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Airport Media May 2016
1.
2. We are Airport Media
AB profile: 41%
UK profile: 74%
Pure play airport media owner
52m annual PAX
Fastest growing UK airports
Predominantly digital footprint
ABC1 profile: 77%
2 distinct audiences
Source: TGI 2015
4. Global Aviation Trends
London remains the busiest city in
the world for air passenger with
147m passengers across 6 airports
Global
Passenger
number up
5.7%
5. 82%of Airport Media
travel for leisure
40%aged under 35
Premium Leisure
32%AB Leisure
Over twice as
likely
to own a second home
Source: TGI 2015
7. New World Business
51%of UK business travelers
at Gatwick are AB
Social Grade
20%of Gatwick travel for business
46of top 50 European Business
Destinations
66%book low cost carriers for short
haul business
36%of our business audience are
Senior business decision makers
£71Kaverage salary of business
passengers
Source: TGI 2015
11. Unique Mindset
Source: Lawes Consulting Ethnographic Study
“The dynamic airport environment
drives high psychological alertness
which promotes engagement with
messages and advertising”
“The airport is
part of the
excitement of
the passengers’
journey.”
Environment
Moving away from audience and into environment,
Airports are no longer not fit for purpose
Gone are the cluttered retail offering
McDs out – Grain Store in
State of the art check in and security almost made queues a thing of the past and
The advertising estate is world class befitting of world class airports
The airports are the stars and destinations in their own right.
We are Airport Media
So who are we, and what are we about?
We want you to unlearn all that you think you know about us and our airports
Largest independent airport media owner in the UK
A huge passenger footprint across the UK with 91 m annual passengers
3 of the top 4 UK aiprorts
Predominantly DOOH footprint
UNASHAMEDLY UPMARKET. I’LL SAY THAT AGAIN – UNASHAMEDLY UPMARKET
Our UK AB demographic is 37% - the same as LHR. You think of LHR as upmarket and premium, yet it has the same profile as our airports when it comes to the crème de la crème of the UK population.
The difference is that our audience is UK based, we have two audiences that we want you think of when you think of Airport Media:
Premium Leisure
New World Business
Premium Leisure
Yes, we do have a strong leisure footprint – but takeaway from this is that it’s premium leisure. Again, unashamedly upmarket.
Young, affluent, men, women and families who travel regularly. Out AB profile of leisure passengers is %
And it makes sense. If you can afford to take your family away twice a year, summer & skiing for example – you’re doing very well for yourself. Also that younger audiences of couples on city breaks, or the girls / boys trips that occur every year are not a pursuit of those without disposable income
Global Aviation trends
The Global aviation market is very boyant – up by almost 6% driven by strong growth in emerging markets. The growth in these markets, (Asia, LATAM) is also seeing a big expansion in the LCC model with that sector now accounting for 25% of global passengers.
Also airlines of all shapes and sizes are improving their services to attract more passengers as are airports which are becoming destinations in their own right. Whether its connecting in Dubai for their shopping / Changi for its butterfly garden or 24 hour free cinema.
Closer to home, Europe, (despite being a mature market), is seeing steady growth at just over 5%, and London is still the busiest city for air travel in the world with 147m passenger passing through 6 airports.
Despite the well documented capacity issues, there is still room for growth, with the STN renaissance continuing with a robust 18% YoY growth.
Premium Leisure
Yes, we do have a strong leisure footprint – but takeaway from this is that it’s premium leisure. Again, unashamedly upmarket.
Young, affluent, men, women and families who travel regularly. Out AB profile of leisure passengers is %
And it makes sense. If you can afford to take your family away twice a year, summer & skiing for example – you’re doing very well for yourself. Also that younger audiences of couples on city breaks, or the girls / boys trips that occur every year are not a pursuit of those without disposable income
Premium Leisure
So if you’re BMW or Range looking at targeting a family looking to buy a new car
Or Apple looking to sell your latest piece of tech
Or Dior pushing their lines of premium fragrances
Or Tiffany simply looking to promote their brand in an environment conducive to advertising
New World Business
Our business audience at our airports is different. Its New World Business
It is entrepreneurs
It is start ups
It is SMEs
It is people like you and me
It is very much short haul
Again as Ged said, forget what you think you know. A huge chunk of business travel is no short haul, where price is the biggest determination on airline after destination.
Almost 70% of business passengers are happy to consider LCC for short haul business trips.
New World Business
So let’s shout about this.
Plenty of brands are out their shouting about their products and services to NWB,
Be it Cloud based business solutions firm, VM Ware
Business banking by Lloyds
Premium cars like Jag
And of course tech for business
Environment
Moving away from audience and into environment,
Airports are no longer not fit for purpose
Gone are the cluttered retail offering
McDs out – Grain Store in
State of the art check in and security almost made queues a thing of the past and
The advertising estate is world class befitting of world class airports
The airports are the stars and destinations in their own right.
Unique Mindset
We know that passengers are in a unique mindset when they are in airports.
The holiday or trip has started already
Their money doesn’t feel real
It’s conducive to spending so it makes perfect sense to advertise products that are sold there.
But what about products that aren’t sold there. Like BMW cars, or Tiffany jewellery? The reasons that you would advertise on TV for BMW or in Magazines for Tiffany are the same for airports – to build brand awareness, or to change brand perception.
We’ve already established that you can reach this audience in airports, but where the brand piece comes into its own the mindset that you reach this unashamedly upmarket audience in, can not be replicated elsewhere,
They are alert
They are happy
They have a heightened sense of awareness
They are open to to advertising
Therefore its possible to have a deeper level of connection between brands and consumers when they are in this state of mind