Thursday, 26 February 2015

DECODED BUT INTEGRATED

image: New York decoded                 
An invitation to an online scavenger hunt to find almost 350 pages advertised in different locations from New York to 13 eminent cities world-wide to launch an autobiography of Jay-Z titled “Decoded”; and to increase their significance and worth of the usage in Microsoft search engine Bing by attracting the younger audience.

 So tell me, what better way than partnering with Jay-Z to reach that type of audience. I personally enjoyed watching this clip of the analytic's of the Decoded Jay-Z campaign and the impact it had on old school advertising and social media. It gives the finest description of Trans-media storytelling, now I’m sure you wondering what the hell is trans-media, well… I did. Trans-media storytelling is a way of allowing a single story or angle to be told through a shared experience via multiple social media platforms which includes non-digital technology.

Bing reached to a mass audience by making use of newspapers, radio, TV commercials, and magazines; this means that they didn't exclude those who didn't have devices that make use of social media right?. Even though traditional advertising is expensive, I tend to believe that it allows you to build relationships with external stakeholders or clients such as Gucci and broadcasting companies.

Bing created an unforgettable experience by taking their audience through locations based on Jay-Z‘s life story where they would get to take pictures next to the advertised pages and post on different social media channels. Now to make it more interesting Bing ensured that this online game would ignite a competitive edge for the fans, so Bing would post clues of where the displayed pages might be on twitter, Facebook and on radio.
 Now take into consideration that these pages were not just advertised on billboards, they were advertised in swimming pools, restaurant plates, pizza boxes, cars, and Gucci designed jackets with the pages printed inside the jacket which gives a twist to traditional advertising. People who were unable to reach the located cities, they could make use of Bing maps to collect all the pages and make an online version of the book from the snip shots they took through Bing maps then win prizes.

Traditional advertising sparks the need from individuals to research more about the news they see on TV or hear on radio, and in this case  what I do to stay updated is to check on twitter and if what I see intrigues me, I share it among my friends. Bing understood what their targeted audience wanted and it enabled them to deliver the relevant message to their audience which enhanced audience’s experience and made use of USP.

To see the results of the award winning campaign check out this video and see that traditional advertising integrated with social media can make a difference.
  
                                          YouTube video :Case study on the analytic's of Decoded Campaign

12 comments:

  1. Decoded by Jay-Z was one major campaign. By making the target audience hunt for the pages of the biography was interesting, in sense they make it very interactive and make them feel part of the journey to discovery and uncover Jay-Z. The audience can connect to it.

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  2. Yes, that is so true, i believe that other companies or organisations should understand what intrigues their targeted audience because that is the only way to get them in marketing your campaign, which is through word of mouth when dealing with advertising.

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  3. This was an amazing campaign and insured who ever wanted to get involved was given an opportunity. But after the Jay-Z campaign do still think Bing as a search engine achieved and maintained the goals they wanted to achieve through this campaign?

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    1. Looking at the analytics they did achieve their goal but looking at todays generation some took part because of the hyper and for others I'l be honest to say from my perspective that its possible that they are still supporting Bing but maintaining it will be difficult because Google is a very strong competitor.

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  4. Nice topic, whats more interesting about this, is it seems like the campaign wasn't much focusing on jay-z as a hip pop rapper but the attention was on his life and journey to success, i'm I right?

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    1. Thank you dear, Yes that was the main focus and the strategies they took were by making use of social media and traditional advertising which shows that its still effective in this digital age that we are currently in.

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  5. Nice topic, whats more interesting about this, is it seems like the campaign wasn't much focusing on jay-z as a hip pop rapper but the attention was on his life and journey to success, i'm I right?

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  6. Nice topic, whats more interesting about this, is it seems like the campaign wasn't much focusing on jay-z as a hip pop rapper but the attention was on his life and journey to success, i'm I right?

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    1. oh my my Bella this was the most successful campaign and it was interesting and the idea was original best P.R plan.

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  7. this campaign was on point hey like you can tell by just reading your blog that a good prp was involved here

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  8. this campaign was on point hey like you can tell by just reading your blog that a good prp was involved here

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  9. This was a perfect way to get his fans more involved in his life , more especially with the release of a biography.

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