By: Lissette Colón PUR 3000 Case Study: Domino’s Turn-Around Campaign

By: Lissette Colón
PUR 3000
Case Study: Domino’s Turn-Around Campaign
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Two employees of Domino’s post a YouTube video of
themselves handling food inappropriately
The YouTube video got over a million hits within days
Domino’s President Patrick Doyle immediately responds
with a YouTube video of his own, with a statement
The two employees were arrested and obviously lost their
jobs! 
Dominos responded by posting its
own YouTube video featuring an
apology from its president and set
up a Twitter account, @dpzinfo, to
respond to comments.
Kristy Hammonds, 31, and Michael Setzer, 32,
were fired from a Conover branch of Dominos
in North Carolina on Tuesday and have been
charged with distributing prohibited foods after
the footage of a man who appears to be Setzer
passing wind on a sandwich and shoving
cheese up his nostril was posted on the videosharing website.
MediaCurves – 243ppl believability
•Domino’s
incorporated a transactional Survey on their website,
along with a Pizza Tracker that acts as a dashboard for your pizza
delivery (Pretty Cool)
•Redesigned
packaging/boxes to include feedback requests
•Kept
a tally of feedback and public opinion found on social media
channels such as Twitter, FaceBook and YouTube
•Held
Focus Groups
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Sauce has a ketchup-like taste and
consistency
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Crust taste like cardboard
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Frozen pizza is superior
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The original TV Spots include unseen consumers making a
series of highly negative statements about Domino's pizza
while the same statements are summarized in large white
type against black backgrounds.
Cut to Domino's President Patrick Doyle, who announces:
"There comes a time when you know you've got to make a
change."
The commercial closes with a link to PizzaTurnaround.com
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Domino’s places a banner ad on YouTube's home page The ad includes an embedded 15-second TV spot and a link
into the full docu-commercial and link to Domino’s Micro
site PizzaTurnAround.com.
The latest tweets with
the #newpizza hashtag
as sidebar widget
•The Microsite has the full
documentary
•Featured live Twitter and FaceBook
feeds with consumer comments about
the new pizza
• Links into recent Domino's
appearances on The Colbert Report,
The Early Show, Gayle King’s radio
show (Oprah Radio) and press releases.
http://www.pizzaturnaround.com/
•Building on the New Pizza Theme
•Created another Docu-Commercial
on YouTube to highlight the pizza
chain’s efforts to get everyone to
try their new pizza
www.PizzaHoldouts.com
•Taste Bud Bounty Hunter Game
tied into FaceBook-winners get
coupons, free pizza
Pizza Holdout Ad campaign –Social media to compliment TV
commercials, the game is to hunt down friends and place a
bounty on them via the Taste Bud Bounty hunter game. The
friend in question is gifted with a coupon for free pizza
w/purchase of a second pizza.
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Domino’s sales shot up 14% in the first
quarter of the campaign and have risen
steadily since.
US stock prices jump over 50% in the months
following the campaign launch.
Currently The chain's stock is near a 52-week
high
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Domino's Pizza Becomes First Pizza Delivery
Company to Win Back-To-Back Chain of the
Year Honors from Pizza Today Magazine
The campaign was even nominated for the
prestigious Cannes Lion Award.
The campaign received publicity on The
Colbert Report, Conan O’Brien, Mad Money,
CBS’ The early Show, Gayle King on Oprah
Radio, Fox news and others…
YouTube Videos Spoofed 10 + times