With the Olympic games starting next week, the United States Olympic Committee has released some interesting rules regarding the use of Social Media and non-sponsor businesses.
For instance:
- You (your business) can’t use hashtags that include Olympics trademarks such as #TeamUSA or #Rio2016.
- Your business can’t share anything from official Olympics social media accounts. Even retweets are prohibited.
- You must not use words that incorporate the word “Olympic,” such as Mathlympics, Aqualympics, Chicagolympics, Radiolympics, etc.
- You can’t even wish the athletes luck.
- Don’t post any Olympic results.
- And definitely do not host an Olympic or Paralympic-themed contest or team-building event for employees.
Read more about the restrictions here and here. As the AdWeek article mentions, it may be frustrating for non-official sponsor brands, but it doesn’t eliminate companies from taking part in the conversation. They’ll just have to be smart about the way they do it.
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Blog credit: Trent Morgan, Digital Analyst. Cheeky title by Editor/Producer Mark Moughamian.