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Objective
As the world was swept over by the London Olympics 2012, Groupon found an instant connect with the
global sporting spectacle as the flavor for July. We decided not to make it sports centricwith the obvious
thought that we wanted to do something different from the routine conversations on Olympics. So to
make it more engaging for our online community we thoughtof a satirical theme “Lolympics”.
Strategy
When London Olympics 2012 was round the corner, we decided to take a humorous and quirky take on
the Olympics, keeping our communication tone in tact. We created buzz using a series of contests and
engaging content based on Olympics and the current stream of events. Content categories included
graphics used on social media during this period and pure content around sport humor.
The Doodles, The Jokes, The Mornings Posts, The Women’s' Wednesday Contest, The Hashtags, and the
Deal Olympics Contest, were all around the Lolympics theme; ensuring that the 'Gaming' attitude of the
brand and the customers was captured on the page.
Solution
1. Crazeal Doodles
The Crazeal doodles were the heart of the theme, where every day we talked about all the latest stuff in
a quirky way. The Craziness of the Doodles spared none  right from a famous politician to the
gatecrasher lady in Red in the Olympics opening ceremony. Off-course the doodles won’t have been
completewithout the thunderous Usain Bolt and our very own epic Superhero RajniSaaar! Check out the
Crazeal Doodles below:
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Pinterest Link: http://pinterest.com/crazeal/crazeal-doodles/ (It’s an album gallery of all our
doodles)
Series of fun doodles on the LOLympics theme are as follows.
2. Women’s Wednesday
Women form a very integral part of our online community. Women's Wednesday is a weekly contest
whichCrazeal conducts on its social media pages, to engage and connect with Women. During the
month even this contest had aLOLympics twist to it 
Women were asked to pick out daily chores, which they believed should be part of the Olympic
Games. The most creative answer received a super-cool goodie from Crazeal.
3. #GamesIndiansPlay
On Twitter the #LOLympics theme extended with the hashtag campaign #GamesIndiansPlay. The
campaign trended in India and garnered more than 1K mentions.
#GamesIndiansPlay –The background thought was simple –There are many sports and activities in India
which are not recognized at a global level. With this as the idea, we asked the Twitterattiabout
#GamesIndiansPlay and this is what some of them had to say :) Influencers apart, brands also tweeted
using the hashtag.
Some brands trying to leverage our Hashtag
4. Deal-Olympics
We did a site based treasure hunt which was called "Deal Olympics" (Deal Hunt contest). A unique
medal number was put on one of the daily deals which went live on the site. Users were asked to locate
the deal with the medal on the site and mail the link of the deal. It was a daily contest with one lucky
winner chosen on a daily basis, for 10 days.
We got a tremendous response and during the Contest our Referral Traffic from Facebook increased by
more than 30%! Here are a few Snapshots from the contest.
Outcome
The content created was relevant, engaging, a lot of fun, and got us a lot of traction in-terms of website
traffic and conversions. Our Referral Traffic increased by more than 30% from the Facebook Page. The
increase in engagement was witnessed by our surge in “Talking About us” which increased by over 50%.
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