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Top Engaging Sham El-Nessim Activations on Social Media
Sham El-Nessim, or “Smelling/Taking In of the Zephyrs,” is an Egyptian national holiday marking the beginning of spring. It always falls on the day after the Eastern Christian ‘Easter’. Despite the Christian-related date, the holiday is celebrated by Egyptians regardless of religion, over time the holiday was settled on Easter Monday.
Egyptians used to celebrate Sham El-Nessim by visiting parks and zoos, going on picnics, eating certain foods (Salted and smoked Herrings, Fermented fish “Fesikh”), coloring and eating eggs.
Brands in Egypt used to take the opportunity to celebrate with Egyptians by presenting special promotions. After social media, almost all brands are building on the happy & fun atmosphere that Sham El-Nessim creates, it also became one of the country’s yearly competition between brands in different industries.
This year, we scanned the online scene in Egypt and came up with the following top engaging activities done on social media celebrating the Egyptian holiday Sham El-Nessim.
TODO Wins It All With Engaging Replies
https://www.facebook.com/todohatozbot/photos/a.317098558351964.73970.159120180816470/875041269224354/?type=1
TODO team followed their advertisements line by making fun of TODO character being colored by his TODO friends because he forgot to bring the eggs for Sham El-Nessim occasion, however that wasn’t the most engaging part, but the way they managed fan’s comments were the most engaging one, they understand their fans and know well how to engage them positively.
Coca Cola Egypt 100 FARHA Music Video
Coca Cola around the world is celebrating 100 years since the first bottle was produced, and there’s no better occasion than Sham El-Nessim to to start celebrating 100 Farha campaign. Coca Cola decided to take this activation exclusively online, as they didn’t broadcast the music video in any TV channel up till, Coca Cola also uploaded a music version of Soundcloud to let fans download the song and enjoy Sham El-Nessim.
Clorets Egypt Smart & Simple
https://www.facebook.com/CloretsEgypt/photos/a.10150523586851941.397600.15293076940/10153217835751941/?type=1&theater
Sham El-Nessim is known by traditional food eaten on this day consists mainly of Feseekh (a salted Grey Mullet), smoked herrings, lettuce, scallions or green onions, tirmis or Lupini Beans, and colored boiled eggs, which cause mouth unwanted smell.
Clorets team in Egypt made it smart in language “Feseekh Terminator”, simple & attractive in the creative design, which makes a winning combination on social media.
Etisalat Misr Funny Meme
https://www.facebook.com/etisalatmisr/photos/a.149674009666.112537.141606109666/10152990018859667/?type=1&theater
Etisalat Misr decided to engage their fans with a funny meme, capitalizing on their latest ADSL TV ad featuring two fishes who are discussing what’s around in a funny way. This time, the female fish said: “I’m so happy that Sham El-Nessim is coming on Monday this year”, the male fish replied ironically: “Sham El-Nessim is always on Monday, foolish!”.
SeaStar Egypt Simplifying Their Smoked Herrings “Ringa” with a Complex Video
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=928600100513529&set=vb.332839903422888&type=2&theater
Seastar is the leading salmon and herring processor in the Middle East and Africa. This year they decided to create a video on Facebook, positioning their smoked herrings as the most easier, safer, and delicious vs other Ringa suppliers in Egypt.
Viewers found it difficult to understand, that’s why they started to comment in a negative and questionary way, stating that the video is too short to understand the message, wasn’t funny and asking what is it about?
SeaStar Could Win It All:
The video got a high number of views and shares on Facebook, which means that it succeeded to find its way to people in a way or another, however, it missed two things to make it almost a winning case:
1- Add something to the caption to summarize the video main message, that could make it much easier for people to understand and spread the needed message.
2- Leaving people to assume on Facebook wasn’t a good reaction, Facebook community managers have to reply fans’ comments, and check shares if people have negative comments on shares to clarify and simplify the message if they couldn’t get it.
This way SeaStar can deliver the message clearly, and increase the positive shares. In social media, you should educate your advocates, if you didn’t they will turn against you or influence others to mock you.
We tried our best to collect the most unique and useful activations from different industries, but we believe that this’s not everything, there’re many other brilliant ideas in Egypt and would appreciate if you share anything you might find useful with us. Thank you!
Happy Sham El-Nessim everyone 🙂
After the success of the previously shared overall analysis of Sherine’s new album “Ana Keter” and her social media presence, we decided to fulfill your requests with more details and additional insights.
The report is from Jan 15 through Jan 31, 2014; however, starting Feb, we noticed that Sherine’s team has enhanced and developed how they engage with fans on Facebook.
Still, there’s more to do; please review the slides below to know what exactly they are missing with recommendations.
Check out the report:
Key take-outs in 15 days after the launch:
- Album gained 11 million views in 2 weeks on YouTube
- YouTube Channel subscribers boosted by 90K subscribers in 15 days out of 127K total subscribers overtime
- Buzz reached 15K tweets/RTs since the launch on Twitter
- How do people talk about the album/Sherine on Twitter?
- People are sharing songs from YouTube & SoundCloud
- +90% positive sentiment on Twitter
- Sherine’s Twitter account is excellent at spreading the news about the album’s success.
- People are tweeting the song’s lyrics.
- Sarcastic tweets about Sherine & few songs (regular) - Almost zero negativity about the album
- Album teasers on Facebook created credibility for Sherine’s page, reflected in the page results after the album’s launch in the next 15 days with 92K Interactions & 312K New Likes.
- The album received tremendous engagement on the launching date of Jan 15. However, no posts for four days after the launch negatively affected the interactions.
Recommendations:
Sherine Abdel Wahab’s Facebook page would have received double or maybe triple new likes and interactions if the improved posts’ quality; please find below the points taken:
- Long updates with no extra value-added will lead to losing your fans’ interest
- The text-only format isn’t preferred, as it is well-known that they generate less reach than other content (Facebook announcement)
- A call to action is essential to generate leads & increase engagement
- Each post has to have its visual, audio, or video so you can attract/engage your audiences
- Understand the situation and act upon it, always be relevant to the time and avoid posting irrelevant content at the wrong time.
- Revise the tone of voice in future activities.
To recap - Overall performance is average to good - Enhance your content formatting - Improve the tone of voice on all networks - Be creative to engage your fans better - Be Consistent - Start your SoundCloud account.
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Putin, Obama war on social media starts with unfriend on Facebook
New stage of the cold war, is it?
The Social media war between Putin and Obama started with UnFriend, this is the action taken by Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Facebook diplomacy with American president Barack Obama.
The unfriending comes after an official White House update about the possibility of a US-Syrian war. President Putin revealed that Obama’s updates about the Congressional debate on a possible war with Syria have annoyed him.
After unfriending, President Putin update status on profile “Something I should have done a long time ago”
Also, He said to Russia’s Pravda News Service “President Assad and I, we are the Facebook friends. We like the same pages, we share pictures of cute women and all that. Obama needs to lighten up on there, it’s not for serious stuff,”
President Obama’s latest posts about the possibility of the war in Syria have been reported by someone and he received a warning from Facebook that he will be prevented from posting on his profile for 24 hours.
He has also commented “Really, Putin needs to grow up. If he didn’t like that [post], he could have just hid it from his news feed instead of creating all this Facebook drama,”
JOE BIDEN “Vice President of the United States” announced to reports that President Obama has signed into his Twitter account to unfollow Putin.
The turmoil generated between Putin and Obama over their dispute on the Syrian crisis. Expanded to reach the social networks
Putin and Obama on social Networks
The question now is, are we witnessing a new stage of the cold war between the two countries, will they continue the war online instead of the military tactics and old spy war?
It’s obvious that social media is really changing the game in everything, and now it’s taking over on a very high level.
Keep an eye on Digital Boom and we will keep you posted with more news and updates on the cold war and even more…
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Amr Diab Gets Hacked on Twitter
Amr Diab’s Facebook page has announced that his twitter account has been hijacked by anonymous and now tweeting political.
Update: Amr Diab’s Facebook Page announced that “Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been restored successfully and you can follow Amr’s tweets normally now”
Amr Diab got hacked on Twitter
On Thursday 9th of Jan, Amr Diab’s Facebook page announced that Amr Diab’s Twitter account has been hacked by anonymous and now tweeting politics!
Amr Abdul-Basset Abdul-Azeez Diab (born 11 October 1961) is an Egyptian singer and composer of pop music. He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle East Artist, three times: 1998 for the album “Nour El Ain”, 2002 for the album “Aktrr Wahid Byhbak 2001” and 2007 for the album “El Lillady”. Amr Diab also won The African Music Awards 2009, Big Apple Music Awards; Life Achievements Awards: Best Singer of The Year in 2009, and Best Male Act in African Music Awards 2010.
He is known as the Father of Mediterranean Music He has created his own style which is often termed “Mediterranean Music” or “Mediterranean Sound”, a blend of Western and Egyptian rhythms.
In The Mediterranean in Music, David Cooper and Kevin Dawe referred to his music as “the new breed of Mediterranean music”.According to author Michael Frishkopf, Amr Diab has produced a new concept of Mediterranean music, especially in his international hit, “Nour El Ain”.
In his analysis of The Very Best of Amr Diab album, Victor W. Valdivia of All music said: “His music melded traditional Arabic sounds and textures with Western rhythms and instruments. The mesh was dubbed Mediterranean music, and The Very Best of Amr Diab displays Diab’s superb skill in creating it.”
In 1997, he won three awards at the Annual Arabic Festival: one for Best Video, for Best Song, and for Best Artist of the Year. Diab received a Triple Platinum Award for the sales of Nour El Ain and a World Music Award in Monaco.
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