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How An Anime Pop Star Sold Her First Car

Description

In order to engage with a younger, tech-savvier audience, Toyota launched an integrated marketing campaign for the 2012 Toyota Corolla that featured emerging technology like 2-D print activation and vision-based mobile augmented reality to leverage its existing yet scarcely-downloaded mobile app, the Toyota Shopping Tool. It also features an entirely digital open-source anime pop-star sensation named Hatsune Miku.

Toyota saw huge successes as a result: Corolla leads jumped 30% the week of the lauch; Toyota Shopping Tool mobile app downloads increased 600%; website traffice for the first week increased 167% and continued at an all time high for the next seven weeks.

In this proposal, learn how the interactive director of a multicultural agency and the project lead for an augmented reality company worked together to make this campaign a huge success for Toyota, culminating in a Multicultural Excellence Award.

Questions Answered

  1. What motivated Intertrend and Toyota to try out new mobile technologies?
  2. What do Hatsune Miku, anime, and mobile holograms have to do with selling cars?
  3. What are the pros and cons of leveraging existing and sometimes decaying assets for new campaigns?
  4. What are the pros and cons of marketing to niche and emerging demographics?
  5. How does this formula work when applied to other emerging markets?

Tags

mobile, multicultural, toyota

Meta

Event
Interactive
Category
Dual
Theme
Culture and Entertainment
Level
Intermediate

Speakers

Organizer

Lisa Murphy Metaio, Inc

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