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Consumer Reports Moto Quiz

MBB helps Consumer Reports put auto reliability “to the test.”
You might be wondering what an ad agency could possibly know about car reliability. Actually, a lot, thanks to our friends at Consumer Reports.

About this time every year, CR publishes a reliability study, in which they survey drivers to find out which car brands, makes and models they consider the most - or least – reliable. MBB got to wondering if we could leverage that content via social media and create greater interaction and more sharing.

What we came up with was a Facebook-based Moto Quiz, where people could test their auto IQ by picking which cars they thought ranked most reliable in CR’s study.

The Moto Quiz lives on CR’s Facebook page, so sharing the quiz with friends is easy. A leaderboard keeps track of top scores and offers viewers a chance to compete with friends.

It’s actually just one of the many ways we’ve been helping CR refresh their brand image and chip away the old perception that Consumer Report is “my dad’s magazine.” By making CR “more fun” to interact with, we’re exposing their core value to a younger audience and adding new relevancy to CR’s content.

By the way, the quiz is still up and running, so if you think you’ve got the car smarts to tell a peach from a lemon, head on over to CR’s Facebook page.

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Consumer Reports Know Before You Buy TV Spot

Consumer Reports – Know Before You Buy TV
Consumer Reports reviews, test and rates thousands of products every year. They’ve been doing it for more than seven decades. But with the proliferation of online opinion sites, blogs and other peer reviews, they found that their relevancy – especially among younger audiences – was slowing slipping. “My father’s magazine” was what we heard a lot. Although they had traditionally been aggressive direct response marketers they’d never really done much branding. So they asked us to help, by conceiving a brand spot that could run in certain test markets. They had hoped for a 4-5 percent lift in brand recognition, but the campaign resulted in almost a 15 percent increase in intent to purchase.

Consumer Reports Year-End Deals Banner Ad

Consumer Reports – Year-End Deals Banner Ads
Every December, Consumer Reports scours the auto manufacturers for their best year-end deals, rebates and discounts. Then they publish them on their website so people can see them all in one place. We did a couple of online banner ads for them to let folks know about it. In terms of click-through and view-through rates, they outperformed all past averages. And they significantly lowered the average cost per acquisition. That’s what we’d call a deal.

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Consumer Reports Brand Report Card Banner Ads

Consumer Reports – Brand Report Card Banner Ads
Throughout the year, CR releases a variety of auto surveys, which they use to generate PR opportunities. Increasingly, they are asking for our help in promoting them online. At first, it was challenging, because the surveys themselves are sometimes heavy on industry information most folks don’t take the time to read. With experience, however, we’ve found new ways to make them more relevant, especially to younger viewers. By refining our call to action and creating fun, animated graphics, we’ve vastly improving click-through and view-through rates, while lowering the cost per acquisitions considerably. Here’s an example...a banner ad promoting their annual Brand Report Card.

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Consumer Reports Labor Day Banner Ads

Consumer Reports – Labor Day Banner Ads
Every year prior to Labor Day – as America start planning its Labor Day road-trips – Consumer Reports releases a variety of surveys and articles on the state of car usage in the country. This year, as car buyers were showing signs of trickling back into car dealerships, they focused on the question of which was the better deal...buying a 2011 model or a leftover 2010? We created a series of banners that posed the question in some interesting ways. The result...the highest view-through and lowest cost per acquisition rates to date for any Labor Day promotion

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