College Marketing Solutions

#1 College Student
Marketing & Promotion

360 Youth by Refuel Agency is the industry leader for engaging college consumers, chosen by brands like P&G, Spotify, Lyft, Amazon, Trojan, and hundreds of other clients and agencies. Our customized media and marketing campaigns authentically engage college students, nurture them through the sales funnel, and ultimately drive growth among the elusive, evergreen college audience segment. With thousands of college marketing campaigns and efficacy studies under our belt, we have a deep understanding of how college consumers respond to specific types of media.

On-Campus College Marketing + OOH Media

College Partners:

Schools

Reach

Schools

Impressions

Monthly
Impressions

CPM Range

$2-$5

360 Youth’s on-campus college marketing network features proprietary, permanent OOH units — including backlit, 4’x6’ Campus Source™ wall mounted info centers and floor standing, Ad-Rax™. The largest college OOH network in the nation provides your brand access to high-touch, high-frequency boards located in high traffic locations. From academic buildings, game rooms, laundry facilities, lounges, student unions, and dorms, your brand will receive permanent exposure at over 550 college campuses. 360 Youth’s college marketing services provide the ability to target specific segments, delivering double-digit increases to branding, intent, and actual purchase for most product categories.

College Club™ is 360 Youth’s peer-to-peer college brand ambassador marketing program that includes both face–to–face and online influencer activities at over 100 of the largest campuses nationwide. College brand ambassador marketing programs catalyze powerful influence that drives significant behavioral changes on campus. By leveraging our proprietary student ambassador database combined with specialized local recruiting, we field a powerful peer-to-peer messaging team. 360 Youth has activated hundreds of campus programs across every product category.

College Partners

Access to personalized online portal for photos and reports

Brands who successfully utilize College Club Ambassadors work with 360 Youth to design specific college lifestyle usage occasions to showcase how the brand can fit into and assist with everyday college life.

For Lyft, the College Club Ambassadors gamified relevant usage occasions such as using Lyft as your safe ride home at night, using Lyft for a student roommates to go on big grocery hauls, and using Lyft to get to class when you’re running late. We distributed promo cards to both offer students incentives to ride and also to track semester long usage.

Spotify used 360 Youth brand ambassadors to for a national campaign creating awareness and buzz around their new student discount for their Premium streaming services. Over half the students who interacted with the campaign stated they would use the streaming service and more than two-thirds planned to tell a friend about the promotion.

For Nissin Cup Noodle, 360 Youth’s College Club Ambassadors were featuring the Very Veggie product with better flavor and less sodium. The program centered on hand-to-hand product sampling – late-night study sessions at campus locations, Greek house afternoon snacks, and in the dorms (snacks and meal replacement options).

Email with Retargeting and Social Extension

Current College Students

Reach

Incoming Freshmen

Parents of Freshmen

Reporting

Our programs hyperdrive engagement by integrating three digital media tactics. Using 360 Youth double opt-in email data, our campaigns deliver dedicated email inbox marketing, retargeting email openers with desktop and mobile display, and matched college social media profile marketing campaigns. 360 Youth drives audiences from awareness through conversion via pinpoint targeting by multiple levers including school attended, year in school, major interest, and oncampus vs off-campus living. Our college data is refreshed monthly, to ensure accuracy with this transitory audience. We are CAN-SPAM, GDPR, CCPA and CASL compliant.

Connect directly with your ideal college consumer via any number of social media networks using 360 Youth’s mobile device IDs and proprietary consumer data. 360 Youth data can be ported to Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat to build highly stylized audiences of confirmed college consumers. We also have a beta platform relationship with TikTok. “Social” is a must have in any college oriented media campaign as it’s the most effective conversion media for this audience.

Students, any and all Subsets

Parents of Freshman

Sampling and Campus Promotions

Partners

Colleges

Reach

Students

Reporting

Peer-to-peer intercept sampling and partner network distribution including dorms, fitness centers, Greek life, and health centers. 360 Youth is one of the largest College Sampling companies in the country. While often still being funded by parents, college students are making brand choices on their own for the first time in their lives, with discretionary spending topping $216 Billion in 2019. Students love samples and dozens of third-party efficacy studies from clients such as P&G, Unilever, and Nestle show trial generates exceptional conversion numbers.

College Marketing Solutions