In Focus

My dream pitch: Virgin America

Microsite

When introducing new brands, marketers must create awareness. Using interactive banner ads, a Virgin America microsite, customized dop kits and an email campaign, the "First Time" campaign hits hard, capturing the attention of future Virgin Americans. The microsite, depicted below, offers Virgin’s interactive guides to New York or San Francisco. Each guide not only provides information on and reservations to trend-setting local entertainment for specific dates of travel, the site also makes restaurant suggestions based on the flyer’s user profile.

Through user profiles, the microsite tracks favorite destinations and music listened to on previous Virgin flights. The social component of the site enables travelers to link to their MySpace pages while offering Virgin’s own internal social networking site so travelers can connect with other registered passengers before or after their flight.

 

Comments

Mike Quinlan
Mike Quinlan August 8, 2007 at 10:54 AM

Lots of good stuff in this pitch. I particularly liked the airline survival kit. Talk about a dream opportunity to get product samples into select consumer hands. Delivers convenience and generates good will to boot! Likewise the destination microsite has the potential to generate some advertising revenue from other sources. The point being, much of what is proposed could be self-financing and could even generate extra revenues for Virgin in addition to their advertising value and contribution to the company's CRM strategy. I am unclear also has to if this pitch is for a specific niche campaign? Or, if its meant to be Virgin Airlines major marketing orientation and campaign in the US market? If the former, I like it. If the latter I am not sure that it considers what I would suppose to be the necessity for an airline to cater to widely divergent client demographics.