KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, known in the social media arena for putting fans faces on a plane, stalking passengers and giving them gifts, and hosting the world’s first in-flight dance party because of a tweet, has just launched their latest social media campaign. If you send a tweet to KLM anytime during the next ten-or-so hours you may be the lucky recipient of a ‘KLM Live Reply.’
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Have you been following the Fabio vs Isaiah Mustafa Old Spice Duel? The duo faced off all day yesterday, ‘Mano A Mano In El Baño’, in a popularity contest on YouTube. Both New Old Spice Guy Fabio and old Old Old Spice Guy Isaiah Mustafa engaged in a response campaign, replying to Tweets with video and vying for viewers’ votes. But how does this campaign stack up to last year’s Old Spice Response campaign? You be the judge.
We knew that the Old Spice response campaign was a success, but we weren’t sure just how successful until we saw new statistics released in a case study by Old Spice and Wieden + Kennedy. The stats show that Old Spice’s ‘The Man Your Man Could Smell Like’ campaign was the fastest growing interactive campaign in history. There is no denying that the campaign was a huge success for the brand, catapulting them into the number 1 spot for men’s body wash and making Old Spice a legend in the world of online marketing.
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Yesterday Cisco paid homage to Old Spice’s recent response campaign with their own YouTube response project, featuring ‘Ted From Accounting.’ Just like Old Spice, Cisco announced the campaign in the morning, asked people to send in tweets, and posted a number of personalized videos throughout the day. However, unlike with the Old Spice campaign, you probably had no idea anything out of the ordinary was going on yesterday. With a mere 2,750 views on 18 videos in the first 24 hours, the campaign paled in comparison to Old Spice’s 40 million plus views. So where did Cisco go wrong?
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