• Skittles – Teeth-Rotting Evil Or Savvy Marketing? They Don't Care So Long As We Tweet About Them

    Monday, March 2nd, 2009

    Mike Butcher is the European Editor for TechCrunch. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. Mike is also a co-founder and shareholder of TechHub, a co-working space/service/community with several locations... → Learn More


    Whoever is running the digital marketing for the Skittles candy brand has a strong constitution. They are clearly not afraid of the Wildean maxim “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” Today, the Mars-owned brand changed the Skittles home page to a Twitter search page pre-set to search for the word Skittles. The result was predictable. We all started tweeting about it, and increasingly in not a nice way, as Twitterers attempted to see how much abuse they could take. But clearly they are up for the conversational experiment. The brand has also been re-directing to its Wikipedia entry.

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