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Social Media Communities Impacting

the Industry at Large


Friday, February 18th at 7:45 AM
Case Study: 

The peanut butter recall of 2009

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Consumers embraced social media
In the US:
§  FDA Peanut Butter Recall widget was used 1.4M
times in just 9 days following launch, and appeared
on over 5,000 different websites (Feb. 2009)
§  FDA Recalls Twitter feed had over 1,600 followers
(Feb. 2009)
§  FDA’s Peanut Butter Recall blog received over
14,000 total pageviews within a month of the FDA
announcement

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Consumers embraced social media
… and around the world:
§  Organizations such as the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency (CFIA) and the UK’s Food
Standards Agency (FSA) leveraged social media to
warn consumers about contaminated brands like
Just Desserts, Tree Huggin’ Treats and Luna Bars

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Twi3er  Messaging   Bu3ons  &  Badges   Podcasts  

Bloginars   Recall  Blog   Social  Networking  Sites  

Mobile  content    
Widgets   Online  Video  

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Consumers expressed their peanut
butter fears (and passions) online

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Online conversations turned negative

Pre-recall Post-recall

Source: Nielsen – Brand Association Map (2009) 7


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Cases around the world

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