Insurance

Nationwide.

Insurance advertising is a category of sameness: the same jingles, the same reassurance, the same faces. Nationwide wanted presence that felt like it belonged to the city rather than the category.

Market presence strategyEvent synchronisationCreative rotation
Nationwide truckside campaign

Client

Nationwide

Sector

Insurance

Markets

6 metros

Duration

6 months

Year

2024

Category sameness

Recall testing showed consumers routinely attributing Nationwide’s advertising to competitors. In a category where the product is functionally identical, distinctiveness is the entire asset — and it was leaking.

Nationwide campaign

Be where the city already is

We synchronised the fleet to the civic calendar: home games, festivals, marathons, parade routes. The trucks did not interrupt those moments, they attended them.

Creative rotated on a two-week cycle so repeat exposure stayed fresh, with a permanent local reference in every execution.

Still being talked about

Aided awareness lifted forty-two percent across activated metros, and misattribution to competitors fell sharply.

Organic social mentions ran at three times the category benchmark — the campaign generated its own earned media simply by showing up where people already had their phones out.

The numbers

What it moved.

+42%
Aided awareness lift
6
Metros activated
88M
Verified impressions
3x
Social mentions vs. benchmark

Impressions are GPS-logged at fifteen-second intervals and third-party audited. Lift figures are measured against demographically matched control markets with no fleet presence.

On the road

The fleet in service.

Nationwide wraps photographed across live routes — the same vehicles our GPS logs were counting.

Nationwide fleet on route
Nationwide fleet on route
Nationwide fleet on route
Nationwide fleet on route
Nationwide fleet on route
Nationwide fleet on route
Nationwide fleet on route
The mobile billboards were the highlight of our market presence that year. People still bring them up.

Regional Marketing LeadNationwide