6. How people use Facebook
Ignore, Like
Login to View Leave
or
Facebook Newsfeed Facebook
Comment
5
7. How people use Client X’s Facebook Page
Audience Activity Day Part Week Day Competitor Activity
See Brand Ignore, Like
Leave
Like Page Posts in or
Facebook
Newsfeed Comment
Like source First exposure Responders
0.6%
36%
99%
0.6% attributed to Estimate Comments + Likes
“on Page” Likes
DAU 6
8. Response Windows
50%
91.4%
80% of responses
40% within 3 hours.
30%
90% within 6 hours
20%
10%
0%
0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48
Elapsed Hours
%age responses cumulative
7
9. How people use Client X’s Facebook Page
Audience Activity Day Part Week Day Competitor Activity
See Brand Ignore, Like
Leave
Like Page Posts in or
Facebook
Newsfeed Comment
Like source First exposure Responders
0.6%
36%
99%
0.6% attributed to Estimate Comments + Likes
“on Page” Likes
DAU 8
10. How people use Client X’s Facebook Page
åuwd e e e
edges e
Newsfeed Algo
See Brand Ignore, Like See/Don’t
Like Page Post in or See Next
Newsfeed Comment Post
Like source First exposure Responders Ongoing Exposure
0.6% 11%
36%
99%
0.6% attributed to Estimate Comments + Likes DAU
“on Page” Likes Total
DAU 9
Fans
11. “We’re going to make
Facebook the hub of all our
activity”
10
12. Most people don’t visit the Page.
What are the
implications for All Fans
100%
Page Tabs? 470K
MAU
53%
250K
DAU
11%
52K
Daily Page Visits (Unique)
0.3%
1.4K
11
13. How fan growth Affects Daily Active Users (DAU)
90 600 11.60
Thousands
Thousands
80 11.40
500
70 11.20
11.00 R² = 0.598
60 400
10.80
ln(DAU)
50
Fans
DAU
300
10.60
40
10.40
30 200
10.20
20
100 10.00
10
9.80
12.50 12.60 12.70 12.80 12.90 13.00 13.10 13.20
0 0
Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug ln(Fans)
1% increase in fans leads to 1.65% increase in DAU
12
(0.35% increase in MAU)
14. Unsubscribes grow strongly inline with fan growth
250 5.5
y = 2.219x - 24.01
R² = 0.503
467,512 5
200
4.5
ln(unsubscribes)
150
288,631
4
100
3.5
50
3
0
2.5
Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug 12.5 12.6 12.7 12.8 12.9 13 13.1 13.2
Daily Unlikes Fans ln(fans)
1% increase in fans leads to 2.22% increase in Unsubscribes 13
15. What happens if we post more often?
50%
91.4%
80% of responses
40% within 3 hours.
30%
90% within 6 hours
20%
10%
0%
0 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 48
Elapsed Hours
%age responses cumulative
14
16. Impressions grow strongly inline with post frequency
3500 15.5
Thousands
y = 1.108x + 11.63
21 15
3000 R² = 0.943
14.5
2500 17 17
14
ln(7-day rolling imps)
2000
13.5
12
1500 13
12.5
1000
4 12
500
11.5
0 11
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul 0 1 2 3 4
7-day rolling imps 7-day rolling posts ln(7-day rolling posts)
15
17. Reach grows inline with post frequency
-1.4
-1.6
y = 0.400x - 2.346
-1.8 R² = 0.530
-2
ln(reach)
-2.2
-2.4
-2.6
-2.8
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6
ln(posts)
16
18. ..and so do unsubscribes
7.5
y = 0.459x + 5.523
R² = 0.577
7
ln(7-day rolling unsubs)
6.5
6
5.5
5
0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5
ln(7-day rolling posts)
17
28. Facebook isn’t your microsite
Facebook isn’t your forum
Facebook is your email list
Focus on News Feed optimisation
BTW (You’ll never have enough fans)
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Just looking at Europe, Facebook accounts for 85 BILLION European user minutes per month. If you were to go back in time 85 billion minutes, then the Neanderthals and wooly mammoths would still be around.
This is the most common path through Facebook…
Like Source: At least 36% of Likes in the past 6 months have come from Advertising. 0.6% attributed to “from Page”First exposure: assumes that (since recency has a heavy impact on EdgeRank) that 100% of posts get to News Feed, but that not everyone is there to see them. Early stage pages show very high correspondence between DAU and Total Fans.Data: Facebook Insights for 100 day period 1 June to 8 September 2011
Like Source: At least 36% of Likes in the past 6 months have come from Advertising. 0.6% attributed to “from Page”First exposure: assumes that (since recency has a heavy impact on EdgeRank) that 100% of posts get to News Feed, but that not everyone is there to see them. Early stage pages show very high correspondence between DAU and Total Fans.Data: Facebook Insights for 100 day period 1 June to 8 September 2011
Like Source: At least 36% of Pizza Hut Likes in the past 6 months have come from Advertising. 0.6% attributed to “from Page”First exposure: assumes that (since recency has a heavy impact on EdgeRank) that 100% of posts get to News Feed, but that not everyone is there to see them. Early stage pages show very high correspondence between DAU and Total Fans.Data: Facebook Insights for 100 day period 1 June to 8 September 2011
100 day average
((although, as a proportion, these are lower – 0.5 % a/c Thomas G.))
1 to 2 posts = 100% increase in posts – 46% increase in unsubs