IKEA’s brilliant Facebook campaign at Retail Marketing

Published by Angie November 26th, 2009 in Advertising, Branding, Consumer Brands, Online Advertising, Social Media, Social Networking.

…the Swedish purveyor of fast-food furniture decided to open a new store in Malmo and didn’t really have a lot of money to let people know about it.

So it engaged a rather outre advertising agency called Forsman and Bodenfors to create a rather special launch campaign.

The agency created a Facebook profile for the store manager, Gordon Gustavsson. Over a two-week period, it uploaded images from of IKEA showrooms to his Facebook photo album.

Then it put out word that the first person to tag their name to a product in the pictures, won it.

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