Influencer strategy presented at Digital Marketing World Forum #DMWF including work from Heineken, Tiger Beer, Merlin Entertainments, Thorpe Park theme park, Angry Birds
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From Vice to The Vamps
1. From Vice to
The Vamps
Influencer Marketing
Jason Wills
Freelance Marketing Director
@jasonpwills
2. How do I get more
people talking
about my
marketing
campaign more
quickly….
3. Developing An Influencer Strategy
Marketing
Objective
Target
Audience
Reach
Credibility
1. Access to an audience more efficiently
2. A point of difference versus your competitive set.
3. A voice your audience is more likely to trust.
4. Consumer more likely to choose a brand that
engaged me on my passions and interests with its
advertising.
5. A shared or at least comparable brand essence or
brand purpose.
5. Marketing Objective
& Target Audience
• To be a credible 330ml NRB choice on
upbeat drinking occasions
• 18-24 year old male consumer with a
focus in London
• Increase brand equity measures &
volume
7. “Know The Not
Known”
A campaign with discovery at its
heart that would reward those
who looked beyond the obvious.
A fully integrated campaign
with the end line ‘Curiosity is
Rewarded’.
Online content, outdoor
advertising, print, events and
social media.
Influencers at the heart of it.
9. Top tips.
• Purpose. What value are you trying to
add to who?
• Be brave. You might not think they’re an
influencer!
• Trust. Work with partners that know
their stuff.
• Take some risks. It doesn’t always
work.
• Don’t be too precious.
• More than a tweet.
• Evaluate. Demonstrate that it achieved
the objectives. Celebrate.
11. Marketing Objective
& Target Audience
• Establish Thorpe Park Resort as “An
Island Like No Other”
• Recruit & retain 9-11 (1.4m) year old
Kids & reassure their Parents
• 12-15 year old Tweens/Teens
• 16-34 Young Adults
• Increase the number of visits
12. Really Understand
Your Audience
• Teens – Emotionally Led
• Parents (Mum’s) – Problem Led
• Requiring different content in
different channels
• Tone of voice
• Role of social
14. Target Audience, Reach & Credibility – Mum’s
& Kids
• Would Mum’s really believe
the new strategy?
• Did Kids really want to go
on those big coasters?
• We needed to validate it &
then reinforce it.
• Happy Height Day
• Parent Bloggers
• Mumsnet
15. Happy Height Day
• Audience Insight
• Extend reach to targeted audience
• Discreetly on their channels
• Cost effectively
• Brand alignment
• Add value on 3 sides
16.
17. Parent Bloggers
• Quick to activate
• Cost Effective
• Authority within their community
• Advocacy once they’d experienced it
• Authenticity
• Content – publishing existing & creating
new
18. Mumsnet
• Extend out parent blogger strategy
• 50 Mumsneter’s
• Annual Pass
• Happy Height Day VIP
• Angry Birds Land launch VIP
19. Top tips!
• Purpose. What value are you trying to add
to who?
• Be brave. You might not think they’re an
influencer!
• Trust. Work with partners that know their
stuff.
• Take some risks. It doesn’t always work.
• Don’t be too precious.
• Evaluate. Demonstrate that it achieved
the objectives.
20. Island Beats
• 2nd Gate revenue
opportunity
• Recruit new Tweens/Teens
• Extend reach of “An Island
Like No Other”
• Credibility
• Content
24. Top tips!
• Purpose. What value are you trying to add
to who?
• Be brave. You might not think they’re an
influencer!
• Trust. Work with partners that know their
stuff.
• Take some risks. It doesn’t always work.
• Don’t be too precious.
• More than a tweet.
• Evaluate. Demonstrate that it achieved
those objectives. Celebrate.
26. • Extend reach to targeted
audience
• Discreetly on their channels
• Cost effectively
• Brand alignment
• Add value on 3 sides
• 12m organic views to date
27. Top tips!
• Purpose. What value are
you trying to add to who?
• Be brave. You might not
think they’re an influencer!
• Trust. Work with partners
that know their stuff.
• Take some risks. It doesn’t
always work.
• Don’t be too precious.
• More than a tweet.
• Evaluate. Demonstrate that
it achieved those
objectives. Celebrate.