That is nothing new that giant brands support themselves on Facebook, especially in the CPG snack category. Millions of users ‘like’ the brands custom pages and join the activities suggested on it.
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Comparison stands behind any considered choice, and any confident global brand tends to provide its consumers with an opportunity to examine both the positive and negative sides of their products—and sometimes weigh its offerings against goods by other manufacturer. Sometimes, companies also step outside the product world and help compare lots of other things—sexes, automobiles, brothers, tastes, political parties, athletes and more—to help determine which of the two is better, stronger, messier, tastier, faster, more attractive, reliable, sportive, etc. In this overview, we won’t focus on serious ratings revealing carbon footprint or social impact, like Nike’s Environmental Apparel Design Tool, Timberland’s Eco Index or GoodWill’s rating—instead, as tribute to April Fool’s Day, which was celebrated last Friday, we will focus on humorous and tongue-in-cheek projects.
Cadbury, the Official Treat Provider of the London 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, is ploughing £6.5m into a new campaign—the Spots v Stripes Race Season—which kicks off today, March 1. Spots v Stripes Race Season will see nine challenges laid down to inspire the nation to play more games. These challenges aim to see if people can be genuinely speedy at tasks they do every day, giving every person in the UK and Ireland a fighting chance of breaking a World Record.
The theme of reuniting people with their loved ones has been successfully employed by a number of brands, including Baileys with its ‘Bring You Home’ project and Nivea’s New Year’s Eve promotion, to name a few. Now, the concept has become the basis for a series of Cadbury’s promotions: while bringing together the nation through the Spots v Stripes campaign in the U.K., the chocolate brand is also reconnecting Aussie families in the new promotional program dubbed ‘The Cadbury Catch Up,’ developed by the Saatchi & Saatchi agency and launched on February, 13.
This summer, Cadbury, the official sponsor of the upcoming London Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012, announced a massive campaign entitled ‘Spots v Stripes’ for the UK to promote its involvements into the international sports event. Back then, the company launched a website dedicated to the promotion and announced that it would kick off both online and offline activities. As part of the national movement, the brand released 100 GPS-activated balls in the UK and encouraged participants of the campaign to help the balls travel across the country.
Over the next two years, Cadbury is going to help millions of British people play thousands of games and get in the mood for the ultimate event—the Olympic Games 2012. To give everybody the chance to have fun while playing, Cadbury takes its long awaited campaign Spots v Stripes all across the UK to introduce gaming experience to cities this summer.