In Situ - advertising in Sports and Leisure Centres

Target Audience

Targeting this unique audience...

Young active adults and children

Advertising targeting young adults Advertising targeting young children

UK pop 16-44: 25,000,000

In Situ reaches: 46%

UK pop 0-15: 12,000,000

In Situ reaches: 49%

The profile is younger

And ABC1 biased

Age Chart Status Chart

*0-16 - 27%

*16-44 - 50%

*45+ - 23%

*ABC1 - 56%

*C2DE - 44%

The demographic penetration of In Situ Campaigns...

Demographic penetration Chart

...is difficult to match in any single medium

*2 week reach

TGI - The Proof

Clients and Media Planners can now consult TGI for their brands combined with Leisure Centre goers. TGI offers planners clear proof of the segmentation that exists within Leisure Centres.

It is worth noting that Leisure Centre goers have a positive attitude to advertising. They are 27% (127) more likely to agree that advertising helps them to buy but 15% (85) less likely than the norm to agree that advertising is a waste of time.

Young Active Men and Women

TGI

Men 15-34

147

Women 15-34

176

Young Families

TGI

Children in the Home

144

Tweenies

TGI

Children 6-11

140

Teens

TGI

15-19s

198

18-19s

199

Mums & Toddlers

TGI

With under 1s

172

With 1-4s

157

The Image Conscious

TGI

I like to stand out in a crowd

158

I have a very good sense of style

122

I do some form of sport or exercise every week

157

I like to keep up with the latest fashions

156

I really enjoy shopping for clothes

134

A designer label improves a person’s image

134

I spend a lot on clothes

165

I spend a lot of money on toiletries/cosmetics

154

Health Conscious / Healthy Eating

TGI

I always check the nutritional content of food

124

I always think of calorie content

131

I prefer diet versions of food and drink

133

I am a vegetarian

134

Anchor low fat spread

164

Olivio/Clover Light

130

Ovaltine Light

129

Energy/ Sport Drinks

191

The Sports and Leisure Centres environment today

Sports and Leisure Centres the length and breadth of the UK have been upgraded in the last 5-10 years. The reasons are simple - management has been privatised, and in order to win the management tenders, these management companies have had to pledge millions of pounds to refurbishment including, in almost every case, the installation or construction of a state of the art health club or gym. The article below appeared in the Evening Standard in July 2002 and is an accurate reflection of what has been happening to the SLC environment.

Evening Standard"Gone are the days when the local Leisure Centre consisted of a dingy six-lane swimming pool, a grimy squash court and a drinks machine.

Today, any self-respecting local authority has installed a state-of-the-art recreation oasis, with a tropical swimming pool featuring a wave machine and towering slides, a multi-coloured toddlers' gym and a fitness suite with the latest electronic machines."

Evening Standard 29 July 2002

In Situ Health Clubs

Leisure Centres outreach private heath clubs by margins of 6:1 on ABs and 8:1 on C1s. This table not only shows that Leisure Centres are a far more cost-efficient option for all adults but also for specific health club users who are young ABC1s.

TGI shows that whereas 12.6% of the adult population regularly visit Leisure Centres and Gyms within Leisure Centres only 1.88% regularly visit private health clubs.

Demographic penetration Chart

*All UK Leisure Centres

*Health Clubs in Leisure Centres

In Situ has 600 branded health clubs nationwide

12 Activa 4 Fusion Lifestyle 9 Profiles
3 Activate 7 Future Fitness/Contours 15 Pulse
4 Active Lifestyle 88 Health Clubs Other Brands 4 Regency Fitness Tone
18 Banana 60 Health Clubs/Unbranded 6 Shapers
19 Bodyline 16 Images 8 Silhouettes
3 Bodywise 3 Impulse 3 Solutions
8 Contours 80 Kinetika 11 Technogym
9 Courtneys 5 Life Fitness 3 The Hive
5 Dimensions 42 Lifestyles 8 The Life Fitness
7 Everybodys 8 Motiv 38 Tone Zone
35 Expressions 3 No Limits 3 Visions
3 Fit "N" Well 3 Olympia 4 Wellness
13 Fitness 12 Peak    
4 Fitness Zone 4 Planet Pulse    
4 Fizzicals 6 Premier Aquaterra    

Every major Leisure centre in the UK has a fully equipped Health Club/Gym that customers can join as members or attend on a pay-as-you-go basis. This flexibility has enabled use of Leisure Centre health clubs to increase dramatically in recent years. The other main point to note is that the level of investment put into the development of gyms in the public sector (by management groups, local authorities and the national lottery), is often far higher than that of the private sector resulting in excellent standards of equipment, facilities and environment. It should not be assumed that Leisure Centre Health Club users are downmarket – these clubs are attended by 13% of AB s and 10% of C1s whereas stand-alone private heath clubs (excluding hotels and company gyms) are attended by 12% of AB s and 9% of C1s ( Mintel 2001).

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