Cross-media content campaign
As a private bank, ABN AMRO MeesPierson targets high-net-worth Dutch individuals. This target audience has other financial questions than the average consumer.
Research from the bank showed that the target audience is very interested in topics like inheritance, drawing up a will, philanthropy, and business transfer within the family (after death).
While the topic of inheritance contains plenty of content, it’s often focused on the financial and fiscal side of things. Only little attention is given to the ‘soft’, human side. To the conversations you want to have in life. To the impact of inheritance on the recipients, often the children. Or to the societal impact you want to have.
ABN AMRO MeesPierson wants to show that having tough, sometimes emotional conversations can be enlightening for all parties involved. Not selling products or services, but showing that the bank understands the target audience and can truly help them.
Position ABN AMRO MeesPierson as the expert in asset transfer and eventually attract new customers.
A content strategy that brings up the matter of inheritance, with stories that high-net-worth individuals can recognise themselves in.
Content-driven digital campaign
We developed a content-driven digital campaign that allowed the bank to facilitate conversations with the target audience around sensitive financial topics.
The content platform financialfocus.nl — which was already available — would serve as the focal point of the campaign, where the content would land and conversions would occur.
TV documentary
For this campaign, we adopted a hero-hub-hero approach. Front and centre in this campaign is a piece of long documentary video content. The documentary was broadcast on RTL Z (a commercial 24-hour broadcaster in the Netherlands) and can now be viewed on Videoland (RTL’s video-on-demand service).
In the documentary, we find out what goes into settling an estate. Additionally, heirs from OGER, Burgers’ Zoo, and Gassan Diamonds tell their stories around inheritance.
The 45-minute video gave us the space to explore several topics from different angles and allowed for personal stories from the heirs, as well as in-depth expertise.
Digital platform with always-on content
The core of campaigns is often interchangeable. They’re rolled out with a commercial as a key component, promoting products or services, often on a temporary campaign website.
This campaign is different. We didn’t build a temporary campaign page, but a digital platform that houses campaign content and always-on content. The campaign contained high-end inspirational content, in-depth stories, and practical calculation examples. It was a complementary collaboration between the bank, supplying the expertise content, and iO, taking care of the inspirational content.
This way, we can offer the target audience relevant content in every phase of the customer journey — to be continually found on the content platform financialfocus.nl.
Additional visitors on financialfocus.nl > 32% above target
Whitepaper downloads > 182% above target
Magazine requests > 39% above target
Card game
Earlier campaigns taught us that we also needed high-quality content at the bottom of the funnel — the other hero layer. After all, that’s where the conversion would take place.
This time, we chose to create a card game: a physical deck of cards containing dozens of conversation starters. Each card could lead to conversations around the kitchen table about topics that are often avoided at all costs.
Card game requests > 52% above target
We helped ABN AMRO with
Our collaboration in numbers
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Valuable and high-impact
All objectives for this campaign were amply reached. On some targets, the online benchmarks were even beat by over 100%.
With this campaign, we helped to profile the bank once again as the Netherlands’ private bank par excellence and we contributed to a large influx of new leads (90% above target).
In terms of number of leads, this was the bank’s most successful campaign ever.
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