As the media landscape continues to evolve, consumer behavior follows close behind. With more consumers ditching traditional cable or satellite TV subscriptions and consuming content through their connected TV (CTV )— usually on one of the many over-the-top (OTT) services such as Hulu — brands are shifting even more ad dollars to these emerging channels. For context, the number of CTV users in the U.S. reached 203 million in 2020.
These trends are why TWO MEN AND A TRUCK® began using Hulu Ad Manager in 2020 to create impactful, local streaming TV campaigns. We’re able to leverage Hulu’s 39 million subscribers and their robust targeting options to put our brand in front of the right consumers.
“At the corporate level, we have initiatives to help local franchises understand options for spending their local marketing budget. Up until now, the spend has been focused on social media, search and display, and network and cable television,” said Bill Barrett, a franchise marketing specialist for the TWO MEN AND A TRUCK corporate team. “While we provide useful information to the franchises, it’s up to them to manage their local marketing spend. One of our challenges, specifically with TV buys, has been the inability to help them if they get stuck, since we lack insight into the campaigns they are individually managing. One of the appealing benefits about Hulu Ad Manager is the ease with which we can buy and manage Streaming TV ads on the franchisees’ behalf.”
The TWO MEN AND A TRUCK campaigns use a blend of demographics, life events, behaviors, interests, and ownership status. Using Hulu’s first-party data and targeting, we’re confident our ads will show to users who fit our ideal customer profile. Franchisees are starting to share similar confidence as more begin to add Hulu to their media mix.
In-depth targeting capabilities are not as readily available in cable and network TV campaigns. These extra layers allow for more control over our campaigns than ever before.
It’s imperative to the growth of our brand that we leverage emerging advertising and marketing technology that provides tangible benefits and value to our franchisees. We are thrilled to add Hulu advertising to our ever-growing list of marketing tools — as we’re confident it will be an integral part of our continued marketing success.
You can read more about how we use Hulu to propel our brand forward in this conversation with the Hulu team.
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