I found a case study campaign for Hershey’s and Recces Pieces entering the Twitch arena –
‘Twitch, once an unassuming livestreaming service for gamers, has grown to become the most dominant broadcasting platform for video games in the world over the last seven years. With 15 million daily active users, Twitch’s audience watches an average of 95 minutes of live broadcasts a day—fertile ground for companies seeking to expand their marketing strategies away from the other major social media platforms.
While Twitch has typically been used by companies to advertise gaming brands and products to its engaged user base, such has its popularity increased that brands outside gaming are more frequently looking to tap into its lucrative audience.’
‘During its campaign, Hershey’s appealed to a female demographic by using a wedding-themed promotion for its new product. Following the example of other major brands which have used Twitch, using influencers from the streaming site marks an attempt to reach out to its younger male viewership beyond YouTube. Their strategy principally involved using the duo to promote the Hershey’s Reese’s Pieces mashup through a collaborative livestream and continuing the campaign with cross-platform promotion through their secondary channels on Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter in the run-up to TwitchCon 2018. At 27 and 31 years old and a combined Twitch following of nearly 15 million, Ninja and Dr. Lupo are young and enjoy enormous support from the community. They also engage a collective average of just under 70,000 concurrent viewers—that is to say, viewers of a stream at any one time.
Ninja and Dr. Lupo are streamers who are largely inoffensive, more engaged, and command more loyalty with their audiences. These qualities make them perfect candidates to target the key demographic of young males Hershey’s attempts to reach in their campaign.’
‘For their collaborative stream, Ninja and Dr. Lupo endorsed the product in a mostly unobtrusive fashion, stopping infrequently to talk about it and show the chocolate to their audience. In addition to this, they utilized a small on-screen graphic to appear far more frequently to promote the campaign. The stream was light-hearted in nature, as expected, featuring them playing the game Fortnite. They streamed together for 12 hours, with Ninja achieving a maximum concurrent viewership of 83,447 and Dr. Lupo bringing in a max of 14,315—above average performances for both streamers.’

Reflection
After looking into this campaign I thought it was a really good idea about getting there new chocolate bars out there. I like how they aimed at both male and female audience using a different technique aiming it at women by doing a wedding themed bar as the new women will be watching there streams and might find the product interesting. And a lot of boys enjoy fortnite as it is such as big game they didn’t really need any theme and just showed them the chocolate bar. I thought it was a really good technique them using big gamers who play one of the most popular game right now to advertise there product especially being at twitch con as it is one of the most watching and mainstream streaming sights there is and they generate a lot of viewers both male and female therefore by getting these really well known players to show and talk about there product people will be more aware about it and interested that the company hopefully gets people buying the product. I really like the idea of them thinking out the box and advertising on a completely new platform that the knew had there audience on there that watched it daily and is something I will consider for my idea. Another thing that I liked about this campaign is during the stream they used small images of the chocolate bar throughout and a screen behind them when playing, this is another good technique of advertising there new chocolate because people ae constantly seeing it on screen over and over again. I really like this campaign as it was a new way of reaching a wider audience and its something that is never really done form doing this they could aim at a mainstream audience both male and female. I also really like the fact that they used big names to advertise there product too as this is a technique big brands use.
Here is the website I used to find this campaign –
Case Study: Hershey’s Chocolate & Reese’s Team Up With Twitch Gamers
In-text: (Mediakix | Influencer Marketing Agency, 2019)
Your Bibliography: Mediakix | Influencer Marketing Agency. (2019). Case Study: Hershey’s Chocolate & Reese’s Team Up With Twitch Gamers. [online] Available at: http://mediakix.com/2018/11/hersheys-influencer-marketing-twitch-case-study-gaming/#gs.73bm32 [Accessed 21 Apr. 2019].
The next campaign case study that I looked at is Nestle Lion Bar –
‘The campaign focuses on the concept of the new Lion being a “dangerously better bar”.
Osmosis account director Nick Ward explains: “Lion should have a dangerous feel. It wasn’t delivering as a product, it wasn’t dangerous and it was down the scale from Mars and Snickers. The relaunch is to bring the product in line with what people expect.”
Ward says attitudes towards confectionery have changed. “Confectionery eating is less about being filled, more about having a refreshing snack on the move,” he argues.
Nestle brand manager David Hardwick says this is why the bar is being transformed. Just as Mars’ advertising has moved from emphasising the satisfaction of hunger to a focus on pleasure, so Lion has had to refocus on taste. Following Nestle research, says Hardwick, the Lion bar’s chocolate has been made lighter and milkier and the caramel softer. There is a little less wafer, a little more cream and more, smaller crispy bits. “The only thing that hasn’t changed is the recipe for the wafer,” he says. It’s for this reason that Hardwick says: “Sampling is critical. The product has improved so much, but people won’t realise until they try it.” Osmosis’s sampling team is targeting ten shopping centres and 20 town centre locations to give away more than 650,000 small bars. The “dangerous” theme is emphasised by the team’s ripped combat gear and the cage that is the experiential side of the activity. The lion cage parallels the vending machine in the above-the-line execution: the cage in the TV ad, through JWT, appears to have a lion inside. The sampling cage has four apertures through which shoppers can put their hands. In the first they feel a “purring lion” – a moulded lion’s back, with fur and other different textures. Through the second is a lion’s tail and whiskers. Through the third, shoppers can feel four lion kittens, which move and make miaowing sounds.
From the fourth they can pull out a Lion bar. If there is a sticker with a lion’s head on it, the shopper wins a mini fridge. If it is a sticker with claw marks, the prize is a £5 High Street Voucher. The sampling is reinforced with a text-and-win promotion to win “dangerously better gear”. Consumers have to text the last four digits of the barcode to enter a weekly prize draw, with ten flat-screen TVs, 20 mini hi-fis, 50 mini fridges and 200 prizes of 50 Lion bars up for grabs.
“The drive into store is really valuable,” says Hardwick. “The chances are that people are going to buy.”
Both aspects of the campaign are well suited to the target market of teenage boys. This is a new positioning for Nestle, which traditionally targeted 18- to 34-year-old males.
“The campaign imagery is spot on for the way we wanted to communicate the brand,” says Hardwick. Ward adds: “We wanted to get the brand out there – we know it performs well when people taste it. We’re getting people to interact. We’re making the advertising come alive.”
Nestle has invested £6.7 million in the relaunch across Europe. Alongside Osmosis and JWT in the UK, Ptarmigan is providing PR support and MindShare is handling media buying.’

Reflection
After looking into this campaign I thought they did really well aiming the chocolate bar at a male audience as they use a strong powerful animal on the packaging which is a lion and males tend to like animals like that and how they use masculine colours on there packaging which is more appealing to them and finally the name of the chocolate bar, font and colour. They use the word lion in a sans serif font which is bold and think which is typical for a male audience to like more than a serif which is more feminine, the name is in really big letters so it stands out and catches there audiences eyes. The colouring on the name is masculine too as its red on the outside and yellow in the middle, the red makes the yellow stand out more and gives it a pop. Red suggest power and danger which s exactly what a lion is and it is how men want to feel therefore if they eat this chocolate bar they will feel like this. I like how the made 1,000s of these chocolate bars and stood in city centres giving them out to people I really like this technique because people are able to try them to see if they like them or not, also there is a large variety of people at large shopping areas and thousands of people go therefore they would have been able to distribute it out to many people. Another good technique about them giving out free samples is that they would have gained lots of feedback for people about what could be changed and what shouldn’t and this would have a positive impact on there company if they changed it to how people liked it as the audience will feel like they are involved and that the brand is being interactive with them. Overall, I am really happy that I looked into this campaign because I have learned about new techniques that brands use to advertise there new products I also like how they did contests for the pack of 4 and if you have a sticker on the bar there are big prizes to be won and this is something I would like to do for my idea and now I have more inspiration for my own.
Here is the website I got this campaign from –
Case Study: Nestle – Nestle’s Lion Bar
In-text: (Campaignlive.co.uk, 2019)
Your Bibliography: Campaignlive.co.uk. (2019). Case Study: Nestle – Nestle’s Lion Bar. [online] Available at: https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/case-study-nestle-nestles-lion-bar/209393?src_site=brandrepublic [Accessed 23 Apr. 2019].
Reflection
Overall, I am glad that I looked into these two campaigns because I liked how they used two different ideas to advertise there product and succeed really well doing into. Both these companies thinked outside the box and did something not all companies do to advertise there product. One of the main techniques that I liked was using a major event and known people do advertise there new product however this was on a platform that not all company’s know about and would consider advertising. This has given me inspiration because its thinking outside the box when advertising something, and what site or what you could do to aim at your specific audience more precisely therefore this is something that will have an impact on my idea. Another thing that I really liked was Nestle giving out samples of there chocolate bars to gain audience feedback on them, I think this is a really good way of advertising and getting people to like your product also it would have helped with the improvement of there product too if they got lots of bad feedback on one bit they would change it or they didn’t like the packaging. This has inspired me to ask my audience more about the product and be more interactive so that I can the best results for my own. I am really happy that I looked into these and they have given me lots of inspiration for my own product.




























