Millennial Parents Opps: Georgia Aquarium appoints AOR (Score 55)

Sales lead: Start reaching out now to offer ad space for the upcoming campaign. 

  • Georgia Aquarium (GA) named Doe-Anderson Advertising its AOR in October 2023.
  • The agency is responsible for strategy, creative, and media.
  • Doe-Anderson's first campaign is scheduled for spring 2024. 
  • This replaces ASO Advertising. 

Target demographic: Millennial parents

The organization will likely:

  • Ramp ad spend back up
  • Revise creative/media strategy
  • Build out its agency roster

Digital and social insights (digital ad spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)

  • YTD spend: GA spent about $76.4k on digital display ads YTD, a 30% decrease from $108.7k spent in this channel during the same time period of 2022. 
  • YTD data: 37m impressions via desktop display (55%) and desktop video (45%). 
  • 2021-2022 spend: Full-year spend fell 61% from $291.3k in 2021 to $115k in 2022. 
  • Ad location: It placed 54% of these ads indirectly through Amazon DSP onto sites such as amazon.com, realtor.com, quora.com, slickdeals.net, and gamerant.com. It placed 46% of these ads directly onto sites such as twitch.tv, youtube.com, and imbd.com. 

Additional channel insights  

  • Vivvix: It also invests in radio and OOH.

Agency analysis:

  • Opportunity: I recommend offering PR, digital, or social media services. 
  • Current roster:

Insight Sources: Digital spend insights estimated by Pathmatics; additional channel insights estimated by Vivvix.