Archive for July, 2010

Old Spice Guy - The Future of Marketing?

July 30th, 2010 by Julie

The number one priority when trying to develop a successful social media marketing campaign should be engagement. It’s one thing to launch a social media marketing campaign but it’s another thing entirely for your customers and the population at large to connect with it.

On this front, no one can deny that the recent Old Spice online campaign has set a new benchmark for engagement. Through an integrated Twitter, Facebook and Youtube campaign, the ‘Old Spice Guy’ responded to queries from celebrities, bloggers and other people. The campaign has been universally acclaimed a success, with prominent news blog Mashable declaring the campaign to be “the future of marketing”.

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BP - A PR Problem with No Solution?

July 5th, 2010 by Laurie

This is a hot topic at the moment. Not a day has gone by since the end of April that BP has not received negative coverage in the media, both in the U.S. and pretty much everywhere else on the back of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

BP is responsible for what is widely acknowledged to be the worst oil spill in U.S. history and, at the forefront of their public relations campaign for much of the last few weeks, is BP CEO and media punch bag, Tony Hayward. Not an enviable position to be in, by any means.

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The explosion on the BP oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that occurred on April 20th was undoubtedly an operations failure. Mr. Hayward, who has become known via Newsweek as ‘the bumbler from BP’, can not be held directly accountable for this.

But he has done himself few favours in the media spotlight.

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