Over 4.2 million peanut emojis have been used on Twitter since the emoji’s creation for the Spreading Good Campaign and the National Peanut Board (NPB) has set out to reach 6 million peanut emojis on Twitter by March 31 (National Peanut Month). Ryan Lepicier, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, National Peanut Board, tells Portada how he is using emoji marketing.
The National Peanut Board (NPB) is giving substance to the peanut emoji by turning digital peanuts into real peanuts. The company will turn Peanut emojis into real peanut butter donations to food banks across the nation. The NPB is not only making a donation based upon all the U.S. peanut emojis used to-date on Twitter. In addition, they’re encouraging consumers to continue to use the peanut emoji on Twitter to fuel even more peanut butter donations to food banks.
Emoji Marketing as Amplification Tool
“With emojis, we’ve been able to create a simple and straightforward campaign that is very user-friendly. Emojis are a universal language to communicate feelings and emotions. Thus, it makes it easy to engage with a broad range of audiences”, Ryan Lepicier, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, National Peanut Board tells Portada.
“For example, the fan base behind popular South Korean K-Pop Band, BTS caught wind of our campaign and it quickly spread across their audience. We saw an increase of peanut emojis used within hours! In less than two weeks, we saw more than a million peanut emojis used on Twitter, surpassing our original goal. With people around the globe Spreading Good, NPB decided to increase the campaign goal. The objective is 6 million emojis on Twitter by March 31 and in return, NPB will donate 17,000 pounds of peanuts and peanut butter to food banks.
Millennial Target
According to NPB data, about 94% of homes in the U.S. have at least one jar of peanut butter in their pantry. For the Spreading Good campaign, NPB targets millennials, who on average, spend nearly 18 hours a day on different types of media and 71% say they engage with social media daily. With this in mind, NPB honed into the digital space with an emphasis on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Twitter, a Good Vehicle for Emoji Marketing
According to Lepicier, through Twitter the NPB was able to connect to its target audience: Millennials. Millennials have an average attention span of only 12 seconds, making it important to capture their attention quickly. To do so, the NPB thought of a tone for its Twitter page @PeanutsHere that was quick, fun, and a little nutty – just like the platform. “The Spreading Good campaign is all about shareable content and a sense of unity. For these reasons, we felt Twitter was our strongest platform to bring this fun campaign to life”, Lepicier concludes.
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