The UK’s largest Digital Media owner Amscreen has today announced an ‘industry first’ deal with leading car manufacturer Kia that sees the launch of Amscreen’s new ‘Adlive’ platform. The platform, developed in-house by Amscreen will give all 171 UK Kia dealerships the chance to personalise a national advertising campaign through advertising in petrol station forecourts for their local area that will help drive customers directly through their doors.
Adlive represents an extension of Amscreen’s local sales advertising platform ‘Linklocal’ by developing it for a national proposition. Adlive provides Kia and their local dealers the ability to modify a national advert to feature local content and then deliver this across multiple digital screens in petrol station forecourts all within a matter of minutes. Individual dealers are also able to select their specific local catchment areas and plan varying weights of campaign all through a single online portal.
The campaign, and platform represents the first time a brand has been able to instigate a UK wide digital campaign with a degree of locally controlled content. For the individual Kia dealerships, this provides a cost effective addition to local press and radio with minimum wastage.
Adlive marks another step on Amscreen’s ambition to bring the flexibility of online to outdoor advertising. Their recently launched FNC proposition (Flexible National Content) brought the traditionally online practise of ‘ad-serving’ to Digital Out-Of-Home – a system that simply stores, serves and delivers but most valuably automatically tailors content for multiple locations.
Kia’s Dealer Marketing Manager, David Hart said “Driving customers to local dealers is key for us, and by using the Amscreen network, we are able to involve local dealerships in the advertising process whilst still maintaining a unified message. Working with Amscreen allows us to communicate our message to a large audience and their FNC technology ensures that this message is localised so that we can achieve the best results possible.”
Amscreen CEO Simon Sugar said “We’re so pleased to launch this platform with Kia – our huge weekly reach of 20 million adults in forecourts provides us the scale to be able to segment our portfolio to support Kia’s regional dealers ensuring messaging is locally relevant but maintains a consistent national brand presence. We’re confident this new Adlive platform and approach will translate well for a number of other brands in the future”
Amscreen Chairman Lord Sugar, said “Kia and Adlive are showing the true potential of digital outdoor by simply bringing the flexible targeting capabilities of online and combining it with the stature and stand out of digital out-of-home. I hope to see our unique Flexible National Content and now Adlive platforms changing the way brands think about our business and outdoor as a whole”
About Amscreen:
Amscreen is the UK’s largest Digital Out of Home media company, offering a robust, end-to-end digital signage solution via its unique wireless plug and play technology. Their networks broadcast from 3,500 sites across the UK and are an effective communication tool for clients such as BP, Shell and WH Smith and a range of blue-chip advertisers such as Coca Cola, Ford, Sky, Visa and BT.
As well as operating in petrol, convenience, leisure and travel locations, Amscreen provides screens to the healthcare industry. Its Healthcare network uses revolutionary software to provide customers with the ability to create and broadcast their own messages that can be viewed in prime dwelling areas such as waiting rooms, corridors and coffee shops.
Amscreen recently expanded into Europe following a deal with BP Europe SE that will see digital signage screens installed in forecourts across the continent in Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria.
The live Amscreen mapping system allows advertisers to locate screens across the UK. Visit http://www.amscreen.co.uk/
For more information on Amscreen, visit www.amscreen.co.uk
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020 7693 6999 / amscreen [at] frankpr.it
Source: Amscreen
