(July 2011)
In terms of optimising search, Old Spice leveraged social media to gain a strong
foothold on the search engine result pages (SERP). The video itself was optimised for
search through the clever use of tags. Instead of only tagging the video with generic
terms related to the video (such as Old Spice or Isaiah Mustafa), Old Spice added lines
from the advert which had become as popular as the video itself. Because fans were
tweeting and posting lines like “tickets are now diamonds”, these tags were added,
further optimising the video for search. This means that when a user searches for
“tickets are now diamonds”, see following page for what the SERP displays.