How Wickes successfully leverages radio sponsorship

British home improvements chain Wickes has successfully targeted two different audiences within the same radio sponsorship.

Wickes is a UK home improvements chain that has pulled off an unusual trick by successfully balancing two diverse audiences within the same radio sponsorship. When it began its partnership with one of Bauer Media’s radio properties, Absolute Radio, it was regarded as a brand aimed at the building trades – carpenters, electricians etc – but it wanted to shift that perception to attract more serious DIY-ers.

From Wickes’ point of view, an early morning radio show is an ideal way to reach trade customers who are typically up and about long before the average office or shop worker. But...

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