Facebook is now allowing advertisers to better target their potential customers to improve the performance of their ads on the platform. The new option, Lookalike Audiences, is rolling out within Power Editor this week. On the Help page, the company describes this feature as a way “to reach new people who are likely to be interested in your business because they are similar to a customer list you care about.”
Category Archive: Social Media
Jaguar UK has teamed up with agency We Are Social to launch an engaging social-media initiative, built around desires. The new 2-week promotion, launched this Monday for the British audience, is devised to promote the brand’s new F-TYPE sports car ahead of its launch on the UK market later this year.
The legendary canned meat producer Spam is launching the “Break the Monotony” social-media campaign, featuring the brand’s first-ever spokescharacter, Sir Can-A-Lot. The marketing initiative by BBDO Proximity Minneapolis is rolling out across the brand’s YouTube channel, Facebook page and Twitter feed, encouraging the U.S. community to take a fresh look at their everyday eating habits.
In early February, General Electric invited American creators to share their groundbreaking ideas with the world in celebration of National Inventor’s Day that coincided with the greatest U.S. inventor, Thomas Edison’s, birthday on February 11. The company teamed up with the BuzzFeed website and launched a social-media campaign #IWantToInvent on Twitter to collected revolutionary ideas submitted by public.
As part of the project, GE released a plethora of blueprints with the user-generated concepts.
KLM helps its customers get the maximum of their travels. The airline company is inviting travelers to use the newly launched service, “KLM must see map,” to crowdcourse an actual high-quality printed city map, which includes tips from your friends in social media. The online service has been launched as the major pillar of the campaign under the same name, devised and developed by Dutch agency Code d’Azur.
Honda USA celebrated this year’s Valentine’s Day with a social media campaign, which involved a great dose of improvisation and interactivity. The “You Are Our Valentine” promotion got the staff from Honda’s headquarters and manufacturing facilities from all across the country responding to consumer’s Facebook posts, tweets and Instagram uploads in real time with personalized Valentine’s Day virtual cards.
MINI Australia is helping those who haven’t had time to buy flowers or gifts for their sweethearts on Valentine’s Day. Through the auto brand’s Facebook page, anyone can dedicate a song to their precious other half—the brand posts YouTube videos to its page along with the name of the one it is dedicated to.