Every fall fashion devotes religiously check their mailboxes for one thing: The September Issue. Year by year the issues grow thicker, the 2013 issues rivaling phone books. What could possibly fill those hundreds of pages? Advertisements. Every major brand works tirelessly to have their fall campaign stand out on the glossy pages of the magazine. However, this year one brand’s campaign instantly stood out.
Luxury brand Oscar de la Renta (ODLR) released their fall ad campaign early on Instagram. This July, ODLR released eight photos from the Instagram account oscarprgirl; run by Erika Bearman, Senior Vice President of Global Communications for Oscar de la Renta. Each photo was from the company’s fall ad campaign and contained credits and ordering information in the caption.
Image via Mashable
Oscar de la Renta didn’t release the photos exclusively on Instagram, they were also printed for September issues, but the release shows the impact of the digital world on the fashion industry. Oscarprgirl has more than 175,000 followers and the account is another way for the brand to reach their consumers. According to Mashable each image had more than 1,000 likes in the first hour.
Instagram doesn’t allow direct links in their captions so ODLR wasn’t able to directly track pre-orders from the individual photos. However, they could follow the traffic in real time and gauge the success from there.
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This is a great example of marketing and advertising used properly on Instagram. My post about Instagram video is related to this topic. I definitely think a lot of businesses, especially in the fashion industry, could benefit from the way social media and digital marketing works nowadays. Thanks for sharing!
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