Welcome Initiative

Marketing Agency
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Your team today

Andis Laveikis

Andis
Laveikis

CEO

Edgars Caune

Edgars
Caune

Project Director

Mārtiņš Lellis

Mārtiņš
Lellis

Strategy

Today’s
Agenda
  • About Initiative Latvia
  • Brief
  • Main challenges and how to tackle
  • Media tactics
  • Plan
Initiative
Ranked #1 Latvian
Agency 2024
RECMA
Employees54
Billings 202419,6 mil EUR
ShareLatvia agencies2024 €M2023 €MGrowthStaffNon-trad
115,0%Initiative50,349,81%4527%
211,4%Havas Media38,237,42%2620%
310,8%Inspired UM36,249,6-27%4228%
410,3%Wavemaker aff. Media House34,626,232%2818%
510,2%EssenceMediacom aff. Trendmark34,335,3-3%2818%
69,3%Publicis Media31,224,030%3838%
78,5%Intense Media Baltic28,419,645%2012%
86,4%Carat21,621,41%1930%
94,7%Mindshare aff. VIA Media15,613,020%1918%
104,1%OMD13,714,2-4%1530%
113,2%dentsu X10,910,27%1830%
122,9%PHD9,810,2-4%1518%
132,0%Alpha Baltic6,75,229%2522%
140,9%Arena3,22,910%325%
-100%Total334,6319,04,9%34124%
Top clients
WE ARE PART OF: IPG Mediabrands

Tools & Services

Media planning
& insights tools

RippleKantar InfosysGemius GWIOutdoor Impact SupernovaWARC Search Ads 360Display & Video 360 Google AdsAdform

Digital analytics
tools

Adobe AnalyticsCampaign Manager Adform Creative SuiteAdreal SimilarWebGoogle Analytics 4 SemrushAhrefs

Advanced analytics
tools

SupermetricsDynio TableauLooker Power BI

Initiative built
tools

QuickSilver for Google Ads — automates campaign uploads, saving you valuable time and effort.

Performance lab — make changes in key visuals quickly; deliver personalized ad experiences for higher engagement and conversions.

Offline Conversion Tracking — track conversions across all channels, including phone calls and store visits (Website → CRM → Google Analytics & Ads).

Offline media
planning & buying
Digital media
planning & buying
Research
Advanced analytics
Creative
Production
(POS & Representative)
IRetail
(Instore optimisations)

Proven expertise

OUR SPECIALISTS ARE PROVEN EXPERTS ON ALL THE BIGGEST DIGITAL PLATFORMS: GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, ADFORM, LINKEDIN, TIKTOK, AND ELSE.

Brief

Initiative

Brief

Create 12-month growth strategy for lenders.lv

Period

12 months, starting from August

Media types

ATL
Meaning — excluding performance digital, inbox newsletters, etc.

Budget

100 000 – 150 000 EUR

Challenges
01
Building strong brand awareness and market recognition in Latvia
02
Developing a cohesive marketing strategy that integrates brand-building with performance goals
03
Building sustainable brand demand while maintaining efficient customer acquisition economics
04
Creating a balanced multichannel strategy beyond traditional acquisition channels
05
Being fully compliant with Latvian law
1.  BUILD AWARENESS
2. BALANCE BRAND WITH PERFORMANCE GOALS
Source: Lenders

Awareness

Initiative

Awareness building!

How to build awareness?

1

CONSISTENCY, REPETITIVENESS AND FREQUENCY

Always-On

2

HIGH BRAND VISIBILITY & VIEWABILITY

Reach & viewability

3

MULTIPLE TOUCHPOINTS

Omnichannel communication

4

OUTSTANDING AND DISTINCTIVE CREATIVITY

Creative solutions

High reach - frequently

Crucial for reach maximization

Memorability of ad > Frequency

Frequency?

It goes two ways!

Frequency

Best option for long term brand building that has better assistance to performance campaigns

In the sense of coverage over time, so that consumers don’t forget about us, and so when they make a category purchase the gap since the last time they saw one of our ads isn’t too long

In the sense of repeatedly seeing our advertising several times close together so that people can understand and learn the advertisement.

Better option for single campaign to get higher ad-recall

Source: Byron Sharp Blog

Audience

How well known are other brands?

All, 16-74 All, 25-55
Awareness
Trial
Preference
Source: Kantar Atlas 2025

Competition activity – All lenders

TNS + Adreal + Inbox newsletter monitoring

Source: Fifty5 Blue Adfacts, Gemius Adreal, Inbox Newsletter Monitoring. OTHER includes Swedbank, Ferratum, Aizdevums, West Kredit, Primero, Holm Bank, Creditea, Bondora, Mogo, Ondo, Citadele, Esto, etc.

Competition activity – All lenders

TNS + Adreal + Inbox newsletter monitoring

Source: Fifty5 Blue Adfacts, Gemius Adreal, Inbox Newsletter Monitoring. OTHER includes Swedbank, Ferratum, Aizdevums, West Kredit, Primero, Holm Bank, Creditea, Bondora, Mogo, Ondo, Citadele, Esto, etc.

Competition activity – Direct competitors

TNS + Adreal + Inbox newsletter monitoring

Source: Fifty5 Blue Adfacts, Gemius Adreal, Inbox Newsletter Monitoring. OTHER includes: soscredit, Soso, Comperia, Veno, Finlat, Atraiskredits, Kredītu Risinājumu centrs, Kredītu Salīdzināšanas Platforma

Competition activity – Direct competitors

TNS + Adreal + Inbox newsletter monitoring

Source: Fifty5 Blue Adfacts, Gemius Adreal, Inbox Newsletter Monitoring. OTHER includes: soscredit, Soso, Comperia, Veno, Finlat, Atraiskredits, Kredītu Risinājumu centrs, Kredītu Salīdzināšanas Platforma

Closest competitor awareness

Awareness – trial and preference

All, 16-74 All, 25-55
Awareness
Trial
Preference
Source: Kantar Atlas 2025

Competition

Materials

WE SUGGEST TO IMPROVE ON CURRENT LENDERS.LV COMMUNICATION – WE NEED TO STAND OUT!

  1. SONG – CATCHY & EASY TO REMEMBER
  2. PERSONAS – LOCALLY KNOWN
  3. BE SHORT, BE ON POINT

Balancing brand with
performance goals

Initiative

Both performance and brand should work together

Brand
building

Aims to enhance long-term customer perceptions and loyalty

&

Performance
marketing

Focuses on short-term, measurable outcomes like: sales, leads, or clicks

These two approaches often operate in silos, leading to suboptimal results

THEY CAN & SHOULD
WORK TOGETHER

We are here to show how!

The Multiplier Effect

Brand & Performance advertising work better together

ROAS over time: brand vs. performance

It's not
brand + performance

It's..
brand  X performance

STRONGER BRANDS DRIVE STRONGER PERFORMANCE

This is a fundamental finding: strengthening brand equity leads to better ability to convert through performance advertising.

The Multiplier Effect model

Potential buyers
Out of market
MESSY
MIDDLE
In market
Brand/equity-led
Performance
Sales
Profit

Brand-building communications build associations & relevance with category buyers

Brand work drives sales direct

As consumers near or enter the market, they display intent signals

Stronger brand equity directly affects performance metrics

As brand equity strengthens, pricing power increases

Source: WARC, Bera.ai

Balance brand and performance

Mix of brand and performance (sales) activities reflects the relative strengths and weaknesses of brand

The brand investment spectrum

Risk of ''doom loop''
Scope to optimize
Ideal range for most brands
Scope to optimize
Potentially losing out on in-market buyers
30%40%60%75%

Percentage of ad budget invested in equity-led executions →

BRAND SHARE
30% – 40%

Awareness ▼Preference ▼Meaning ▲Uniqueness ▲

That's because performance marketing is very effective at building Familiarity and Regard for brands that would have high Meaning and Uniqueness with a broader audience.

BRAND SHARE
40% – 60%

Awareness ▲Preference ▲Meaning ▲Uniqueness ▲

Staying at the top of the brand mountain is a precarious position to be in. You need continuous investment to keep it there.

BRAND SHARE
60% – 75%

Awareness ▲Preference ▲Meaning ▼Uniqueness ▼

For brands like these, brand marketing can do a much better job than performance marketing of revitalizing Meaning and Uniqueness in order to drive higher revenue volume and quality.

Build creative platforms
not campaigns

To fully use the Multiplier Effect, we need a long-term growth strategy with an integrated messaging approach

“PLATFORM”
APPROACH

creative concept that can be adapted to different styles of execution, from emotionally-engaging, memory-creating work through to “buy now” that drive conversion.

STORYTELLING

Consistent storytelling strengthens memory, recall, awareness and multiplies impact

CREATIVE AND VISUAL CONSISTENCY

Color coding, distinctive personas, same tone communication will help with familiarity and instant recognition not by just seeing logo

SHARED CREATIVE ASSETS

One main creative asset adapted into shorter formats and banners – but all use the same distinctive elements and emotional tone to ensure synergy across channels.

There Should Be
Proper Measurement In Place

Capturing the full impact of the Multiplier Effect will require a sophisticated approach to proving returns.
If we want to achieve this goal we should aim for a “measurement stack” that is capable of fulfilling 4 key principles:

1

It combines paid, owned, and earned media touchpoints in a single framework.

2

It recognizes prolonged media and brand effects, like long-term ad impacts and diminishing returns.

3

It controls for the 4Ps (product, price, place, and promotion) and includes the impact of advertising and all other factors that influence results.

4

It is able to influence forward-looking decisions, instead of only providing a view of what has already happened.

MARKETING MIX MODELING (MMM)
is likely to be the measurement cornerstone for most advertisers, as it is
invaluable to identifying baseline sales and incrementality

Even though Brand campaigns are not meant
to bring in results they still do

and even on similar level as other campaigns.

Source: Analytical Alley

WE HAVE PROVEN TRACK RECORD

Trusted by:

IKEA VW 220.lv Euronics Bigbank Balcia

97.8% monthly prediction accuracy

94.8% weekly prediction accuracy

Pan-Baltic MMM conference
We Even Organized First Pan-Baltic Conference Devoted To Marketing Mix Modelling
Source: Analytical Alley, Prediction error comparison for period 01.01.2023 – 30.09.2025

Media types

To compliment performance campaigns we need to know – which is best for ROI (econometrics)?

International channels are much better in terms of ROI if optimised properly. Search and TV are the most scalable channels

Source: Initiative Latvia / Analytical Alley

Communication suggestions

Funnel view – we got to cover immediate potential to look further for awareness

TOFUGoal: Awareness
FacebookInstagram TikTokDV360 DelfiRadio YouTubeTVNET inbox.lv
MOFUGoal: Traffic
FacebookInstagram TikTokDV360 inbox.lv
BOFUGoal: Conversions
GoogleRTB HouseCriteo

Suggested amounts in
each stage by priority

Meta3-15k
Youtube3-13k
TikTok1-4k
DV3602-9k
TV5-48k
Delfi1-5k
Tvnet1-5k
Inbox1-6k
Radio2-17k
OOH2-15k
Meta1-6k
TikTok1-3k
DV3601-5k
Inbox5-6k
Search5-35k
RTB House/Criteo1-8k
Our task to maximize effectiveness here!

OUR SUGGESTION WOULD BE TO BUILD COMMUNICATION FUNNEL FROM BOTTOM – UP

NB! – PERFORMANCE CHANNELS ARE GREAT NOT ONLY FOR PERFORMANCE, BUT ALSO FOR AWARENESS. OFTEN BY PUSHING PURELY FOR CONVERSIONS OR TRAFFIC WE ARE NOT GETTING OUT MOST OF THE CHANNELS POTENTIAL

+33%

FROM REACHED USERS IN TRAFFIC OPTIMISATION WERE UNIQUE AUDIENCES

OptimisationBudgetUnique Reach
Reach Only€3 246,64208 294
Traffic Only€1 955,12106 652
Both€5 201,76243 396

Medias in use

Initiative

Media types

Which is best for awareness as communication objective?

BEST MEDIA FOR OBJECTIVE – AWARENESS
(Not taking into account cost)

Kantar channel effectiveness screenshot
Video solutions and Audio – Radio as best option to gain awareness

Overall Internet usage clearly surpasses all other media types. Next in line – Radio and TV

Source: Design Interacts / Kantar

Media types

Which are we going with?

TV

Reasonable reach, on avg. best offline media ROI, audiovisual communication.

Will give trust in brand.

Radio

High reach, low cost per contact, positive avg. ROI.

Will serve as brand reminder.

Ad

OOH

Will skip this media type for now as for major national reach it gets rather costly and on average has shown lower ROI numbers.

Social organic

Suggested to have some content part with content creator influencers for additional reach and visibility.

Local digital

Content articles and activities tied to comparisons to remind that Lenders.lv is all about comparing.

+ local VOD support with low pricing.

WILL WE USE IN PLAN?

Video

Initiative

Achieving highest reach

Natural share is also most optimal way to maximize reach

Source: Kantar TNS

TV mix comparisons

METRICTV3 + HELIO + TvnetTV3 + HelioHelio + TvnetTV3
A 25-55 (000)984.93960.741323.18943.71
GRP1,317.61,314.52,085.0961.2
Total Net Budget20,000 €20,000 €20,000 €20,000 €
CPGRP15.18 €15.21 €9.59 €20.81 €
CPTRP120.31 €20.82 €15.12 €21.19 €
TG1 Affinity75736398
TG1 REACH 1+ / 3+55.9 / 43.155.6 / 42.750 / 35.653.3 / 41.2
PT/NPT SOE%|SOV%54%/46% · 51%/49%54%/46% · 51%/49%55%/45% · 50%/50%53%/47% · 54%/46%
CHANNELTRPAFFTRPAFFTRPAFFTRPAFF
TV3276.9101290.7101482.0101
TV3 Plus64.49267.792112.292
TV6103.8127109.0127180.8127
TV3 Life74.49078.190129.590
TV3 Mini66.510468.010411.2104
TV 2416.14416.94428.044
360TV131.195138.695305.694
STV91.98397.183219.083
8TV49.43252.232117.732
ReTV14.63515.43534.835
Star Family5.6335.93313.433
Super Baltic23.23124.63155.431
Super+22.63923.83953.839
Radio SWH TV7.0887.48816.688
Duo 312.810482.5104
Duo 57.017144.9171
Duo 614.419693.1196
Filmzone8.211645.5116
Viasat Explore6.114939.0149
Viasat Kino Comedy10.012455.6124

ARE SMALL CHANNELS REALLY WORTH IT?

We checked at frequency 10+ we still see reach gains for plan, so small channels are reasonable addition to give extra reach push and lower average CPP for plan.

TV

Suggested amounts and spot lengths

~850 TRP is optimal amount for campaign to be strong, but not go too heavy on frequency

We suggest to use shortest possible length that can give message without feeling rushed. For calculation purposes we used 10 sec.

WEIRD SPOT LENGTHS

No reason to have 25sec spots in TV3 group – it costs the same as 30sec due to indexes applied.
In TVNET 15 sec is just little cheaper than 20sec.

Source: Kantar TNS, TV3, Helio, TVNET

Premium positions

Premium positions improve reach

PREMIUM POSITIONS
Gain higher viewability & extra reach

From ratings gained perspective positions index is too high, yet we have evidence that with similar rating levels we can get extra reach vs competitors.

ADDITIONALLY SPORTS SPONSORSHIPS WHERE LATVIA IS TAKING PART GIVE BIG UNIQUE AUDIENCE GAIN
(AUDIENCES THAT USUALLY ARE NOT WATCHING ARE TUNING IN LIVE)

OUR CLIENTCOMPETITOR 1COMPETITOR 2
REACH @1+1. POSTRPREACH @1+1. POSTRPREACH @1+1. POSTRP
W140,824%718,638,68%809,038,010%430,8
W248,026%846,146,417%908,646,313%612,8
W341,521%649,439,616%742,138,718%564,1
W439,834%562,337,011%531,138,99%589,6
W536,028%427,537,811%538,037,98%679,8

Each week with second highest rating amount getting highest reach

Potential reach gain up to 2%
Suggested amount 20-30% of insertions in 1st position

FIBA World Cup EuroBasket IIHF 2026
Source: Kantar TNS, Initiative Latvia

Following natural demand

We can gain more in sales if we follow demand

Source: Analytical Alley, Initiative Latvia

TV optimisations

VOD support needed

It's much harder to reach younger audiences + overall TV reach has significantly reduced during last several years – that's why we must improve overall video reach.

Source: Kantar TNS

Local digital

Initiative

Local digital

Pushing VOD in local digital

We have experienced that local VOD is working much better than local direct and even Youtube (however, youtube has much greater scalability, so still youtube gets the biggest share)

However there is no point to plan local VOD if it is much more expensive than Youtube, that's why we have negotiated great VOD deals for local channels

10″ non-skippable video CPM:

YouTube2 – 4 EUR
Go3 play2,84 EUR
tet TV+Their ATV will be launched at the end of this year, already in talks and expected CPM price – 2,90 EUR
11883,07 EUR
Delfi2,94 EUR
jauns.lv2,93 EUR
Source: Analytical Alley, Initiative

Local digital

Pushing VOD in local digital

UNIVERSE ~ 212 000

REAL REACH CEILING: ~145 000

APPROX IMPR. FREQ. 3x – 400 000

COST: 1176 EUR

UNIVERSE ~ 92 000

REAL REACH CEILING: ~65 000

APPROX IMPR. FREQ. 3x – 165 000

COST: 507 EUR

UNIVERSE ~ 310 000

REAL REACH CEILING: ~225 000

APPROX IMPR. FREQ. 3x – 580 000

COST: 1648 EUR

Source: Initiative Latvia

Total video reach

Per communication wave

TV

54,3%

Go3 play tet TV+1188 Delfi

VOD

24,7%

66,2%

COMBINED
REACH

YouTube

If we add Youtube with ~40% reach we would achieve
~78,3% TOTAL VIDEO REACH

Source: Initiative Latvia Reach overlap planner

Radio

Initiative

Radio

Nearly 50% of the radio audience listens to not more than 2 stations per week

As all 4 main radio groups have atleast one flagship station that means that for reach maximization we would need to go with all 4 main groups.

Group: SKONTO SWH EHR TV3 MIX INDEP.
Source: Initiative Latvia Reach planner, Kantar TNS

Radio

Only Luminor is close to natural share – all others are maximizing mostly 1-2 groups

With ~400-500 TRP we would be maximizing 1+ reach with 4 main radio groups

Source: Kantar TNS

Positions & online audio

Lender category is using quite a lot of spec-solutions that are out of ad-breaks

Spotify

Easy to be heard as there is low advertising saturation.

AUDIENCE SIZE:
190 – 250 000 Weekly
That would make Spotify the 5th – 9th biggest radio station.
MINIMAL BUDGET:
1 300 EUR
In 30 day period
CPM:
1,75-2,40 EUR
In comparison – our suggested radio plan ~1,42 EUR (on GRP)

Social organic

Initiative

Social organic

1-2x a month entertaining comparison sketch by content creators

EXAMPLE OF CREATORS WE COULD COOPERATE WITH:

Mārtiņš Dinsbergs
Mārtiņš Dinsbergs
Rihards Sniegs
Rihards Sniegs
Četri Brāļi
Četri Brāļi

Content where everything is about comparisons in entertaining way with reminding that Lenders.lv is the best option you have to compare loans – example topics:

  • 1Is it better to live with or without mustaches
  • 2Weddings or Funerals
  • 3Tall vs short
  • 4Private car or public transport

Plan

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12 month plan

MEDIAFORMATBUDGET AUGSEPOCTNOVDECJANFEBMARAPRMAIJUNJUL
TVTV3 GROUP10'' video
30% of amounts in 1st positions
EUR 30,000.00 870 TRP410 TRP840 TRP
HELIO GROUPEUR 17,500.00
TVNET GROUPEUR 2,500.00
EUR 50,000.00
LOCAL VODDELFI10'' video – 1 200 000 impressionsEUR 3,528.00
GO3 & TVPLAY10'' video – 1 740 000 impressionsEUR 4,944.00
1188PLAY10'' video – 495 000 impressionsEUR 1,521.00
TET+10'' video – 1 000 000 impressionsEUR 3,000.00
EUR 12,993.00
RADIOSWH gr.20'' audio
4521 TRP
EUR 20,300.00
EHR gr.EUR 20,230.00
SKONTO gr.EUR 19,980.00
TV3 gr.EUR 10,000.00
SPOTIFY20'' audioEUR 3,900.00
EUR 74,410.00
SOCIAL ORGANICTIK TOK CONTENT1 video per monthEUR 12,000.00
EUR 12,000.00
TOTALEUR 149,403.00

Suggestions to Lenders

For awareness building

Meta

5000 EUR month

Always-on campaign with goal of reach maximization in addition to performance campaign.

YouTube

5000 EUR month

Always on campaign with reach as main goal

TikTok

2000 EUR month

Always-on campaign – could start also with performance as we see it is not being used. – low CPM, great visibility, and proven as media type with strong ROI.

Tracking awareness

Before we start to do anything make a research

TO UNDERSTAND HOW OUR AWARENESS IS EVOLVING BEFORE WE START ANYTHING WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND OUR BASE!

Our promise

You will get access to our client portal where everything is under same place

REPORTING

Competitive reporting
Media type (data delay)
TV (week)
Radio (1 day)
Digital (3 days)
OOH (month)
Inbox newsletters (day)

Campaign reports

NB! All reports are custom – fitted to your needs

RESEARCHES & CLIENT DATA

All researches done together in same place or client data that you would like to see against media reports linked in one place.

MEDIA PLANNING

Flowcharts of plans kept in one place with approval and changes tracking.

TALK WITH DATA

Possibility to ask quick questions to your own media & campaign data, to quickly find solutions.

Thank You
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