Ford Drives Home with First Ever Nielsen Automotive Green Marketer of the Year Award

Ford received the 1st-ever Nielsen Automotive Eco-friendly Marketer of the Year award at a presentation at the Los Angeles Global Car Clearly show. The award identified the brand name that built the finest strides in getting purchaser recognition and positively shifting customer perceptions for their environmentally pleasant marketing and advertising initiatives.

Ford has developed substantial consciousness about the earlier calendar year all around their hybrid motor vehicles and fuel-effective cars with critical strategies for Fiesta and Fusion Hybrid, as effectively as their Drive One 2. brand name ads that includes hybrids and miles-for every-gallon (MPG) connected advertisements. In addition, Ford’s official sponsorship of Fox’s actuality demonstrate American Idol, which set specific emphasis on the hybrid choices, has aided generate increased consciousness of their green concept among the millions of men and women just about every week. Last time, American Idol’s common Ford Audio Video clip Obstacle, in which exclusive Ford new music films aired each individual week, featured the Fusion Hybrid and Escape Hybrid, efficiently grabbing the notice of consumers. Meanwhile, the organization ongoing to crack floor in social media with the launch of new apps aimed at growing its achieve to a new course of potential automobile-prospective buyers.

“The Automotive Inexperienced Marketer of the 12 months award is not just about great artistic, although we all know that is a very important element of any productive ad marketing campaign,” said Lois Miller, President, Nielsen Automotive. “However, this is even larger than one resourceful. This award is for the car marketer who was most productive at leveraging its brand to further the ‘green’ movement and build good consciousness for all the vehicle industry is executing to push gasoline-efficiency and eco-pleasant techniques. This was best exemplified by Ford.”

To determine the finalists and winner of the Automotive Eco-friendly Marketer of the 12 months, Nielsen leveraged three analysis scientific studies – a cross-media study of practically 7,000 U.S. individuals, and different analyses of facts on Tv marketing efficiency and social media “buzz.” These three scientific studies had been then analyzed to have an understanding of consciousness stages and perceptions for ‘green’ automobile internet marketing throughout media kinds. Vehicle manufacturers that ran any national Television advertisements with “green” themes between Oct 2009 and September 2010 were suitable for consideration.

Nielsen study identified:

• 85% of consumers stated they recalled viewing a ‘green’ auto advertisement recently and, on ordinary across the 23 models measured, 67% of individuals explained they experienced a far more beneficial impression of eco-friendly advertising and marketing after looking at the advert.

• More to that, 41% of buyers stated the ad amplified their consideration to get the featured motor vehicle.

• Inexperienced automobile ads resonated improved than the normal automobile ad with 12% better Concept Remember, the proportion in which a viewer can recall an advertisement, the model or automobile featured in the advertisement, and the green message conveyed.

• Amongst approximately 60,000 social media messages analyzed for auto manufacturers, people watch their eco-friendly automobile marketing attempts in a favorable light-weight with 12 moments extra constructive “buzz” than detrimental.