Yamaha

Performance

A rider on a Yamaha WaveRunner idling on calm water beside a swimmer and a red marker flag.

Tapping Yamaha into a new wave of riders.

Details

Scope
Paid media
Industry
Equipment, B2C
Three Yamaha ads side by side: a First Launch sales event, the CrossWave as Boat of the Year 2025, and the 2026 lineup at the Miami International Boat Show.
Industry
Equipment, B2C

Details

Yamaha

Yamaha Boats & WaveRunners is the worldwide leader in Sport Boats and Personal WaveRunners, globally renowned for their innovative water recreation products.

Yamaha first approached Marketwake to launch a campaign called “Women Run the Water,” which empowered women to take charge of their personal watercraft experiences.

The challenge: In Yamaha’s market, direct online sales are not an option. They needed to connect potential customers to local dealers effectively while optimizing strategies for newsletter sign-ups and dealer searches.

Marketwake responded by developing a comprehensive digital media strategy tailored specifically to Yamaha’s needs.

paid media

what we did

  • Asset resizing
  • Programmatic advertising
  • Paid social
  • Paid search
  • CTV

Yamaha gets women on the water.

To achieve Yamaha’s goals for the Women Run the Water (WRTW) campaign, we resized and placed their creative assets across Google, Meta, OTT/CTV, and Programmatic channels.

Strategically, we hyper-targeted Yamaha’s WRTW persona, pairing research with broad interests and the Top 25 DMAs to optimize campaigns and ensure we reached the right audience.

This campaign won the Neptune Award for Best Integrated Marketing Campaign for a Brand.

  • 4.6%increase in overall brand consideration
  • 13.7%lift in brand consideration among ages 35-44
  • 4.7%increase in brand consideration among females
A phone on a keyboard showing a Women Run the Water ad.
Friends on the bow of a Yamaha sport boat on a sunny lake.
Yamaha’s omnichannel strategy, animated.
A hand holding up a phone playing a Women Run the Water ad against a blurred shoreline.

paid media

what we did

  • Targeting
  • Customer journey mapping
  • Nurture emails

Powering evergreen ad placement.

Because of the success of the award-winning Women Run the Water campaign, our next challenge was continuing those results.

To do so, we supported Yamaha’s evergreen ad placement by applying insights from the previous campaign. We worked with them to refine their customer journey mapping and implemented layered targeting strategies that nurtured users through the buying process.

These strategies won the Non-Endemic Excellence award for using Skai to run their retail media display campaigns.

  • 228,349sessions generated
  • 13.8mtotal impressions across all media channels
  • 191,408total clicks and engagements on media efforts
A Yamaha video ad playing on YouTube on a laptop.
A phone on a white plinth showing the Fully Loaded Luxury WaveRunner ad.Two riders on a Yamaha WaveRunner throwing spray across green water.

“We couldn’t have achieved these results without Marketwake’s expertise and execution, and we’re excited to continue this partnership moving forward.”

David MandersAdvertising Supervisor, Yamaha Boats and WaveRunners
  • A Yamaha wake boat ad: "Wakesurf ready for anything."
  • A tall Yamaha WaveRunner ad: "$500 savings."
  • A Yamaha FX WaveRunner turning on the spot: "Explore the FX series."
  • A tall Yamaha ad: "The 2024 Yamaha boats are here."
  • A wide Yamaha wake boat ad: "Wakesurf ready for anything."
  • A Yamaha end of summer sales ad: 5.99% APR and a $1,000 customer bonus.
  • A Yamaha WaveRunner ad: "Fully loaded luxury."
  • A Yamaha boat ad: "The premium boating experience."
  • A Yamaha 2025 wake boats ad: "It’s that leave it all on the lake feeling."
  • A square Yamaha WaveRunner ad: "$500 savings."
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