Coke launches Share A Feeling campaign in SEA

Beverage company Coca-Cola has launched the latest installment of its ‘Share A Coke’ campaign with ‘Share A Feeling’.Catered to the Southeast Asian markets, the campaign encourages millennials to express themselves via emoticons on Coke cans and bottles. The multi-market, integrated campaign begun in July, and was first seen in Vietnam. The accompanying TVC has drawn over 1.7million views on YouTube from first airing three weeks ago.The campaign is being supported with a commercial program to drive the business at the retail level and will be rolling out across ASEAN markets over the next 12 months.Multiple communications agencies were involved in its creation: Droga5 Sydney developed the concept, Isobar Singapore led the creative output by designing the emoticons and packaging labels, creating the TVC, OOH, social media video content, as well as digital engagement ideas. Agencies OgilvyOne and MediaCom have helped deploy it in Vietnam.Meanwhile Coke's brand agency Phibious Vietnam also localised the campaign to suit it to the Vietnamese market.https://youtu.be/-zGFQr_AKh8Vietnam kicked of the first phase of the campaign with bloggers and local celebrities introducing the specially designed Coke Emoticons as the new hot language in town. Media partnerships with Facebook and local messaging platform, Zalo, were brokered to ensure the high virality of the campaign.The second phase of the campaign will be to inspire youth to act and share their own stories. Coke will give people a way to express how they feel by allowing consumers to personalise cans at key outlets popular with the youth, as well as customize stickers on Zalo chat.Pratik Thakar, head of creative content & design excellence, ASEAN & APAC said: “Emoticons have become a perfect sharing platform, sharing of human feelings."Uyen Pham Na, marketing director, Coca-Cola Vietnam, said," Share a Coke emoticons is, once again, proving our way of doing marketing with the 'Consumer at heart'. I believe Coke Emoticons will be a new way for Vietnamese teens to communicate their feelings. This campaign not only brings Coca-Cola closer to our consumer but also benefits our business with promising volume increase."Stan Lim, creative director, Isobar Singapore, said: “ By personalising their product with names and now the ubiquitous language of emoticons, Coke and the agency team has created something that seamlessly blends online and offline behaviors, that travels across borders, that will live and grow in the virtual and in the physical world.”