This document summarizes digital and social media trends in India in 2014. It reports that India had 200 million internet users at the time, with the most popular social media platforms being Facebook (100 million users), YouTube (80 million), Twitter (61 million), and Google+ (22 million). It then outlines best practices for brands to engage, monitor, grow, and measure their performance on social media. It includes two case studies, one where the paint brand Dulux promoted their #SpreadTheColors campaign around the Holi festival, gaining over 75k Facebook likes. The other case study was a competition Lava Mobile ran on a microsite for fans to win tickets to an award show.
3. How many Indians online
We are 200
million strong
in terms of
internet users
in India
5. Number of Users on
Social media
platform
Facebook 100 million
YouTube 80 million
Twitter 61 million
Google+ - 22 million
LinkedIn 21 million
Instagram 4 million
Pinterest 3 million
8. ENGAGE
Engage with new and existing
customers across multiple
platforms (FB, Twitter, Blogs)
Analyze data across multiple
social profiles and channels
Measure the success of every
piece of content shared
Monitor and respond to
whats being said about the
brand
9. MONITOR
Monitor comments and mentions
Monitor reviews on blogger sites
Impress customers with superb
customer support and quick
response time
10. GROW
Generate new leads and
opportunity
Build profitable relationships
with prospects and customers
11. MEASURE
Share report on
Weekly/Monthly basis
Measure traffic on website as a
result of social media efforts
13. Opportunity
Dulux is related
with colors, best
time to promote
the brand was
around Holi.
Dulux had around
30K users on
Facebook and 250
followers on
Twitter. Challenge
was to promote
the brand on
social media.
16. Campaign Overview
We conceptualized and created a microsite
Spreadthecolors.com
Three Avatars were created, user Login through
Facebook as user login, wall post is sent to users wall
User is then asked to select Avatar
This avatar then jumps to the user facebook profile
and colors profile, this video is gets saved
simultaneously
Video is downloadable and shared
19. Campaign Promotion on
Wall post goes as soon as user sign up
Cover picture as per the theme was changed everyday
Contest #SpreadTheColors was carried
Over 1500 people participated in the contest
Facebook likes got increased to 75K
750 people shared the videos
21. Campaign Promotion on
Hashtag #SpreadTheColors was promoted
Hashtag trended in India on 3rd day and 5th day of the campaign
No. of followers got increased from 250 to 1500
Daily 5 winners got selected and were gratified with vouchers
Users tweeted and posted the snapshot of the video they created
Our posts got 150 retweet in 2min
24. Lava Mobile wanted to
create buzz around their
sponsorship on IIFA we
created a microsite on
which user needs to login
through Facebook and
submit their video, images
and reasons on why they
should get free ticket to
IIFA .
25. Conclusion
- 1000 users submitted their
image
- 550 users uploaded their
video
- Over 2000 likes increased on
Lava Facebook page
- Over 380 users talked about
it on twitter