Brand awareness/engagement • drive purchase/consideration • change perception

HEINZ TOMATO KETCHUP& BAUER MEDIAA celebrity chef and integrated branded content across Closer, Magic and Bauer City Network helped this campaign cook up a storm!

BRAND PERCEPTIONS OF HTK WERE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER AMONG THOSE WHO RECALLED THE CAMPAIGN

THE IDEACloser’s access to columnist and celebrity cook Nadia Sawalha enabled us to use her to front the campaign and provide perceived endorsement of HTK. With Nadia central to the campaign, Heinz Tomato Ketchup branded content was created across key Bauer brands – Closer, Magic and the Bauer City Network – while social media platforms created interest and engagement online.

OUR APPROACHHTK wanted to do something fresh and different that involved encouraging people to reappraise the way in which they currently consumed the brand. We also wanted a brand ambassador, someone who our consumers related to and who could provide a focal point to the campaign.

EXECUTIONIn Closer, Nadia featured in a series of double-page spreads and column advertorials, showcasing a number of recipes with ‘the secret ingredient she uses in every dish’. This was a great way of giving readers ideas of how to incorporate tomato ketchup into everyday family cooking, with Nadia giving her endorsement to the recipes.On radio, copy voiced by Nadia was broadcast across the Bauer City Network and Magic to create interest and excitement about the Heinz ‘Secret Ingredient’ campaign, driving listeners to the Heinz website to win a culinary holiday and to find out about more recipes. In addition, presenters informed listeners that street teams from the stations would be in their local areas, giving them a chance to win cash and a Heinz ‘Secret Ingredient’ hamper.

THE CHALLENGEHeinz Tomato Ketchup (HTK) needed to drive frequency of use among existing consumers by communicating itself as an alternative cooking ingredient. A key part of the brief was to introduce HTK as the helping hand to make easy, great-tasting family favourite recipes.

Brand perceptions of HTK were significantly higher among those who recalled the campaign, especially those that were exposed to the campaign on more than one media platform

RESULTS64% of Bauer consumers were exposed to an element of

the campaign

Brand perceptions of HTK were significantly higher among those who recalled the campaign, especially those that were exposed to the campaign on more

than one media platform

Future purchase intent was significantly higher than those unexposed to the campaign (94% vs 87%)

95% brand favourability towards Heinz for website consumers exposed to the campaign