Reacting to the new VRBO TV advert
18 Jul 2021 · 4 min
Mark Simpson watches VRBO's "Reunion" ad and breaks down why it works: grandparents meeting grandchildren, smart audiovisual choices, and strong YouTube performance. He suggests short-term rental hosts use a "reconnect" message as travel reopens.
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My parents in 17 months. What do you think? I'm Susan Buer. I'm Molly's mother.
And I'm Peter Bucher. And I'm Molly's father.
She has no idea that we're here.
So notice the audio, notice the music, the setup really quick and then the change in music.
He described us here to meet him for the first time.
He looks just like me.
He does. For him to be able to meet his grandparents was just really, really special.
Extraordinary surprise. One of life's special moments.
We haven't seen.
So first of all, first of all, first of all, good advert, good video. Again, speaking of somebody who hasn't seen family for, for so long, over 12 months, you know, it's been a. It has been tough, you know, family, grandparents, etc, so real a good emotion to pull on the emotional strings. Secondly, again, you'll notice the, the, the phrase there, which is reunion. Now, if we go to the Verbo channel, right now if we go to the YouTube channel, Summer Family union rates. Verbo Reunion. Verbo Reunion Niece and aunt together again. Reunion Surprise wedding celebrations, Joyous reunion, Family gathering. Verbo reunions featuring John Legend and Chrissy Teigen and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So these were a couple of weeks ago. 5, 500,000 views. That's a big one. 3.4 thousand views. 404 views. So get a bit of traction. This is obviously on the YouTube channel. This is not even including the TV ads, etc, that they would have been playing time and time and time again on a TV that they were doing. But notice that the common theme, reunion, family reunion, the reconnect message from Airbnb. So again, if, if you are looking at how to market the rest of 2021 and you're in a country that's starting to reopen, this should be the message that you are using. Whether it's an email, whether it's your website, whether it's your social media, whether it's a whatever ad you're going to do, then this should be the message that you should be looking to put across to reconnect, meeting it with, with loved ones, family members, friends, you name it, that should be the message that you should be looking to use. And if you've got a larger property or say that you've got glamp sites or anything like that, again, you've got an extra twist on it as well, because you've got a solution. If you've got a large property, have everybody in one place so you don't have to go to your in laws or family, you know, families, or have to go into your family house, you know, you can separate, spread out. You don't have to freak about or stress about everybody coming to one house, your house, all the mess, go to somebody else's house. But also as well, if you've got a Glampsite, it's like a different experience, like a rural experience. And these experience days, as I reported, are 300% up. So use this look at what the big boys are doing and then you can use it for your advantage in your market for the rest of 2021. And again, if you're part of Boosted Content Creator, you can bet that is what we're going to be doing with our marketing that we're gonna be doing for our social media content. So go check it out. Booster.co.uk so boostedcontentcreator.com if you use the promo code July, you're actually going to get one month free. And that's a special offer just for the month of July. Please come and join nearly 1,000 other hosts that are doing this. Email templates, social media templates and much, much, much, much more. Okay, I'll be back tomorrow with another episode, the Boostly Podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in and as always, let me know your thoughts, your big takeaway. Please leave it below in the comments. Thank you.
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