It’s the most wonderful time of the year: when Spotify Wrapped goes more viral than Influenza A. Since 2016, Spotify has packaged up your behavioral data and gifted you a snackable, shareable musical reflection of your year. You benefit from some social clout, and Spotify builds serious brand equity. Win-win.
The viral campaign has improved each year, dramatically increasing user engagement and tweet volume. 2022 is record-breaking in impressions, engagements, unique authors, and tweet volume. Within the first three days of its launch, 425,000,000 tweets mentioned Spotify Wrapped.
So, what can we learn from the success of Spotify Wrapped?
- Optimize your content for social sharing. It has to be good enough to share on the grid, and you have to make it easy for users to do so.
- Annual campaigns—which capitalize on a sense of ritual or tradition—have the potential to build major excitement.
- Be a good sport and create brand-specific spoof content, like Guinness (“You spent 119.5 seconds waiting for your pint to settle”).
Check out the full Spotify Wrapped download over at Sprout Social.
