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How to create a stronger affinity with Chinese consumers during Lunar New Year
Client
jELLYCAT
Campaign
Lunar New Year red packet campaign
Challenge
Drive awareness and affinity with Chinese consumers during one of the busiest periods in the Chinese calendar, Lunar New Year, with consumers based both in and out of China
Approach
Leverage a key symbol of the festival: the red packet is a symbol of good luck and prosperity for the year ahead
Echo the offline gifting experience and spread brand awareness through eye-catching creativity
Making it happen
Devised a digital red packet that could both 1) offer an engaging virtual gifting experience and 2) promote jELLYCAT’s most iconic toys
Hylink’s design team illustrated the most popular jELLYCAT toys in the China market onto the digital red packets and animated a video that was featured across jELLYCAT’s Chinese social accounts
Results
1.63m
Views on Weibo
264k
Recipients
20k
Senders
16k
increase in WeChat followers within 3 days of launch
1
Gold London Design Awards, mobile campaign category
How can JELLYCAT maintain a strong social presence after the CNY WeChat Red Packet campaign?
Client
jELLYCAT
Campaign
WeChat Sticker Launch
Challenge
Following the success of the CNY WeChat Red Packet campaign, jELLYCAT aimed to continue expanding its social presence and maintaining brand prominence. The goal was to leverage the popularity of sending greetings and well wishes via stickers on Chinese social platforms.
Approach
jELLYCAT launched a sticker series for Chinese New Year 2019, featuring popular characters like Teletubbies on Sogou. The characters considered most suitable for the set of 16 stickers were:
Peanut Penguin
Bashful Petal Bunny
Vivacious Vegetable Aubergine
Amuseable Avocado
Using the example of Amuseable Avocado, the design style approach for the stickers was the following:
Making it happen
1) Audiences expressed excitement about jELLYCAT’s first sticker series and expressed a high interest in seeing more stickers with different characters.
2) Based on audience feedback, characters like:
Bartholomew Bear
Fuddlewuddle Lion
Fuddlewuddle Dragon
were suggested for the next sticker series launch.
3) Audiences were directed to download the stickers in the comment section by searching relevant keywords in the WeChat sticker store.
4) A WeChat sticker launch video was created to promote the sticker series.
Results
2.21m
Views on Weibo
43,6k
Downloads within 7 days of the launch
284k
Senders
6,2k
Viewership on WeChat
65k
Downloads by January 1st with almost 1 million sharing volume