Womply Activates High Frequency Sponsorship to Reach Small Businesses

Womply stands for small businesses. Since their launch in 2011, they’ve helped over 500,000 American businesses find their footing in a digital world with marketing automation, business intelligence, and CRM services. During the COVID-19 pandemic, help meant connecting self-employed workers and small business owners with PPP loans – fast – to keep their livelihoods afloat. And that includes NPR listeners, who are 156% more likely to be self-employed professionals¹ and 41% more likely to be small business owners.² To spread the word, Womply partnered with NPR in a cross-platform campaign spanning radio, podcast, and digital placements. 

Goal

• Increase brand awareness
• Drive website visits to Womply’s PPP forms, including small business owners and contractors

Solution

With over 200 million monthly fans, NPR users prefer to consume content on a single platform with low cross-visiting between radio, podcast, and digital platforms.³ For instance, 75% of NPR’s weekly podcast listeners don’t listen to NPR radio.¹ NPR crafted a multi-platform campaign focusing on a high share of voice and high frequency campaign to maximize Womply’s presence, reaching listeners wherever they are in their day, from their cars to their smart speakers. 

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Results

Building high frequency and high share of voice over the course of two months was a winning strategy to achieve Womply’s campaign objectives. The campaign saw higher than average conversion rates across multiple platforms, achieving a conversion rate of 1.9% and exceeding the NPR podcast conversion rate by 0.83%.⁴

Additional insights from NPR’s multiplatform strategy included identifying specific genres and platforms that resonated with Womply’s core target. News podcasts drove the most conversions overall, while pre-roll in music-focused podcasts achieved the highest conversion rate. The genuine interest listeners hold for NPR content benefits sponsors as well, with one compelling episode achieving an extra 120k delivery of impressions.⁵

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1. MRI-Simmons Doublebase 2020, among custom NPR News audience
2. MRI-Simmons Doublebase 2020, among custom NPR News audience, owners/partners at businesses with less than 100 employees
3. Aggregated across ACT 1 based on Nielsen Audio Nationwide, Spring 2021, Persons 12+, based on program broadcast times, Mon-Sun Midnight-Midnight; Splunk, Spring 2021; Google Analytics, Spring 2021; and ComScore, Key Measures – August 2021
4. Podsights, May 2021
5. NPR Listener Survey, June 2021