With China’s growing importance to luxury brands, more and more are making devoted efforts for Lunar New Year.

 

To capitalise on the holiday season, a time when the giving of gifts is popular, a great number of luxury brands have not only released products commemorating this year’s zodiac animal, the dog, but also launched tailored digital campaigns.

 

Below, we will take a look at 5 of the luxury brands’ campaigns, counting down to the most successful and engaging for Chinese consumers.

 

 

Mulberry

 

WeChat is the main digital channel that British luxury brand Mulberry uses to reach consumers across mainland China. On February 6, the brand posted an article inviting followers to create digital calligraphy spring couplets, a traditional Lunar New Year decoration that families paste on their front doors to celebrate the return of spring.

 

After entering an interactive webpage linked at the end of the post, readers can choose the style, background image, and a Mulberry item that they’d like to use in their spring couplets.

 

Once they finish, they are encouraged to share the resulting image on their Moments social feeds to receive Mulberry red envelopes or hong bao.

 

Bottega Veneta

 

Like Louis Vuitton, Bottega Veneta also created a cartoon dog character this year, making it into three kinds of WeChat stickers that followers can send to their friends and families.

 

Consumers who follow the brand on WeChat can create customised Lunar New Year greetings with Bottega Veneta while learning about its Year of Dog special designs through an interactive web page.

 

On Weibo, the brand has also released plenty of posts to introduce its Lunar New Year special editions.

 

 

Prada

 

Last week, Prada released a video featuring a robot dog family to introduce its special Lunar New Year-themed handbag on WeChat and Weibo.

 

The brand also launched an interactive page on WeChat to tell readers about other Lunar New Year offerings from Prada, such as pop-up stores in the country’s major high-end department stores.

 

 

Dolce & Gabbana

At the core of Dolce & Gabbana’s digital campaign this year is a well-designed red envelope game on WeChat.

 

In the game, players need to click on dog-decorated red envelopes until they collect all six types of dogs.

 

Participants can then receive a set of Dolce & Gabbana red envelopes.

 

Dolce & Gabbana also worked with Wang Junkai and Di Lirenba, two of the most popular celebrities in mainland China, to record Lunar New Year video greetings for fans.

 

 

Gucci

To celebrate the Year of the Dog, Gucci released a capsule edition which was inspired by Bosco and Orso, dogs owned by its creative director Alessandro Michele.

The brand has promoted the collection on multiple digital channels, first with an interactive game and then a WeChat mini-programme dedicated to selling the collection.

On Weibo, Gucci has brand ambassador Li Yuchun and actor Bai Jingting promoting the collection.