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Before the digital age, communication between a brand and customer was characterized by pushing messages out to influence behavior. Today, it’s a conversation. Car companies are no longer “just” car companies. Your credit card doesn’t just help you purchase products. An online platform to rent someone else’s house doesn’t just find you a place to sleep. Leading social brands are now innovation companies, experience generators and proprietors of social connection who have shifted their strategies to balance messaging priorities with audience interest. So how do they do it? Ask yourself these 5 key questions before launching your next campaign.
3. F R O M D E S K T O P M O B I L E F I R S T
SHARE OF GROWTH I
TOTAL DIGITAL TIME SPENT
7%
12%
2%
15%
65%
TABLET DESKTOP
SMARTPHONE
SHARE OF
GROWTH IN
DIGITAL TIME
(JUNE 2015 vs.
JUNE 2013)
Source: comScore Media Metrix Multi-Platform & Mobile Metrix, U.S., Total Audience
9. F R O M P L AT F O R M S
I N F L U E N C E R S
10. ( 4 9 p e r c e n t ) h a v e n o t b e e n a b l e
t o s h o w t h a t t h e i r c o m p a n y ’s
s o c i a l m e d i a a c t i v i t i e s h a v e
m a d e a d i f f e r e n c e .
11. F R O M U N R E G U L AT E D
U N D E R S C R U T I N Y
AD BLOCKINGVIEWABILITY FRAUD TRANSPARENCY
12. O P E R AT I N G I N P E R P E T U AL B E TA
POTENTIAL GAP
BETWEEN BRAND
ACTIONS AND NEW
FUNDAMENTALS
CHANGES IN
USER
BEHAVIOR
NEW BUSINESS
MODELS
NEW FORMATS
Social networks acting
like advertising networks
Publishers acting
like social networks
Brands acting
like publishers
Influencers
Fringe editorial startups
Walled garden inside of
apps is crumbling
The algorithm is king
Ad & media formats
are changing
Incumbents supporting self
disruption via acquisition
13. ASK YOURSELF THESE FIVE
G O A L S ? A U D I E N C E
?
M E S S A G E ? D I S T R I B U T
E ?
M E A S U R E ?
What are your program Do you know your What is your How will you What will you
17. D I G I TA L B E H AV I O R S I N F O R M C R E AT I V E
AUDIENCE
INSIGHT
GOAL
GEOGRPAHICS
CONSUMPTION HABITS
PLATFORM USAGE
DEMOGRAPHICS
18. Forget the funnel – today’s user journey looks more like spaghetti.
PROGRAMS MUST BE MULTI-CHANNEL
Awareness
Engagement
Purchase
Advocacy
19. Prioritized channels, each with a specific purpose and customized content executions
F A C E B O O KT W I T T E R I N S T A G R A M P I N T E R E S T Y O U T U B E
Mass reach efficiencies of the
channel for upper funnel
awareness driving.
Real-time, highly targeted
consumer engagement platform.
Open nature of the network
enables wide ranging
participants to connect on
discussion topics.
Highly visual, reach and
engagement-driving channel.
Still has 100% brand reach …
but likely not for long
Future planning oriented,
drives traffic to .com and now
enables one click purchase
Global video hosting
platform, highly discoverable
via search
S N A P C H A T P E R I S C O P E L I N K E D I N
Rapidly emerging as the most
important channel for younger
audiences
Live streaming comes to mobile
phones – Twitter drives reach
Professional development and
networking with an emphasis on
thought leadership
EACH CHANNEL HAS A
I N F L U E N C E R S
Both a channel and a content
resource – emphasis on the new
‘visual influence’
O W N E D ( . C O M )
Builds owned equity,
conversion outcomes. Crucial
to maximize search behaviors
25. DISPLAY EMAIL SEO/SEM LINK
SYNDICATION
INFLUENCERPAID SOCIAL NATIVE/MEDI
A
PARTNERSHI
PS
PROGRAM-
MATIC
FACEBOOK boasts
94% targeting
accuracy
TWITTER sees 49% higher
engagement rates for
promoted vs. organic tweets
BOTH attribute brand sales lift
to leveraging paid to reach
incremental users (NOT fans)
28. K P I M E T R I C S T I E T O G O A L S
LIKES
IMPRESSIONS
FOLLOWERS
COMMENTS
FOLLOWERS
SHARES
RETWEETS
ENGAGEMENT
RATE
@MENTIONS
SHARES
LIKES
REACH
29. M a p p r o g r a m K P I s t o b u s i n e s s g o a l s
Example Business Goal Example Business Objective
Example Social
Marketing Goal
Example Social
Marketing KPI Metric
Greater market share among
Millennial customers
Increase inbound Millennial
leads by 15%
Introduce utility-focused
campaigns aimed at education
and creating awareness targeting
Millennial audience
• Social engagements (Likes,
comments, shares, etc)
• Inbound website traffic
• Leads
• Cost Per Lead
31. L AU R E N T. D I PAO L A
W E B E R S H A N D W I C K
L D I P A O L A @ W E B E R S H A N D W I C K . C O M
@ L E T A N N E R
Notes de l'éditeur
Summarizing the fundamentals of digital is a pretty tall order
In some ways, complicated because the digital industry evolves every second
In other ways easy, because the fundamentals of digital are really just marketing fundamentals
So going to try to boil this down into a few key sections and hopefully everyone learns something new
WINNING IN DIGITAL MEANS WINNING IN MOBILE … AND LARGELY WITHIN A HANDFUL OF APPS THAT DOMINATE TIME SPENT
Consumer behavior has massively changed – in both actions and attention spans – driven by velocity of mobile adoption.
The adoption and growth of app usage in a handful of core apps (not the browser) of your phone.
HOW DO YOU WIN IN MOBILE? WHO HAS THE POWER?
Whereas people used to consume information from an array of sources, time spent today is spent in a handful of social platforms.
8 of the Top 9 apps are owned by Facebook or Google, so consolidation of power is extreme/frightening
In Q1 2015, the Top 4 Messaging Apps surpassed the Top 4 social networks in terms of millions of monthly active users (whatsapp, we chat, viber, line, snapchat)
Investment in social media – and related areas like video production and content marketing -- continue to grow into a billion-dollar ad market.
According to Magna Global, social networks generated more than $9bn of spend in 2013, growing by +58%. Social media was also one of the catalysts (the other one being search) for a jump in mobile advertising revenues, which almost doubled in size (+85%) to reach $16bn (14% of global internet advertising).
PLATFORMS REACTED TO MANAGE INFLUX OF PEOPLE & CONTENT TO:
1) PRESERVE USER EXPERIENCE
2) MONETIZE
Platforms implemented algorithms that dictate how they curate & surface content to their users in the newsfeed, based on a variety of indicators.
As a result, brands needed to tap into platforms paid advertising products & targeting technology to achieve & guarantee scale and impact against the right audiences.
Social shifted from managing a community, to a way to drive awareness at scale.
So while money is going in – there are continued questions coming out. Specifically how does social drive business performance.
http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/news_events/news-releases/chief-marketing-officers-survey-august-2013/#.U3OSs61dV30
As these platforms & publishers mature, they also undergo more scrutiny in a few key areas, that could be fundamental disruptors of business and revenue.
VIEWABILITY: How much of an ad is guaranteed to be in view, ensuring there is an opportunity for the ad to be viewed by a consumer. Up to 60% of digital ad impressions are not viewable.
FRAUD: Typically associated with programmatic & exchanges, this includes fraudulent ad serving methods impression arbitrage, rapid auto refresh and below-the-fold video. Impression Arbitrage occurs ad networks/agencies secure inventory from publishers, negotiating a low price on impressions or inventory, then reselling it at a higher price.
TRANSPARENCY: Specifically as it relates to the rise of native content and influencer content, the approaches publishers & influencers take to ensure people know when content is created as a result of an advertising relationship – in other words, is someone getting money to create this content?
AD BLOCKING: Opting to remove advertising content from website. Use of mobile and desktop ad blocking software grew by 41% worldwide and by 48% in the U.S. between Q2 2014 and Q2 2015, costing the ad industry $34B last year.
The rise of omnichannel and the belief that the connect consumer expects/demand a cohesive experience, that they control, regardless of device/location
That is powered largely through content and the repurposing of content to drive consumers through the purchase journey
Can’t be everywhere – so must be on the right channels based on specific criteria – audience index, measurement, distribution capes, innovation capes, brand/category fit
Your content, then, needs to be customized to the organic audience behaviors of that channel – what people are expecting to see, do, act when they go there
A great “media-neutral” idea delivers an intrinsic consumer value and cultural relevance – the very hallmark of an idea that is worthy of earned at its core – that can be translated across every touch point
Translating these ideas takes SEAMLESS, REAL TIME choreography and collaboration
Ensures the investment in socializing the stories far surpasses the investment in creating it
Get data smart - soon if you can’t measure it, can’t inform through it, can’t talk about it, you’ll look foolish.