Channel shift campaign - digital marketing spend

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Annabelle Slaughter

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Please supply an itemised list for:

Please supply a detailed itemised cost list for:

a) the expenditure so far on the Council's “Save Time Online” digital marketing campaign, including cost breakdown on agency fees, poster runs, radio ads, and all other elements of the campaign. Please also include staff salaries in this costing.

b) Future expenditure for the next 12 months on the same campaign.

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City of Edinburgh Council

Ms Annabelle Slaughter

Date: 18/11/2015

Our ref: 9590

Dear Ms Slaughter

Acknowledgement of Request

Subject: Channel shift campaign - digital marketing spend

Thank you for your request for information of 18/11/2015 which was received on 18/11/2015. In your request you asked for the following;

"Please supply a detailed itemised cost list for:

a) the expenditure so far on the Council's “Save Time Online” digital marketing campaign, including cost breakdown on agency fees, poster runs, radio ads, and all other elements of the campaign. Please also include staff salaries in this costing.

b) Future expenditure for the next 12 months on the same campaign."

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Ms Annabelle Slaughter

 

Date: 15/12/2015

 

Our ref: 9590

 

Dear Ms Slaughter

 

Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Release of Information

 

Subject: Channel shift campaign - digital marketing spend

 

Thank you for your request for information of 18/11/2015 which has been
processed and considered under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act
2002 and the information is provided below.

 

Please supply a detailed itemised cost list for:

 

a) the expenditure so far on the Council's “Save Time Online” digital
marketing campaign, including cost breakdown on agency fees, poster runs,
radio ads, and all other elements of the campaign. Please also include
staff salaries in this costing.

 

The campaign budget (£900,000 set out over five years’) was agreed on 15
January 2015 by the Finance and Resources Committee. The report can be
viewed at the following link:
[1]http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/meetings/mee...,
item 7.3 – BOLD business cases – delivering a lean and agile Council.

 

 

Strategy/planning £49,968.00
Radio £9,515.00
Print £5,193.00
Promotional items £1,758.00
Press £3,844.66
Digital £37,396.42
Outdoor £15,367.63
TOTAL £123,042.71

 

The costs above include production costs, creative time, media and account
management time. The spend is front loaded (biggest spend at the start of
the campaign to establish the brand and strategy) and is currently running
under budget.

 

The five year salary budget was also agreed on 15 January 2015 and is part
of the report referred to above. Cost on staff salaries to date -
£66,000.00.

 

b) Future expenditure for the next 12 months on the same campaign.

 

Future costs in 2016 - £120,000

 

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sam pilling left an annotation ()

Why is the 2016 estimated spend of £120,000 so much when the 2015 spend was "front loaded"? Surely it should be a lot less because all the strategy and brand work has been done? Maybe a breakdown of the 2016 spend would help explain this anomaly.