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Media Logic put its experience designing effective Facebook promotions to work for FYE and co-op partner EMI Music, and boy, did we rock it! FYEGUY’s “Make Me The FYE VIP” contest plugged into the excitement surrounding Lollapalooza 2011 with a custom post-a-video-and-vote promotion that really got people talking … and sharing. Post-a-video-and-vote promotions can generate huge traffic and engagement. But they can fizzle when the passion for the promotion is just not there. For example, a recent post-a-video promotion by Dunkin Donuts, all about the coffee with no co-op tie-in, triggered a dismal video entry rate of just 2 out of every 100,000 DD likers. FYE on the other hand generated 2 video entries for every 1,000 likers – that’s 100x better than DD. And those videos pulled in more than 7,000 total visits to vote.

FYEGUY and Amazon.com Music & TV have been fighting for the title of fastest growing brand the last few weeks on the Media Logic Top 10 Facebook Retailers list. FYEGUY held the top spot (in terms of percentage growth) for the week ending 5/30, building Likers on the back of two strong back-to-back promotions. Amazon.com Music & TV bested the mall chain last week with a Liker-threshold contest that offered a big Father’s Day discount on “ESPN Films: 30 for 30 Limited Edition Collector Set” if the site attracted 32,000 fans (which it did). And then this week, FYEGUY moved back ahead with a hot Lollapalooza promo. However, this week also saw Eddie Bauer beat both entertainment retailers at their own game with a music giveaway sweepstakes that drove a Liker spike of almost 16 percent.

We work hard at Media Logic to remain neutral in our reporting on the state of marketing for a social world. There is a lot of good news and a lot of great ideas to spread around. We don’t need to be hogs. And honestly, we think “rising Likers lifts all boats.” But we have to admit that it does feel pretty good to tell you that at 21 percent, the fastest-growing major brand on Facebook for the week ending June 5 was none other than our founding retail account FYE. It also feels pretty good to report that the third fastest-growing brand, Cabela’s, is a Media Logic client, too. Against some pretty mighty odds, FYE has been growing its FYEGUY social persona at a prodigious rate as of late. In our recent webinar, FYE Naked, we boldly predicted that growth wouldn’t stop – that it would spike. That prediction came true when back-to-back Facebook-based social promotions, Angry Birds and Tech N9ne, drove the big percent increase in Likers and our Zeitgeist & Coffeesm-managed social effort earned FYE the highest Facebook engagement score among 100 tracked brands.

Learn the naked truth about one retailer’s social media promotions

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It’s not every day you get to see a brand in the buff. Media Logic pulls back the curtain back on FYEGUY, its ongoing social media marketing effort on behalf of FYE, the largest specialty digital entertainment retailer in the United States.

Media Logic recently teamed up with F.Y.E. and Vivendi Entertainment on a project that really tested our ability to move fast… and think even faster. Under a deadline of less than 48 hours, we concepted, developed and executed a regionally focused promotion for the WWE in support of their flagship event: Wrestlemania XVII.

All combined, the Jackass films produced by Johnny Knoxville and the gang have grossed more than $300 million worldwide. So with Jackass 3D (the most successful of the three pics) prepping for release on Blu-ray and DVD, Paramount and FYE turned to Media Logic to help them make a big, muddy, disgusting splash. Leveraging exclusive content from the DVD (hosted on FYE’s “fyeguy” Facebook page), contesting and targeted facebook advertising – as well as fyeguy’s regular twitter and Facebook streams – we helped to build momentum for the release. Then, when the DVD actually dropped, we followed that up with an additional foursquare promotion that closed the loop – driving customers directly to FYE stores nationwide.