University Concert Hall: Autumn Programme Campaign

University Concert Hall (UCH) is a 1,038 seat auditorium situated on the University of Limerick campus. We worked with UCH to develop a 2 week promotional campaign, off the back of their new website launch. As part of this campaign, we developed a campaign strategy, a content schedule, and managed the placement of advertising and native content on social and digital channels. The result was a highly successful campaign which drove excellent engagement, newsletter sign ups and revenue.

CAMPAIGN STRATEGY — A cross channel social and digital campaign strategy and campaign schedule was created, including plans for native content and paid advertising. At the strategy stage, we distilled the campaign messages, identified the channels to be used, and devised initiatives to reach our audiences and communicate our messages. The target audiences for this campaign were 35-64 year olds in Limerick, Tipperary and Clare. We wanted to communicate the breadth of UCH’s programming to both old and new audiences. Social and digital advertising used location targeting and age targeting, combined with interest targeting to reach people interested in the key genres (country, classical, cinema and comedy) and with general interests in arts and entertainment.

LEAD GENERATION — A key objective of the campaign was to drive sign ups to the UCH newsletter. We created a Facebook lead form ad to gather email addresses which could then be input into the mailing list system. The lead ad was very successful, gathering 332 emails at a cost per lead of €0.60.

RESULTS — During the 2 week campaign period, there was a 45% increase in website visitors compared to the previous period, a 29% increase in revenue, and a 55% increase in website sessions. Google Search was also set up as a new revenue stream. Overall, there was a 22% increase in transactions, with a 280% increase in transactions from Social, 127% increase from Referrals, and 100% increase from Paid Search (Google Ads).