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Background
Vodafone entered India in December 2005 Acquired 10 percent stake in Bharti Ventures Limited (Bharti Airtel) Successfully rebranded 'Hutch' as 'Vodafone Vodafone Essar started expanding its presence in India Rebranding included
Change is good... Baseline - Hutch is now Vodafone
Earlier Campaigns : Happy to help, Friend circle, Cheaper SMS, Amar Chitra Katha Alerts
Introduction
Zoozoos: Advertisement characters promoted by Vodafone during the India Premier League Season 2 (IPL) Campaign to communicate the VAS offered by the company The ads were created by Ogilvy & Mather, an agency under Executive Creative Director, Rajiv Rao, South Asia.
Costs
Animations 10-15 times costlier than real people ZooZoos had low cost costumes, real people Speedy Schedules 30 advertisements cost only Rs 3 Crores 20-30 sec long ZooZoo name nowhere in commercial Massive Viral Marketing
SWOT Analysis
STRENGTHS: Campaign penetrated both in the media as well as in social networking sites Was representation of a common man depicted as a cartoon character ZOOZOO Wide media coverage, more precisely through video Easy and cheap animation leading to low production cost No celebrity endorser - No associated risks and costs
BCG matrix
SMS and Calling Service GPRS and Internet Service
MMS Service
Segmentation
ZOOZOO - A cartoon character which represented common man Segmented basis on types of services used Urban and Rural region customers were seperated out
Advertising - Internet
Dedicated microsite What kind of Zoozoo are you? Downloadable Ringtones, wallpapers, screensavers and videos Facebook aimed at building a community
Success
ZooZoos dominating social networking sites Created Strong Association Wallpapers, emoticons, ringtones, videos, contests, pictures, stories etc 85% of most visible brand on screen Videos had 3million hits in 3 weeks Most watched viral video for 2 weeks Youtube ad downloads Twitter
Zoozoo Merchandise
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