Friday, December 03, 2021

Chipotle Turned Its Cilantro Soap Meme Into A Real Product

 

https://www.mashed.com/676528/chipotle-turned-its-cilantro-soap-meme-into-a-real-product/


Nowadays, brands continually leverage social network and other emerging channels to engage young customers, who spend a significant amount of time in their digital life. In August, chipotle put up a controversial Instagram post making fun of cilantro, which is often seen as an ingredient in chipotle’s menu. The post showed a chipotle branded cilantro Soup. In the caption, chipotle states “OK but what if soap tasted like cilantro?” The post created lot of excitements on the internet, receiving 22.5K likes and 632 responses from cilantro lovers and haters. On Dec. 2nd, chipotle announced that they bought this popular meme to life and started to sell it on chipotlegoods.com. The news got a lot of attentions from many networks, including cnn, fox news, CBS Boston, etc. This is a very successful digital marketing campaign focusing on creating native culture content. It also highlights the importance to connect online experience and social buzz with real life experience. These marketing activities are very effective and efficacious in building the brand's culture and value, particular appealing to young customers.


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