CASE STUDY
How location data satisfied McDonald's
hunger to remain a leader in the German fast food market
In 2016, the informal eating out (IEO) market in Germany was worth €11.9 billion, and McDonald’s—along with its closest competitor—held 40% market share. Despite this, McDonald’s still faced strong competition from in-house supermarket options, bakeries, and coffee shops, which presented its agency, OMD Germany, with a challenge. In order to keep driving customers to its stores, McDonald’s responded to market trends, offering organic local beef and vegetarian food. Still, it needed to locate and engage the top informal eating out audience, impulse buyers, competitor customers, and families.
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Location Targeting using GroundTruth’s proprietary Blueprints technology, which draws polygons around specified points of interest, was implemented so McDonald’s could tightly target its primary audiences while OMD Germany effectively measured the impact of the campaign.
Locaton Audiences were also built using Blueprints for OMD Germany, which included families engaged in leisure time, people who were in close proximity to a McDonald’s restaurant, and consumers who had visited a competitor and were likely to be receptive to fast food messaging. All three audiences were presented with tailored McDonald’s messages relating to where they were in the moments that matter most.
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Real results.
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Tracking visits from location-targeted creative revealed a high return on investment.
A high proportion of people who saw the McDonald’s message and then went on to visit the store did so within 1 hour.
Happy Meal promotion was specifically successful, with a large number of the exposed audience identified within a McDonald’s restaurant within 6 hours of the ad.
Blueprints technology allows us to link high caliber location data with our campaigns. The fact that we can directly relate a restaurant visit to a previous media service means a huge step forward for us. The blueprints technology and the associated performance measurement is an important component of our mobile geo-targeting strategy. The process provides us with significant information about how mobile communications can actually drive the push for restaurant visits.