This might just be the best royal wedding marketer strategy you'll see

Are you (or someone you know) a marketer who fears missing out on the impending royal wedding hoopla? Did Harry & Meghan's big day just kind of creep up on you (or someone you know) before you (or someone you know) really had a chance to brainstorm how to leverage their love story to help sell products and/or services? Well, I've got great news: It's not too late to deploy the perfect royal wedding marketer strategy. It's turnkey and it'll work for brands large or small. And best of all, it's easy to execute. Here it is: • Don't use your social channels to say anything about the royal wedding in advance; • Don't use your social channels to say anything about the royal wedding as it's happening; • Don't use your social channels to say anything about the royal wedding afterward. That's it. That's the whole plan. You're welcome. It's been five years since Oreo got endless marketing-world high-fives for tweeting about the stadium power outage that happened during Super Bowl XLVII: Power out? No problem. pic.twitter.com/dnQ7pOgC It's funny to look back now and see the relatively paltry number of retweets (14,908, as of this writing) and likes (6,840) on that supposedly groundbreaking tweet, but all the media hype around it at the time still somehow helped convince countless marketers and agencies that they had to get in on the real-time marketing craze. The idea was that a brand could be seen as relevant by meshing with the real-time conversation about stuff going on in the world. Sounds good in theory, I guess? Or at least it did at the time. Oreo tried to do it again later that year when the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth. But that time instead of being kind of clever in real-time, the brand had prepared a, well, belabored tweet that probably had to be delivered by C-section: Prepare the royal bottle service! pic.twitter.com/Nlks2kT7Sw The retweets and likes on that clunker: 958 and 391, respectively. Still, at the time various media outlets (including, I'm afraid, Ad Age) saluted Oreo for being part of the #RoyalBaby conversation. Because, you know, what better way for a mass-marketed cookie to demonstrate its relevance than suggesting that royals should feed a sugary, crunchy choking hazard to a newborn? I'm here to suggest that the best way for most marketers to proceed in regard to the news cycle is to, generally speaking, stay out of it. And particularly when it comes to a quintessentially British affair like a royal wedding, American brands have no business trying to hop on the bandwagon. (Even if the bride is American, she's joining a weird rich-people cult that flies in the face of America's founding ideals of freedom and equality. But I don't judge.) Anyway, the big event happens early tomorrow. Let your social media team sleep in, folks.

This might just be the best royal wedding marketer strategy you'll see

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