{"id":91763,"date":"2017-06-29T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T04:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/?p=91763"},"modified":"2017-06-29T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T05:25:36","slug":"case-study-aircel-4million-impressions-with-4-facebook-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/case-study-aircel-4million-impressions-with-4-facebook-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study: Aircel Reached 4M Impressions With Just 4 Facebook Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"about-aircel\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/aircel-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-91802\" title=\"\">About Aircel<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Aircel was founded by\u00a0 Chinnakannan Sivasankaran in the year 1999. It established itself is as the key mobile network provider in the south Indian region of Tamil Nadu. Shortly after, It quickly rose to be the current \u00a05<sup>th<\/sup> largest Indian Mobile service provider. Aircel is the telecommunications market leader in Tamil Nadu and has considerable presence in Odisha, Assam and North-East telecom circles.<br \/>\nAs part of recent survey conducted in March 2017, Aircel now has a subscriber base of 90.9\u00a0million subscribers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Aircel is now a joint venture between Apollo Hospitals Group of India and Maxis Communications Berhad of Malaysia. Currently, Aircel owns around 8.44% share of the Indian telecommunications market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Indian-mobile-operators-market-share-in-February-2016.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-91773 size-full\" width=\"595\" height=\"416\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Indian-mobile-operators-market-share-in-February-2016.png 595w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Indian-mobile-operators-market-share-in-February-2016-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Indian-mobile-operators-market-share-in-February-2016-150x105.png 150w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Indian-mobile-operators-market-share-in-February-2016-220x154.png 220w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Indian-mobile-operators-market-share-in-February-2016-480x336.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Source: Telecom Lead<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"about-the-agencys\"><\/span>About the Agency&#8217;s<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"look-whos-talking\"><\/span><strong>LOOK WHO&#8217;S TALKING<\/strong><b><\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>LWT is in the business of Digital PR and related services to brands and agencies across India with a bag of influential storytellers on all the eminent digital platforms such as Blogs, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and YouTube.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"isobar\"><\/span><strong>ISOBAR<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Isobar is a global full service digital marketing agency, driven by the purpose to deliver borderless ideas enabled by technology, to transform businesses and b<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">rands. We have over 6,000 digital pioneers in over 85 locations, across more than 45 markets worldwide. Isobar has won over 250 awards in 2016, including 19 Agency of the Year titles and Asia-Pacific Digital Network of the Year for the fifth time in the past six years. Key clients include Adidas, Coca-Cola, Enterprise, Google, GM, Huawei, Lego and P&amp;G.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"aircels-campaign-objectives\"><\/span>Aircel&#8217;s Campaign Objectives<b> <\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In 2014, the decreasing number of tigers was becoming a national concern. According to the United Nation, the number of Tigers remaining all over the world is a dismal number of around 3000, Out of which only 1706 remain in India. Aircel decided to take this matter seriously and aimed to create massive awareness regarding the same to their digital audience beginning with a simple hashtag \u201c#SaveOurTigers\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91789\" style=\"width: 327px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Aircel-SOT.gif\" alt=\"Aircel Save Our Tiger initiative \" class=\"wp-image-91789 size-full\" width=\"327\" height=\"121\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aircel save our tigers campaign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"campaign-agenda\"><\/span><strong>Campaign Agenda<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Involve Local communities in conservation<\/li>\n<li>Strengthen and modernize the forest department to step up protection<\/li>\n<li>Make political parties accountable for loss of biodiversity<\/li>\n<li>Zero tolerance approach to poaching<\/li>\n<li>Improve man-animal conflict mitigation measures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"social-media-goals-of-the-campaign\"><\/span><strong>Social Media Goals of the campaign<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>To create maximum buzz on the #SaveOurTigers<\/li>\n<li>To get maximum amount of engagement of the campaign on International Tigers day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/digitalvidya\/digital-marketing-case-study-aircel-save-our-tigers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/digitalvidya\/digital-marketing-case-study-aircel-save-our-tigers<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"approach-adopted-by-aircel\"><\/span>Approach adopted by Aircel<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Aircel decided that Influence Marketing would be the best way to get the message spread to a large audience as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">What is?<br \/>\nInfluencer marketing (also influence marketing) is a form of marketing in which focus is placed on specific key individuals (or types of individual) rather than the target market as a whole. It identifies the individuals that have influence over potential buyers, and orients marketing activities around these influencers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Influence-marketing-1024x165.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-91796 size-large\" width=\"1024\" height=\"165\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Influence-marketing-1024x165.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Influence-marketing-300x48.png 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Influence-marketing-150x24.png 150w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Influence-marketing-600x97.png 600w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Influence-marketing-220x35.png 220w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Influence-marketing-595x96.png 595w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Influence-marketing-1080x174.png 1080w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Influence-marketing-980x158.png 980w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Influence-marketing-480x77.png 480w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Influence-marketing.png 1252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In order target a large audience for their campaign on all social media platforms, Aircel used divided the entire campaign into 3 influence segments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Aircel guided influencers in each segment to help get the maximum reach for the campaign<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>Celebrity and Social Influencer<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Sudhir Shivram \u2013 Award winning wildlife photographer(&gt;12L FB followers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Gulzar Sethi &#8211; High end Candid &amp; Destination Wedding Photographer(&gt;7L FB followers)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Apoorv Sood \u2013 Social Figure (&gt;37K FB followers, 1.13L twitter Followers)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nagris Fakri \u2013 Celebrity\u00a0 (&gt;10M FB followers)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Amitabh Bhachan \u2013 Celebrity (&gt;27M FB followers)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"course-cta\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"title\"> Want to Build Career in <strong>Social Media Marketing?<\/strong> <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sub-title\"> Know How to Accelerate Career & Business Growth <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"btn\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"enrollBtn\"> Attend Live Orientation Session <\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"amp-btn\" href=\"#gform_wrapper_286\"> Attend Live Orientation Session <\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"effectively-using-twitter-buzz\"><\/span><strong>Effectively using Twitter Buzz<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Around 400 influencers were used to spread the #SaveOurTigers campaign among their respective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/7-ways-to-increase-followers-on-twitter-organically\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">followers on Twitter<\/a>. Being a very effective tool to <span class=\"st\">broadcast daily short burst messages, The influencers could reach a vast majority of their followers with the least effort.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"creating-a-micro-site\"><\/span><strong>Creating a Micro Site<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A microsite is a separate page of a Web site that has a separate URL than its home page and is used to provide information about and\/or promote something that is related to the home page.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Aircel created one as part of the campaign. The website contained posts that could easily be shared on social media. The website also prompted the visitors to change their respective profile\/cover photo, to that of\u00a0 the campaign.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91794\" style=\"width: 916px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-128.png\" alt=\"Aircel Facebook #SaveOurTigers campaign \" class=\"wp-image-91794 size-full\" width=\"916\" height=\"288\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-128.png 916w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-128-300x94.png 300w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-128-150x47.png 150w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-128-600x189.png 600w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-128-220x69.png 220w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-128-595x187.png 595w, https:\/\/www.digitalvidya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Screenshot-128-480x151.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aircel facebook #saveourtigers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">An approximate amount of 650 influencers visited the microsite and either shared or updated their profile\/cover photos on social media.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"results\"><\/span>Results<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">#SaveOurTigers, was an immense success on International Tiger Day, leading to a massive number of impressions on social media with the support of the influencers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Total No of Posts \u2013 4<br \/>\nTotal Impressions \u2013 4M Impressions<br \/>\nTotal Engagment \u2013 25,133<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Total No of tweets \u2013 6<br \/>\nTotal impressions \u2013 1.08 Lakh<br \/>\nTotal engagement &#8211; 165<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Apart from achieving over 4M impressions, Aircel also achieved their key objectives of spreading awareness and achieving active engagement.Simply by carefully planning their influence marketing, using social media as a platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As a company, they did their bit to help save tigers with the help of their followers and influencers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Aircel also teamed up with NDTV to create a yearly event for this campaign featuring many more celebrity influencers, conferences as well as a dedicated <a href=\"http:\/\/tiger.ndtv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> to help keep the public up to date with all tiger related news and future campaigns.<br \/>\nWith yearly campaigns to spread awareness and top celebrity influencers taking part, This strategy helped Aircel to forever incorporate itself as the brand associated with regards to saving Tigers in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"course-cta\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"title\"> Want to Build Career in <strong>Social Media Marketing?<\/strong> <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"sub-title\"> Know How to Accelerate Career & Business Growth <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"btn\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"enrollBtn\"> Attend Live Orientation Session <\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"amp-btn\" href=\"#gform_wrapper_286\"> Attend Live Orientation Session <\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"learnings\"><\/span>Learnings<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A social influencer is someone who wields influence over a group of people on social media. By following the below 3 simple guidelines of selecting the RIGHT influencers &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>R<\/strong><b>elevance: <\/b>The influencer is sharing content and developing a following relevant to your business and the particular market segment you want to target.<\/li>\n<li><b>Reach: <\/b>The number of people you could potentially reach through the influencer\u2019s follower base that would bring value to your business.<\/li>\n<li><b>Resonance: <\/b>The potential level of engagement the influencer can create with an audience that\u2019s valuable and relevant to your brand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Your Brand\/Campaign can achieve a phenomenally large amount of impressions and reach to the relevant audience, with the least amount of effort. It is not always necessary that every influencer selected be a Bollywood celebrity. Using websites such as influcencer.in, Look Who&#8217;s Talking and Billion Blogs, You can hire hundreds of relevant influencers potentially reaching Millions of targeted and relevant people. All achieving better ROI results on your social media campaign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Image Credits:<\/strong> convinceandconvert.com,\u00a0travelerrohan.blogspot.in, telecomlead.com, saveourtigers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Aircel Aircel was founded by\u00a0 Chinnakannan Sivasankaran in the year 1999. It established itself is as the key mobile network provider in the south Indian region of Tamil Nadu. Shortly after, It quickly rose to be the current \u00a05th largest Indian Mobile service provider. 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