Becoming an experience champion with service design

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Becoming an experience champion with service design

MediaMarktSaturn is evolving from a pure product seller into a customer-centric omnichannel service platform. Such a restructuring also means doing things differently. MediaMarktSaturn wants to make the customer's shopping experience even more pleasant and personal. One way to meet this challenge and introduce new processes or services is the service design method.
What I like about service design workshops is the energy that is generated in the room. When people from different departments come together in an atmosphere of trust and develop ideas together on how to improve a customer experience, it's wonderful. I always call it a "nest of trust" where everyone can contribute their own ideas and enrich each other's ideas. This "yes and mindset" brings a lot and is simply fun.
Stefan Wörnle, Manager Customer Experience, Service Design at MediaMarktSaturn

Service design is based on many principles of design thinking

To become an experience champion, we need to know our customers' needs and the various contact points along the customer journey. Service Design uses many elements of the design thinking method and works in so-called sprints with the main phases of analysis/research, idea development/evaluation and implementation. In the research phase, for example, NPS surveys, customer inquiries and complaints from the contact center are used to try and understand what exactly is important to customers when shopping. The aim is also to find out what problems exist. This data is discussed in a series of workshops with representatives from different departments and employees from the stores. This creates a common, broad and in-depth understanding from a technical perspective. Employee concerns are also addressed here.

 

 

 

Many companies are still at the first stage of dealing with customer journeys


Digital transformation is not only shaping customer expectations to have an outstanding shopping experience, it is also changing the way customer interactions are researched, managed and optimized. To manage customer journeys and the associated customer experience improvement measures, MediaMarktSaturn relies on tools such as Conceptboard, smaply and, most recently, "TheyDo". The tool, which is being evaluated as part of a proof of concept, allows a number of so-called macro-journeys (e.g. the purchase of a washing machine) and many micro-journeys contained therein (e.g. the payment process at the checkout) to be mapped in hierarchies. Such a proof of concept demonstrates the feasibility and functionality of a project before it is developed further. The developed improvement ideas per journey and their implementation can also be managed in the tool and connected with interfaces to tools such as "Jira". It is also possible to integrate real-time KPIs such as the Net Promoter Score. When managing a large number of journeys and the associated improvement measures, the tool saves the teams involved up to 40% of their working time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Service design sprints thrive on interdisciplinary teams working together over a defined period of time


Service design skills are in demand: service design sprints at MediaMarktSaturn are characterized by effective interdisciplinary cooperation between different departments. This approach makes it possible to react specifically to the requirements of the departments involved and at the same time brings the comprehensive knowledge of the project team to bear. This approach has already led to the implementation of successful projects in the areas of store processes, category management, sustainability, marketplace and many more. Given the importance of service design for the company, a comprehensive training program was launched in March 2024. Special attention is also paid to skills such as interdisciplinary expertise, customer orientation and customer journey knowledge when recruiting new employees.
 

 

What 'needs' or 'pains' does a customer have?


In collaborative workshops, the project team actively identifies customer needs, challenges and elements that trigger enthusiasm, thereby gaining a holistic picture from both the customer and employee perspective. A tried and tested tool is the customer journey map. It shows which steps a customer goes through. It also shows which needs and pain points customers or employees have on this journey. On this basis, potential for improvement is identified at each step, the so-called opportunities. Each opportunity is developed in a team to find a solution. The many ideas must then be evaluated according to their impact on the company and feasibility. Finally, after prioritization, a procedure is drawn up with the most important task packages and responsible parties for each workstream.

 


 

Shaping the customer journey with artificial intelligence


Modern tools also allow customer journeys to be created automatically directly from unstructured, qualitative data such as customer feedback. On the basis of this AI-supported framework, the project team then goes on to generate ideas for improving the customer experience. This partial automation can save a considerable amount of time. Now that MediaMarktSaturn has set up a secure test environment for the use of Chat GPT with Sandy, it is possible to try out the design of customer journeys based on detailed instructions. This innovation is also trained as part of a broad-based training program on service design at MediaMarktSaturn with 2 online training courses and a 2-day workshop.

 

 

 

 


 

Click & Collect - a result of a service design sprint

Customers can collect their online order from a store of their choice within 30 minutes if the goods are in stock there. The basis for this was a Group-wide roll-out of around 44,000 employee smartphones, including apps developed in-house such as "MyStore" and "Pick&Pack".

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Growth area Retail Media: MediaMarktSaturn Introduces Sponsored Brand Ads

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Growth area Retail Media: MediaMarktSaturn Introduces Sponsored Brand Ads

MediaMarktSaturn is expanding its international Retail Media offering to include Sponsored Brand Ads (SBA). Partners can now choose the new product in eight out of eleven countries to give their brand more visibility and relevance on the platforms of Europe's leading consumer electronics retailer. The launch of Sponsored Brand Ads is an important strategic development alongside the already available Retail Media products of Sponsored Product Ads (SPA), A+ Content and Reporting to continue the strong growth trajectory of Retail Media within the company.

Sponsored Brand Ads can now be booked in Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Poland, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands. MediaMarktSaturn is thus adding another attractive option to its product range and enabling its partners to leverage the entire funnel and increase brand awareness and visibility. The international roll-out of the new product is another important step towards achieving MediaMarktSaturn's goal of expanding its Retail Media business to € 45 million in sales by the end of the 2025/26 financial year.

"We have had a very good start to 2024 and have grown strongly. In our recently released Q2 results, we reported a fivefold increase in revenue for our Retail Media division. With our new Sponsored Brand Ads product, we want to continue this growth and offer our partners the best possible selection of products and services across the entire funnel," said Torsten Ahlers, Managing Director of Media-Saturn Marketing GmbH.

Four Retail Media products already available internationally

If a partner wants to highlight a special product via the search function in the MediaMarktSaturn webshops, Sponsored Product Ads are the right choice. In eight out of eleven countries, this is already available to partners as a self-service option. Partners or advertising agencies can manage and monitor their own budgets. The second product in this onsite area is the recently launched Sponsored Brand Ad. It allows partners to focus on their entire brand, e.g. an entire product line, to increase brand awareness (see image). Following a test phase, the SBA product will also be available in self-service. MediaMarktSaturn is marketing both products in cooperation with Criteo.

"For some time now, brands have been able to successfully run lower funnel campaigns with Sponsored Product Ads (SPA) to increase their sales on MediaMarktSaturn's websites. We are very proud to extend our partnership with MediaMarktSaturn with the launch of Sponsored Brand Ads (SBA). This display ad format combines branding and awareness elements with product images, enabling brands to activate awareness and branding campaigns on the retailer's sites. Brands and their agency partners can now run full funnel campaigns from a single platform and through their preferred booking channel, and track the impact of both formats together in a closed-loop attribution," said Sander Mes, Managing Director for Central Europe & MEA Enterprise at Criteo.

In addition, MediaMarktSaturn offers its partners detailed reports to give them a precise insight into the customer journeys. The fourth product is A+ Content, which is available in nine out of eleven countries. This allows partners to create even more exclusive and targeted product detail pages.

But this is just the beginning, Torsten Ahlers is already pointing the way forward: "With our four available retail media products, which we have rolled out in almost all countries, we have created a strong foundation and an attractive offering for our partners. Now we need to focus on other areas, such as Audience Extension, which we will continue to expand and standardize to define relevant audiences for advertisers based on our site visitors' data. In the future, we will also increasingly leverage our strengths as an omnichannel platform in retail media and offer our advertisers the opportunity to increase awareness of their brands and products directly at the POS through in-store advertising. We also see further economies of scale within the company, such as being able to offer our Retail Media products to our Marketplace sellers."

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Experience technology more sustainably: MediaMarktSaturn tests pop-up store in Tübingen on the subject of sustainability

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Experience technology more sustainably: MediaMarktSaturn tests pop-up store in Tübingen on the subject of sustainability

How do sustainability and technology products go together? MediaMarktSaturn is resolving this apparent contradiction and opening its first pop-up store in Tübingen's city center on May 2, 2024. The concept store combines the topics of marketplace, sustainable product range and refurbishment and brings them from the online world to the sales floor for the first time.

Ingolstadt, May 02, 2024

Europe's largest electronics retailer is setting an example with the opening of its first pop-up store in Germany dedicated to sustainability on May 2, 2024. In the centrally located boutique in the heart of Tübingen, customers will find a portfolio of particularly sustainable products, which the retailer identifies with its own BetterWay logo, refurbished electrical appliances and sustainable offers that can otherwise only be found on the online marketplace.

"In line with the 'Experience Electronics' strategy, our new pop-up store is the ideal opportunity to show customers live and in color what we offer in terms of sustainability. At the same time, we want to gain new experience of how we can integrate the online marketplace with its products and sellers into our stores", explains Hubert Kluske, COO MediaMarktSaturn Germany.    

The new store concept is part of the omnichannel strategy that MediaMarkt-Saturn is pursuing on its way from a pure product seller to an integrated solution provider. The Marketplace plays an important strategic role in improving the company's profitability, concentrating its own core range on selected growth areas and offering customers an even more extensive product range at the same time. The pop-up store brings the previous online-only offering to the physical sales area and provides sellers with a new presentation platform. 

Sustainable product range and lots of advice

In the pop-up store, customers can find offers from various product groups such as smartphones/tablets/smartwatches and e-mobility. For better orientation, MediaMarktSaturn labels particularly sustainable products with its own BetterWay logo. The company adheres to the criteria of independent testing organizations such as the Blue Angel, EPEAT and TÜV Rheinland and has also defined its own criteria. So-called refurbished devices, which are professionally refurbished and reconditioned, can also be purchased. 

MediaMarktSaturn's own purchase service also offers customers in the pop-up store the opportunity to simply exchange used electrical goods for gift cards. In cooperation with the provider Foxway, the devices are refurbished or repaired and any existing data is deleted. This means they can be resold and given a second life in the spirit of the circular economy.

The employees in the store are specially trained in sustainability and can also inform customers about opportunities to get involved in local sustainability projects on request.

Pioneering work in green Tübingen

When it came to choosing a location for the store, the decision was quickly made in favor of the environmentally conscious, tech-savvy university city of Tübingen. Centrally located in the city center, the store is easy to reach even without a car - in keeping with the concept of sustainability. The sustainable approach is also stringently pursued in the store design: Everything from the previous store infrastructure to the existing furniture in the store space used will be reused for the store. 

The concept is also to be launched in other cities in Germany. Further information on the MediaMarktSaturn BetterWay initiative can be found here.

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On course for growth: MediaMarktSaturn successfully rolls out Marketplace in the Netherlands

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On course for growth: MediaMarktSaturn successfully rolls out Marketplace in the Netherlands

March 5 saw the launch of the Marketplace in the Netherlands, which is now online in its fourth country after Germany, Spain and Austria. MediaMarktSaturn is thus successfully expanding its Marketplace strategy. Around 1,300 sellers with more than 1.8 million products are currently represented on MediaMarktSaturn's Marketplace across the Group. The next step will be the launch of the Marketplace in Italy this year, with other countries following step by step.

The Marketplace is an important factor for MediaMarktSaturn in expanding its core assortment and offering its customers an even more extensive assortment. At the same time, the company wants to further improve its profitability through the additional sales channel. By the end of the 2025/26 financial year, the Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) of the Marketplace is expected to amount to 750 million euros. After EUR 65 million in the 2021/22 financial year, the Marketplace's GMV amounted to EUR 137 million at the end of 2022/23. As a country with a strong online affinity, the Netherlands is another important building block in achieving the target set.

The focus of the Marketplace products is on expanding the core assortment, which is sold directly via MediaMarktSaturn in over 1,000 stores or in the MediaMarkt or Saturn online stores. In addition, MediaMarktSaturn is further expanding its product portfolio on the Marketplace in areas such as gaming, fitness, health, e-mobility, refurbished products, trend products and seasonal products. The availability of goods will also be further improved with the Marketplace: if a particular product is temporarily not available in MediaMarktSaturn's core assortment, the online store will automatically refer to the matching product in the Marketplace.

"The launch of the Marketplace in the Netherlands as the fourth country after Germany, Spain and Austria is an important step in our omnichannel platform strategy. In the Netherlands in particular, we are seeing above-average online demand from customers compared to other countries - the Marketplace has great growth potential here and fits perfectly into our strategy, which focuses on the customer and their needs," explains Christian Kollesch, Director International Marketplace at MediaMarktSaturn.

Customers can rely on the high-quality standards of MediaMarktSaturn as the market leader for consumer electronics in Europe for the products and processes on the Marketplace. Sellers are intensively checked by the Marketplace team and it is ensured that the specified quality standards are met. For the roll-out in the Netherlands, additional new Marketplace sellers from the Netherlands were also added, who can also guarantee 'next-day delivery'.

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MediaMarktSaturn ignites the GenAI turbo

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MediaMarktSaturn ignites the GenAI turbo

Generative AI is on everyone's lips, in the news, on social media and now also freely accessible to everyone on the web. Some see it as a revolution in the way we will work, live and interact with each other. Others are skeptical and still see many unanswered questions.

  

We at MediaMarktSaturn are convinced that companies and employees who can meaningfully integrate GenAI into their work will have a clear advantage over those who do not.
Henny Steiniger, VP Service, Customer Experience (CX), Care & Loyalty at MediaMarktSaturn

That's why we started implementing artificial intelligence some time ago. For example, with our chat bot Emmi on our websites, which we have trained so that it can answer simple customer inquiries about opening hours or product information. Another field is the creation of product texts using artificial intelligence. By entering the available information, pre-formulated texts with descriptions and product data can be created for the corresponding product detail page on our website.

We are now starting the next level in the field of artificial intelligence: MediaMarktSaturn will implement the first internal tools for employees based on generative AI in 2024 - further applications will then follow step by step, including in the interface with our customers.
Stephan Lange, VP Engineering Marketing & Commercial at MMS Technology

In an initial idea and implementation phase, the company's internal GenAI project group developed initial pilots for previously selected use cases with colleagues from the business and from MMS Technology as well as other partners consisting of Accenture, Accesa, Google, Microsoft and Parloa. 

We always see the use of Generative AI in interaction with people - customers and, above all, our employees. Generative AI will support our employees in making better and faster decisions. It will not replace employees.

 

"Work-AI-Balance"? The useful helper for everyday working life.

We want to support our employees in expanding their knowledge of generative AI and building up new knowledge. We offer training courses ranging from initial onboarding to in-depth specialist knowledge of Generative AI. 

We also offer a curated library that provides quick access to inspiration and knowledge. And we provide our employees with an internal platform with corresponding generative AI applications that they can use for their daily work in a secure, corporate-approved environment. As a first step, we are implementing the AI Enabler Platform and the GenAI Sandbox, followed by the "42", a Digital Workplace assistant.

GenAI Sandbox

The aim is to provide employees with an AI-based knowledge management tool that enables them to find the information they need more quickly and efficiently. For the pilot project, a chat assistant will collect and process relevant information from Sharepoint (our intranet) and other connected information sources in the company and output it in a way that is tailored to the employees' questions.

 

"42" by Digital Workplace

The idea behind "42" is to act as a central entry point to all services offered by Digital Workplace. Powered by GPT-4, it can take actions and answer questions about internal knowledge coming from Sharepoint (our Intranet), or our IT ticketing system knowledge base, as well as general knowledge, and by connecting to several internal systems it can also book calendar appointments, holidays, open tickets on the user’s behalf and much more.

 

AI Enabler Platform

The scalable AI Enabler Platform based on the sandbox is the basis for implementing various LLMs as prefabricated models with data protection-compliant requirements and corresponding access management in the company system. This ensures that new AI projects are implemented quickly, cost-effectively and with the necessary requirements.

 

 

How can I help you?

We also see great potential in contact with our customers to make certain processes even more efficient and solution-oriented or even to create new experiences. Longer waiting times for a free call center employee at peak times are now a thing of the past, as are language barriers. Old-fashioned operating instructions in handout format come to life and are interactively controlled by the person seeking help. Generative AI has the potential to improve many tasks, activities and processes for customers, to make them simpler and more convenient and, on the other hand, to optimize business processes or relieve our employees of smaller standard tasks.

Customer Care Bot (chat and voice bot)

We combine our existing bot "Emmi" with an LLM (Large Language Model) and enable the bot to interact more fluidly and smoothly with customers. The aim is to integrate a generative AI-based customer care bot as a chat and voice bot. The bots should be able to answer FAQ-related questions.
 

 

 

 

 

SEO-optimized Content Creation

AI can be used to deliver automatically generated content that contains the tone of voice of industry partners and is optimized for keywords. Content must be adaptable in terms of tone of voice and emotional appeal. The first pilot will be able to process PDP content, headlines and keywords.
 

 

 

Interactive Instruction Manual

With the interactive instructions, potential problems and sources of error can be identified and rectified at an early stage. Customers can interact in their own language by describing their problem to the bot. The bot responds in the customer's language. Additional potential: Digitalization allows problems and specific questions to be collected and resolved in future before they occur. Additional services can also be offered to prevent such obstacles from arising in the future.
 

 

Sales Assistant Bot

The Sales Assistant Bot can provide product advice and recommendations in our online store or in the brick-and-mortar store. It is implemented as a chat or voice bot in combination with a human-like avatar. An initial pilot is expected to be available to employees at our head office for initial tests.
 

 

 

 

(Live) Translation

The AI can translate content into different languages, adapt it to the country-specific use case and keywords and modify it to avoid duplicate content. Translation is primarily used for customer-oriented content, documents and services. Another area of application is the real-time translation of customer inquiries in call centers, which is expected to be used in an initial test phase in the Netherlands at the beginning of 2024. Both the customer and the employees in the call center will receive the conversation translated by the AI into their respective national language, sometimes even with regional accents. 
 

The Future is... GenAI?!

The first phase of implementing the GenAI projects has started. The applications are being continuously optimized and initial successes and added value are quickly becoming apparent. But this was just the starting signal for a whole series of further Generative AI projects. In the first phase, we were already able to collect over 100 ideas that have the potential to be implemented as a separate project.

And there are more and more every day: from the wealth of ideas of around 50,000 internationally active colleagues at MediaMarktSaturn, from the exchange with partners and the further development of existing applications, we will work every day to implement and establish generative AI applications at MediaMarktSaturn. Let's Go!

 

 

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Sustainable aid directly in the earthquake area: MediaMarktSaturn supports mobile education trucks in Turkey

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Sustainable aid directly in the earthquake area: MediaMarktSaturn supports mobile education trucks in Turkey

In February 2023, an earthquake destroyed large parts of south-eastern Turkey. MediaMarktSaturn and the Turkish subsidary responded immediately and sent first relief supplies by truck to the affected regions. MediaMarktSaturn decided to expand its aid there on a sustainable basis.

To do this, the company entered into a partnership with TEGV (Turkey Education Volunteers Foundation). TEGV is one of the best-known NGOs that are experts in providing various educational programs for children in need, especially in disaster areas. They have their own program with mobile education units called "Fireflies". In the second half of 2023 MediaMarktSaturn expanded these mobile educational units for children with four themed MediaMarkt trucks and various learning modules in the areas of informatics, art and creativity. The support is planned over four years, the company aims to reach more than 24.000 children, and it includes the trucks as well as all the necessary technical equipment, aids and the educational program. 

“It is important to us to be directly and sustainably involved in our social commitments and donations - both on the company side and in the many campaigns initiated by our employees. We are therefore very happy that we can now further expand our support there,” says Karsten Wildberger, CEO of MediaMarktSaturn.

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MediaMarktSaturn tests Space-as-a-Service offer for Marketplace sellers in Germany

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MediaMarktSaturn tests Space-as-a-Service offer for Marketplace sellers in Germany

Omnichannel advantage: Marketplace sellers at MediaMarktSaturn benefit from an enormous reach, a high awareness level and a top infrastructure in the online shop, in the app and now also in stationary stores. In a pilot project in the Tech Village at Alexanderplatz in Berlin, a fitness equipment provider from the Marketplace is using around 22 square meters of floor space to present its products in the perfect light. In line with its omnichannel strategy, the pilot is a further step for MediaMarktSaturn to become even more attractive for its partners and customers.

In an initial test phase from November 2023 to January 2024, the fitness provider will be exhibiting various products across 22 square meters. The entire range of topics will be covered: from "Get started" with body analysis and consultation to "Get better" with training equipment and wearables to "Recover" with products for muscle therapy and wellness. In most cases, these are products that require comprehensive advice and that customers would like to test and experience live on site before buying. To this end, the store has its own fitness expert who provides information about the products, answers questions, assists with the online ordering process and also offers personalized fitness analysis and consultation.

In addition to the expert on site, tablets are available as digital touchpoints in the exhibition area. Visitors can thus get an initial overview of the products and technical data themselves at any time. On a landing page specially designed for the "Fitness & Wellness" theme world, the products on display are not only highlighted in the store, but also online. The purchase is also concluded via the digital touchpoint directly via the seller's online offer in the Marketplace.

"With our Space-as-a-Service offering, we want to provide our Marketplace sellers with a new platform that has a particularly strong presence. We are combining offline and online perfectly by taking advantage of our omnichannel strategy and presenting the products in the best possible way both online and in-store," explains Christian Kollesch, Director Marketplace International at MediaMarktSaturn.

"We are starting with a pilot in the fitness and wellness sector in Germany and want to roll out this concept in other countries in future and extend it to other categories that perfectly complement our core assortment. This will enable us to offer our customers an even more extensive product portfolio," adds Marius Lückemeyer, CEO Marketplace at MediaMarktSaturn.

Marketplace as a growth area

The Marketplace plays an important role in MediaMarktSaturn's strategy to improve the company's profitability, focus its own core product range on selected growth areas and at the same time offer customers an even more extensive assortment of products online. To this end, MediaMarktSaturn is continuously expanding its Marketplace offering, with around 1,000 sellers offering more than one million items (as of June 2023; an update will be provided on 18 December at the annual press conference). At the Capital Markets Day (2 June 2023), the company announced its goal of achieving around 750 million euros in GMV (Gross Merchandise Value) via the Marketplace in the 2025/26 fiscal year. In addition to Germany, the Marketplace is already live in Spain and Austria, and is set to go online next in the Netherlands and Italy in the current 2023/24 fiscal year.

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"Driving Home to Fix this": MediaMarktSaturn enables more time together at Christmas

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"Driving Home to Fix this": MediaMarktSaturn enables more time together at Christmas

With its new international Christmas ad, MediaMarktSaturn once again focuses on the topic of mindfulness and advocates using its product and service offerings to spend more of your precious time with your loved ones over the holidays.

We've all been there: you're visiting family over the holidays and instead of spending time with them, you have to set up and calibrate various devices. MediaMarktSaturn's new 60-seconds commercial for Christmas shows that solving technical problems can take a lot of time. Time that should rather be spent together and can now be reclaimed thanks to MediaMarktSaturn's versatile services. The spot is accompanied by a reinterpretation of the Christmas classic "Driving Home for Christmas" and can be seen on TV, in cinemas and online in Germany from November 30, 2023. Special forms of advertising are also planned, such as contextual placement on the radio directly after the song.

The spot focuses on a young woman who travels to visit her family over the festive period. Instead of spending valuable time with them, she has to solve various technical problems for her parents or grandparents. This or something similar is the situation in many households during the holidays. With its new campaign for the 2023 Christmas season, MediaMarktSaturn is focusing on its wide range of products and services for customers.

To further emphasize this message, MediaMarktSaturn has transformed Chris Rea's song "Driving Home for Christmas" into "Driving Home to Fix this". The popular Christmas classic, which focuses on the anticipation of spending time with your favorite people, now takes on a whole new meaning and underlines the message perfectly: "With the new campaign, we are taking the theme of mindfulness, which was already our focus on Valentine's Day, one step further: the last few years in particular have shown us that time together is the best gift of all. With our wide range of products and matching services, we are giving our customers back exactly this time and taking care of all their technical needs in the meantime - in line with our new Experience Electronics strategy," explains Michael Schuld, Chief Commercial & Marketing Officer of the MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group.

The campaign is designed according to a 360-degree approach and is supplemented with 15-second spots for TV and online, which show which products, gifts and matching services shoppers can benefit from during the Christmas season and beyond. For example, anyone who doesn't want to worry about how to transfer data and set up their smartphone when buying a new one can save a lot of time and stress with MediaMarktSaturn's Get Started service. MediaMarktSaturn takes care of the initial set-up, function checks, installation of a Google or iOS account and the latest updates for the new smartphone.

Customers in Germany also benefit from an extended exchange right until December 31, 2023 for all products purchased between November 23, 2023 and December 16, 2023.

Those who want to get their presents even faster can use Click & Collect. With this service, products ordered at www.mediamarkt.de and www.saturn.de can be collected from your local store within 30 minutes if they are directly available in the selected store.

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MediaMarktSaturn expands its retail media offering with Self-Service

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MediaMarktSaturn expands its retail media offering with Self-Service

MediaMarktSaturn is introducing Self-Service, an important strategic development in its retail media offering. This provides partners, customers and agencies with new and huge potential in campaign management. Campaigns can now be controlled directly by customers themselves, monitored in real time and optimized at any time according to their own needs.

MediaMarktSaturn, with over 2.2 billion customer contacts per year across all channels, offers its partners, customers and agencies classic retail media products such as Sponsored Product Ads (SPA) or A+ Content combined with highly professional reporting and analysis options. MediaMarktSaturn is now one of the first providers in the retail media sector in Europe to offer a Self-Service for Sponsored Product Ads. The Self-Service has already been successfully introduced in Germany and is being used by the first partners. Final preparations are currently underway in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria, where the Self-Service will also go live shortly.

"In today's fast-paced world, it is crucial to be flexible and to be able to react to changes in real time," says Torsten Ahlers, Managing Director Media-Saturn Marketing GmbH, explaining the new product. "With our Self-Service, we offer our customers exactly that: control and optimization in real time according to their individual needs. At the same time, we are giving agencies specializing in retail media an exciting opportunity to further professionalize and expand their offerings in this area."

In addition, MediaMarktSaturn's managed service offering will continue to be available to partners and customers, with campaign management, reporting and recommended adjustments being carried out by MediaMarktSaturn's retail media experts in consultation with the customer. "However, in order to be able to serve the 'long tail' and sustainably increase volumes, Self-Service is fundamental for us and an important strategic step," adds Torsten Ahlers.

The expansion of Retail Media plays a central role in MediaMarktSaturn's corporate strategy in order to sustainably improve the Group's profitability. Gross profit from the Retail Media business is expected to increase almost tenfold to around €45 million by the 2025/26 financial year.

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New campaign for the biggest shopping season of the year: MediaMarktSaturn puts all the signs on colorful for Black Friday

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New campaign for the biggest shopping season of the year: MediaMarktSaturn puts all the signs on colorful for Black Friday

With its "Colorful Weeks", MediaMarktSaturn is bringing color into the dreary season. The new, international retail campaign combines the central shopping experience with attractive tech offers. Online, on TV, at POS and social media, the colorful campaign is characterized by dynamism and joie de vivre, thus continuing the campaign platform Let's Go! perfectly. The stars of the campaign are the company's employees themselves.

Colorful instead of monotonously black: Just in time for what is traditionally the darkest advertising period of the year, MediaMarktSaturn is taking a colorful approach with its new, international campaign. From October 30th to December 4th, the "Colorful Weeks" will offer a welcome contrast to the otherwise rather drab color scheme of the Black Friday campaigns. The idea behind it: In the dark days leading up to the Christmas season, MediaMarkt stores and the online shop offer a colorful alternative and a positive setting for a month full of top deals.

The annual Black Friday is one of the strongest sales days of the year in the retail sector. This is also the case at MediaMarktSaturn. But this year everything is different. With the "Colorful Weeks," Europe's market-leading electronics retailer is offering numerous deals for five weeks in its online stores and around 400 MediaMarkt and Saturn stores in Germany. And it's deliberately colorful: "In the otherwise dreary, black-tinged month of November, it seemed only logical to us to provide a strong counter-impulse here that reaches our customers emotionally and puts them in a positive mood," says Michael Schuld, Chief Commercial & Marketing Officer of the MediaMarktSaturn Retail Group.

From October 30th until the end of "Cyber Week" on December 4, the "Colorful Weeks" will take place. The colorful promotion weeks kick off with a host of attractive offers. This will be followed in quick succession by Singles Day, Black Week and the famous Black Friday on November 24th. As a new finale to the hottest deal weeks of the year, "Cyber Week" will start in Germany on November 27th and end on December 4th. The campaign idea comes from the creative agency Saatchi&Saatchi, which has already been responsible for the campaign platform Let's Go! created last year since its launch. The overarching campaign strategy is based on the company's new brand statement and strategic realignment, which focuses not only on the product range, but also on the customer experience at all touchpoints, a wide range of services and personal advice.

"Colorful Weeks" - nothing is more authentic than the own team!

What's special about this year's campaign? The star is the team! MediaMarktSaturn is putting its own employees in the spotlight. They were able to apply with creative photos and videos via a casting platform for all countries in which the company is active. The aim was to create a mix that was as representative as possible across all countries. The turnout was overwhelming: In the end, 40 colleagues were invited to the campaign shoot. Here, over 350 motifs and ten moving image sequences were created for online, TV and social media.

"Basically, the own team brings the most authenticity and credibility to a retail campaign," says Michael Schuld. "The joy in our work and the passion for the company is palpable in every frame created - this joie de vivre and dynamism simply leap over. I'm very proud of this great team, whose personal commitment has made this campaign something special."

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