Maximizing Pizza Franchise Growth with Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Amazon Ads

While the pizza industry typically adopts a consistent marketing strategy year-over-year, recent indicators suggest notable shifts compared to the previous year. In 2024, Pizza Today key insights show social media is an important channel, with 78% of pizza operators using social media as part of their local marketing efforts, and Facebook continues to dominate the pizza industry’s online presence. Instagram and X maintain consistent usage within the industry, providing stable platforms for engagement. Meanwhile, TikTok is experiencing significant growth as a popular channel for reaching pizza consumers.

Platform-Specific Strategies for Pizza Franchise Marketing

Facebook: Connecting with High-Intent Local Audiences

Facebook’s massive audience spans a wide range of age groups, making it ideal for reaching every demographic. Its sophisticated targeting capabilities allow pizza franchisees to connect with high-intent local audiences, driving visits and orders. Radius, zip code, and city targeting hone in on specific service areas, and minimum budgets of $1 a day make Facebook advertising attainable for most local businesses. Dayparting by location can increase performance and improve relevancy.

Instagram & TikTok: Engaging Audiences with Vertical Video

Vertical video content dominates on both Instagram and TikTok, and these platforms are ideal for promoting ambiance, amenities, and how your franchise makes enjoying pizza an unforgettable experience for customers. Reels on Instagram and Facebook offer broad demographic reach with quick, impactful ads, though music usage is limited to original or licensed tracks. TikTok, appealing to a younger crowd, provides flexible video lengths for varied storytelling and boasts a vast music library. Both platforms offer valuable analytics, guiding franchisees to optimize their ad strategies. By empowering your franchisees with local advertising technology, you help them overcome the challenges of creating short-form videos and enable them to take advantage of the power of vertical video advertising.  

While Reels targeting parameters are the same as Facebook’s (see above), it should be noted that TikTok parameters differ in several meaningful ways. First, TikTok does not allow for radius targeting, but rather focuses a level up to zip code, DMA, or city. Second, TikTok’s minimum budget requirements are higher at $50 per day; however, these spending requirements are lower than in years past and will continue to decrease as more and more advertisers leverage the tool and publish ads.

Amazon Sponsored Display: Reaching Pizza Consumers with Exclusive Data

Amazon Sponsored Display is a powerful new tool for targeting proprietary audiences based on purchase and viewing behaviors in the Amazon ecosystem. Tiger Pistol’s collaboration with Amazon Ads introduces Sponsored Display Ads to a broad range of businesses, including those not selling directly on Amazon. Amazon assembles high-intent audiences from its vast data, allowing pizza franchisees to reach potential customers efficiently. Creative execution is a cinch, and Amazon Sponsored Display requires no minimum daily budget.

A Winning Recipe for Local Pizza Marketing

The evolving landscape of social media platforms presents substantial opportunities for pizza franchise marketers. With Facebook maintaining its dominance across demographics, Instagram and TikTok emerging as potent channels for engaging younger audiences, and the innovative use of Amazon Sponsored Display for precise audience targeting, franchisees have a robust toolkit at their disposal. By leveraging these platform-specific strategies effectively, pizza franchises can increase brand visibility and engagement, drive sales, and foster sustainable growth in their competitive industry.

Pizza franchise marketers can harness this momentum. By leveraging these strategies, pizza franchise marketers can effectively utilize social media as a powerful tool to increase brand awareness, engage with customers, drive sales, and ultimately grow their franchise business. Additionally, utilizing Amazon Sponsored Display can provide a new avenue for targeted advertising based on consumer purchase and viewing behaviors within the Amazon ecosystem. This allows marketers to reach potential customers with precision.