A global advertising agency with offices in New York and London, Droga5 works across numerous platforms such as traditional media, digital and social media as well as experiential marketing platforms. Along with the agency, founder and Creative Chairman, David Droga, has worked with clients such as Google, CNBC, and Sprint (Droga5, 2017). However, the creative agency has done incredible creative work with Rapper Jay-Z and Bing. This document will examine Droga5’s marketing campaign for Jay Z’s Biography and a hypothetical creative campaign.
The Rapper Jay-Z, born Shawn Corey Carter released a memoir called Decoded and Droga5 New York (Drogra5) was tasked with creating and launching a marketing campaign for the biography (Droga5,
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Consecutively, fans were directed to each location of the hundreds of pages through Bing’s online game utilizing Facebook and Twitter. Thus Bings Search and Maps were used by millions to locate and digitally reassemble Jay-Z’s Biography prior to its release.
The results of the integrated marketing campaign where everyone benefited Jay-Z, Drogra5, Bing as well as the fan. Jay-Z’s biography called Decoded was on the bestseller list for 19 weeks straight and fan Facebook follower penetration increase by 1 million. The campaign propelled Bing to the Global Top 10 list and 11.7% visitation growth. In addition, the integrated marketing campaign achieved1.1 billion global media impressions. The fans were not only able to have an interactive experience with the brand and digitally reassemble the book, but Drogra5 offered a grand prize of a ticket to see Jay-Z and Coldplay in Vegas on New Year’s Eve.
There were several moving parts in Drogra5’s campaign to effectively execute the duel Microsoft Bing and Jay-Z’s biography marketing strategy. In these types of strategies, it’s important for the marketing campaign to be managed efficiently especially if the communication mix involves both internal and external sources. Therefore, implemented a communication plan and a brief can be critical. The brief would provide guidance to the Drogra5 team in creating those communications
Jay Z, just like his wife, he has joined the train of celebrity endorsement himself. He is a part of Samsung, 2k13, Sport Teams, alcohol, making a to of $500 million. These celebrity’s knows the importance of being a part of a major business deal because the majority of the celebrity that are involve are making most of their income off endorsement alone.
The 47-year old star Jay-Z, has won 21 awards for his rapping so far. These accomplishments were not a piece of cake to achieve. He is so prosperous as a result of the obstacles he faced throughout his childhood, career takeoff, and later years; not to mention he still faces many challenges even now, during his present years.
Chapter 4 – Case StudyJay Z the Rap Artist and Business Mogul: His Rise to the TopPlease read Chapter 4's Case Study on pages 116-118 and answer the following questions: 1. As mentioned in the case, Jay-Z wears several hats with respect to the several business ventures he manages. What does this say about his time management skills? Time management means techniques designed to enable people to get more done in less time with better results. Jay-Z is known for multitasking. In the text it says research has found that people who multitask are actually less efficient than those who focus on one thing at a time. This was not the case for Jay-Z.
Sean "Puffy" Combs has established himself as one of the biggest names in hip-hop (Heal). Combs a Harlem native whose father was killed when he was only 3 years old, rose from the mean streets to the top of the music business (AP wire, March 18). "It is true that he started from scratch, and I don't think that because he was arrested, people will stop buying his albums (AP wire, March 18). Before pursuing his career as a vocalist, Combs was a business-minded Howard University student and an intern at Andre Harrell's Uptown Records. Combs soon became the A&R representative for Uptown. He then began producing for soon to be mega-stars Mary J. Blige, Heavy D., and Jodeci to name a few. After being let go
In 1999, Jay-Z released Vol. 3... Life and Times of S. Carter. Despite continued criticism for his increasingly pop-oriented sound,[14] the album proved to be successful and went platinum three times and sold over 5.6 million records worldwide. Through his lyricism, he was able to retain respect from some of his
Along with many other rappers, Jay-Z had a hard early life(Jay-Z). He was known locally as a freestyle rapper(Jay-Z). While freestyling he gained enough following that he decided to take a shot at a professional recording(Jay-Z). After being turned down by major labels, Jay-Z didn’t quit, he and two other partners founded Roc-A-Fella Records in 1995(Jay-Z). Along with landing a multimillion dollar deal with Live Nation, he also has a branding position with Budweiser, partially owns the New Jersey Jets, and owns a clothing line(Jay-Z). Forbes has estimated that Jay-Z is worth over $450 million(Jay-Z). Jay-Z came from poverty and is now living his A
Hip-hop legend Jay-Z has announced his next studio album entitled, "4:44." If you're a Tidal subscriber, you've probably seen he released a snippet of of a new track, "Adnis," which was released earlier tonight. The snippet was in a new trailer for the upcoming mysterious film under the same name which will feature acting stars Mahershala Ali and Danny Glover.
The common public goal of the marketing discourse is to attract attention from targeted audiences, in other words make the consumer buy, buy, and buy. In order to achieve these goals I have to execute different marketing strategies with the help of the staff and company executives. Together we brainstorm different marketing trends, design different kinds of ads; analyze social media for more effective ways of advertising and calculate risks based on customer insight. When all is done right the end goal will result an increase of sales revenue for the company, which will sharpen its image and name.
Laura and her boss Isabel have the garden variety marketing problem in the age of ubiquitous media advertising; how to reach the customer and sell your product amidst "ad-zapping devices and a decrease in consumer attention spans" (USAToday.com. October 10, 2006. PP. 1). Bob Gamgort, President of MasterFoods indicates that "the average American is exposed to 650 advertising messages a day" (Peebles, Ellen. October 2003 P. 32), however; that number may be drastically low, as a second estimate pegs the figure at 3,000 to 5,000 a day (USAToday.com. October 10, 2006. PP. 2). Regardless of which figure is correct, Bryant's marketing team must find innovative ways to compete in an ad frenzied environment; leading to the question of the efficacy of Laura's product placement/ celebrity endorser idea.
A marketing strategy will help differentiate a business form other business in the same line of business. The best way to differentiate a business is to create a core message. By having a unique approach business can eliminate competition. Sof-A-Logue’s goals for the new year are to build their brand with a clear market value proposition and create plan’s product strategy. They also want to develop customer profiles by using customer segmentation systems and position the company as the number one personal communications company by a new hybrid marketing campaign. The marketing team will present The Power of Less which focuses on eliminating anything not contributing to the success of the company. The marketing team will focus on simpler,
Ever since the start of commercial radio in the 20’s and the since the first silver screen entered the market, broadcasting messages by celebrities has been a tool employed to endorse products.”Just about every star was associated with one sponsor’s product he or she plugged.”(1). Over the years celebrity endorsement became an essential part of marketing (more than 25% of television ads feature celebrities)(5), for the endorser it became an easy way of generating an income while for the endorsing company it became a guaranteed way to reach a wide segment of potential clients.
Celebrity endorsement is a billion dollar industries today (Kambitsis et al., 2002) with companies signing deals with celebrities hoping that they can help them stand out from the clutter and give them a unique and relevant position in the mind of the consumer. According to Solomon (2002), the reasons for using celebrity endorsement involves its potential to create awareness, positive feelings towards their advertising and brand. Research has shown that celebrity endorsement can have an impact on the consumer’s attention, recall, evaluations and purchase intentions (Atkin and Block, 1993), Celebrity endorsement is a widely used tactic in marketing and much research
He came out with a track named “I declare war” and it was basically a track forward to his one of the people he doesn’t get along with Nas at the time. In 2008-2011 he headlined summer festivals in locations such as Denmark and places in the United Kingdom. The blueprint 3 and watch my throne came out and he kicked off his tour with that album. His very first tour was in 1999 and his recent tour was the Magna carter. Also throughout this time period he had his first child in the very beginning of 2012. The blueprint 3 was named one of the most anticipated albums of 2013 by complex magazine, MTV, and XXL magazine. And during that time Jay-z didn’t stop his grind he released the magna carter that sold over 528’000 copies in the first week it was out. Jay-z received nine nominations at the 2014 Grammy awards, more than any other artist. last year he held his first annual charity concert called Tidal X were the show raised around 1.5
Launched promotional campaign named ‘Sing the Jingle, be the Star’ in which OM fans were invited to participate in a singing competition to have a chance of going Hollywood.7
This case study introduced how Kylie identified the gap in the market for teens and millennials and she tapped into it using her constant controversy and social media presence by creating Kylie Cosmetics. Because of her already booming platform, she had an advantage over other new companies, a fan base. She knew who her base was and catered to them. Kylie Cosmetics continues to expand by introducing new products regularly and as long as the company focuses on quality control and the customer’s wants, it would be a long existing