Red Bull Case : Digital Marketing

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Its their Job to deject the message out to the right clubs and at the right change surface sots. Their entre strategy is to seed happening places such(prenominal) as shops, clubs, bars and stores. They focus ab initio on opinion attractors who chance positive aim experience with the brand. one time word of mouth has crea ted a boil rough the product, they then widen distri exclusivelyion to beas surrounding the in spots.Markus Pickier, eve-strategic planning, bolshy sloven North America verbalise We go to on-premise accounts vs.. Retailers first, because the product raise ups a bargain of visibleness and guideing. It goes faster to deal with individual accounts, not big chains and their authorization process. Employs teams of consumer educators, who pass whatever free samples in the street. cop created and gracious its brand image by sponsoring utter near(a) and adventure- related sports, such as foreseeing, B. A. S. E Jumping, snowboard, mountain hiking or more recently Formula 1 .The company underwrites a turn of events of utter just about(a) sports competitions and sponsors about three some(prenominal) dozen athletes from alternative sports. In the antithesis of any majors trade plan, expiration Bull buys conventional advertising sat. Only when a market is deemed mature d oes the company begin a media push. The idea is to reinforce, not introduce, the brand. Media is not a besidesl that we use to establish the market, said up-marketing David Rowdy. It is a critical deviate. Its Just later in the development. flushed Bulls marketing strategy Contrary to tralatitious advertising practice, ruby bull only give outs after it believes a local market is maturing. Instead of traditional advertising, ablaze(p) Bull relied on a strategy of word-of-mouth or seethe marketing. tearing Bull focuse on creating a buzz wrought non-homogeneous stealth marketing techniques, vie on associations with energy, danger and youth culture, carefully cultivating its mystique image. Mathematics invested 35% of turn oer in marketing and sponsorship in events.In his words, we dont lay out hold of the product to the commonwealth, we bring populate to the product. We make it lendable and those who love our style deduct to us, adding, rubor Bull isnt a drink, its a way of life. The above the line communication going Bull gives you wings. The aim of their advertising campaigns is to reflect the brand personality Cheeky, witty, self-ironic, unpredictable and crotchety. Opinion leader marketing Opinion Leaders, especially in the sport and cultural area, are a perfect target group for inflamed Bull. blushing(a) Bull develops relationships with them and treats them like friends. loss Bull worldwide has over 250 agreements with top athletes, but not one written contract. core marketing blushful Bulls event marketing also covers both areas, sports and culture, finished a variety of events like Flag, Crashed Ice, X-Fighters, Creative Contest, medication Academy, and many more. blushing(a) Bull doses t sponsor events, flushed Bull creates, organizes and supports new, forward-looking and image. Through its sponsorship of youth culture and extreme sports events, vehement Bull developed a cult following among marketing-wary Generation Y-err s, (18- to 29-year olds) who perceived it as an anti- brand.While it was marketed as a sports drink, it was more often than not sold in clubs and bars consume Sampling is done by super motivated and well educated employees of Red Bull and not professional forward motion teams. Their briefing is simple Find tired and exhausted people. They do it in a charming, non offensive way. All we give them is the product, a free range of clothes and a tiny, but in truth attractive take car. As their core target is very young, Red Bull needed to effective a huge movement on the Internet, which is by far the media that young people use the most.With their word- of-mouth based strategy and their buzz marketing, it was quite obvious that Internet was overtaking to last a very regent(postnominal) tool for Red Bull. They are aware of the fact that Internet has brought people unneurotic and allowed everyone to be connected no result where they live. Thanks to the new social and digital ag e, people can allocate their experiences and experience done the building of social networks and communities. Red Bulls online marketing strategy is very adhesive to their overall marketing strategy. It is based on word-of-mouth and creating a buzz around the brand.Whether it be with sport, music or culture, Red Bull offers long-term centre that the consumer bequeath enjoy so they can let the cat out of the bag about the brand on blobs for showcase and enounce their friends about it. Rather than rivet on selling millions of cans, they just pick out creating a universe that people depart love, most of the time through effective storytelling. As I said before, Red Bulls marketing strategy involves a lot of event organization round the world. Red Bull takes the excitement of being in the event and delivering it to people a overlay communication, and most of that is done by digital communication.In fact, 50% of Red Bulls communication budget is utilize to digital media. sen se has a presence on many of social platforms, including Backbone, Twitter, Namespace. still Red Bull is aware that it is no longer enough to bring on a fan page on common sense for example, not only because a humongous majority of companies have one as well, but also because people get bored very easily and their attention is becoming more and more vexed to catch. Red Bull understands this issue and offers a lot more than mere online product promotion. They provide their consumers with meaningful heart.Each event organized and sponsored by Red Bull has its make web office (for example,www. Redistributable. Com) They offer a number of slight pieces of content, such as videos of the previous events, content about the riders, the tricks, behind-the-scenes, parties, etc. Those pieces of content are also displayed in social platforms, Namespace playing generally a role of a hub where all of the content comes together . This is how Red Bull started to build their fan fraternity . It enables Red Bull to create a number of access points that the consumers discover, experience the content and get touch into Red Bulls world.On backbone or Namespace, the one of the most popular pages with over 2 400 000 fans. It is tailored to the consumers wants and needs. They dont advertise their product today, they dont even b other(a) bighearted details about the accompany quite a little and mission, leaving only a very short description at the target of the page. On the other hand, they offer some entertaining, simple yet addicting granuloses that consumers enjoy, such as the Red Bull Air draw game. Some others fun performances are available on Backbone, such as Red Bull Roustabout, which is an online version of the old game Rock Paper Scissors.Bart Johnston, synergetic Director of Archival which developed the application said We wanted to create a viral application for Backbone syllabus that was fun and playful. We think people give ask their friends to instal l it because its a really interesting way of saying Whats up? To your buddy. 3 Figure 2 Red Bulls appointed fan page on Backbone Video content is a good way to start but it does not necessarily create engagement, which is Red Bulls main objective. because they found other ways to entertain their customers. For instance shout out and pod touch users, they developed applications and games.Understanding their consumers is a major concern for Red Bull so they knew about their extensive use of maunderting platforms such as mans. They also knew that Mans users flow to be on mans part honoring TV, so they are working(a) to get them engaging with it so they could then play, talk, share it with their friends while watching TV programs. Therefore they created a game on mans, that could be shared n backbone as well (that way content clay cohesive). This is a really effective way for Red Bull to get their consumers involved and active in the community.Figure 3 Red Bulls phone games Taking one tread further, Red Bull initiated in 2009 a new project called Red Bull newsman 4. It gives the opportunity to anyone to run short a Red Bull reporter, and start working for Red Bull as a writer, picgrapher, filmmaker or presenter. The consumer has complete obtain on the population and sharing of the content. As Red Bull has hundreds of events going on all over the world. It can be huge event that attract over 50000 people on the event site like the Red Bull flagstaffs, but it can also be smaller events like the mascara pit stop in Time Square, or the Don advert sweep in Greece.Red Bull is trying to supplement these projects by sending their reporters to these small events so they could write reports, do presentations, videos, and finally come back and remove them on the website. This time it is not Red Bull that creates the content but the consumers themselves and they are in total control of it. They are responsible for sharing it and spreading it. Again for Red Bull it is all about engaging them to greater collaboration.Figure 4 Red Bull reporter other example of the content globe process, even more engaging than Red Bull Reporter, would be the Red Bull Bedroom Jam 5, because with this project consumers become the content that is celebrated and discussed. Teen bands submit their music and their peers would vote and Judge which one they think are the best bands. The selected bands get to have a stage repair up in their bedrooms by Red Bull, and it gets streamed live across the Internet. A chatting functionality allows people to interact with each other and tell everyone about the bands they like the most for example.The consumer is at the heart of the project. Red Bull travel back and only plays the role of a facilitator. The consumers are the real star, not Red Bull, which is an important point of Red Bulls online marketing strategy. Figure 5 Red Bull Bedroom Jam Another key point for Red Bull is to cross the boundaries between t he digital world and the real world, and treat them both the same way. Red Bull racing for charity was to begin with created to take Formula 1 from its very exclusive format and make it a more inclusive one, getting people really closer to that world.Red Bull created an inline community where fans could choose a space for their photo on the car that was driven at Siltstone by David Calculator and Mark Webber, chat with people around them, sometimes even celebrities. This resulted in a very unique decoration on the car and increase money for charity. Still trying to get people closer to the world of reflexion 1, Red Bull created content through Twitter and an Phone application called escalate Flops, that allows people to have a direct info from the Fl paddock, with little stories and anecdotes that come directly from the inside. Figure 6 David Calculators car at Siltstone Creating all those tools, platforms and content allows Red Bull to make the consumer forget that their primar y and eventual(prenominal) goal is to sell energy drink cans. It is all about getting fealty from their customers, trying to engage and excite consumers about the brand by being part of their world and contributing to their world in a way that it does not see false or fake. Internet could have contributed to harm Red Bulls brand image by spreading all sorts of rumors about the energy drink.One of the rumors that has been circulating for a while says that Red Bulls secret ingredient is bulls testicles. Another states that it is liquid vicarage and that someone overdosed from the drink because it has drugs in it. Obviously all these rumors are false and they could have been really freehanded little attention to those rumors, remained silent and let the rumor spread. There is only a FAQ section in the main website validatory that all those rumors are false. This lack of communication contributed to fueling the buzz around the brand, creating Red Bulls mystique and building their f ans community all over the web.Red Bull doesnt really innovate through its products it doesnt launch new products al the time, kinda it innovates through its marketing. Hence, they created Red Bull Media House, which conducts all the media and public relations work, and that is responsible for the entry of other platforms such as Red Bull magazine, Red Bull runny (which for now is only available in Austria, Switzerland and Germany), or Red Bull TV. As it becomes a bigger part of the consumers lives, Red Bulls marketing actually becomes their product.We saw how Red Bull leverage social media to market their products by provide their customers with meaningful content. Sometimes, they tend to be a little too aggressive by doing what is called mess about marketing. waylay marketing occurs when a brand pays to become the semiofficial sponsor of an event and another(prenominal) brand tries to connect itself to the same event, without pay the sponsorship fee and without breaking any laws. Nikkei used such methods a lot to gain some visibility on sport events that were officially sponsored by their main competitors Rebook and Aids.At the 1992 summertime surpassings in Barcelona, Nikkei sponsored press conferences with the US basketball team despite Rebook being the official sponsor. During the last Olympic Ames in Vancouver, Red Bull also did some online ambush marketing. Red Bull posted some items to encourage their athletes on Twitter and Backbone, even though they werent officially sponsoring the event. By doing that they were violating the Olympic rules, which say that advertiser who dont pay for an official sponsorship cannot associate their names with the games or the athletes during the events or the weeks surrounding them. Were rooting for you Landslides Shawn_White Greeted and Dresses in the 2010 winter mimics Red Bull removed all Olympic-related Twitter posts, but argued that the dynamic and nonuser-driven nature of social media make it tricky to s tay within guidelines as they are defined. 9 How can Red Bull do even better? Red Bulls use of Internet and social media is very innovative. It differs from most companies strategy in the sense that it really involves the customer in the content creation and sharing process.It engages the customer and get them closer to the brand. Red Bulls online marketing strategy is also very cohesive, every tool they used access to content on Twitter, Namespace and Backbone simultaneously. In my opinion, Red Bull is already one of the best examples of successful online racketing strategies, and this is partially why I chose to talk about it in this paper. It also makes it even more difficult to explain how they could get better. Red Bulls strategy has proven more than in force(p) so they should keep on fling meaningful and entertaining content to their consumers.