The Tweet Writer is a campaign that was created by our colleagues at JWT Melbourne for The Melbourne Writers Festival. It analyzes your tweets and publishes “your book” based on your tweets which you can then share with friends to raise awareness for the Festival. It’s simple and clever.
Looking forward to more from Dan King and his team from down under!
Today, JWT Connect launches a new website for Oriental Princess. It looks great and if you’re an OP member or purchase 500bht worth of OP products during this promotional period, you’ll stand a chance to win a Beauty First Class trip to Sixth Senses Spa! Fun!
Ann Mack, JWT’s Head of Intelligence and Trendspotting has just released a new report on Social Media – I steal below, with pride!
Enjoy
Iain
While social media is still in its infancy, it’s getting increasingly crowded and, as a result, increasingly confusing. But it’s exciting at the same time.
For our latest report, we spoke with a globally diverse panel of 18 professionals (both inside and outside JWT) in the social media sphere. From those conversations, we developed 12 actionable recommendations for brands, with case studies to help illustrate these ideas.
Yes, the man rocked the Cannes Lions on Monday…in his underwear (I kid you not). New Zealand based Special Group took home a well deserved Direct Grand Prix for it’s Orcon Broadband Campaign.
Background: Despite offering faster broadband and better service, Orcon was still largely unknown.
Objective: To raise awareness of Orcon’s superior offering.
Strategy: Why say it when you can show it?
Execution: A “mass product demonstration” featuring Mr Iggy Pop.
Results: Off the wall. 200 auditions viewed over 100,000 times, 3,500 new Facebook friends in two weeks, NZ$650,000 of unpaid media coverage before the TV spot even aired and a 30% sales increase on the previous year.
What they did? They organised a world first event, a chance for 9 Kiwis to re-record Iggy’s “The Passenger” with the man himself. Everything revolved around the internet: the call for auditions, the facebook activity, the “play live with Iggy” event. So, while everyone else out there was busy talking up their services, Orcon went out and used theirs, showed it, made it truly magical. Who would have thought you can record a song via the internet, with 9 of you in New Zealand, each at their own studio and one in Miami in his studio?
Here’s a great campaign to promote Vodafone’s 360 services. Using a virtual Vodafone fortune teller, Madam TreSesti, to tap into the users social accounts to predict their future.