ENERGY
Client
TotalEnergies
Service
Media
Date
March 2025
Results
+4M
Euros saved and reallocated
+20%
Marketing Effiency
-20%
Marketing carbon footprint
François Rommel,
Head of Analytics at TotalEnergies
CHALLENGE
As France’s energy market grows more and more competitive, with recent drops in pricing driving consumers to consider changing providers, TotalEnergies wanted to invest its marketing budget in the smartest way possible for truly optimized ad campaigns. The company also needed to adapt to a constantly changing digital landscape, with third-party cookies being phased out and new marketing channels opening up while simultaneously reducing its digital footprint.
To achieve these goals, TotalEnergies could not solely rely on attribution: the company needed the best tools available for informed decision-making and to prove the potential worth of every investment.
Solution
TotalEnergies worked with fifty-five to set up a hybrid approach toward marketing optimization, combining an in-house, next-generation Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM) and incrementality testing.
As a first step, fifty-five set up a classic MMM to provide a broad overview of marketing efficiency. Then, we configured our agent-based MMM, the Digital Twin, to enable advanced simulations. This model simulates the behavior of 50,000 virtual consumers to determine which marketing levers hold the most potential, which ones are reaching saturation, and which ones should not receive further investment.
Our Digital Twin MMM is now fully integrated into TotalEnergies’ decision-making process and is actively used by its teams on a regular basis. TotalEnergies also requested that carbon footprint measurement be included on the platform to determine the impact of each marketing lever.
Incrementality testing then allowed TotalEnergies and fifty-five to validate the insights gained through modeling.
Results
Our approach helped TotalEnergies meet its commercial goals while saving €4 million by reallocating budgets toward high-potential levers. Improved insights empowered the team to make bolder, data-backed decisions for a 20% increase in marketing efficiency.
Now equipped with a clear view of each campaign’s carbon emissions, TotalEnergies also reduced its marketing carbon footprint by 20%.
+4M Euros saved and reallocated
+20% Marketing efficiency
-20% Marketing carbon footprint
Case Studies
Stay Tuned