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AOL"S BIGGEST CD-ROM MARKETING CAMPAIGN IN HISTORY
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- NGUYEN ANH TUAN
✨AOL'S BIGGEST CD-ROM MARKETING CAMPAIGN IN HISTORY 💿🌟😱✨
Hello my loves! 🙋♀️🙋♂️ Do you know how massive the direct marketing campaign that giant AOL (America Online) implemented in the 1990s was? 😲💿 Turns out back then, for every 2 CDs 💽 produced globally, 1 had the AOL logo on it! 😱🌍 Talk about being "one of a kind"! 🤣👍
At that time, the Internet was still in its "infancy" 🥚🌊, AOL wanted to expand its "empire" 🏰 so it sent millions of CDs 💿 to households across the US. 🇺🇸📬 Each disc contained AOL's Internet connection software, along with attractive free trial deals 🎁. Users just needed to insert the disc into the CD drive, install the software, and they could "surf the net" freely. 😎🖱️ This may sound cumbersome now, but back then it was "high-tech specialty"! 🤓💻
And this CD marketing strategy "invaded American life on an "epic" scale 🌋! You could find AOL discs everywhere, from mailboxes 📬, magazines 🗞️, supermarkets 🛒 to cereal boxes 🥣. If you flipped over a rock, chances are you'd find an AOL CD underneath. 😂🪨💿 It's both "hilarious" and "goosebump-inducing"! 🤣😨
But the effect was "no joke"! 🔥 In just a few years, AOL's subscribers skyrocketed from 200,000 to 25 million 📈, turning the company into a $150 billion "giant" 💰 by the late 1990s. Talk about "go big or go home"! 😎🏆
Today, when high-speed Internet has become as common as "daily rice" 🍚🌐, AOL's CDs have become "treasures" 💎 of the past. But they remain a testament to AOL's golden age and the history of the Internet's development. 📜💻 The fact that 50% of the world's CDs once bore the AOL logo is proof of the campaign's "might" and "massive" scale - a record that will likely be very hard to break! 🏅🌍😱
So, have any "marketing gurus" 🤴👸 gotten inspiration from AOL's "legendary" campaign? 😉💡 Comment your perspective! 💬 Don't forget to tag your friends to "party" with these interesting fun facts 🤪 together! 😘💕