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Chipotle Scores An Unexpected Social Media Win With Grammy Ad

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shutterstock_whitney_houston.jpgLast night’s Grammy awards were not the Super Bowl, which broke a tweets-per-second record, but they were still a chance for advertisers to tap into an audience watching the event on television and using second screens to discuss the event on social media.

But, much as they did last week, most brands scored a big swing and a miss: big, because Twitter was already super-charged with Saturday night’s death of Whitney Houston, meaning some people who had no plans to watch the broadcast were tuning in after reading tweets about the 48-year-old singer.

It looks like the Grammys failed to break the tweets-per-second record with its tribute to Houston as some had predicted, but even before the broadcast started, E! Television was reporting that Houston’s death was generating about 30,000 tweets per minute, including 1,500 tweets per second in the hour after her death was first reported Saturday night. Sunday’s Grammy Awards broadcast clearly benefited from the timing of her death, drawing 39 million viewers. It was the second highest total of all-time, and shattered last year’s viewership of 26.6 million viewers.

No brand, obviously, was looking to capitalize from Houston’s death, but few seemed poised to even benefit on the increased use of second screens if it had been a normal broadcast in a normal year, according to Lora Schaeffer, Resource Interactive’s director of social media.

“Brands need to catch up with increasingly social consumers and realize that it’s not just a social missed opportunity, but a commerce missed opportunity,” Schaeffer said. “Technological barriers continue to fall as consumer adoption of purchasing through social and mobile channels continue to rise….For every brand that fails to come to that realization, a competitor is already working to deliver on that vision.”

The unexpected winner from Schaeffer’s point of view was Chipotle, which used the event to showcase its first national ad in its 18-year history. The two-minute animated ad, featuring Willie Nelson covering Coldplay’s “The Scientist,” blew up Twitter even though the advertisement didn’t cross reference social media channels.

Other Solid Attempts

Schaeffer listed three other companies that did well in utilizing both screens among Grammy viewers. Interestingly, only one of the three was a tech company.

  • Target: The retailer got praise from Schaeffer for developing “the most integrated experience on Grammy night,” including exclusive support of the Grammy mobile and tablet apps, as well as use of the #TargetColor hash tag and its @TargetStyle Twitter handle.
  • Microsoft: The software giant partnered with rapper Wiz Khalifa to promote its Bing search engine. “By combining a Khalifa-driven traditional spot with a Twitter Promoted Tweet and Promoted Trend campaign, as well as social conversation throughout the night, the brand surrounded the social consumer and scored a win for Microsoft,” Schaeffer said. “But, Bing did fail to mention those social efforts during the brand’s ad spot.”
  • Pepsi: The softdrink maker followed up last week’s Super Bowl ad featuring Elton John with a tongue-in-cheek reference to Twitter and the hash tag #jesterfail. “Given Pepsi’s long-standing use of music as marketing, it came as no surprise to see a heavy Pepsi presence on the Grammy telecast,” Schaeffer said.

“While the Grammy’s site and apps did show streaming content tied to their @Grammys and #Grammys handles, what they didn’t do was bring all the other music driven content into their experience, or even acknowledge these conversations during the live broadcast,” Schaeffer said. “The opportunity was there for exclusive content and a single source hub that elevated the conversations of the audience and made second screen adoption a requirement to any music lover.”

Source: Chipotle Scores An Unexpected Social Media Win With Grammy Ad

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