OMB: A Twitter Campaign Worth One Minute of Your Time
In March 2019 we decided it was time to up our game in terms of our creativity. We wanted to do something that would be inspiring, worthwhile, and most importantly, fun. An OMB Twitter campaign.
Our Head of Content, Gareth Alvarez, has been going on about OMB for some time now. We’ve listened to him, but we hadn’t heard him. OMB, for those that don’t know, is One Minute Briefs. The concept is simple but very effective:
“One Rule. One Minute. Create an Ad.”
So, we thought we’d run a little social media experiment, and decided to run a brief: “Advertise the benefits of #SocialMediaMarketing for Businesses and SMEs“. Our goal was a bit meta. Use social media marketing, to advertise the benefits of social media marketing, and prove the value of social media marketing.
We had an (excuse the Octopus pun) inkling that our experiment would generate some interesting results. But we had no idea what to expect.
Suffice to say, we were blown away by the response that followed.
In total, we received 125 entries to our OMB.
But Why Would This Matter to You and Your Business?
Well, that’s what I wanted to share with you today. What really blew us away about running this OMB Twitter Campaign was the definitive results we saw. Not just on Twitter, but across our other online platforms too.
In the last 28 days, you can see our tweets have gained 168,000 impressions. That’s up by a staggering 1,260%. We’ve also gained nearly 100 new followers as a result.
But that’s not all it’s done.
We’ve become more active on Twitter as a result of running this OMB. We’re engaging with a whole community of creatives and copywriters, and we absolutely love the conversations we’re having as a result.
During the course of the month, our team has ended up posting more than 380 Tweets. And almost all of them have been part of a bigger conversation, with other brands, with professionals, and the public.
Here’s the tweet that started it all:
On the day, that Tweet on OMB’s account received over 5,000 impressions and more than 400 engagements.
We tallied up all our Tweets from the day, 165 of them, and here’s the breakdown:
- 165 Tweets
- 41,000+ Impressions
- 1,066 Engagement
All that in a day’s work…
The Compounding Effect
What you need to remember is, it wasn’t just our Tweets that mattered. It wasn’t OMB’s Tweets either. What really makes an OMB work for a brand is the OMBLES themselves. Everyone that takes part in the OMB Twitter Campaign.
Our Head of Content’s post:
And the winner:
This is just a tiny selection of stats (125 entries on Twitter alone), but you get the idea. Just these 5 alone generated some impressive numbers:
- 6,300+ Impressions
- 430+ Engagement
- Just under 7% Engagement Rate
So, if we use these 5 as a representative model average for our data set, we could hypothesise that all 125 entries would have created something like:
- 158,000 Impressions
- 10,950 Engagements
Most importantly, all of this organic traffic on Twitter was generated by engaging with the OMB community during our brief.
Cross Platform
OMB is mainly hosted on Twitter. They post the entries, shortlist, and winners on Facebook too. So, we decided to get equally involved across all our platforms to really engage with everyone that took part.
You can see the clear impact this had, with another 5X peak in engagement.
The Impact on Our Website
Our daily traffic on the website spiked nearly 5X the day of the OMB. We were thrilled to see people getting involved. But when it started to translate into website visitors and ultimately leads coming through, we were ecstatic.
You can see from the stats we had an additional smaller jump the following day after announcing the winners.
Social Media Is All About Being Social
It’s funny how even though it’s called social media, we can often find ourselves forgetting the social aspect and simply using it as a megaphone, to keep shouting out our message.
This is the biggest benefit for brands running OMBs. See just how engaged you can become with the online crowd. We think it’s enough to get brands “hooked on a feeling” so to say.
So, What’s Next?
When we get asked by our clients how to go viral, we facepalm, hard. But we do get asked these sorts of questions. What we try to explain is there’s a need to keep a consistent, high-quality stream of content that brings value, engages with the audience and starts a conversation.
We think the stats speak for themselves:
- 204k Impressions
- 12k Engagement
(Averaged from data provided by OMB, individual contributors, and our own Twitter analytics)
To sum up, if you want to jumpstart your Twitter profile, why not run a One Minute Brief? You’re engaging with an incredible group of people, and you’ll find more creativity and different points of view than you could ever imagine.
You can, of course, reach out to us to find out more.
In closing, we’d like to say a huge thank you once again to everyone that took part. It was a truly amazing day, and we had a great time. If you want to see all the entries, you can find them here on our Facebook page.
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