We can't wait to share with you the great news! Pepsi Romania's amazing campaign "Pepsi Today. The same as yesterday", that was submitted by Graffiti BBDO, has won two Effie Romania Awards, the Grand Effie Romania 2012 and an Effie Gold, as last year’s most effective publicity campaign.

XPLAIN was thrilled to be part of PepsiCo's creative team along with Graffiti BBDO and GMP, in order to implement this campaign in Social Media. To this aim we designed the content strategy and developed and ran a Facebook application, that attracted thousands of new fans to Pepsi’s official Facebook fan page.

Furthermore XPLAIN designed and ran the Facebook advertising campaign for “Pepsi Today. The same as yesterday".

The whole Facebook activation reached more than 3.000.000 unique users.

Finally XPLAIN created the word of mouth marketing strategy for the campaign.

Congrats, Pepsi, it’s great working with you!

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Pinterest is the new kid on the Social Media block! And within a very short period of time, it has been proved very successful in driving traffic to websites, and in converting visits to sales.

One of the reasons why Pinterest works so well is the visual element and the fact that it allows the price of the item to be shown.

No matter how big or how small your company is, Pinterest is the right tool for you!

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