Health Lottery hopes launch campaign will reach 98% of the UK
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The Health Lottery plans to reach 98% of adult consumers with its forthcoming launch marketing campaign as it looks overtake Camelot to become the dominant lottery provider in the UK.
A £20m marketing awareness campaign launches today (28 September), which includes TV, press, outdoor, experiential, radio, POS and PR.
Former Kraft Foods head of marketing and now The Health Lottery chief executive Martin Hall, says “it was not possible” to secure any more media space to promote the draw.
“We will get to most consumers 24 times in the first two weeks on TV alone with this campaign. We are looking to reach 98% of the 16-plus population,” he adds.
A 60-second TV ad, voiced by actor Brian Blessed airs from today (28 September), and aims to educate consumers on how they can play the game and to inform them that some money raised for proceeds will be donated to local health charities.
The Health Lottery has also secured “one in every 10” poster sites available in Great Britain and has become the “biggest lottery terminal network in the world”, with consumers able to purchase draw tickets from more than 40,000 retailers.
Hall, who has also previously had marketing stints at Coca-Cola and Premier Foods, says the The Health Lottery’s launch is not about stealing share from Camelot’s National Lottery, but that it is designed to grow the “tired” lottery category.
He adds, in the face of recent criticism that the new Health Lottery donates less to good causes than the National Lottery, that it is also important that the company drives transparency in the sector about what percentage of the money spent on tickets goes to charity.
“This is about choice. The Health Lottery has better prizes and pays out 20.5p - in full - to charity. Or you could win less and contribute to the Olympics, or to opera…it’s hard to argue that National Lottery money going to the Olympics isn’t a tax replacement,” Hall says.
The Health Lottery will be broadcast in a 60-second ad slot each Saturday night on Channel 5 and ITV1. The show will be fronted by TV presenter Eamonn Holmes.
Hall says that he was approached by people and told not to add a “contrived show” before the main draw, similar to that on the BBC’s Saturday night lottery draws.
“People want to know how much they’ve won, if they haven’t, they want to know where the money is going and then they want to go back to watching X Factor. You need to be engaging people to watch a show beforehand and the BBC doesn’t have that impact at the moment.”
The Health Lottery is funded by Northern and Shell, the company owned by Richard Desmond, which also owns The Express newspapers and OK! Magazine.
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Readers' comments (19)
Peter Davey | Wed, 28 Sep 2011 4:56 pm
How long will it be before this lottery money will be used to prop up the NHS? The government surely won't let you get away with this good cause.
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Anonymous | Wed, 28 Sep 2011 8:32 pm
Not Good Enough! The Government needs to take control and NATIONALIZE the "National" Lottery. We should have different lotteries for The Health Service - The Police - Education- The Fire Service etc.etc...Then People could put their money where they want it to go . Run by the country FOR the country. AND spread the money around instead of obscene jackpots. We could solve the country's debts overnight if we gave the lottery to the people!
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Anonymous | Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:23 pm
people don't usually buy lotto ticket to contribute to charities. Motivation is nearly always to win money to make their own dreams come true. If the game does give to charities, that's a bonus, but basically it's a chance to get out of the rut for at least a short time. I'm glad that a new lotto has opened that seems to be fairer than the national and euro ones.
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tammy spain | Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:05 pm
I welcome this lottery. It's about time the money went on something that most people would benefit from. The national lottery and the euro lottery pay out too much to one person at one time. They should give smaller prizes to more people. When you hear of one person winning 50 million it kind of breaks your heart. Why cant they make the top payout 2 million then more people would stand a chance and would take more people out of poverty
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Harry Chilton | Thu, 29 Sep 2011 9:07 pm
I think is a fantastic idea to raise money for the NHS, its a pity it was`nt done earlier.
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Lara O'Reilly | Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:49 pm
Hi Harry and others,
Just to clarify: the health lottery is not raising money for frontline NHS services. The lottery will donate money to health-related causes in local communities. Its website goes into more detail about which regional charities are involved.
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Anonymous | Sun, 2 Oct 2011 11:10 am
i think its a great idea but when is the first draw i put one on last night but even the shop was not sure when it strted hey all say they have not been told ?
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Anonymous | Sun, 2 Oct 2011 9:17 pm
Why not donate the money towards the life saving drugs which are too expensive for people and the N.H.S.
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joy robinson | Mon, 3 Oct 2011 10:55 am
No clear info on when the draw will take place. It may have been launched but I think we have to wait till 8th before the first draw.
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Anonymous | Mon, 3 Oct 2011 4:53 pm
When dooes this health lottery start? the date isnt advertised.
Do you remmber the monday lottery for chatities which fell through people thought that was a good idea to choose the charity you supported didnt they!
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