Saturday, July 4, 2009

Be a lady Limited-one of the most successful companies using viral marketing tactics to promote in Hong Kong

Let's talk about a common viral marketing example in Hong Kong !!
In Hong Kong, Be a lady Limited that major provide the medical beauty and the cosmetic services and which used a viral marketing as a publicity tactics to promote the companies.
They organized the Slimming competition spokesman's campaign in every year to attract thousands of people every year to participate in. This company sometimes use an artise as company/product's spokesman, eg: Ms.Maria Cordero, Mr.Ha Yu, Freeze used them as spokesmen can draw the people attention and this company really know how to publicize the spokesman for the use of different products in different !

In my personally think that this company is one of the most successful companies using viral marketing tactics to promote in Hong Kong. Not to discuss the combination of the first freeze of the image, their behavior and promotion strategies has make response to the high popularity and attention, it also been to break the social taboo to talk about plastic surgery!

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Viral marketing example - Burger King

Burger King is one of successful hamburger fast food restaurants. It has employed varied advertising programs. One of them was to create a series new characters like the Subservient Chicken featured in a series of viral web-based advertisements on sites such as MySpace (http://www.subservientchicken.com/) and its corporate pages to compliment the various television and print promotional campaigns.

BK's early success in the field was overshadowed by a 1982 deal between McDonald's and the Walt Disney Company to promote Disney's animated films beginning in the mid 1980s and running through the early 1990s. In 1994 Disney switched from McDonald's to Burger King, signing a ten film promotional contractwith BK which would include such top ten films as Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, and Toy Story. A partnership in association with the Pokemon franchise at the height of its popularity in 1999 was one of the most successful in the industry, rivaled only by McDonald's/Ty Beanie Babies cross-promotion in 1999–2000.

BK was also a pioneer in the advertising practice known as the product tie-in with a successful partnering with George Lucas' Lucasfilm, Ltd. to promote the 1977 film Satr Wars (later renamed Star Wars Episode
IV: A New Hope
in which BK sold a set of glasses featuring the main characters from the film. This promotion was one of the first in the fast food industry and set the pattern that continues to the present.

One of the more unique promotions was the creation of a series of three advergames for the Xbox 360. Featuring company celebrity spokesman Brooke Burke, the games sold more than 2 million copies, placing them as one of the top selling games along with another Xbox 360 hit, Gears of War. These innovative ad campaigns, coupled with other new promotions and a series of new product introductions, drew considerable positive and negative attention to BK and helped TPG.