Dec 27 2010

(Turkish) Türünün başarılı örneği: THY

Kategori: Sponsorship,Spor PazarlamasıCeyla Kütükoğlu @ 5:52 pm

Bu konuyu çok önce yazmaya karar vermiştim. Bu kez tembellikten değil, bekleyelim bakalım bu iş nereye varacak diye yazmayı beklettim. Geçen bahar, Türk Havayolları’nın Barcelona Kulübü’ne sponsor olduğu dönemden bahsediyorum. Barcelona’nın ardından Manchester United geldi ardından Eurolegue sponsorluğu. Şimdi de gündem de yeni marka elçileri var: Kobe Bryant ve Caroline Wozniacki. Toparlarsak futbol, basketbol, tenis. Kimbilir belki yakında da golf.

Türk Havayolları spor sponsorluğunda yeni bir firma değil. Yıllardır Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu ile yaptıkları Milli Takım sponsorluğunu yapıyor. Bunun haricinde başından beri de İstanbul Cup’un sponsorluğunu yürütüyor. Dünya Okçuluk Federasyonu’nu ile işbirliği ise yine eskilere dayanıyor. Spor sponsorluğu yeni değil ama bakış açıları yeni. THY artık büyük düşünüyor, büyük oynuyor. Üstelik bunu “Globally Yours” diyerek mesajlaştırdıkları dünya markası hedefinin etrafından son derece başarılı bir strateji ile ilerletiyor. Miktarlardan çok emin olmasam da harcadıkları toplam bütçenin astronomik olmadığını ve ROI açısından yani yatırımın geri dnüşü açısından da çok verimli olduğunu düşünüyorum. Yurt içinde oldukça ses getiren bu sponsorlukların dünya çapında etki göstermesi bir kaç yılı bulacak bir süreç. THY, şu anda yaptığı gibi bu işbirliklerini doğru mesajlarla harmanlamaya devam ederse uluslararası marka bilinirliği büyük ölçüde artacaktır. Uluslararası spor organizasyonları ile beynimize kazınan BNP Paribas, Emirates ve Qatar Airways’ten çok daha başarılı olacaklarına eminim.

Çok değil tam bir yıl önce sadece büyük oynamak uğruna çok başarısız bir Kevin Costner kampanyası yapan THY’yi yanlıştan çabuk döndürüp doğru strateji ile büyük işlere imza atmasında emeği geçen herkesi tebrik etmek gerekir.

Barcelona sponsorluğundan başlarsak, 2000′li yılların sonunda dünyanın en ünlü kuübü diye düşündüğünüzde, Avrupa’nın bir numarası dediğinizde Barcelona ulaşılabilecek en büyük hedeftir. Avrupa’da yeni uçuş parkurları açan Lufthansa ve Air rance gibi büyüklerin kalasmanına yükselmek isteyen bir firmada en iyinin ortağı olmalıdır. İlk sponsorluk dolayısıyla çekilen ilk reklam filmin verdiği mesaj “Dünya devlerinin yanındayız. Barcelona bizi tercih ediyor, bize güveniyoruz.”idi.

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Mar 22 2009

Nike Plus – Sports, Technology and Marketing

Kategori: Sports MarketingCeyla Kütükoğlu @ 5:34 pm

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I think without a doubt, Nike Plus is the Nike’s most innovative product. Nike teamed up with Apple aiming to create a product which has greater customer experience along with both technologic and interactive features. Nike Plus creates a unique product category which combines technology, online experience and marketing. 

Nike Plus is a special sensor which is placed inside the shoe and synchronized with iPod. This sensor tracks the runner’s performance and uploads the details of the performance to the iPod. During the run, runner can follow (hear) the details of his performance from the iPod. When the iPod is connected to computer, the performance details, most recent graphs and progress can be followed online as well.

The online part of the product, the Nikeplus.com website, is a platform in which users can compare their results with others and can participate to special challenges. The features of the Nikeplus website create a golden opportunity for marketing. Therefore, Nike Plus can be considered as a revolution in marketing and sports. First of all, all customers who purchased the Nike Plus sensor are eventually subscribing to the website, allowing Nike to have a greatest and deepest database of customer information. Since the behaviors and qualities of the customers can be obtained from this database, it becomes too easy for Nike to reach its target audience. Then the challenge section in the website increases the customer experience and social sharing, that leads a greater customer loyalty to the brand.

The only challenging part for Nike is to add more costumers to Nike Plus network. For this reason since 2007 Nike is running ad campaigns and organizing different events related to this product. Human Race is a good example of Nike’s effort promoting Nike Plus. On the ad campaign side, Nike started to promote this product with “New Year Resolution” campaign in 2007.

Devamı… “Nike Plus – Sports, Technology and Marketing”

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Mar 15 2009

Latest Campaigns of Sports Brands

Kategori: Sports MarketingCeyla Kütükoğlu @ 4:55 pm

nike-adidasThere are many brands in the sports clothing market, but two of them are leading the market. Those are Nike and Adidas. Although they have different characteristics, they still have many things in common. First of all both brands started from similar points and ended up with same destiny. Adidas founded in 1924 by Adi Dassler, a man was designing only shoes for bobsleigh athletes and Nike is founded in 1972 by a track athlete and his coach who were distributors of a Japan shoe line. Today both brands are not only known for shoes or sports clothes but also life style clothing. Both brands are now beyond sports.

Besides performance sports, both brands have several different lines for extreme and outdoor sports and they are producing casual clothes for daily activities. When we look at the recent collections of these brands we can see many clothes and accessories can be dressed daily and only jeans are not included for now. While aiming to produce outfit can be putted on all day, Nike and Adidas targeted the same trend and used same idea here again. Return to past… First Nike, released the Cortez 72 line which refers to its foundation date, adapted the historic elements of those years into today’s modern clothing. Adidas, on the other hand, released the Original series, emphasizing the originality of the brand and its trademark 3 stripes.

Today Nike and Adidas still follow that path however they differentiated in their targets of latest advertising campaigns.
Devamı… “Latest Campaigns of Sports Brands”

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Feb 03 2009

Super Bowl – Return on Investments

Kategori: Media,NFL,Sports MarketingCeyla Kütükoğlu @ 5:30 pm

Super Bowl Ads The 24-18 victory of Pittsburg Steelers’ on Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII which played in Sunday was the one of the greatest match in history of Super Bowl. So who cares? Of course many NFL fans care, but when we look at the rest all we can see there is only one thing that everybody talks about and makes analyzes about: the Ads!!

For American marketers and advertisers, Super Bowl evolved to be an extended band of ad in which a match is broadcasted in the reaming time. When you search for Super Bowl, you came across with ad analyses, video sites publishing the ads and many ad comments sites. You can find after 10 minutes even the score of this important and interesting game.

In my previous article, I mentioned that the 30 second spot of Super Bowl costs 3 million dollars. That means the worth of one Super Bowl ad is increased 13% despite the economic downturn. According to number revealed after the game, the broadcast channel of the game, NBC, has gained 206 million dollars just from the game. I would like to make a comparison with Turkish market. The revenue of Super Bowl is the same as the entire revenue of outdoor advertising in Turkey in one year. In total 32 advertiser advertised with at least 3 different ads to Super Bowl. And %85 of them paid 3 million dollars ,the maximum amount of money, per ad. NBC started to sell Super Bowl ads back in October 2008 and the bidding continued to the last minute before the game start. Last minute ad sales are also very common in Turkish TV advertising market specifically for sports events.

So, for advertiser how much is the return on investment, considering that they are investing so heavily to a single match?

Devamı… “Super Bowl – Return on Investments”

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