90 Million ZooZoo Emoji Impressions in Just 2 Days

Vodafone India’s much loved ZooZoo in its unique emoji avatar generated an estimate of 90 million impressions in just 2 days of its launch on Twitter. Zoozoo fans across the world shared their emotions, using specially designed emojis linked to two hashtags - #BeSuper and #HakkeBakke.

Vodafone, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers, and Twitter, a global platform for public self-expression and conversation in real time, had partnered to launch the much loved ZooZoo in emoji avatar on April 25, 2016, the first time that a corporate emoji was thus launched. The emoji of the Super ZooZoo appeared next to the #BeSuper and #HakkeBakke hashtag in any tweet sent worldwide.

Speaking about this unique initiative, Siddharth Banerjee, National Head, Brand and Consumer Insights, Vodafone India, said, “With visual content gaining popularity especially among younger consumers, emojis have a broad play across all demographics. Vodafone India has always been at the forefront of providing innovative and user friendly mobile internet experience for its customers in India. Our partnership with Twitter and the customised brand emojis was yet another step in our ongoing endeavour to make mobile internet more fun, smart, engaging and easy. This innovative initiative to engage with social media savvy customers saw much success and we will be further integrating these ZooZoo emojis into our marketing and ad campaigns on social media”

Speaking about introducing Zoozoo as an emoji, Taranjeet Singh, Business Head of India, Twitter, said, “Innovation through custom emojis enhances a brand's personality and engagement on Twitter. The Zoozoo is an established icon associated with IPL for many years now. We are proud to partner with Vodafone to introduce Zoozoo to Twitter as the first brand emoji for India this cricket season”.

Twitter has teamed with select brands since late 2015 to co-create the branded emojis including the government’s Twitter Emoji of #MakeInIndia. Associating with Vodafone India marked the beginning of India’s first corporate brand emoji launch.

About Vodafone India

Vodafone India is a 100% fully owned subsidiary of the Vodafone Group Plc. with operations across the country serving over 195 million customers (over 100 million in rural areas). Commencing operations in 2007, Vodafone is today India’s largest foreign direct investor, with a robust, award winning business and committed for the long term. Vodafone Business Services serves the needs of enterprises and government by providing total telecommunications (Voice and Data) solutions across mobility and wireline platforms. Our mobile wallet, M-Pesa is a unique and innovative money transfer service from Vodafone that fosters financial inclusion.

Committed to optimizing the near ubiquitous reach of mobile telephony to address national developmental priorities, the Vodafone Foundation partners is actively engaged in community development initiatives especially in the domains of m-Women, m-Agriculture, m-Education and Disaster Relief. Building on its global experience and expertise, an outreach across India and offering a comprehensive portfolio of technologies- 2G, 3G & 4G, Vodafone is uniquely positioned to actualize the vision of Digital India

Globally, Vodafone is one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies and provides a range of services including voice, messaging, data and fixed communications. Vodafone has mobile operations in 26 countries, partners with mobile networks in 57 more, and has fixed broadband operations in 17 markets. As of 31st December 2015, Vodafone had 461 million mobile customers and 13 million fixed broadband customers.

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