Millennial Opps: Peet's Coffee launches first ad campaign from new AOR (Score 12)

Sales lead: Reach out now to see if you can score some of these extra ad dollars. 

  • Peet's Coffee (PC) just launched a new ad campaign called "Coffee for Coffee People." 
  • The push is currently being supported in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, and Washington D.C.
    • It includes multiple spots that are being supported across Hulu, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Spotify, Amazon, and OOH. 
    • It will launch a national campaign in 2024 if the regional push is successful. 
  • We predicted an ad campaign when we told you about PC hiring Mischief

Target demographic: Millennials

The company will likely:

  • Continue ramping up digital spend
  • Make additional agency changes
  • Launch a national campaign in 2024

Digital and social insights (digital ad spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)

  • YTD spend: PC spent nearly $2.6m on digital display ads YTD, an 18% increase from $2.2m spent in this channel during the same time period of 2022.
  • YTD data: 361.4m impressions via Instagram (60%), Facebook (31%), and YouTube (9%). 
  • 2021-2022 spend: Full-year spend fell by 52% from $5.4m in 2021 to $2.6m in 2022. 
  • Ad location: It placed 100% of these ads directly onto sites such as instagram.com, facebook.com, and youtube.com.

Additional channel insights  

  • Vivvix: PC also utilizes OOH, print, radio, and local broadcast. 
    • It holds media planning discussions in Q3, and it buys during Q4. 
  • Top podcasts sponsored: Up First and Fresh Air. 

Agency analysis:

Insight Sources: Digital spend insights estimated by Pathmatics; additional channel insights estimated by Vivvix; podcast data estimated by Podchaser