# Knorr video adverts to generate free donations to three charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/04/09/knorr-video-adverts-generate-free-donations-three-charities/
- Published: 2018-04-09T11:43:46+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Viewers of Knorr online adverts will be able to choose one of the company’s charity
partners to benefit from a corporate donation.**

The Unilever food brand is working with video advertising platform [Good-Loop](http://www.good-loop.com/our-story)
to deliver video advertising in a way that also generates charitable donations from
the company.

Viewers who watch a Knorr advert for 15 seconds are then ‘rewarded’ with the option
to choose one of Knorr’s charitable causes to receive 50% of the ad money. The three
charities are:

## Advertisement

 * The People’s Kitchen
 * The Trussell Trust
 * WaterAid

They were chosen because they matched Knorr’s “wider commitment to make sustainable
living commonplace”.
The rest of the advertising income is split between the publisher
and Good-Loop as income.  

## Four-week trial

The pilot will last four weeks in April, with Knorr Chicken Stock Pot’s and Beef
Concentrated Stock adverts running across a range of UK-based online publishers.

The trial is an attempt to achieve improved levels of engagement and give consumers
the opportunity to make a positive impact on society. 

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## Unilever Foundry

Knorr’s partnership with Good-Loop is a product of the [Unilever Foundry](https://foundry.unilever.com/briefs).
This is a global platform for startups to collaborate with Unilever’s 400+ brands.
It has been an entry point for innovative tech companies for more than four years,
piloting more than 100 startups with Unilever brands and functions.

Philippa Atkinson, senior brand manager at Knorr UK & Ireland, said: “Our partnership
with Good-Loop will enable us to test a new advertising format that empowers consumers
to choose to watch our advertising in exchange for a charitable donation – something
that has never been done before with a Unilever brand – and we’re looking forward
to the results.”

The partnership, which requires viewers to opt-in to view the adverts, is designed
to match Unilever’s minimum standards for online advertising of viewability, verification
and value.

Amy Williams is the founder and CEO of Good-Loop. She said: “I’m really inspired
by the idea that being good for the world can also make good business sense. Through
working with Unilever Foundry, we’ve partnered with Knorr to deploy an adtech solution
which can generate real social change and deliver better marketing ROI. It’s a win-
win-win for the brand, for the people watching the ad, and for Knorr’s amazing charity
partners.”

Good-Loop is currently crowdfunding to expand its services.

> BIG NEWS! We have just launched our first ever crowdfunding campaign! [https://t.co/8hPjKL43T2](https://t.co/8hPjKL43T2)
> [@Seedrs](https://twitter.com/Seedrs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) [#crowdfunding](https://twitter.com/hashtag/crowdfunding?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> [pic.twitter.com/jfhamQe7DD](https://t.co/jfhamQe7DD)
> — Good-Loop (@GoodLoopHQ) [April 9, 2018](https://twitter.com/GoodLoopHQ/status/983238188377440256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

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