Season Ticket Sales with Facebook Ads

Aberdeen Football Club

How we helped Aberdeen Football Club achieve record-breaking season ticket sales.

Facebook ads

Over £200,000 generated

Facebook reach

Over 250,000 people reached

Ticket Sales Online

Most season tickets sold ever

About Aberdeen FC

Formed in 1903, Aberdeen Football Club is a Scottish Professional Football Club based in Aberdeen. Aberdeen competes in the Scottish Premiership and is one of the most successful football clubs in Scotland. They have won four league titles and seven Scottish Cups. They are also the only Scottish team to have won two European trophies, the European Cup Winners Cup, and the European Super Cup.

The Challenge

Aberdeen FC had no experience of paid activity on Facebook and wanted to test whether the platform could play a part in increasing season ticket sales for the 2017/2018 football league season. In previous years, they had relied on traditional advertising efforts such as billboards and newspapers.
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Aberdeen FC had no experience of paid activity on Facebook and wanted to test whether it could play a part in increasing season ticket sales for the 2017/2018 football league season. In previous years they had relied on traditional advertising efforts such as billboards and newspapers.

Gavin Bell

Client Name, CEO Aberdeen FC

Yatter Our Approach

Our Approach

Before we started the campaign, we implemented all the relevant tracking codes on the afc.co.uk website to track the customer’s journey from seeing an advert through to purchasing a season ticket. This allowed us to see which purchases were made as a direct result of our campaign.

We then split the campaign into two key parts:

Number 1

Promoting the annual season ticket video out to segments of people in Aberdeenshire

Number 2

Retargeting audiences who had already shown an interest in the club (including those who viewed the season ticket video)

The combination of both parts allowed us to both reach a wide audience, but also drive interested people to purchase.

Results

The club sold at least 808 tickets as a direct result of the campaign, totalling £200,000 in revenue.

Cost per purchase: £1.24 (based on 808 sales).​

With the annual season ticket video, we reached over 255,000 people, of which 200,000 people watched it.

The club went on to sell the most season tickets ever in their history.

Aberdeen FC Facebook Results
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