Okay, I get it…we all miss the Old Spice YouTube campaign. It was a great example of how a brand can come up with the unique idea and then engage their fans in a way that raises brand awareness and changes perception. Before the campaign, Old Spice had a stigma as an “old man’s aftershave”, but that changed when the brand chose to engage an entirely new audience via Twitter and YouTube. In fact, it’s probably one of the best uses of social media in 2010.
And while imitation is definitely the sincerest form of flattery, the recent attempts by Dairy Queen and Edge Shaving Gel to leverage the success of the Old Spice format, they just come off being desperate and lame.
The big letdown, here, is that Edge did a great job with their Edge Shave Zone Twitter campaign, so this copycat approach is disappointing. DQ and Edge need to seriously question their advertising partners’ understanding of social media and whether a viral campaign can ever be replicated. Next think we know, they’ll be tweeting and setting up a YouTube channel.
I’d be interested to hear thoughts on whether viral campaigns are usually “one and done” or whether they can be replicated in-part or in-whole by other brands. Feel free to leave thought/feedback in a comment.
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James Anderson
Friday 29th of March 2019
My thought would be it was a pretty good way to mocking one another, the same way other mocks apple for the headphone jack but just next year they are all following it... it's a humor that put a smile on people face, and a happy customer buys whatever you offer them
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Monday 18th of February 2019
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