Digital marketing industry case study library

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Described as “the happiest 5K on the planet”, the Color Run is a unique race held in cities all over the world. It’s an untimed race in which thousands of participants are doused from head to toe in different colours at each kilometre, a hugely popular event in Indonesia. As one of the sponsors of the event Dulux used social media to amplify its brands association with the event.

19/03/2015  |  Full story...

Indonesia is one of the top markets of Facebook, providing a strong platform for Proctor and Gamble to relaunch one of its healthcare brands in the country. This case study looks at how Vicks created a ‘Superlike’ app to use the best social media content to their advantage- generating 7 times more engagement than the best brand pages in the country as a result.

17/03/2015  |  Full story...

AXA's biggest challenge in Indonesia was to find ways to improve on the low awareness in the country of 240 million, which only had a 2% penetration level for insurance companies. This case study looks at how the insurance brand ditched ‘pushy’ sales tactics in favour of strong digital content on social and mobile platforms to create buzz around the brand.

17/03/2015  |  Full story...

Red Bull has taken content marketing to new levels, aiming to be the ‘feature story’ instead of the commercial. The company which began ‘giving people wings’ in 1987 when the first can was sold in Austria, has gone on to become a leading global brand creating and publishing amazing content. Red Bull has connected with its young audience by establishing itself as an enabler of thrill, sponsoring over 500 extreme sports, from base jumping, to snow sports, and even has its own Formula 1 team. Fans are kept up to date with all things extreme through a range of digital channels which even includes its own online TV channel – Red Bull TV.

11/03/2015  |  Full story...

The LADBible has become a social media phenomena, with brands such as Pot Noodle and Sky’s Now TV paying for sponsored content on the site. With new stats showing the site attracts more Facebook fans than BuzzFeed in the UK, we look at how it’s become ‘Pinterest for blokes’.

View this video from the Financial Times looking into BuzzFeed’s success.

26/02/2015  |  Full story...

Ever bought something in a sale that you later regretted? Snickers blame these shopping errors on hunger to tie in with their “You’re Not You When You’re Hungry” campaign. This case study looks at how Snickers helped shoppers in Dubai resell unwanted items they bought in the sales.

18/02/2015  |  Full story...

How do you get people to eat your products during Ramadan - a month of fasting? This case study looks at how Almarai a large dairy company in the Middle East launched a health and wellness social media campaign to support and inspire those fasting and most importantly keep the brand front of mind.

18/02/2015  |  Full story...

How do you integrate a bold brand like Sprite into a heavily censored region such as Saudi Arabia? This case study looks at how the drinks brand used a YouTube comedy series tied with digital and on pack promotion to win over the youth audience and get round content filtering, boosting sales 15% in the process.

17/02/2015  |  Full story...

In a bid to grow its market share across the Gulf region, Nivea encouraged Arab women to express themselves through writing and bring it to life through short films. This case study looks at how the beauty brand combined social and video content to help sales of its new body lotion steal 12% market share from its largest rival in just a year.

17/02/2015  |  Full story...

With mobile games proving big business, what exactly does it take to make it to some of the best game lists of the year? Ustwo, the developer behind indie smash hit Monument Valley, has provided a rare insight into the production costs, pricing strategies and sales breakdowns that helped the award winning puzzler become one of 2014’s success stories.

19/01/2015  |  Full story...

For the launch of the new Mercedes A-class, Mercedes wanted to appeal to a younger generation of drivers in the UK. This case study looks at how the car maker moved away from a traditionally heavy focus on TV and outdoor advertising to include social and mobile channels in its marketing mix. The #YOUDRIVE campaign combined social media and TV advertising by creating an exciting story told over three TV adverts where social media was used to decide the outcome of the story.

02/12/2014  |  Full story...

Back in 2011, Heinz used augmented reality to launch a digital marketing campaign to promote Tomato Ketchup as a cooking ingredient in a number of different recipes. This case study looks at how the popular condiment managed to turn packaging into a fun user experience that got 170,000 people engaged with the brand in a new and exciting way.

30/10/2014  |  Full story...

In July 2014, the Simon’s Cat campaign on Indieogo smashed UK crowdfunding records by successfully raising more than £284,000 / $478,000 to produce their first ever broadcast-length colour film. Over 9000 supporters contributed amounts ranging between £1 and £2000 towards the production budget of ‘Off to the Vet’ – the most ambitious Simon’s Cat animated film ever. In exchange for their donations, supporters are offered early viewing of the finished film as well as numerous physical rewards which included limited edition books, artwork and merchandise. A select number of funders will even be rewarded by having their pet drawn by Simon Tofield, the creator of Simon’s Cat.

18/08/2014  |  Full story...

Pepsi is running a YouTube series capturing the life of an old man with seemingly supernatural basketball skills, attracting nearly 40 million views with brand engagement that extends far beyond a 30-second TV commercial.

Brand: Pepsi Max | Sector: FMCG, Food and Beverages | Country: US | Partner/agency: The Marketing Arm | Objective: brand awareness, consideration and purchase | Format: YouTube, Social Media, Video

06/11/2013  |  Full story...

Candy Crush Saga is currently making $850,000 a day, as the year-old mobile puzzle game reveals the secrets to its ‘freemium’ business model success. Launched in September 2012, Candy Crush is a "freemium" app, which means it's free to download, but users can purchase in-game upgrades. King, the team behind Candy Crush, have perfected the art in in-game purchases by keeping the game addictive and adding regular updates.

Watch a trailer for Candy Crush Saga below;

Brand: Candy Crush | Sector: Mobile gaming, Apps | Country: Global | Objective: brand awareness, consideration and purchase | Format: Mobile, Apps, Gaming

18/09/2013  |  Full story...

The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) has revealed the results of a proprietary study into the value of premium content partnerships. Five bespoke partnerships were measured with media brands Haymarket, Guardian, Telegraph, and IPC and advertising brands LG, Majestic Wines, Boots, Disney and Lenor. This case study looks into the effect of these partnerships, and how consumers engaged with the brands.

Brand: LG, Majestic Wines, Boots, Disney and Lenor | Sector: FMCG, Consumer Electronics, Entertatinement | Country: UK | Agency/Partner: Haymarket, Guardian, Telegraph, and IPC | Objective: brand awareness, consideration and purchase | Format: Content partnerships, display advertising, Video, Publishing

11/09/2013  |  Full story...

Macmillan Cancer Support is a national cancer charity which provides practical, medical, emotional and financial support to people whose lives are affected by cancer. It also campaigns for better cancer care. The challenge they faced was that there was increasing traffic to their website and it was critical that users could find the information they needed quickly and easily. Webcredible suggested a new homepage displaying information on different cancer types, a redesigned contact us page, new information architecture for the online shop and brand centre, and a restructure of content within the site to better suit user needs.
The Macmillan Cancer Support website has seen a substantial increase in traffic to important areas for site users which had previously been difficult to locate. For example, there has been more than a 200% increase in people finding information on financial advice.
The user-centred design programme allowed Macmillan to get to know its target audiences and what information was of most interest to them.

www.webcredible.co.uk www.macmillan.org.uk

20/01/2010  |  Full story...

Plumbworld is the UK's largest independent online retailer of bathroom, plumbing and heating products, with annual sales approaching £12 million. Plumbworld was in the process of applying some updates to its website but was ultimately looking for a total redesign of the site. Webcredible carried out a comprehensive user-centered design project to ensure a redesigned site that was focused around the needs of the user.
This research and design process ensured that the redesigned site was fully focused around maximising online sales and conversions, optimised for search engines due to the highly efficient HTML structure and ordering, conformed to the highest accessibility standards, above and beyond AA-compliance and was print-friendly with quick loading times.

www.webcredible.co.uk www.plumbworld.co.uk

20/01/2010  |  Full story...

uSwitch.com is a free, impartial online and phone based comparison and switching service that helps customers compare prices on a range of services including gas, electricity, home phone, broadband providers and personal finance products. Webcredible were commissioned to work on ensuring the best possible user experience for the new site developments.
Webcredible carried out a comprehensive information architecture and interaction design project to help ensure that the site developments were focused around the needs of the user. This involved an online survey to establish user groups and goals, in-depth interviews to validate the findings from the survey, persona creation to form the basis for future strategy and wireframe creation to show how key pages should be laid out so users can find what they're looking for quickly and simply

www.webcredible.co.uk www.uswitch.com

20/01/2010  |  Full story...

VW capture the moment by aligning their brands with the Twitter messaging tool. Using Twitter in the advert creates interest and helps VW stand out from other motor manufacturers. By typing in your Twitter name it then looks for your tweets and claims to be finding the right car for you based on your content. Behind the scenes it seems to pull language from your Twitter feed and display this within the advert. It’s a neat way of dipping into Twitter, but the real benefit here is threefold: engagement with the customer, creating the spark of talkability about the brand, and VW’s alignment with the funky microblogging platform tech trendsetters have gravitated towards.

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09/07/2009

For the launch of the new Tomb Raider game, this high impact take-over on a key website delivers both audience reach (within the right target) and detailed brand message. This is a great example of a take-over because the media owner has worked hard to give the brand a great deal of value. The integration with the content might seem shocking, but for the IGN gaming website it’s a perfect match for their target viewers.

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09/07/2009

Johnson & Johnson Consumer B.V. (JJCBV) wanted to boost awareness of its o.b. tampon brand among young women in the Netherlands. Because the vast majority of Dutch women aged between 14 and 18 use Windows Live Messenger, the company worked with Microsoft Advertising to create a Personal Expression; a collection of interactive content used in the application. The hugely successful campaign increased brand usage by six percent among the target audience.

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24/06/2009

Nokia is about connecting people. The pioneers of mobile phones created the handsets a generation grew up with, and the handsets a generation learned to ‘talk’ with. So how smart and how fitting that Nokia is the brand behind an initiative for writing the rules for mobile and SMS conversations. Getting the most from a new technology isn’t about understanding the functions it’s about understanding how to behave with it. We master the functions quickly, but the behaviour takes longer and as people try out new technologies (from texting to tweeting), there’s a new type of behaviour we have to discover. So when Nokia started thinking about how people connect, it seemed only natural to let their customers do the talking. And that’s what you have right here. A great example of a wider social message, linked to a brand truth, delivered through a sponsorship, inside a community space, using social content - and along the way some great marketing. Like the strapline says, Nokia really are about ‘connecting people’.

http://apps.facebook.com/talkingpoints

23/06/2009

As a leading women’s lifestyle portal, handbag.com reaches over 1.5 million readers every month, delivering fresh editorial content on fashion, beauty, celebrity gossip, and much more. The brand has gone from strength to strength since it was set up in 1999 and continues to lead the market. handbag is an expanding online business with ambitious growth plans and had worked with Greenlight for over a year to develop a clear and focused paid search strategy aimed at increasing page impressions and reaching new audiences cost effectively.

A series of highly targeted PPC campaigns combined with strategic consultancy on key editorial and online issues, led to an astounding 410% rise in the number of page impressions. Cost per click on all keywords has dropped by 42% on average and the ongoing fine tuning of the campaigns means that the cost per click is now far lower than targeted.

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17/05/2009

The migration from advertising to utility is a shift in thinking for marketers, but one consumers have been asking for. This health website from Special K is a good example of ways that even consumer packaged goods brands can market effectively online – the group that historically are among the hardest to build strong digital strategies for. The website is a dieting and healthy eating tool that helps consumers work through a weight control programme.

Special K Challenges website

07/05/2009  |  Full story...