Tinder has been around since 2012 and ever since the app’s launch in 2014 in India, the country’s dating apps have grown in number. Tinder claims to have caused over 2 billion matches on its platform making it one of the most popular mobile apps across the globe.
Tinder’s entry into India, where it was considered to be a conservative market when it comes to dating, was a total surprise. With a variety of campaigns that was focussed towards Millenials, the app gathered its full forces with their marketing strategies in the country. It was no wonder that a younger, marketing focussed brand like Tinder incorporated influencer marketing into its larger advertising strategy – apart from its TV ads and social media campaigns, to raise brand awareness and attract new users. Tinder partnered up with multiple influencers over a number of campaigns in India to gain popularity.
Tinder’s Indian marketing
Greenroom picked some of the top campaigns by the brands that stamped its entry and made it one of the top downloaded apps in the past decade in the country.
Swipe Stories
Tinder’s long-running Swipe Stories campaign focuses on the users’ cute and quirky experiences on the app. While the Instagram audience have been lapping it up and posting experiences with the hashtag, the brand also collaborated with influencers like Kenny Sebastian and Kaneez Surka to give a push to this heartwarming campaign. The hashtag now has over 1000 personal posts from the audience filled with stories.
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Single not sorry
Tinder’s “Single, Not Sorry” campaign for Tinder kicked off with a series of digital/social ads featuring women dating the way they want to. The women here are unapologetically single, confident, and meeting new experiences head-on. They embody what single is today.
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The brand collaborated with Indian influencers who generated personalized content and talked about enjoying their single lives.
Eat Pray Swipe
Tinder collaborated Eat Pray Swipe takes the app experience of Tinder and brings it to life – browsing, swiping left or right, going on a date and repeating the whole cycle, endlessly.
The video featured a few TVF influencers with a story around using the app features. Since most of the video’s audience are Tinder users, relatable situations were depicted in it. But there are also those who are skeptical about the app, and for them the video is a demo of sorts – it goes on to say that as the way we communicate has changed, so has the way we meet, and date people around the world.
Tinder Nook
Tinder joined hands with Penguin Random House to help bookworms in Delhi find each other – and, maybe, buy books together. This campaign was focussed on helping book lovers in Delhi meet and to “promote book reading and literature”
What began as a brainstorm over how to promote Penguin Random House’s romances through conversation and discussion eventually led to the association with Tinder – though with a chaste objective: encourage love, for reading. Penguin Random House India puts it: “We’re making books and writers discoverable to a new set of converted and potential readers in the hope that this will also lead to larger conversations and interactions around books and reading.”
This evoked organic reactions on multiple social media platforms from influencers and other audiences.
Tinderlicious
Tinder also celebrated Valentine’s Day in India by partnering up with Zomato. The two brands came together to create a ‘Tinderlicious‘ collection on Zomato, advising would-be where to find the best food and ambiance in their city.
The ‘Tinderlicious’ Collection was available in multiple cities like – Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Chandigarh.
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