Waze will no longer serve Ads starting September 1, 2023.

We will wind down the current Waze Ads product and advertisers will have the opportunity to keep existing campaigns running through August 31, 2023.

We are already working to transition Waze Ads to Google Ads technology and look forward to helping advance your business objectives through our new Waze Ads product soon.

During this transition, we have an alternative solution you may already be familiar with: Performance Max for Store Goals (PMax). This Google campaign uses AI to maximize your in-store visits and sales by bringing geo formats across Search, Display, GMail, Google Maps, and YouTube into a single product. For questions on PMax, you can contact your existing Google channel of support or reach out to Google Support home page. You can also check out our Waze Support Hub if you have any Waze Ads questions.

Case study

Insurance company, Mutuelle du Mans, generated an average of 1K navigations per day

Mutuelle du Mans is a major leader in the French insurance market. To amplify its car insurance offering and recruit new clients, MMA set up a Pins and Search campaign on Waze promoting two car insurance offers. The campaign targeted drivers near MMA’s entire network of 1,620 branches to increase both these locations’ visibility on the map, as well as brand awareness. The campaign also made it possible to promote two car insurance offers to Wazers driving nearby MMA agents.

Becoming Wazers’ #1 insurance choice

MMA had three goals for its Waze Ads campaign: promoting its automobile insurance offers to a target group of 100% drivers, becoming the go-to insurance company for Wazers by boosting their awareness of its brand, and increasing traffic to its branches.

Connecting drivers with a network of MMA agents

MMA worked with Waze to create Pins promoting all 1,620 MMA agents in France. These pins promoted two offers to a qualified audience of 100% drivers in the vicinity of MMA agents, promoted in groups based on their visibility potential. To spark the interest of users, Waze served these offers 69,000 times.

Being visible on the Waze app was key for us. This campaign provided great visibility to the brand by referencing our entire network of agents on the application, resulting in a strong engagement from Wazers, via navigations (60,000 store visit intentions to our sales offices were recorded in three months). We hope to complete this first experience by going further into results monitoring.
Franck Le Roy, Head of Customer Data & Digital Traffic Acquisition, MMA

An ambitious campaign delivers

MMA’s campaign on Waze delivered 21.9M impressions across ad formats to 5.5M unique Wazers, resulting in an average of 1,000 navigations to agents per day. A/B tests on the visuals and on the calls-to-action showed the campaign boosted brand awareness and influenced browsing behavior. Drivers who saw the Pins showed a 52% higher navigation rate to an MMA agency from Search than those who did not see the ads. Thanks to their ambitious campaign with Waze, MMA is well on their way to becoming Wazers’ go-to insurance brand.

Tags Case study Other Waze Ads Build awareness Europe/Middle East

The Goal

Promote auto insurance products to a targeted group of 100% drivers, become the go-to car insurance brand for Wazers, and increase foot traffic to stores.

The Approach

Partnered with Waze to launch Pins that promoted two offers to a qualified audience of 100% drivers in the vicinity of MMA agents.

The Results

Generated 21.9M impressions across ad formats to 5.5M unique Wazers, resulting in an average of 1,000 navigations to agents per day — and also found that drivers who saw Pins had a 52% higher navigation rate to an MMA agency compared to those who did not see a Pin.