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04/09/2012 by
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Why Obama Will Probably Be Re-Elected

Back in 2009 we already praised Barack Obama’s brilliant brand interaction and consumer connectivity program. Today President Barack Obama is running for a second and final term during this election. A new campaign, with a new social media strategy.

Our article whas about what brands could learn from Barack Obama and his social media marketing approach. Check out this article if you want to know what you should do when a Hollywood icon bashes you with an empty chair in 2012…

Have you noticed one of these days some of your friends or colleagues were talking to an empty chair? Don’t worry! They’re probably just “Eastwooding”…. come again?!

Yes, “Eastwooding“!

@InvisibleObama & #Eastwooding
On August 30th, actor Clint Eastwood appeared on stage at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, to give an  speech for the Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. The most memorable moment of the speech came when he began asking a series of questions to an empty chair alongside his podium that were rhetorically directed at President Obama.

Check out the speach below:

As the speech aired on television, the US audience reacted by posting jokes about Eastwood’s mock interview on several social media, many of whom used the hashtag #invisibleobama. It even had its own Twitter parody account. The account had over 40,000 followers by Friday morning.

Check out some tweets below from this account below:

Meanwhile, there was still no official response from the Obama team. Until Obama suddenly jumped into the internet activity. He responded to Eastwood’s speech with this brilliant tweet below:

The fact that Obama says he’s a ‘huge’ Eastwood fan despite ‘invisible Obama’ monologue, makes it even more brilliant.

According to Mashable, some of the “biggest buzz” came out of the Republican National Convention, specifically from Eastwood’s ten-minute chair speech.

But from my social media marketing point of view, the Obama tweet is exactly the kind of content these day’s audiences want to consume: smart, short, fast with the right sense of humour.

So my prediction for this election, when it comes to smart social media marketing:

Obama for another 4 years.

So what do you believe brands can learn from this? Looking forward to your thoughts!

Special Announcement: As our Obama Social Strategy 2009 article is one of the most popular pieces on ViralBlog, we decided to execute an extensive research again on the 2012 social campaign strategy. If you want to share any kind of valuable facts, figures or ideas regarding this subject, please let us know!


About the author

Laurens Bianchi is an online marketing professional from the Netherlands and has been blogging on ViralBlog since 2008. Currently Laurens is a Managing Partner and Commercial Director at ICON&Co. Within the company Laurens is responsible for online and social media consultancy.

You can connect with Laurens via ICON&Co, Twitter, LinkedIn.

Read Laurens’ articles on Viralblog.

 

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