VELUX Roof Windows - Seeing the Light

This paper shows how clever media thinking in the final year of Velux Roof Window’s “Toys” campaign enabled brand awareness to increase by 8% points, sales of windows to increase by 9% and sales of blinds by 16%.
Agency: The UnionAuthors: Stuart Bell, Charlotte Bond and Mark Reid

VELUX Roof Windows - Seeing the Light

INTRODUCTION

VELUX roof windows launched their “Toys” campaign in 2001 and subsequently won a Bronze award at the 2003 Advertising Effectiveness Awards. The purpose of this paper is to show that the media thinking in the final year of this campaign led to even, greater success.

This was achieved through:

  • Clarity and consistency of advertising objectives

  • Ongoing measurements of success (and failures)

  • Learning from the results and adapting the strategy

  • Smart media thinking

  • Modelling

BACKGROUND

VELUX has been manufacturing the...

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