AUCKLAND, Today: New Zealand advertising boundaries have been expanded in a new audience measurement digital billboard campaign that uses viewer engagement to generate donations for charity.
The campaign was the result of a collaboration between VMO NZ, Specsavers, the Fred Hollows Foundation, indie Auckland media agency Together, and Cummins & Partners Melbourne.
Running in proximity to Specsavers and one of Auckland’s busiest shopping precincts, the interactive campaign, conceived by Together, empowered viewers to ‘give the gift of sight’ over the festive season.
By simply looking at the creative, shoppers generated a donation on behalf of Specsavers to the Fred Hollows Foundation NZ, helping to raise $10,000 to pay for sight-restoring surgery for up to 400 locals in need in Fiji.
Fred Hollows comms director Margi Mellsop said: “Fundraising is an ever-changing platform and charities have to constantly devise new ways to maintain relevance and meaningful encounters with their publics.
“This campaign was the perfect marriage of new technology and our engaged corporate partners, but also with our supporters and we would like to thank everyone involved for their support.”
“More than 25,000 engagements were measured over the duration of the campaign – double the expected views.”
Powering the campaign was VMO’s proprietary audience measurement tool Dart (Digital
Outdoor Audience in Real Time). The Dart technology registered the engagement and served a message of thanks to the viewer.
A total of over 25,000 engagements were measured over the duration of the campaign, exceeding expectations with over double the estimated views.
Auckland-based VMO NZ GM Gordon Frykberg said: “We are pleased that we have been able to support such a worthy cause via our technology.
“Dart’s ability to measure audience engagement has been fundamental to the campaign’s success by creating an interactive way of capturing audience attention to fundraise.”
Specsavers NZ head of marketing planning Julie Fisher said: “The Fred Hollows Foundation NZ has been Specsavers’ national charity partner for many years, with a portion of every glasses sale going to the sightsaving work that the charity does in Fiji.
“Recently, we’ve been working with the foundation to come up with a series of unique ways to raise more money for the great cause and so when we learnt about the new technology available, we knew we had to get involved.
“We were thrilled to raise a further $10,000 through the sight for sight audience measurement billboard.”
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