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EMERALD PHOTOBOOTH

Emerald PhotoBooth

Social Strategist

Agency: Emerald Media Group

Annual Greek Life Competition

In the winter of 2013 The Emerald PhotoBooth set a goal to increase brand awareness and revenue. With that goal in mind, I created a social media competition targeting the most influential group on the University of Oregon campus - greek life. 

 

Strategy:

With a calendar stocked full of events, the sororities at the University of Oregon have a unique opportunity to enhance their events by offering a small memento - a custom photo strip. To effectively engage this audience we decided to host this competition across a prevalent social media platform to this demographic: Facebook.

What:

We went to each house to take personalized photos, posted them to our social channels, and assigned a point value based on engagements. The voters received 1 point for liking the photos and 2 points for sharing. The sorority house with the most points at the end of the competition received a free photo booth.  

Media:

Success: 

The competition was wildly successful with 1,600 likes and 5,149 shares on our winning photo, and an overall reach of 96,936 on Facebook.

After implementing the social media competition the Emerald Photo Booth's number of booked events increased by 260%. 

With an increase in awareness the Emerald Photo Booth surpassed its revenue goal of $20,000.  

 

Expansion:

In 2014 we expanded our competition, posting the sorority photos not only to facebook, but also to instagram and twitter. Similar to the previous competition, we assigned point values for social interactions with the photos (i.e. likes, favorites, retweets).

 

This expansion proved to be worthwhile as seen in the results below: 

Facebook

Page Likes: + 10%

Total Reach: 100,819

Total Likes: 10,646

Instagram

Following: + 25.41%

Highest Liked Photo: 1,796

Average Like per photo pre-competition: 30

Twitter

Following: + 38.78%

Highest Retweet Count: 200

Highest Favorite Count: 302