columbia house

client challenge

Columbia House had a recognition problem. Despite being one of the oldest mail order clubs in existence, people didn’t know it was still around. What could be done to remedy that? 

solution

For hard-core movie fans, the answer was simple: a trivia contest with a grand prize of a trip to Hollywood. Enter: The Ultimate Players Club!

Reintroduce the brand to consumers

Increase membership

encourage social sharing

In an episode of my life called “Rachel lives the direct response dream,” I wheedled my way onto the creative team for this project and had the opportunity to write over 200 trivia questions for the online game, in addition to the website, banner and media insert copy.

results

Over 75,000 unique site visits during the contest

More than 84% of that traffic came directly from the online media buy, with a cost/visit (brand exposure) of only $1.96!