Social Samosa takes a look at which brand campaign performed better between TOI’s Flirt With Your City (Mumbai edition) and Brand Factory’s Made For Mumbai.
From signature tunes to creating memorable jingles and now musicals- brands have been active in generating a brand recall and a unique brand identity for themselves.
Recently Times Of India evoked the city love into citizens of five metro cities by launching a brand campaign #FlirtWithYourCity which took the rap route to promote their city supplements. Brand Factory too has come up with a campaign in line which seeks to channel the inner Mumbaikar of its dwellers.
The core difference between, #FlirtWithYourCity and #MadeForMumbai would be that the latter is a Mumbai centric campaign, while Flirt With Your City focuses of 5 different cities with 5 videos. Social Samosa takes a look at Flirt With Your City (Mumbai Edition) v/s Made For Mumbai.
TOI’s #FlirtWithYourCity
To promote the spicier and the buzzier content that Bombay Times delivers to its readers, Times of India came up with a thumping rap musical created by Rawshark Films. The foot-tapping music is created by Dhruv Ghanekar, which brings together the soul and quirk of a few metro cities of India combined with amazing vocals by talented artists.
The campaign aims to communicate its strengthened content and reinforce its positioning as the one-stop-destination for all news and gossip of the city’s bustling social life and everything related to the city’s popular (pop) culture. Over last few months, the brand has amplified its hyperlocal news coverage, youthful visual narratives, impactful content pointers and has brought in more exhaustive coverage across the content pillars of cinema, celebrities, food, fitness, fashion, campus, relationships, music related topics.
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Brand Factory’s #MadeForMumbai
Brand Factory uses the magic of music to describe the city and the spirit of ‘Mumbaikars’. Its #MadeForMumbai campaign uses identical traits that best defines Mumbai and Brand Factory. Created on a foot tapping musical rap, the lyrics describe Mumbai’s love for little things like bun maska with cutting chai and important festivities that sparkle the eyes of all Mumbaikars.
Increasing its presence all over Mumbai, Brand Factory opened its 10th swanky store located in Andheri, East. Within just a decade of operations Brand Factory has more than 69 stores in 28 cities across the country.
Buzz on Social Media - Flirt With Your City v/s Made For Mumbai
Brand Factory released the video on June 7 and has raked in 831 views on Youtube and 8,184 shares on Facebook, here too thousands of people reacting to it. The hashtags #MadeForMumbai received 61,483 impressions. Twitterati also reacted by sharing their experiences and affection for Mumbai along with the hashtag.
The retail major’s #Unbrandedtobranded sale ended on June 17 getting huge response from the cutomers, courtesy to all the social media noise created by the brand.
Which one of this is #MadeForMumbai?
— Brand Factory (@BrandFactoryIND) April 30, 2018
Only a true Mumbaikar will pick the right one. Watch this space for more.
There are Few in this world who can get into the most crowded train like a star, be it Virar or Badlapur Fast! Those people are #MadeForMumbai.#Retweet this with #MadeForMumbai if you are one of them. pic.twitter.com/RyISValz5x
— Brand Factory (@BrandFactoryIND) April 23, 2018
#brandfactory #cuttingchaichallenge #madeformumbai ... watch this space for deals, discounts & fun... pic.twitter.com/STO1tNWsW3
— Eika Banerjee (@eikabanerjee) May 16, 2018
I salute Dabbawalas who work 365 days and Mumbaikar searching discounts everyday #MadeForMumbai @BrandFactoryINDhttps://t.co/xjKyrOAzi0
— Upender (@upenk91) May 15, 2018
This is the right of every Mumbaikar to get discounts 365 days #MadeForMumbai Thankyou @BrandFactoryIND https://t.co/gBHX5TDeUt
— kala ramnathan (@kaalakaandi) May 15, 2018
Just like Mumbai Never sleeps , We Mumbaikars never settle for full price #MadeForMumbai @BrandFactoryINDhttps://t.co/r9yAEWYADw
— ??M@dhu?? (@divahot99) May 10, 2018
As a part of their pre-buzz, Brand Factory released a story with Humans of Bombay with their hashtag #MadeForMumbai.
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TOI’s social media handles including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram started buzzing with comments, shares and likes as soon as the videos were released online. With each video garnering more than 1 million views on YouTube within two days, the clips instantly connected with the local audiences. Around 100 tweets kept pouring in every 5 hours’ time while overall the hashtag #FlirtWithYourCity received 19,464,118 impressions and more than 3k tweets.
The YouTube video garnered 3.2 million views and 3,129 shares on Facebook with around thousand of people conversing around it on social media.
Hey friends know more about Mumbai with the help of this video #Flirtwithyourcity pic.twitter.com/qAPL7lCOMt
— Gursimran ? (@GursimranNagi) June 9, 2018
Undergoing Construction does give inconvenience.. Me as a Mumbaikar gives hopes for development of our amchi Mumbai Flirting with my city at the Construction Site... #flirtwithyourcity @bombaytimes #mumbai #Puma pic.twitter.com/blZM2jHMTl
— Khushboo Siddhiwala (@KSiddhiwala) June 18, 2018
Here's what happens when the stars come out to play! Check out the special all-star version of the city flirt rap #flirtwithyourcity@rithvik_RD @shantanum07 @bharti_lalli @SanjeevKapoor @Kailashkher @jaybhanushali0 @docpalash @NakuulMehta pic.twitter.com/xmfydSfAl3
— BombayTimes (@bombaytimes) June 13, 2018
Who steals the cake?
Shrenik Gandhi, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, White Rivers Media, said, "This is a clear case of a brand being 'Jack of All' and second being 'Master of One'. While the former, Bombay Times and various city led brands of TOI have cracked the macro picture and established a strong positioning, Brand Factory has won the game in the city of Mumbai.