CoStar Group is launching Houses.com again into the highlight on Sunday with a pair of 30-second Tremendous Bowl spots from advert company RPA starring Dan Levy, Heidi Gardner and Morgan Freeman.
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A yr after surprising the trade with staggering $1 billion advertising finances for Houses.com, CoStar is trying to persevering with its momentum with a second slate of star-studded Tremendous Bowl adverts on Sunday. Dan Levy and Heidi Gardner will reprise their roles as Houses.com executives alongside Morgan Freeman.
In meta vogue, two 30-second spots by advert company RPA will middle on Levy and Gardner’s try and make an advert proclaiming Houses.com’s dominance as the most effective home-shopping web site. Nonetheless, the duo’s mission retains getting thwarted by a company lawyer who worries about their skill to make such a declare. As a substitute of giving up, Levy and Gardner maintain discovering extra artistic methods to show Houses.com’s worth — finally leaning on Freeman and his celestial voice to win the lawyer over.
Andy Florance | Credit score: CoStar Group
“We believe that it is obvious that Homes.com is the best home shopping website anywhere, but our lawyers told us while it may be true, we cannot legally say that in an ad,” CoStar Group Founder and CEO Andy Florance mentioned in a press release. “So we turned to the very best talent in RPA, Taika Waititi, Dan Levy, Heidi Gardner, and Morgan Freeman to not tell the world that Homes.com is the best. When Morgan Freeman says so who can say it is not so?”
The corporate mentioned its earlier Tremendous Bowl run yielded a wholesome return on funding, making it a no brainer to provide one other slate of adverts for this yr.
Within the month after 2024’s soccer showdown, visitors to the Houses.com Community of websites (i.e. Houses.com, Residences.com and Land.com) reached 149 million common month-to-month distinctive guests. These adverts, together with spots throughout different prime-time occasions together with the Oscars and the 2024 Paris Olympics, have stored visitors regular with 110 million common month-to-month distinctive guests utilizing the portal in the course of the fourth quarter.
The $1 billion advert push additionally aided Houses.com’s client consciousness, which has grown from 4 p.c to 33 p.c.
Florance mentioned customers are warming as much as the Houses.com expertise. Since itemizing brokers get prime placement on Houses.com’s web site, he mentioned, customers don’t have to fret about getting calls from a number of brokers making an attempt to attach with them as a lead.
“We believe that Homes.com offers home shoppers the most content on an attractive spam free site,” he mentioned. “One hundred percent of home shoppers use the internet to look for their next home purchase and we believe that Homes.com is the best place to successfully market a home for sale.”
“We suspect that home sellers would be outraged if they knew that other real estate portals use their listings as bait to generate leads for potentially competing agents and competing homes for sale,” he added. “That is why we put the home sellers first with our ‘Your Listing Your Lead’ principal.”
The CoStar CEO didn’t share the finances for this yr’s promoting blitz. Nonetheless, it’s not arduous to think about that it’ll be considerably smaller, as Florance signaled within the firm’s newest earnings name that they’d shift some advert spend {dollars} towards pushing the pedal on progress, acquisition and merger plans much like the 2024 purchases of Matterport and Visible Lease.
