Sunday, June 15, 2008

Do you try Viral Marketing ?

Viral marketing is now more popular among moden marketers and social media was the main channel to boom this strategy. Early era of social media or web 2.0, marketers were reluctant to use this and some popular web 2.0 sites also may not allow to reach their site and members through any strategy. But eventually those companies now allow companies to create corporate profile and reach the audience. You tube, face book pages and ads are recent examples that I can noted. Not only that myspace, Flickr, Dailymotion also have several features to use by companies. Even without these prior approval, clever marketers were done smart viral effect campaigns through these web 2.0 sites. To bringing more visitors, sign up members, conversion, brand awareness , new product launch etc done through this.

I read some successful viral marketing campaigns recently.

Columbia Sportswear

White Horse agency was the company created this campaign. Campaign was named as "Tested Tough" and

They asked to submit a description, photos and videos by customers and anyone. And they allow to comment on that content and members can share their thoughts with friends and family. When members done it large scale, there is more possibility to win. Views, votes and comments are the parameters to selecting winners and contest selected winners every week. The campaign included email, online display advertising and viral seeding through contest sites. Success rate of this campaign is greater than 33%.

Pink for the Cure

General Mills launched this campaigns to battle against breast cancer. Company asked to spread hopeful stories of those who touched by the disease. They have created a myspace page and some more related networks. Visitors can share their stories, add comments and down load badges and backgrounds for their own pages. You won’t believe , this campaign reached more than 2.7 million people.

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