In 3 star-studded ads for Homes.com that appeared on YouTube over the weekend, the CoStar Group teases a “changed” going shopping experience ahead of Super Bowl Sunday.
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Amidst CoStar’s continuous push to end up being a go-to property realty website– and dismiss the incumbents along the method– the business simply debuted a series of teaser advertisements for its flagship Homes.com brand name.
The advertisements appeared on YouTube Sunday. In one, Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy and Saturday Night Live’s Heidi Gardner relax a table attempting to think about a motto for Homes.com. In another, rap artist Lil Wayne strolls through a high school corridor before Levy once again appears, this time looking straight into the electronic camera.
And in a 3rd advertisement, a group of service executive relax awaiting somebody crucial– who appears just as a blur at the end of the video.
Each of the 3 advertisements ends by showing the date Feb. 11, 2024. That’s this Sunday, and likewise occurs to be when the Super Bowl is taking place. Aside from the date, the videos’ descriptions likewise tease extra info.
” We’re releasing an effective brand-new home-shopping platform,” the description of the Levy-Gardner video states.
Greg Robertson’s Supplier Street initially saw the advertisements
Though the general public will seemingly need to wait a couple of more days to discover what all of this suggests, the series of advertisements comes as CoStar– long a leviathan in industrial realty– continues pressing into the property realty sector. That push has actually consisted of the acquisition of Homesnap and Homes.com, in 2020 and 2021, respectively, along with pointed reviews of business designs of competitors such as Zillow.
CoStar has actually likewise made a point of promoting the growing web traffic to its Homes.com network– in some cases to the irritation of competitors
The brand-new advertisements are likewise not the very first time CoStar has actually utilized celeb spokespeople. In the past, the business started a significant marketing push for its Apartments.com leasing website that plainly included star Jeff Goldblum. The business initially debuted that project in 2015, however the advertisements have actually stayed common on streaming and online video platforms in more current years also.
Whether CoStar can now press its Homes.com platform to the top of the portal stack stays to be seen. However the brand-new advertisements make it clear that the business does not absence for aspiration.
” Home-shopping will be changed,” the description on the waiting executives advertisement states, “any minute now.”