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Love in the end

Lacta a leading chocolate brand in Greece has been creating innovative film content since 2009 around its strategy of being a symbol for the sweetness of love. For the latest installment Lacta invited fans to submit their stories of unfulfilled love, with the promise to give them the happy end they never had i.e. on the cinema screen.

Finally three stories formed the basis of a film screenplay, entitled “Love in the end”, that was released on Valentine’s Day 2013. A transmedia campaign promoted the film and it became a big hit with audiences in Greece. 17% of the Greek Internet Population saw the online teasers, resulting in 700.000 views and hundreds of rave comments. Anticipation for the film’s release was also very high and evident through the increase of Lacta’s Facebook fans by 100.000. This made it’s Facebook page the biggest for any brand in Greece, with 650.000 fans.

The film also had the biggest opening night for any Greek movie in the last 5 years, with more than 75% of the all movie tickets being sold for it.

Here are the past film based campaigns:
2010 – Love in action
2009 – Love at first site

Lacta Love Messages

Ad agency OgilvyOne Athens has created another innovative campaign for Lacta Chocolate. This time consumers are able to write their own love messages and see them appear on real Lacta Chocolate bars though an augmented reality mobile app…

Click here to view some of the past Lacta Chocolate campaigns that are equally innovative.

Lacta Chocolate Facebook App

You open the Lacta Chocolate Facebook app, type your loved one’s name, and customise a Lacta wrapper around them. The app matches them to a Lacta flavour, then you push it out as a wall-to-wall post. In seconds, your “love message” becomes something your friends can see, react to, and copy.

The app idea. Turn affection into something people want to publish

The app is built around a simple insight. People naturally compare their loved ones with chocolates. Lacta turns that behaviour into a lightweight creation tool, so the output is personal, visual, and instantly shareable.

Why some Facebook apps explode while others flop

Plenty of Facebook apps chase scale and get nothing. The difference usually comes down to three basics.

1) Simplicity

A couple of clicks to get to the app and to the point of action.

2) Shareability

All the standard sharing features that make it easy to spread.

3) Insight

Something a fan might actually use, comment on, and share.

Who builds it, and what the traction looks like

Once again OgilvyOne Athens gets into action and creates an app that lets people customise a Lacta chocolate wrapper in their loved one’s name and compare them to a particular Lacta flavour, before using the wall-to-wall post feature to get the message across.

In just over a month the app generates over 150,000+ fans, with thousands using personalised chocolate wrappers as profile pics.

A few fast answers before you act

What is the Lacta Chocolate Facebook app in one sentence?

It is a simple Facebook app that lets you personalise a Lacta wrapper with a loved one’s name, match them to a flavour, and share it as a wall-to-wall post.

Why does this app spread?

Because the output is personal and visual, the creation flow is fast, and the sharing mechanic is built into the final step.

What are the three success factors highlighted here?

Simplicity, shareability, and a real insight that people actually want to express publicly.

What is the key execution lesson to copy?

Make the “thing people share” the natural end product of the interaction, not an optional add-on after the fact.