Adshel NZ launches ethnicity targeting initiative with multi-lingual campaign for Surf Life Saving New Zealand

Outdoor advertising company Adshel NZ has introduced its new ethnicity targeting initiative, using NZ Census data, enhanced with Roy Morgan's Single Source data, to identify audiences where they live and work. With the ability to precisely pin-point diverse communities, the tool gives advertisers the opportunity to deliver campaigns that better target and engage audiences across a multicultural New Zealand.

Ethnic targeting is the latest addition to Adshel's Audience Targeting product range designed to complement Adshel's traditional proximity targeting tools. This includes Roy Morgan's Helix Personas data applied across Adshel NZ's out-of-home panels last year, a tool that has proven very popular with advertisers seeking to better target audience segments where they live and work, with more relevant messaging.

Adshel New Zealand's Sales and Marketing Director, Ben Gibb, said the ethnic targeting initiative enables even more efficient campaign planning and relevance, as the country grows in cultural complexity.

"According to the last census, over a million kiwis, or a quarter of the population, were born overseas, with more than half a million overseas-born residents in Auckland alone. As New Zealand becomes increasingly diverse, there is a greater demand to better target audiences from different cultural backgrounds, and an opportunity for advertisers to deliver more relevant and engaging creative. Almost one in five of us speak more than one language, and communicating with audiences in their own language sends a relatable and impactful message."

To launch the initiative Adshel NZ worked with charity partner Surf Life Saving New Zealand to create a multi-lingual outdoor campaign using Adshel's enhanced targeting capabilities to reach specific community groups with important safety messaging over the summer.

Nick Gutzewitz, Commercial Manager at Surf Life Saving New Zealand, said: "In addition to the wider public, we wanted to speak to a few key groups in the New Zealand community to get our key safety message - 'swim between the flags' - to them in their native languages. Adshel's ethnicity targeting tool provides us with a new and innovative way to communicate this key safety message and encourage people to make wise decisions when they swim at New Zealand beaches this summer. With this tool, we were able to reach those audiences by selecting sites across Auckland that indexed high against specific communities. We were then able to deliver relevant, in-language messaging, including Chinese, Samoan and Maori, for a more effective and impactful campaign over the crucial holiday season."

Gibb added: "The Surf Life Saving New Zealand campaign presented a perfect opportunity to put our ethnicity targeting tools to use for a good cause and we are very pleased with the result.

"Adshel continues to look at ways to enhance our audience targeting capabilities, complement our traditional proximity targeting tools and offer even greater precision for advertisers. We're known for our national footprint, with over 3,200 panels across New Zealand allowing advertisers to deliver messages with precision. Coupled with our increasing audience profiling capabilities, including this latest ethnicity targeting initiative, we have the scale to be precise - and that's really the key for our clients."

The four-week Surf Life Saving New Zealand campaign is live until January 23rd.

Creative agency: BCG2
Production: Adshel

For more information, please contact:

Lisa Smith, Media & Communications Manager, SLSNZ
Phone 09 303 9335 or 0276 488 823
Email lisa.smith@surflifesaving.org.nz