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WinmoEdge
Campaign Imminent: State Farm taps new agency partner (Score 66)
- The agency's first work for SF will launch later in 2023.
- SF will continue working with November 2019.
- The Marketing Arm's parent agency, , has held the lead creative duties for SF for 75 years.
- I predicted roster shifts would follow the company's January 2023 appointment of CMO Kristyn Cook.
- The company will likely:
- Implement more strategy shifts
- Pursue new influencer partnerships (more here)
- Keep increasing digital spend
- Seek additional new agency partners
- Target demographic:
- Gen-Z and millennials with a strong male skew
Recent strategy shifts:
- Since the January 2023 appointment of CMO Cook, SF has started investing in more digital-forward marketing channels such as TikTok.
- For example, the company launched a Super Bowl 2023 campaign on TikTok that featured influencers such as Khaby Lame.
- This summer, SF expanded its multi-year partnership with Walt Disney, which it established last year.
- A newly launched ad promotes the new Haunted Mansion movie.
- Finally, SF has bolstered its gaming content to reach more Gen-Z customers
- As a separate gaming effort, the company revived its "Gamerhood" gaming series on Twitch on YouTube.
- This series was made with .
Additional spending insights:
- Broadcast insights (TV ad creative spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)
- YTD spend: SF has spent approximately $146m on national TV commercials YTD, down 20% from the approximately $182.5m spent by this point last year.
- Last year: The company spent around $324.4m on this channel last year after having spent 25% more, around $406m, in 2021.
- 2023 ad programming: SF's 2023 commercials have targeted male sports enthusiasts watching shows such as the 2023 Pro Bowo Games, the 2020 NBA All-Star Game, the 2021 NCAA Basketball Tournament, SportsCenter, and the Allstate Super Bowl.
- Digital and social insights (digital ad spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)
- YTD spend: So far this year, the insurance company has allocated roughly $62.5m toward digital ads, 12% more than the roughly $55.6m allocated within the same 2022 timeframe.
- YTD data: SF has earned ~6b digital impressions YTD via YouTube (64%), desktop video (14%), Instagram (12%, desktop display (5%), Facebook (3%), and mobile display (2%) ads.
- Last year: The company's estimated full-year 2022 spend reached $132.1m, 23% less than that of $172.4m in 2021.
- Additional channel insights
- The company utilizes Google Ads and experiential activations along with radio, OOH, digital, local broadcast, and print ads.
- SF sponsors podcasts such as Stuff You Should Know, NPR News Now, Dateline NBC, The Herd with Colin Cowherd, and Up First.
- The company invests in short-form DRTV ads.
- It has rather widely dispersed network TV coverage and will likely launch a new campaign within the next 30 days or so.
- SF's top TV networks include XX, ENET, CN, BRV, and SYFY.
Additional agency insights:
- Opportunity: Since they often follow one another, reach out soon to see if any additional agency hires follow this one.
- SF's recent CMO shift makes other reviews even likelier.
- The company is shifting away from a lead creative agency model.
- Current agency roster:
- Highdive: Creative agency partner (July 2023)
- The Marketing Arm: Creative AOR (November 2019)
- Infinity Marketing Team: Creative agency partner
- : PR AOR
- : Creative agency partner
- : Creative agency partner
- : Media buying, digital, and experiential agency partner
- : Media agency partner
- : Digital agency partner
Insight Sources: Broadcast insights estimated by .