In a big splash article in AdAge, found here, P&G CEO announced a shift in strategy to focus more on sampling for many of its key brand franchises. He cited a loss in market share as well as a huge opportunity to increase the number of households that haven’t yet used many of P&G’s leading consumer brands. Sampling is a go-to strategy for most CPG marketers, and P&G has certainly done this for a long time. What’s new is that they are talking about spending less on traditional media and shifting that budget to digital channels and activities like sampling.
