DRIVING THE HERTZ GROWTH AUDIENCE? CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

Most people enjoy a fun, extra special experience. But the Hertz audience loves it.

This was key when revitalising the World’s no.1 Car rental brand For its biggest growth opportunities.

Hertz needed a call to arms as exciting and bold as its category-defining innovation.

 

The business and brand had evolved – audience insights told us timing was right for a distinct tonal shift.
A strong call to arms.

 

With the growth customer in focus, there needed to be a bold direction that balanced the emotional and rational reasons to choose Hertz – driving this audience from brand awareness through to consideration, answering the buying journey question: why choose Hertz?

With a 100+ year history as the world’s travel and mobility innovator, Hertz have never faced more competition, from traditional competitors and tech startups.

With intimate knowledge of the car rental category, the traveller’s wants and desires, and a longstanding strong client relationship, we got to work to uncover the sum of the Hertz experience that creates extra special experiences for its customers.

All while collaborating with Australia’s most-loved and trusted talent, Hamish Blake.

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Working closely with our client team, we quickly set our sights and effort on the Hertz growth audience: the Discerning Traveller persona who travels in different modes of leisure, business, family and friends – craving fun experiences across it all.

From the co-creation of creative territories amongst our strategy, account management, and creative teams, we moved into concept development covering an integrated approach to inform a media plan based on our target’s habits and lifestyle.

Our idea opened us up to the possibility of aligning with talent who live and embody the values important to Hertz and our audience. Here, we defined the criteria for an ambassador, engaged on all comms, and collaborated on scripting and exciting ways to bring the work to life.

Working with our trusted production partners production covered motion and stills capture for TVC, OOH, publisher, paid and organic social, website, digital, and in-store assets.

THE RESULTS

96.83%

Video Completion Rate

26.12%

Website Conversion Rate Improvement

10.5 million

Households Reached

96.83%

Video Completion Rate

26.12%

Website Conversion Rate Improvement

10.5 million

Households Reached

CAPABILITIES DEPLOYED

Strategy

  • Audience segmentation
  • Strategic Idea
  • Insight development
  • Ambassador engagement

Creative

  • Concept development
  • Script writing and storyboarding
  • Art direction and creative direction on location
  • Asset production – design, animation and editing

Digital

  • Website and landing page design
  • Organic social strategy
  • SEO consideration
  • Reporting and insights

“At the heart of it, we are here to enable memorable, extra special experiences for people and their families.”