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WinmoEdge
Campaign Imminent: FanDuel taps media AOR for casino business amid significant spend increases (Score 79)
- The agency will now handle FanDuel's $200m FanDuel Casino advertising business as its lead media agency partner.
- Horizon Next will now manage the media strategy and investment across the TV, OTT, and OOH advertising of Fanuel's sportsbook, daily fantasy, racing business, and casino businesses.
- FanDuel has worked with Horizon in the past; the agency's scout sports and entertainment unit led the sports activation and marketing for FanDuel's emerging fantasy sports league.
- The brand did not specify incumbent agency partners.
- FanDuel will operate its audio, social, display, and search businesses separately.
- This shift concludes a competitive review that kicked off late last year.
- The company will likely:
- Launch a new campaign soon
- Shift strategy
- Continue increasing spend
- Conduct additional agency reviews
- This is its second agency hire within the past year.
- Target demographic:
- Male sports enthusiasts ranging from Gen-Z through Gen-X
Additional insights:
- In the past, FanDuel's US brands have operated across sports betting, gaming, fantasy sports, TV/media, and advance-deposit wagering.
- Now, it's focused on casino expansion.
- Unfortunately, the casinos are limited to operating in only specific markets that include MI, PA, WV, and NJ.
Recent leadership shits:
- Over the past several months, FanDuel hired a slew of new DMs including marketing technology and operations VP Matthew Donovan (November 2022), senior omni-channel casinos director Crista Annese (November 2022), and brand strategy director Jessica Lee (January 2023).
Additional spending insights:
- Broadcast insights (TV ad creative spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)
- YTD spend: FanDuel has spent approximately $35.2m on digital ads YTD, around 6x the approximately $5.6m spent by this point last year.
- Last year: In 2022, the company ended up spending around $135m on this channel after having spent just less than half of this, around $61.4m, in 2021.
- 2023 ad programming: FanDuel's 2023 commercials have targeted male sports enthusiasts watching shows such as NFL Football, the Super Bowl LVII Immediate Pregame, NBA Basketball, the Super Bowl LVII Pregame, and PGA Tour Golf.
- Digital and social insights (digital ad spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)
- YTD spend: So far this year, the company has allocated roughly $19m toward digital ads, almost double the roughly $10.2m allocated within the same 2022 timeframe.
- YTD data: Since the beginning of 2023, FanDuel has earned ~1.9b digital impressions via YouTube (49%), Facebook (26%), Istagram (11%), desktop display (11%), mobile display (2%), and desktop video (1%) ads.
- Last year: The company's estimated full-year 2022 spend reached $45m, up 9% from that of $41.4m in 2021.
- Additional channel insights
- The company utilizes digital, local broadcast, OOH, print (newspapers), radio, Google Ads, and online video (primarily via Youtube IOS and Youtube.com).
- FanDuel sponsors podcasts such as Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend, The Bill Simmons Podcast, The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, and SmartLess.
- It invests in short-form DRTV.
- FanDuel has pretty widely dispersed network TV coverage, and a campaign will likely launch within the next 30 days or so.
- The company's top TV networks include COZ, NLH, SYFY, CN, and TENC.
- Finally, FanDuel sponsors organizations such as the NY Yankees.
Additional agency insights:
- Opportunity: Since agency reviews often follow one another closely, as this one followed last year's, get in touch soon to offer PR, digital analytics, multicultural, and/or experiential support.
- You'd especially benefit from offering specific services for the online casino platform.
- Not only did it just hire a media AOR for this business, but it also hired a creative AOR, last year.
- You'd especially benefit from offering specific services for the online casino platform.
- Current agency roster:
- Horizon Next: Media AOR (casino - 2023)
- Mischief @ No Fixed Address: Creative AOR (casino - 2022)
- : Creative AOR
- : Media AOR
Insight Sources: Broadcast insights estimated by .