Pepsi India, the title sponsors of IPL 6 have been extremely aggressive with their social media campaigns during the recently concluded sixth edition of IPL, the entertaining and controversy-ridden cricket game in T20 format. Bringing in their latest proposition this year ‘Oh Yes Abhi’ to reflect the impulsive, impatient youth of today, the beverage brand continued to further it during the IPL with Pepsi IPL ka Boss, Tweet20, The Great Indian Catch among many other creative engagement activities with a microsite at its center.
But, for me the most endearing fan engagement by Pepsi in this IPL has to be the #PepsiIPLLiveArt on Twitter. Here, Pepsi asked its 55K+ followers on Twitter to share witty tweets during the key matches, and Pepsi would select the best out of them, to make illustrated posters. These also made on-air appearances on Sony MAX during the match.
Don’t just watch the match tonight, tweet to us with #PepsiIPLLiveArt and will transform the funniest and wittiest tweets into sketches LIVE
— Pepsi India (@PepsiIndia) May 24, 2013
The helicopter has landed! This was inspired from @ishakapoor‘s #PepsiIPLLiveArt tweet – twitter.com/Ishaakapoor/st… twitter.com/PepsiIndia/sta…
— Pepsi India (@PepsiIndia) May 26, 2013
The campaign also made use of the 16 million fans on the Pepsi India Facebook page. The page admin put updates inviting the fans to participate on Twitter and not just watch the matches. The illustrations in the live art endeavour are now stored in an album.
A simple and innovative campaign designed with fans in mind. To see their tweets converted into posters and that too in real time is a memorable gesture for a fan. Yet the idea is not unheard of. Recently, JWT India had crowdsourced tweets for Portfolio Nights and made films and posters out of the best ones.
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