rom the seeding campaign, we can see that long tail, low authority blogs were targeted most which is indicative of video “viral” seeding through a paid video seeding specialist. The long term effect of people finding the video through search engines will be pretty low as a result.
Coke Zero – James Bond Skyfall campaign failure
From these insights, it’s clear to see that many of the 3 million views will have been good for a short term awareness burst but this campaign will be short lived bar a few award entries. This video was made with a Mad men mindset to create a clever video that people would watch because it was cool. There is still an over reliance in the marketing industry to spend most of the campaign budget on creating the “viral” video and then supporting it with media only spend. For a longer shelf life, Coke Zero should have considered a real blogger outreach program for maximum impact. Coke Zero could also have activated many of their 2.2. million Facebook fans or 30 thousand Twitter followers before the campaign was conceived. 3 million views is a big number but it doesn’t mean a thing if hardly anyone (proportionally) engages with the brand.