![]() In order to cater to these tiny tots to make them our permanent customers till future as well, the businesses must think from today’s point of view, as to what today’s kids like to do and how we can advertise to them. But now we are living in an era of a digitized world which has its own different kind of tech savvy children. We have all seen the power of pestering in a traditional marketing scenario. Along with the product the packaging is also done for the purpose of attracting kids and a catchy tune of ‘I’m lovin it’. McDonald’s packs all the factors of effective pester power in a box, i.e., yummy burgers and food items as their main product, along with interesting role models in the form of toys that they watch on television, like minion, potato head, etc. Taking the example of how McDonald’s was able to earn the Pester Power award at the Children’s Food Awards by a jury of 800 parents for its marketing campaign of Happy Meal to children. Harnessing Pester Power Marketing F&B business The cycle of pester power can be as follows: ![]() This also provided children with huge spending power on behalf of their parents. Therefore, to compensate that time parents tend to easily fall into ‘Kidfluence’ and buy the products that their children want. Pester Power has become even more popular and powerful with the rise of nucleated families where both the parents are working and not able to spend enough time with their children. Marketers also make use of catchy tunes to attract the children’s attention and these catchy tunes and role models are remembered by the child throughout its life, thus, giving a way to nostalgia marketing and building up customer lifetime value. ![]() Thus, attaching a role model to your product is the best way to keep attracting your target audience. Children also get influenced by avatars like Harry Potter, Pokemon, Barbie, etc. ![]() It has been reported that 9 nagging sessions can be the reason for the parents giving in requests of the children.Ĭhildren get more attracted to products than a brand, thus, the product itself should be made in such a way keeping these young ones in mind that it should be catchy and attractive. The ‘Kidfluence’ or the power to let their parents buy something for them is the key marketing strategies of food chains like McDonald’s and Dominoes. This is the only reason why colorful packaged snacks and cookies are kept in supermarkets at the eyelevel of the children. This campaign increased the sales of Coca Cola by 18% and Powerade by 52%. It is a way of creating customer lifetime value where marketers sow the seed of loyalty into children so that when they grow up, the marketers can increase their market share of the future either by making use of Nostalgia Marketing or simply by retaining their customers.įor instance, Kum & Go’s Chief Marketing Officer, Kevin Krause, conducted a campaign in 2010 to give away a free soccer ball along with the purchase of two 12-pack of Coca Cola and two Powerade beverages, with a notion in mind that kids will want to have the soccer ball and thus will persuade their parents to get the combo offer. Pester power marketing is a subset of youth marketing where the marketers make use of the ‘Pester Power’ or the ‘Nag Factor’ to target small kids in order to persuade their parents to buy whatever these tiny tots demand for. ![]()
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