Expedia's South American Getaway contest on Instagram

Expedia is a U.S. online travel agency. In the last year, On Feb. 4th, their official Instagram initiated a campaign with a special offer, which is a trip to South America. To start this, they use the engagement rate and conversion rate aim to widely influence people's mind for their brand. They encouraging people to follower their official account, comments below and click the link. Within a bunch of massive comments that  contribute their contest, this brand earned a high rate for engagement, it attracts  people's desire to knowing deeply about this company's information and business, those pictures increasing the audience's interest to start to think exploring outside of world, surely, it was a effective strategy for advertisements about traveling activities.  Pictures sharing and reposts bring a high engagement rate, those online activities indirectly transform to another conversion rate in those online sites, Instagram was wisely used in this marketing performance. They didn't continue and operate very long and heavy page for their business, but, unconsciously, their target audience was fully connected in this contest, profiting could be processed within this online marketing impact. Of course, brand awareness has fully revealed and reached.

Tourism Australia on Facebook.

Tourism Australia is a biggest travel web site that provide the news and information, it aim to contributes the Aussie tourism business. It is very normal that this business goes so viral online, because we all could aware that views and natural landscapes of this country are absolutely stunning and well-known to whole world.  In order to let everyone getting involved in this business within their social media interactive sharing activities, they wisely used the Instagram and Facebook to promote their business daily news. To be a good tourism business site online, as i concern about that they need to focus on how to use the photography and video to advertising their destination, nice shooting plus the entertaining views of the vide content, once it post online, we all can expected that people at least will being amused by such sharing, because that's what is the main purpose about why people using these social media these days. If their sharing gong viral, their conversion rate will transform their potential business growth ideally. So, TOURISM Australia site on Facebook constantly post gorgeous pictures of of this country, and even communicated with followers sometimes, down below theirs comments section, its very amazing that people so embracing and happily to post and provide what nice shot side in reality they caught. Sometimes, Tourism Australia released some celebrities to deeply promote their business information. They did a one about  Chris Hemsworth families' Aussie Itinerary, very straight forward provide all details of  this famous celebrity's travel story, and gathered 522 shared and 7538 likes on their Facebook page. 

Small business---on social media

Youtube known as the worldly famous social media platform, it has wide-reach and powerful influence. Once any brand setup their official Youtube channel , it could be expected that they will be a biggest aid for their business online marketing.  Plated is a NY-based company that helps people for their  daily cooking in all kinds of ingredients. On their Youtube channel, they made their cooking portion recipe in video that fully detailed steps in expertise. Without any formal commercial advertisement in those section, they made their video very genuine, short, and entertaining, it certainly fit their request about public their cooking session. Of course, all social media bond together these days, in this brand, the most effective platform is the Instagram and Pinterest. Due to the cooking recipe usually more suitable in visualised platform, because everyone enjoy the refreshing picture in their apps, especially something close to the life daily works, therefore, Pinterest and Instagram were a perfect choice for those brand's requirements . To being freshness in design, and useful in each piece, absolutely increasing their brand awareness in these online sharing site.

Kotex---Inspiration day !

Kotex use the Pinterest to tartget 50 influential Pinterest usuers in Israeli to express their own favourite and wanted gifts on theri board, and detailed described it. With their Pinterest board, this brand found what actually inspirating them most, and bring them in the reality life. Kotex encouring women to chhose what they like, what they passion about DIY gifts, and let unique designer to use any resource to creatd all kinds of various gifts that actuall fit those users' requirements. Then asking them to repin it, then, deliver their gifts inti their own place.With the special gifts landed, those users are very satisfied and grateful for this events, they shared them on Pinterest, tweet them on the tweeter,post their own superise on the plus the facebook shaing,Instagram also been used in those reactin within their gifts choice, all in all, the online clutter has been breaked up. By such happy and meaningful actities, Kotex obviously widely reached their auidence and made their brand much more well-know in that period. It was another less commercialized ads that relied on their clever positive stretegy to expands potential marketing through this successful marketing behavior.

Honda’s #Pintermission Campaign

Pinterest always consider as a outstanding visualized social media platform.

In the last year,Honda  join in the campaign with their strategy of #Pintermission. 

This brand want more pinners ' pins to stay alive in reality , therefore, they ask the permission of those pinners. If those pinners agreed, they would offer 500$ to them and help them with  their boards comes to life. By using this actvities, they actually hope they  could promote their new products to all audience, because  the traits of Pinterest generally  helpful in these situation, afterall, it was  included the wide reach, easier to grab attention in online community. During this events, they actually did a phenomenal job in this promotion. "More than 4.6 million people were exposed to the #Pintermission boards, leading to more than 5,000 repins and almost 2,000 likes. The campaign earned Honda the honor of first place in the Best Use of Pinterest category in PR Daily’s Digital PR & Social Media Awards. Honda chose to take an innovative approach to its social media campaign, and it was a smashing success."( Katie, Leimkuehler,8,2015)

Taco bell Snapchat Stories

Taco bell use the snapchat to encourging the online viewers to being very creative within the
Valentine's day. This brand start from suggest people who actually would like celebrate their Valentine's day use the snapchat to transform their traditional message into another type one that formed by the Taco bell food'puns. This kind of activties has goes so viral on Snapchat'community. They took this special event to advertiseing their new stuff and let people being interactive, and shared their audience's stories online which enhanced their customers' mental availabilities and brand awareness! Within the communicative strategy, they obviously make the visible marketing methods become more powerful and useful, generally,people usually would enjoy the less commericialized stuff instead of whole formal business selling.Catchy advertisements in these days are truly helpful on the brand's online engagement.

"Lovin"-----McDonald

During the last year Superbowl, McDonald was the funder and the Sponsor of the Superbowl game. They decide to make their brand's Advertisement become much more noticeable and catchy, therefore, they made a special tweet activities of their ads during the Superbowl's break. They created a online re-tweet activities that start from encouraging their followers,anyone who re-post their products that introduced in their ads, and finally win this game, they would receive the promised prize which is prepared by the McDonald company.Secondly, they start to managing their promotion long time ago, they made their promotion with "pay with Lovin"，“The advertisement takes place in a McDonald's store, where surprised customers are asked to tell their mother they love them in lieu of payment for their food. The McDonald's employees go on, "Your total says... that she has to dance right now!... You paid with lovin', that's all we need!"Oh, #paywithlovin'. If that's not a meme waiting to be misinterpreted by juvenile Internetters, we don't know what is. Here are some of the chuckle-inducing tweets spotted after the ad ran.”（Lindsay Deutsch,  February 2, 2015）

Starting on the February 2th, and it ended on the Valentine's day. during this period, within the positive messages video goes viral on the tweeter, and what they held in the reality, everyone were talking about this brand,no matter online or offline, corporate with anther's company to funding the Superbowl game, McDonald made their brand awareness increasingly popular, deep and trendy,of course, it could be predicted that they actually made a great deal in through this online social media campaign.