Kia's target demographic: Gen-X & millennial men
The company will likely:
- Ramp up ad spend over the next few months
- Continue investing in new channels like TikTok
Broadcast insights (TV ad creative spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)
- YTD spend: Kia spent about $127.5m on national TV ads YTD, close to the $126.9k spent in this channel during the same time period of 2021.
- Last year: Full-year spend jumped by 35% from $105.8m in 2020 to $143.1m in 2021.
- 2022 ad programming: It placed ads during programming such as NBA Basketball, NFL Football, 74th Emmy Awards, The Big Bang Theory, and MLB Baseball.
Digital and social insights (digital ad spend, effectiveness, impressions, and performance)
- YTD spend: Kia spent nearly $25.4m on digital display ads YTD, a slight (5%) decrease from $26.8m spent in this channel during the same time period of 2021.
- YTD data: 2.4b impressions via desktop video (35%), desktop display (26%), Facebook (24%), Instagram (8%), mobile display (6%), and Twitter (2%).
- Last year: Full-year spend increased by 16% from $27.1m 2020 to $31.5m in 2021.
- Ad location: It placed 96% of these ads directly onto sites such as youtube.com, facebook.com, cars.com, instagram.com, and caranddriver.com. It placed 4% of these ads through multiple indirect channels onto sites such as caranddriver.com, yahoo.com, cars.com, thehill.com, and usatoday.com.
Additional channel insights
- Kia also invests in OOH, print, and local broadcast.
Current agency roster:
- David&Goliath: creative AOR
- Canvas Worldwide: digital & media planning AOR
- Innocean: media & experiential AOR
- Zeno Group: PR
Insight Sources: Broadcast insights estimated by Kantar.