To date, the 2022 Ford Maverick has resonated with a pretty diverse audience, including owners of discontinued Blue Oval sedans, first-time truck buyers, female shoppers, Millenials, and members of Gen Z. That latter group might have been at least slightly influenced by a wildly successful 2022 Ford Maverick TikTok campaign that started with a pretty simple gimmick – letting users apply an augmented reality version of the compact pickup to their videos.
“We know they’re not traditional truck people,” Erica Martin, Ford Truck marketing communications manager, said about Maverick shoppers in an interview with Adweek. “We didn’t want to go to market like we did with other trucks. TikTok is the last place you’d expect to see a truck ad.”
Ford’s Maverick TikTok campaign, which launched back in June and was its very first paid TikTok effort, has racked up 10.6 billion views and netted over 17,000 video creations in its very first month. The automaker wanted to advertise to non-traditional truck buyers and saw the social media platform as the perfect way to do just that. The resulting campaign has been so popular that TikTok featured it in a blog post regarding its most significant brand moments of the year.
In addition to providing TikTok users with the customizable Maverick graphic, Ford also partnered with a number of influencers on the platform to help spread the word about its new pickup. That includes Jamie Milne, who is known for sharing recipes and featured a scaled-down version of the Maverick on her kitchen counter, as well as Chloe Mitchell, a DIY’er who posted the pickup next to a shed she was building.
The idea is to show that the Maverick fits into anyone’s lifestyle – not just one belonging to a typical truck owner, and the AR experience meshes perfectly within the creative social media platform. “They dropped a 3D model of a car, which is not that fun, into an environment of people having fun and being creative, and that’s TikTok,” said Evan Gappelberg, CEO of NexTech AR solutions. “If you had dropped that same 3D model onto a website, it wouldn’t have matched up with the audience.”
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Comments
Deal of the decade. I absolutely love my hybrid Maverick. Personally, I think if you poll more people, you’ll find it’s so insanely popular because there is nothing that comes close to it, period.
Put simply: there is no other hybrid for $20k. There is no truck for $20k. This not only does both, it rides better than a truck, seats four comfortably, has solid tech, and can still haul upwards of 17 4×8 foot plywood sheets (or some bikes, kayaks, camping gear, furniture or whatever). You just can’t beat that.
I’ll have to agree with Jack 321. I also love my Maverick Hybrid. I have a First Edition Rapid Red. Love the color, ride, comfort and most of all the gas mileage 44+mpg
From what I’ve seen in the Market the Maverick AWD Model is doing OK. The Hybrid FWD Model’s Sales are off the Charts. If Ford would combine the two and build in the USA an AWD Hybrid Model in 2024, Ford’s Stock could actually reach a solid 20.00+ per Share.