A NEW red meat marketing campaign aims to cement beef and lamb as key pillars of a nutritionally balanced diet, especially with younger Australians and men.
Meat and Livestock Australia’s new campaign – The Trinity Experiment – is an online ‘mockumentary’ style story about a set of triplets, separated at birth and raised under incredibly similar circumstances, with the only difference being their diets.
One child is raised on a diet of meat only, the second child on green vegetables only and the third on a healthy balanced diet featuring beef and lamb.
The campaign shows the experiment over 30 years and highlights how a healthy balanced diet featuring red meat as an important component helps get the best out of individuals.
MLA group marketing manager Andrew Howie said the latest campaign was a continuation of the important consumer nutrition marketing that MLA had undertaken in recent years, targeting key consumer groups and issues identified by research.
“Nutrition and versatility are key drivers of choice when it comes to red meat purchases in the domestic market,” Mr Howie said.
“The campaign acknowledges this and showcases key nutrition messages and product versatility in a way that younger male audiences can relate to.
“It’s important we reach these valuable audiences with the right nutritional information around beef and lamb as part of a healthy balanced diet.”
Mr Howie said younger Australians and males were important target audiences for future-proofing red meat consumption. This was toed to research showing an increase in men shopping and preparing meals.
“However, younger male audiences are notoriously hard to reach and tend to avoid nutrition-based information,” Mr Howie said.
“In recent years, MLA has developed new ways of communicating with ‘hard to reach’ audiences using new and innovative concepts to great effect.
“The purpose of this campaign is to create informative and amusing content that the target audience will engage with and that supports a healthy balanced diet.
“We will also direct the audience back to MLA online channels such asbeefandlamb.com.au and other digital platforms with healthy balanced meal information.”
Mr Howie said this campaign, like other MLA marketing activities, aimed to drive demand for red meat.
“We are committed to creating advertising that works, based on data and consumer insights that inform our ideas,” ,” Mr Howie said.
“This in turn generates campaign elements that consumers love to engage with.
“MLA is continually looking at ways to improve our consumer marketing to ensure we deliver the best possible returns to levy paying producers and the wider red meat industry.”
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