Consumer durable cos using social media for festive campaigns

With festive season round the corner, consumer durables makers such as LG, Panasonic, Whirlpool and Haier are going beyond traditional routes of marketing campaigns by logging on social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube to tap young consumers.
Apart from running special campaigns of ATL and BTL activities such as print, outdoor, shop-front and events, makers are also targeting the 20 to 40 age bracket through various social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube etc.
Panasonic, which is incurring over Rs 85 crore on the branding during the festive seasons, aims to spend a significant portion of that on the new media.

"Panasonic is making optimum use of all the available mediums to promote the festive offers and social media is an essential part of it. A significant part of our marketing budget for festive offer is spent on digital promotion," Panasonic India MD Manish Sharma told PTI.
South Korean maker LG is seeing social media and digital platforms as an important mode for its campaign during the festive period.
"Digital medium will be an important platform for festive campaigns. We always try our best to engage consumers through innovative digital campaigns," said LG India Head Corporate Marketing Sanjay Chitkara.

LG, which is looking at 35 per cent jump in sales during the festive sales, is spending 50 per cent more than last year for marketing and branding.

On being asked whether Haier would give prominence to digital platforms in its marketing campaigns, Haier India President Eric Braganza said :"Absolutely, since the world has moved online, we plan to reach our consumers where they actually are."
Whirlpool of India, which is targeting women in the age bracket of 25-44 is also leveraging the digital platform though its main focus would be on TV and Print.
"Our new TV campaign will be uploaded in YouTube and Facebook and our promotional details will also be communicated through social media. However, our main communication medium, because of reach, will be TV and Print," said Whirlpool of India Vice-President Corporate Affairs and strategy Asia South, Shantanu Dasgupta.

Whirlpool of India is spending Rs 12 crore during the festive period and 75 of that would be on ATL (above the line) and rest on BTL (below the line) activities.