Saturday, 20 February 2016

Effectiveness of Super Bowl Social Media Campaign

There are several examples of the companies, which have produced successful Super Bowl social media campaigns. While TV commercial is the primary advertisement place for many companies, the successful companies have found the way to capitalize their products on social media as well. Although, Facebook and YouTube can be a good platform for the advertisement, Twitter takes the advantage of real-time advertisement by engaging the customers and increasing the traffic. Real-time marketing is defined as “the creation and execution of an instantaneous marketing message in response to an occurrence during a live event.”

For instance, Coca-Cola brought a positive atmosphere to the social media by using the hashtag, #MakeItHappy as the picture shown below. In order to improve the social media campaign, the companies should focus on the following tactics:

-          Increasing brand exposure by focusing on the products
-          Developing loyal fans by engaging in a personal manner
-          Enhancing brand image by offering some type of incentive such as coupons

It is important for the companies to understand that social media campaigns may not be directly linked to their sales; however, it can positively influence the brand image and increase the number of customers.