Captain Morgan

Pose Off

This activation ignited massive levels of interaction and built a mere Facebook page into SA’s largest brand Facebook fan page. We leveraged and continue to engage this community through status updates and posts gaining market research, insights and brand love. Never underestimate the power of social media and facial hair.

Brief

Brandhouse partnered with us to leverage the Captain Morgan SA Facebook page with their annual Pose Off campaign. Our mission was to gain as many entries to the competition as possible, through photo submissions to a Facebook application (that tied into the Captain Morgan website).

Approach

We didn't want to run just another run-of-the-mill enter-and-win campaign and decided to incorporate this into a bigger and more interactive idea: we ran Facebook media in the form of reach blocks to get the word out and created an application that allowed fans to upload their own pose off which their friends could vote for, like and share. News of the fun idea spread like wildfire, and soon the entries poured in by the thousands.