Campaign Goals

  • Generate marketing-qualified leads to pass to sales department to sell policies.
  • Increase overall awareness of WPS Health Insurance.

What we did:

  • Write detailed but open-ended RFPs for TV vendors.
  • Solicited TV and OTT/streaming TV proposals from every TV station in Wisconsin.
  • Analyzed proposals, created high-level summaries.
  • Negotiated with TV sales representatives to adjust before we present final recommendations.
  • Make recommendations and guide client on stations to select.
  • Adjusted winning proposals, booked, and confirmed the placement.
  • Utilized data from the sales cycle, direct mail drops, CRM, market research and more to identify and plot out the most important times to have mass marketing presence.
  • Aligned our campaigns to all of the information we have available to us and what we know about how their ideal customer operates within the sales cycle.
  • Trafficked the client-produced TV spots to maximize their impact.
  • Monitored delivery of spots, approving make goods and other program changes.

The results:

  • This TV campaign is the main mass marketing strategy that supports a larger marketing calendar (including direct mail and digital marketing). It supports increasing their sales-qualified leads and in turn increasing their sales every year since we've been on air.
  • Every year, we've evaluated awareness of WPS through market research. The most recent study showed a 27% increase in unaided brand awareness and an impressive 43% ad recall on their ads.
  • In 2022, we had a 74% increase in sales over an already record year.
  • Since 2018, sales have grown 220%.
Sales growth since the start of advertising
220%
Increase in unaided brand awareness
27%
Post-campaign ad recall
43%