The document analyzes Tiffany & Co.'s "Make It Sparkle" social media campaign using the hashtag #ATiffanyHoliday. The campaign aimed to promote Tiffany's luxury brand and holiday products. Key performance indicators included likes, comments, followers, and engagement on platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, and Twitter. Analyzing community response to the hashtag and linking accounts were important elements. A SWOT analysis found strengths in a broader customer range but weaknesses in short-term visibility and information overload. Opportunities included new customers and high ROI while threats included open-source aspects and competition.
4. COLLABORATIONS
- Owned by Hermes Group
- Audrey Hepburn® embraces
Tiffany’s New York style in
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s.”
- Andy Warhol and Holiday seasons
cards
- NFL Vince Lombardi Super Bowl
trophy in 1967
5. SWOT ANALYSIS OF THE COMPANY
Strengths Weaknesses
Strong sourcing and manufacturing capabilities
Brand name synonymous with high quality Strong presence in the direct selling channel
increases potential customer base
Online sales penetration is impacted by the cautious and emotional approach towards
purchasing jewelry
Opportunities Threats
Increasing presence in the fast growing Asian luxury market, especially China Positive
outlook for the global travel industry
Increased counterfeit crime will hurt brand image and will convert into losses
Intense competition pressurizes margins Increasing labor wages in the US
7. A TIFFANY HOLIDAY
“Make the Word Sparkle”
– PURPOSE OF THE CAMPAIGN
• Use the holidays season to promote the magical and luxury
world of Tiffany&Co
• Use the holidays season to promote their products and give
ideas of possible gifts
• Maintain brand loyalty of actual customers
• Engage new customers in the world of Tiffany&Co
• Create a fantastic world around the products that
everybody can reach via social medias
8. KPIs for Social Media Marketing Success
• Likes
• Comments
• Followers
• Engagement
• Clicks
• Mentions
• Photos
• Times
• Sales
• Referals
• Conversions
• Events
10. FACEBOOK
Comments and Likes
• 1.79 billion users worldwide
• 16% each year
• 4.5 billion likes recorded in May
2013
• 1.18 billion of users log on to
Facebook everydays
• The like and share buttons reach
to over 10 million websites daily
• The most common age
demographic is 25 to 34, it
represents 29.7% of the users
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11. INSTAGRAM
Photos
• 500 million monthly active users
• An average of 95 billion photos
and videos shared everyday
• 31% of American women and 24%
of American men
• 4.2 billion posts liked everyday
• 48.8% of brands use it
• Top brands post 4.9 times per
week on instagram
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12. PINTEREST
Photos
• 100 million monthly active users
• More than 50 billion pins
• 81% of users are female
• Millenials use it as much as
Instagram
• 30% of all US social media users
use Pinterest
• 87% of active users said their pins
lead to a purchase
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13. YOUTUBE
Engagement
• 1.3 billions Youtubers
• 5 billion of videos are viewed
everyday
• 300 videos/hour uploaded on
YouTube
• 62% of male users, 38% of female
users
• Biggest age range: 35 to 44 years
old
• Half of YouTube views are made
from mobile devices!
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14. TWITTER
Followers and
Mentions
• + 50 million more users from 2014
to 2015
• 300 billion tweets shared
• 20.5% of US users were expected
to have a Twitter account by 2015
• 37% of users are likely to buy from
a brand they follow on Twitter
• Twitter is more used on mobile
devices than on desktops
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15. A KEY ELEMENT TO SUCCESS: LINKING ALL THE
SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS TOGETHER
16. RETURN ON INVESTMENT
• Social Media ROI = (SM return - SM investment) / SM
investment %
• Investment = labor cost time associated with social
media tools + the cost of using these tools +
advertising costs + other costs
• Return = higher conversion rate + higher brand
recognition + returning customers
18. COMMUNITY
RESPONSE
• The first way for a brand to know if
the social media campaign has an
impact on customers is to see how
people interact with the content
• The more the hashtag is used by
users, the more it means it fits
with a moment, an envy, a feeling
at a specific moment of their lives.
20. SWOT ANALYSIS OF
THE CAMPAIGN
• Broader range of customers
• Diversified range of customers
• Customer Relationships
• Cost—saving
• Successful anyway
STRENGHTS
21. SWOT ANALYSIS OF
THE CAMPAIGN
• Short-time visibility
• Information overload
WEAKNESSES
22. SWOT ANALYSIS OF
THE CAMPAIGN
• New customers
• Relationships
• High ROI
• Word of Mouth communication
OPPORTUNITIES
Tiffany&Co was founded in 1837 in NYC by Charles Lewis Tiffany
Charles Lewis Tiffany had a passion for diamonds
During this year, the blue box is introduced: this is the fingerprint of the brand that is still nowadays the element of differentiation of the brand
the 925/1000 sterling silver standard was commonly accepted by the US after Tiffany introduced it the same year
In 1840, it introduced the first mail order catalogue
In 1870, the founder introduced the first 287- fancy yellow diamond and named it after his name
In 1880, he introduced the first Tiffany engagement ring, since then, this is what the brand is recognized for
http://www.tiffany.com/WorldOfTiffany/TiffanyStory/Timeline/
"Timeline | The Tiffany Story | Tiffany & Co." Timeline | The Tiffany Story | Tiffany & Co. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.
the 925/1000 sterling silver standard which was later adopted by the United States. This precious metal comprises Tiffany’s hollowware, like this 1853 pitcher, and gleams today in chic jewelry designs.
In 1926, the United States adopts Tiffany’s standard of purity (95 percent) as the country’s official standard for platinum.
http://www.tiffany.com/WorldOfTiffany/TiffanyStory/Timeline/
"Timeline | The Tiffany Story | Tiffany & Co." Timeline | The Tiffany Story | Tiffany & Co. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.
http://www.tiffany.com/WorldOfTiffany/TiffanyStory/Timeline/
"Timeline | The Tiffany Story | Tiffany & Co." Timeline | The Tiffany Story | Tiffany & Co. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.
Tiffany & Co. SWOT Analysis. 2/5/2016, p1-8. 8p.
Human Resources
Community Managers
Marketing Managers
Audience Engagement Auditors
Media Relationships Specialists
IT Resources
Developers
Engineers
Integrators
Financial Resources
Set a budget
Management Resources
Develop a plan
Define goals
Increase Brand Awareness
Drive website traffic
Drive visitor loyalty
Improve conversion rates
Improve brand awareness
Likes: the number of likes per post/tweet
Comments: the number of comments per post/tweet
Followers: target followers VS actual followers / followers growth or decrease / characteristics of the followers: demographics, psychographics / new vs returning followers
Engagement: the more people like/comment/share a post/tweet, the more engaged they are content is king and customers are the one who make a content famous satisfy a need (Facebook engagement metrics, Twitter engagement metrics)
Clicks
Mentions
Photos
Times
Sales
Referals
Conversions
Events
More than the metrics tools provided by the social media platforms, a marketer can use external tools to measure the impact and effectiveness of a post and then of the overall social media campaign.
Each of this software provide a SEO dashboard that allow the managers to monitor what is going on on the website in real-time.
https://zephoria.com/top-15-valuable-facebook-statistics/
Https://www.facebook.com/Zephoria. "Top 20 Facebook Statistics." Zephoria Inc. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.
- To reach the maximum number of users, the publication must be public. It will also allow users to share it
- A link referring to an external link is an excellent way to direct users on the website and thus generate conversions. It is also part of the SEO techniques used to gain traffic and be well-referenced by Google Search
- Comment: this is part of the opportunities and threats we talked about: people can write whatever they want, both positive and negative things.
- Positive comments: tag people in their comment: it will attract more of users on the publication + people share about the post which can be considered WOM communication, that can give ideas, feedbacks, and can create conversion at the end of the funnel + people share about their holidays memories they associate with the brand or with other memories
- Negative: WOM people can write about the bad experiences they had with the products they purchased or about their experience in stores
- Likes: the number of likes is a great indicator of the success of the post, everything that has been shared will be seen somewhere else, but other people, that will like it and share it again this is the snowball effect of social medias
https://blog.hootsuite.com/instagram-statistics/
@carnivalosouls. "A Long List of Instagram Statistics That Marketers Need to Know." Hootsuite Social Media Management. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.
Followers growth rate: the more followers, the better. That is the key of success when talking about social medias
Followers engagement: number of likes and comments, divided by the number of followers: if they interact, it is because they either like or hate the content, in both ways, its provokes a feeling.
Followers engagement per post: the same technique, but we do not divide it by the numbers of total followers
The use of hashtag in photos description: the more instagramers will use the #ATiffanyHoliday, the more engaged they are with the brand and the campaign
https://www.omnicoreagency.com/pinterest-statistics
Salman.aslam.mughal. "• Pinterest by the Numbers: Stats, Demographics & Fun Facts." •. N.p., 2015. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.
Use of Pinterest Analytics
Number of pins created from the website/social media content: as you will read later on, it is important to link all social media accounts together. This metric allow the marketers to view how many pins/ pins boards have been created from the content published on the social media accounts. The more a picture/content is pined, the more it will go from pinners to pinners across the social media platform.
The reach of the content: how many viewers saw the pin during the day/week/month and compare the contents together: which content was the most successful? What are its characteristics? Why so?
http://fortunelords.com/youtube-statistics/
"Youtube Statistics - 2016." Digital Marketing Education. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.
Views: the more viewed a video is, the bigger its impact will be on the YT community
Watch time: the longer the video is seen, the best we can assume the content engages the viewers. However, a video must not be too long in order to retain customers but not to waist their time. That is why nowadays videos are made like small movies: people have to feel they watch a movie, that it is cinema. Also, at the end of the video, a call-to-action (subscription requests, links towards other videos, link toward the website) can be introduced to retain the viewer.
Traffic source: it indicates where the viewers come from. The website https://www.youtube.com/create_channel?upsell=upload can help with that.
Demographics: YouTube analytics provides demographics about the viewers to better understand who watched the video, when …it helps focusing on what is done the right way, and what is to be done in order to target other customers/viewers.
Devices: we know that 50% of YT videos are viewed through mobile devices. The data help to understand where to focus the marketing effort.
http://lorirtaylor.com/twitter-statistics-2015/
"10 Remarkable Twitter Statistics for 2015." Social Media Consultant | Social Media Agency | Social Marketing. N.p., 2015. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.
- The community: the bigger and growing the number of followers/the community is, the better it is. It means posts will reach a broader range of users, increasing the chances of re-tweet.
- The quality of the content: to attract a qualitative community, the content must be related to their expectations, it must answer a need or provide an interesting content. Therefore, we say “content is king”: content is the major driving element that will impact the number of followers and their attributes. The content also is a way of sorting customers according to specific demographics and psychographics, in accordance with the campaign goals.
- Monitor the influence: it is scored on a 1,000 points scale, the more influent we are, the more a post is retweeted, replied, mentioned…
- Monitor the impact: all the numbers needed are on the post: the numbers of likes, tweets, replies.
The key element of Twitter is the # or hashtag. It helps organizing contents. Each hashtag corresponds to a category that Twitter will use to categorize the post using this hashtag. The hashtag must me related to the content of the tweet in order to be well-categorized. The hashtag is also used by users to search for content. If they want to know more about the holiday season at Tiffany&Co, they will search for a specific hashtag in the search bar. Tiffany&Co used the hashtag #ATiffanyHoliday as a reference. This hashtag is then used in every posts where the content is related to the holiday season campaign.
A great tool for measuring all of the above elements is the analytics tool provided by Twitter.
The more all the social media will be linked together and will use content as external links referring to other social media platforms, the bigger the impact of the campaign will be. For example:
Tiffany&Co posts a post for the Holiday Season campaign
It uses a picture that is linked to the pinterest account: when clicking on it, they can directly pin it using a plug-in available on every browsers
It uses the #ATiffanyHoliday which directly links toward Twitter and the twitter account/twitter referencing
It uses a picture that comes from their Instragram account
It posts a video of the campaign that originally comes from their YT channel: when clicking on the video, people are directed toward the channel
Allow marketers to know what is working or not, to improve tactics and content or to keep specific actions because successful
For ROI data to be specific and usable as a performance indicator, a marketer first need ti set goals for every metrics without specific goals, we cannot know if what has been done is good or not, if it is better or worst than expected.
One of the most important ROI metrics are the Lifetime Value, Average sales, Pay-per-click costs we link them to the activity data gathered by the social media dashboards and we look for linear correlation between the variables (for example: a huge increase in the number of shares might result in higher numbers of visits and a higher conversion rate)
http://wwd.com/fashion-news/fashion-scoops/elle-fanning-tiffany-holiday-campaign-10618496/
Sidell, Misty White. "Elle Fanning to Be Featured in Tiffany & Co. Holiday Campaign." WWD. N.p., 2016. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.
The success of a social media campaign is highly influenced by the ambassador used. The ambassador is most of the time picked because his/her physical/moral characteristics fit with the message the brand wants to convey in its campaign. Here, Elle Fanning is the representation of youth, fairy. She played in many Disney movie such as Maleficent, or even the movie Super 8. Her universe is quite fairy and extraordinary, which perfectly links to the holiday fairy atmosphere the brand wants to emphasize on.
In order to go out of the virtual world, the brand can also engage customers in shopping places with event based attractions, like in Dubai where an attraction was organized around the fairy world of Tiffany&Co right in the middle of the Mall.
Can reach a broader range of customers by using different social media platforms: Tiffany&co is a luxury jewelry company, it only targets a specific segment of the population, by using social media, the brand can target a broader range of customers than the rich people: It can interest customers that usually do not have the financial means to afford such products, but who could make an exception, a specific purchase at a specific moment of their life (wedding for ie) target a broader range of customers never is a bad idea
Build strong and long-lasting relationships with customers by using the repetition method: the more people will see a brand and its ads, the more they will retain the information and will build networks in their mind: they will associate the brand with a certain identity
Cost—saving: it is not expensive to manage a social media campaign, it is far less expensive than street ads or magazine ads for example
The success of the campaign is not linked to the reputation or success of the brand but to the way it is managed: whatever the brand is, whatever its ethics and its story, the success of a social media campaign do not lie in the brand name but in the the energy and the way the campaign is run
- Short-time visibility: there is so much content on social media, and so much is published at the same time, by so many companies and competitors, that it can be complicated to stay at the top of the feeds. Since the time of visibility is short, the content must be straight to the point and attractive enough so that it engage the maximum of customers in a minimum of time.
- Information overload: too much information kills the information. Linked to what is written above, the information must be concise not to lose the customers.
New customers: targeting a broader range of customers obviously leads to reaching new customers and acquire them sometimes
Relationships
High ROI: if the campaign is done the right way, and if all the options available on the social media pages are activated, a customer can easily find a way to go to the e-commerce website and buy what he/she wants. For example, on the Facebook page, there is a button that brings the customers to the website main page. When talking about social media campaigns, a ROI can be a conversion, of course, but also an increase in the reputation and recognition of a brand through the help of social medias, it can also be an increase of the community. Indeed, even though it does not lead to conversion, the awareness and acquisition of new customers is important.
Word of Mouth communication: this is the snowball effect.
Open-source: all posts created for the social campaign are public, which means it is open to every types of online behaviors such as comments, likes, shares…the information is open-source and can thus be skewed/modified/altered by a third party
Customers can engage in negatuve WOM
Competitors can ruina reputation by creating biased content/information
The content can be reused and plagiarized for other purposes
Every year, at the same holiday period, Tiffany&Co launches its campaign around the theme of holidays and Christmas.
With this effect of repetition, and with the mental networks and associations customers make in their mind, the impact of the campaign rises ever year.
Customers who used to associate the brand with luxury and inaccessible products can start considering the brand differently; they will associate it with Christmas time fairy and happiness.
Customers who also are consumers of the brand products will associate the luxury of their purchases with Christmas time, which will increase sales during this period.
In either cases, brand awareness, brand loyalty, brand recognition increase.
Based on metrics, conversion rates, traffic, engagement increase too.
After having analyzed the impact of the campaign at the end of the holiday period, marketers will be able to determined what was successful, what was not, to improve the campaign for the following year.