Title | 1001 NIGHTS-2 |
Brand | TAOBAO(CHINA) SOFTWARE CO., LTD. |
Product / Service | TAOBAO |
Category | C02. Use of Mobile |
Entrant | TAOBAO.COM Hangzhou, CHINA |
Idea Creation | TAOBAO.COM Hangzhou, CHINA |
Media Placement | TAOBAO.COM Hangzhou, CHINA |
PR | TAOBAO.COM Hangzhou, CHINA |
Production | TAOBAO.COM Hangzhou, CHINA |
Production 2 | THW CREATIVE PRODUCTION Shanghai, CHINA |
Production 3 | GOODZILLA Shanghai, CHINA |
Name | Company | Position |
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ZHENG ZHONG | Taobao (China) Software Co.,Ltd. | marketing director |
CHEN WENXIN | Taobao (China) Software Co.,Ltd. | Market experter |
HE LINQING | Taobao (China) Software Co.,Ltd. | Senior Marketing Specialist |
PENG XI | Taobao (China) Software Co.,Ltd. | Senior Marketing Specialist |
WANG LING | Taobao (China) Software Co.,Ltd. | Senior Marketing Specialist |
JIANG PAN | Shanghai Goodzilla Advertisement Co.,Ltd. | CreativeDirector |
XU JIAYI | Shanghai Goodzilla Advertisement Co.,Ltd. | CreativeDirector |
WANG YUYANG | Shanghai Goodzilla Advertisement Co.,Ltd. | Art Design |
DENG YONGXING | THW creative production | Senior director |
XIE WENRU | THW creative production | Production Director |
YU WEIWEI | THW creative production | production manager |
XI RAN | THW creative production | Director |
Concept:Something to Soothe the Soul Based on survey results, we have two findings: 1.From 10pm to 12pm there is a peak in user traffic on Taobao. 2.Chinese consumers enjoy searching for video content online after a long day at work. So we decided to link story telling with online shopping and created a mysterious nighttime Taobao and a series of short films called “Tales from A thousand and one nights” that could only be viewed during the evening.The main character was a chef who has a mysterious tent with various surprising food. The tent only showed at night and the chef entertained his guests there with delicious dishes, for example, homemade mackerel dumplings for a homesick girl to cheer her up, and peach gum soup as a farewell dessert. Each film told a story of a product, consumers might gain a willingness to purchase Taobao’s products after watching the film.
Content We set up a product-selecting committee to choose 16 best items on Taobao, and created 16 touching stories of Tales from A Thousand and One Nights related to the items. Then we release the films on Taobao and Youku every Wednesday and Thursday night at 10pm from Aug.10th to Sept.30th. Promotion (before Aug.10th Warming up) We released a trailer of Tales from A Thousand and One Nights, and created a topic on social media about how Taobao will shoot its first film with a Golden Horse Award winning director. (from Aug.10th to Sept.30th Keep the topic on trend) We partnered with the Liuzhou municipal government to start an online campaign for snail rice noodles, as well as holding a “T20 World Gourmet Food Summit”, where we invited leaders from Australia, Liuzhou and Chengdu to introduce their areas specialist foods. Placement: Wechat Weibo and other social media
Our campaign created a new platform to advertise our best products and led to a massive increase of our user traffic. These films were watched over 78 million times. The total sales of products recommended in the films was 138 million RMB. As a new keyword, the direct search results of "Taobao’s Tales from A Thousand and One Nights" + "the 2nd floor of Taobao?the name of Taobao’s Creative Platform?" in Baidu reached 2,149,000. Many different types of media produced reports on our campaign. "Tales from A Thousand and One Nights" has become a must-see for users before going to sleep, with all the stories and recommended products becoming people’s social topics during their daily lives. Topics related to "Tales from A Thousand and One Nights" reached more than 600 million. Making purchases based on viewing our creative content has become a new medium for online shopping.
After noticing an increase in our nighttime user traffic, we decided to create a series of short films called "Tales from A Thousand and One Nights", which would emotionally resonate with our users, whilst at the same time provide a new creative platform to promote our available products. This series of short films led to users returning to Taobao specifically to view our creative content and successfully increased the sales of the products advertised.
Data gathering: 1/3 of Google’s users search for online shopping between 10pm to 12pm. And at the same time there is a peak in user traffic on Taobao. Target audience: People born in the 80’s and 90’s. Approach: we decided to link story telling with online shopping.We created a creative platform of Taobao that was completely different from Taobao during the day that could meet the needs of our late-night users. By using storytelling, we generated an emotional connection between users and our products, which in turn led to an increase in late-night sales. Call to action: We created a 16-episode series of short films. Each film told a story of a product By doing this we could create an emotional connection between our products, leading to the audience making a direct purchase of the products featured in our series.