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WinmoEdge
B2B Opps: Slack to ramp up event marketing efforts (Score 46)
Sales lead: Contact this company's DMs if you can help it with event marketing.
- Slack announced it plans to focus its marketing efforts on tentpole events in 2023.
- This means it will decrease broadcast, CTV, digital video, and paid social media spend.
- However, the company will ramp up spend for these channels during events.
- The company will have a presence at events such as Dreamforce, South by Southwest, and Frontiers.
- Slack's DMs see an opportunity as events are growing following the pandemic.
Slack's target demographic: Business DMs & small business owners
The company will likely:
- Invest in sponsorships/partnerships to raise awareness
- Continue experimenting with its marketing mix
- Seek agencies with event marketing experience
Broadcast insights (TV ad creative spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)
- YTD spend: Slack has not allocated any budget toward national TV ads so far this year.
- 2021-2022 spend: Full-year spend plummeted from $16.1m in 2021 to $1.4m in 2022.
- 2022 Ad programming: It placed ads during programming such as NFL Football, College Football, NBA Basketball, Next Level Chef, and The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Digital and social insights (digital ad spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)
- YTD spend: Slack spent nearly $2.9m on digital display ads YTD, a significant increase from $1m spent in this channel during the same time period of 2022.
- YTD data: 247.2m impressions via desktop display (52%), YouTube (48%), and mobile display (1%).
- 2021-2022 spend: Full-year spend dropped by 13% from $6m in 2021 to $5.2m in 2022.
- Ad location: It placed 98% of these ads directly onto sites such as youtube.com, liveleak.com, 9gag.com, chess.com, and cheatsheet.com. It placed 2% of these ads through multiple indirect channels onto sites such as sheknows.com, merriam-webster.com, thechive.com, rollingstone.com, and gosur.com.
Additional channel insights
- Vivvix: Slack also invests in OOH, print, and local broadcast.
- Top podcasts sponsored: Stuff to Blow Your Mind, How I Built This with Guy Raz, Negotiate Anything, and Business Wars Daily.
Agency analysis:
- Opportunity: Those of you with event marketing experience will likely have the best shot of picking up some of Slack's business.
- Current roster:
- R/GA: digital AOR
- Mediahub Global Boston: media AOR
- In-house: creative