Elfamorphosis
When we launched Elf Yourself for OfficeMax in 2006, not many wish lists started, or even ended with office supply stores. The category name itself doesn’t exactly elicit the same tinge of excitement normally associated with the Macy’s, Best Buys and Santa’s Workshops of the world. Fortunately for all of us, we found a way to change all that.
Like we do for many of our serious marketing challenges, we produced an incredibly light-hearted solution, ElfYourself.com. The innovative, elf-laden site allowed users to upload faces of themselves, their friends and their family members and put them on cheerful dancing holiday elves to create customized ecards. A toll-free number even let users record a personalized elfin’ greeting.
The results are legendary
Users forwarded the cards to their loves ones, posted links on their blogs and social networking profiles, footage was recorded to YouTube, and during its rise as the quintessential holiday ecard, Elf Yourself was featured on morning, talk, news and sports shows across the country.
193Million
Visitors
190%
Site Traffic Increase
123Million
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MEDIA COVERAGE OF ELF YOURSELF
Pretty much everyone knows the Elf Yourself website, but not everyone knows just how much media coverage the marketing campaign received when it launched. Here are just a few examples of the extensive media coverage we received.