Archive for the ‘Cadbury’ Category

ROI on social media – Wispa

October 15th, 2008 — Mark

Well, here is a concrete example of the return on investment from monitoring and responding to social media. Last year our client Cadbury relaunched the Wispa bar in response to a campaign for its reintroduction, advised by us. Their UK sales are up 11% over the quarter, global sales up 6%.

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Next generation social marketing (Podcast)

September 12th, 2008 — Mark

Mark Rogers recently did a podcast for the company Knexus looking at the next generation of social marketing. We looked at how to do social marketing using case studies from Cadbury, Sony, Avis and H&R Block, and assessed how to measure the results. Here is the deck to accompany the podcast.

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Wispa returns – for good

August 5th, 2008 — Mark

Cadbury have announced the momentous decision to bring back the Wispa bar permanently. The Wispa was originally reintroduced in a limited edition in 2007 after Cadbury’s responded to an online campaign for its return*.
23 million bars were sold in seven weeks and the success of the revival has encouraged Mars to rebrand Snickers as [...]

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Twitter or Facebook?

May 15th, 2008 — Mark

The scene is the playground at my wife’s school in Oxford in the 1980s. Two children put their arms around each other’s shoulders, they start chanting: “Anybody want to play kiss-chase?” As each child joins they put their arms around the shoulders of a child at either end of the line they join [...]

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Targeting influencers – Cadbury case study

April 12th, 2008 — Mark

Joe Marchese over at MediaPost has a good post on the Watts vs. Keller controversy. He, too, thinks that the truth lies in a middle ground. Influencers are important, but not for viral marketing. Hubs/mavens/folks with high “betweenness centrality” scores are helpful in that case.
The experience of our client the UK confectionery [...]

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