Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Collecting $100 million with bringing fun to teenager

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

People had raised awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and an amount of donation for the disease by using the activity.  The activity is that people pour cold water including ice on their head.  After they do that, they nominate at least three their friends via social media.  Those who were nominated had to dump ice water over and donate $10 or to donate $100 to the ALS association without dumping the cold water over.  Because a lot of famous people like celebrities and athlete also join the activity, the association succeeded in collecting over $100 million from July 29 to August 29, announced by the ALS association.  I got to know that on Facebook on August, 2014.  The target market is those who often use social media especially teenagers.  They created “Want” to contribute to the Association for some people who did not even know the disease.  They asked people to donate and get to know about ALS, and usually people put the ASL Association website to donate when they nominated their friend.  They did not have competitors; however, there were criticizer for the activity by saying that the purpose had become to change to showing off their pouring cold water from raising the awareness and fund for the disease.  The activity made me know the disease; otherwise, I would not know that, and it change my idea of donations. They succeeded in raising awareness with entertaining people. (wikipedia 2014)

source 

Ice Bucket Challenge. (n.d.). Retrieved November 27, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Bucket_Challenge#Impact

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