More Indian companies are joining the social media bandwagon and engaging the consumer like never before. Kingfisher for one, has launched "Be the next official Kingfisher Ad Director". All you have to do is create your Good Times Commercial, upload it to any video sharing site and share the link on the Kingfisher site.
This is a fantastic attempt at consumer engagement & content co-creation through crowd sourcing (2 birds or rather kingfishers with one stone). The winning ad will be the official ad of Kingfisher and will be aired on TV with due credits to the creator, but no great moolah to attract the really creative guys. The hype they manage to create around this concept will be a key determinant for success.
Do you think that this can succeed without the moolah? Would you enter without a monetary gain at the end of it?
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Ishwar
1/9/2008 01:57:47 pm
Agreed I think it can work too. Just needs hype, PR, marketing spend and many more bloggers talking about the initiative. But if this initiative is adopted by other firms and it becomes common place, I see money playing a huge part in driving participation
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Anupam
28/1/2009 10:15:30 pm
Great initiative.Here what i believe is, the objective of the Ad is to create a Hype in online media space.
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Ishwar
29/1/2009 12:55:44 am
@ Anupam. Agreed - getting the word out and getting more people participating in this is the key challenge.
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6/7/2013 05:49:23 pm
If marketing is to be developed, the growth in sales of products and services.
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