media wanted to deliver a powerfully engaging ad experience for Bentley Motors, a luxury automobile brand. Their first execution, using an ad product they developed called the Portrait, featured a high-quality video as well as links to premium articles from Forbes.com.

The combination proved to be a win among Forbes.com's affluent audience, delivering high engagement rates and encouraging Bentley Motors to green light a second execution. The second campaign, using another ad product developed by Martini Media, performed even better.

Solution At a Glance

CHALLENGE: To create immersive ad products for luxury brands that increase user engagement rate and raises brand awareness.

SOLUTION:
 Martini Media used the Flite Platform to create unique ad units for Bentley Motors that included rich media content to target high-income prospective buyers.

RESULT:
 With engagement rates over 5%—double that of similar ads for automotive clients—Martini Media delivered a resonant ad experience, and led to expanded business with the client. 
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Flite Enables Productivity and Creativity Gains for Livingly Media’s Design Team

Flite Enables Productivity and Creativity Gains for Livingly Media’s Design Team

A design team's creative spark is at the heart of successful display ad executions. But what happens when designers' creativity outpaces the toolset they're using to build ads?

This case study profiles Flite customer Livingly Media, exploring the Livingly Media design team's experience using Flite to turn around high-impact display ads for their clients quickly.

Solution At a Glance

CHALLENGE: To produce ad units that provide unique experiences for brand clients in a quicker, more efficient manner.

SOLUTION: Empower Livingly Media’s design team with an intuitive, multifunctional ad development platform that affords rapid, effortless campaign creative execution.

RESULT:
 Creating new ad units now takes hours instead of days or weeks. New ad products present brand clients with cutting-edge engagement approaches.

 

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One Small Change Results in 11x Increase in Video Plays

One Small Change Results in 11x Increase in Video Plays

When ads with video content showed poor engagement initially, Wikia used real-time reporting to make an informed change that had a dramatic effect on the performance of the ad.

 

 

Solution At a Glance

CHALLENGE: To promote Wikia’s online gaming trivia competition series with an embedded gameplay video.

SOLUTION
: Monitor viewer’s engagement and interaction with the ad unit, focusing on the number of video plays. Iterate on ad unit format to maximize engagement, and roll out the winning format across all Wikia properties instantaneously.

RESULT
: Enormous engagement and interaction rate improvements. Tweaking the way videos were run resulted in a staggering 11x increase in video viewings, a 27% increase in engagement, and a 125% increase in interaction.
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Native Advertising: Interactive Quiz Delivers High Engagement Rate

Native Advertising: Interactive Quiz Delivers High Engagement Rate

When The Hobbit movie was released, Wikia wanted to promote content created by their active community in conjunction with the film. Using the Flite Platform, they created an ad featuring a personality quiz that resulted in not only incredible engagement rates, but extra shares in earned media.

 

Solution At a Glance

CHALLENGE: Build an engaging ad that prominently features interactive media and movie content from Wikia to generate excitement around the release of The Hobbit movie.

SOLUTION: An ad that features a personality quiz that pulls users in and encourages social sharing.

RESULT
: An all-time high quiz of 20,000 submissions within 4 days. A massive 0.37% CTR and 0.44% share rate on Twitter.

 

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How Forbes Used Flite to Build a Productive In-House Design Team

How Forbes Used Flite to Build a Productive In-House Design Team

When Forbes sought to reinvigorate their digital advertising business, they turned to the Flite Platform to improve build speed and create cost savings.

Solution At a Glance

Challenge: A long-term strategy for building a scalable premium ad product business.

Solution: Build a team of designers who use the Flite Platform to create ad products in-house.

Benefit: Competitive ad products that command premium CPMs. Cost-savings through efficient ad design. Faster speed to market.

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Real-Time Marketing: Ad Unit Optimized within Hours of Launch

Real-Time Marketing: Ad Unit Optimized within Hours of Launch
In March 2012, Wikia built an interactive ad using the Flite Platform and trafficked it on Wikia’s Basketball Wiki pages. The ad unit highlighted March Madness and featured team logos for the final four teams in the NCAA tournament. The ad’s behavior was based on the viewer’s click – when the viewer would click on each of the four logos, the entire skin of the page would change to reflect the theme of the corresponding team.

Solution At a Glance

Challenge: Quickly identify ad performance issues, and update the functionality of the ad across all publisher sites to improve performance.

Solution: Observe user interactions with the ad in real-time to identify the problem, update the functionality of the ad in minutes with Ad Studio, and instantly publish all changes to all publisher sites with Flite’s live updates feature.

Benefit:
 “Massive improvement in interactions.” Interaction rate increased from 3% to 27% while the clickthrough on the ad increased from 0.4% to 0.91%.

 

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Charles Schwab Adjusts to Sudden Downturn in the Financial Market

Charles Schwab Adjusts to Sudden Downturn in the Financial Market
In August 2011, Charles Schwab was in the midst of an ad campaign focused on promoting its mobile app. The campaign was running over 40 million display ad impressions on more than 44 publisher sites. On August 5, in an unprecedented move, the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded its rating of the U.S. debt and caused a chain reaction of unexpected events in the financial markets. Panic ensued among investors, resulting in a 600-point plunge in the Dow Jones and 174-point plunge in the NASDAQ. This significant downturn caught the financial world by surprise.
 

Solution At a Glance

Challenge: Effectively communicate content to customers after a sudden financial market downturn.

Solution: Build a dynamic ad with Flite and update it daily with new content to keep the content fresh and the audience engaged.

Benefit: 
63% higher CTR; 3X increase in interaction rate; 15% more time spent on unit.

 
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