BlackBerry was facing challenges from competitors like Apple and Nokia in India. Consumers wanted smartphones that could fulfill both business and personal needs, rather than just business features like BlackBerry offered. To address this, BlackBerry launched a 'Love What You Do' campaign in India to showcase how its phones could be used for personal passions. The strategy partnered with UTV World Movies, having viewers rate movies through the BlackBerry Messenger and display their names and ratings on screen. This was successful in highlighting BlackBerry's messaging features for passions like movies, and established an advantage over non-BlackBerry phones. World Movies received over 20,000 ratings through this, and decided to continue partnering with BlackBerry for ongoing
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BlackBerry was the leading Smartphone in India till Apple (iPhone) & Nokia (N series) started aggressively marketing to
this segment of consumers & this led to the slowing down of the growth for BlackBerry.
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Consumers were increasingly looking for a phone which fulfilled both their business & personal needs. They were getting
enticed by the new iPhone & Nokia Smartphone’s in the market since they appeared to have more personal features and
applications (games, music) compared to BlackBerry.
Keeping this in mind & in order to give a new lease of life to the brand BlackBerry launched its ‘Love What You Do’ brand
campaign for the first time in India. And thus the challenge was to bring ‘alive’ this thought in day to day life incidents.
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People appreciate technology when it facilitates in doing things they are passionate about.
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Use features of BlackBerry phone to demonstrate how one can use this smartphone to engage in his or her passion.
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-We tied up with UTV - World Movies, a leading Television channel which showcases the best of World Cinema. World Movies
also has the same core target audience as BlackBerry (MF 20-35 SEC A).
-We co-created an activity wherein which we asked the BlackBerry owners amongst the World Movies viewers to rate the
movies they are watching. The viewer had to send their name & movie ratings (5 point scale ratings ***** - Excellent, * - Bad)
through their BB messenger by pinging the World movies BB messenger (specially created for this activation).
-The biggest gratification for the viewer was that their name along with their movie rating(which they gave) would appear on the
screen while the movie is still playing on the channel.
-The BB UTV Movies messenger also provides easy access to a plethora of content on world cinema by 'just a ping'. We also
used BlackBerry Messenger as a platform to discuss with fans their interest in world cinema, provide them with relevant
information suiting specific tastes, share exclusive photos, videos, wallpapers, movie sc hedules, synopsis and trivia. Users were
be able to participate in various games and contests and win several goodies.
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World Movies received 20,000 such movie ratings from its viewer in a period of 8 weeks. Through this contest, we successfully
highlighted the fact that BB has unique features (BB messenger) which helps you in engaging in one’s passions (movies in this
case). This also established a competitive advantage for BlackBerry in the mind of viewers of World Movies who didn’t own a
BB since their phone had no functionality like BB messenger.
This proved to be one of their most successful brand association & the channel has decided to have a continuous engagement
with their viewer through this BB messenger.
It is a rare case in which a brand initiative/activation proved to be so successful that the media owner extended it into a longer
term platform for engagement with the consumers of that brand.
Submitting Agency: Starcom Worldwide (India)
Client/Brand: BlackBerry
Campaign Title: Show Your Passion for Movies!
Client Description: Mobile Phone
Date Beginning-Date End: 13th
Apr - Ongoing
Contact Vehicles: TV
CATEGORY: Creativity/Innovation & Digital
Agency Credit
Girish Upadhyay -+919820438321-
gupadhyay@starcomindia.net
Saurabh Tyagi , Dinesh Nair,Kalpesh Thakkar ,Pranshu
Sharma,Sujata Dwiedy