Archive for November 12th, 2009

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Nov
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Clorox in-venue mobile campaign generates 530K contest entries

Clorox-owned KC Masterpiece Barbeque Sauce and Kingsford Charcoal ran a mobile campaign at the Keith Urban World Tour and 530,000 people participated.

2Clorox’s agency George P. Johnson integrated mobile into a national promotion to win a backyard barbeque with Keith Urban by incorporating in-venue activities such as text-to-win seat upgrades and calls to action to enter by texting a keyword.

“We worked closely with our activation partner, George P. Johnson and Keith’s management at Borman Entertainment, to create a 360-degree marketing plan, including mobile activation with Mozes, to achieve our brand objectives, market the tour and provide added value to fans,” said Andrew McGowan, group manager at Clorox, Oakland, CA.

“We kept fans consistently engaged with our brands by incorporating mobile connectivity at multiple touch points throughout their tour experience,” he said.

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Nov
09

CASE STUDY: Using social media to mobilise Hong Kong horror fans

A Hong Kong theme park called for public participation to refresh its Halloween party as the seasonal event entered its 9th year.

halloweenBackground
Ocean Park, a local theme park that competes with Disneyland in Hong Kong, is staging its Halloween Bash for the ninth consecutive year. The event accounts for a high percentage of the park’s annual revenue and plays an important role in attracting teenage visitors, as well as offering variety to regulars. While attendance has risen each year since the event launched, 2009 presents a particular challenge due to the economic downturn.

Aim
The main aim of this year’s campaign was to persuade teenagers who experienced the party in previous years to return while giving new customers a good reason to leave the house and enjoy a spooky evening.
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Nov
09

SMS case study: Fox Chevrolet

Name and city and state of marketer
Fox Chevrolet, Timonium, MD

Standing out from the crowdName and city and state of agency or marketing services firm
HipCricket, Kirkland, WA.

Common short code and keywords used
Consumers were asked to text the keyword FOX to the 98 Rock short code.

Objective
The goal was to drive consumers to the lot for test drives during the toughest economic times of this generation. Rather than competing purely through price, Fox saw this as an opportunity to reach prospects on a highly-personal device, their mobile phone.

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Nov
09

McDonald’s Digital Signage “Interaction” in Piccadilly Circus

McDonald’s has launched a fun approach to interactive marketing in the UK. The following video shows passers-by interacting with the content of a large digital billboard in Piccadilly Circus. Watch all of the pose

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Nov
09

Yahoo! Pulls the plug on GeoCities’ Erasing 7M Websites

geocities_1109When Yahoo! switched off the servers for GeoCities, the Web posting service, on Oct. 27, some 7 million of the Internet’s first websites went dark forever. The bulk of these were people’s personal home pages, which were pulled offline with no backup and no permanent record of those users’ frenetic early forays online.

Now a ragtag effort by several groups of budding computer historians is feverishly — and angrily — trying to bring as much as they can back online. Founded in 1995 and bought by Yahoo! four years later, GeoCities had become a relic, and not a particularly pretty one at that. Continue reading ‘Yahoo! Pulls the plug on GeoCities’ Erasing 7M Websites’

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Nov
09

Digital Kids’ Books Show Robust Growth

Booksellers and content providers are focusing more attention on a specialty niche that is showing robust growth: digital books for children and teens. The splashiest effort to date has been the launch of Disney Digital Books, but there have been many others, most recently by Barnes & Noble.

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