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Alibaba unveils Olympics campaign in first corporate ad push outside China

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Updated: Mon, Jan 29, 2018
09:19 pm
Reuters
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Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is debuting a global marketing campaign outside China for the first time, the company said on Monday, with the release of Olympic advertisements focusing on underdog stories in countries such as the United States, Britain, South Korea and Japan.

The international advertising push, which includes videos featuring the Kenyan ice hockey team, comes as the $525 billion company looks for growth abroad to maintain investor expectations while the broader online retail market in its home market in China has become more saturated.

Centered on the motto "to the greatness of small", Alibaba will run a billboard campaign in South Korea, the host country for the Feb. 9 to 25 Pyeongchang Winter Games, as well as social media ads in the United States, Britain and Japan. TV commercials and billboards will also appear in China.

It is the first time the company has launched a global branding campaign for the parent company, instead of for one of its business units, Chief Marketing Officer Chris Tung said in an interview. The international ads will appear on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Linkedin.

"Our advertising will help introduce our brand and what Alibaba stands for to audiences beyond China," Tung said, adding that these are "critical strategically important markets."

Alibaba`s Tmall and Taobao shopping platforms dominate online retail in China. But it is not well known in many parts of the world, including in the United States where Amazon.com Inc is the e-commerce leader. It has previously said it would bring one million small U.S. businesses to its platform to sell to Chinese customers over five years.

The ads focus on underdog stories, which capture the spirit of Alibaba, Tung said, and are in line with a small and medium size business push that Alibaba`s founder and executive chairman Jack Ma has been championing. Ma, a schoolteacher in China who went on to become the country`s richest man, has said he founded his company to help small businesses.

Alibaba faces a crowded and changing Olympics advertising landscape. Many brands, even some focused only on technology, are competing for attention, while global TV ratings for the Olympics have not been growing.

Alibaba said a year ago that it would be an Olympics sponsor until at least 2028. While the financial terms of the 11-year deal were not disclosed, it is likely valued at several hundred millions of dollars, sources have said.

One of the ads features the Kenyan ice hockey team, which Tung said Alibaba would bring to Korea even though they will not be competing.

Another vignette is of Australia`s Bobby Pearce, who stopped during an Olympic rowing race in 1928 to make way for a family of ducks. The videos, produced by advertising agency BBDO, will run in English, Chinese, and Japanese.

Tung said Alibaba will not be sponsoring individual athletes as part of its campaign.

As a new long-term Olympic sponsor, Tung said he has been getting many calls from chief marketing officers about how to work with the company during the Games.

"Since we announced our partnership we`ve been engaged in ongoing conversations with the top partners like Procter & Gamble Co, Coca-Cola Co, Samsung Electronics and Intel Corp and so on to identify opportunities to work together in both the short term and long term," Tung said.

(This article has not been edited by Zeebiz editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

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