IKEA’s Brilliant Facebook Campaign
Friday, November 27th, 2009IKEA have set the social-media world ablaze with a breakthrough campaign in Sweden. Here’s the story. IKEA opened a new store in Malmo, a small Swedish city, without a huge marketing budget up their sleeve. So they took it to Facebook.
They created a Facebook profile for their store manage, Gordon Gustavsson, and over two-weeks, began uploading images from the IKEA showrooms onto his Facebook photo album. They then spread the word that the first person to tag their name to a product won that item.
Word got out and it didn’t take very long until Swedes near and far begging Gordon for more pictures so that they could tag themselves to a new sofa, bed, or vase. Inadvertantly thousands of Swedes were spreading pictures of IKEA showrooms through their profile updates, presenting the IKEA brand to their personal network.
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