The is the extended case study of the Barack Obama campaign.
This presentation was done by Igor Beuker, to 150 marketers at the SRM Guru meeting 2009 in Amsterdam.
The session lasted 2 hours and the audience was excited and inspired by Obama’s great “brand interaction strategy”. Download the presentation for the slide notes with Igor's story.
All research was done by Paul van Veenendaal, who used over 250 different sources to create this huge slide deck.
If you are inspired by this story, you will probably also like our blog: http://www.ViralBlog.com
All credits go to Barack Obama and his campaign team. Barack Obama, marketer of the year!
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Case Study: The Barack Obama Strategy
1. CASE STUDY OF EFFECTIVENESS THE BARACK OBAMA CAMPAIGN BRAND Barack Obama CAMPAIGN US Presidential 2008 LAUNCH January 2007 CATEGORY Politics RESEARCH Paul van Veenendaal, SMM Wizard & Author ViralBlog.com STORY Igor Beuker, Founder Grupo LaComunidad & Author ViralBlog.com CREDITS All credits go to Barack Obama and his campaign team DATE 29 January 2009
2. TODAY’S PROGRAM IT’S A NEW DAY OBAMA New School Marketer ARCHITECTURE Brand Interaction LACOMUNIDAD Why We Love Obama CAMPAIGN Insights & Details FUNDRAISING Show me the money UGC Examples Q&A Peer Learnings
12. The Brand Engagement Architect Chris Hughes (24) a co-founder of Facebook, left the company to develop Senator Barack Obama’s online & social media marketing architecture
26. Brand Interaction Triple Play Proposition LaComunidad creative brand interaction agency ViralTracker video tracking power technology SocialMedia8 social media marketing agency Grupo LaComunidad is part of WPP’s global network per March 2008 About Grupo LaComunidad
27. Brand Interaction Strategies Social Communities Seeding Feeding Weblog Forum Quiz Participation, engagement and advocacy: peers and friends will spread the brand’s message Legend Free viral dynamics Post registration viral dinamics new future brand offerings Niche Community connected to campaign liking Rating Video Contest Sign up View Video Custom Video Webi Sodes Post Micro Site / iHub Tune-in Opt-in
29. Social Media Marketing Programs Influencer Identification Research & Outreach Brand Teams & Fan Programs Conversational & Buzz Tracking Natural Seeding & Social Media Optimization Strategic Social Media Planning & Buying Community Building & Product Peer Groups Social Channels & Viral Widgets Paid Seeding & Social Media Advertising
30. Triple Play Proposition VIRAL VIDEO SOCIAL MEDIA PLANNING NATURAL SEEDING REALLY VIRAL? REPORT PAID SEEDING NO YES
32. Duncan Hunter , Mike Huckabee, Jim Gilmore, Mitt Romney, Sam Brownback, Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, Tommy Thompson, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain Not in picture: Alan Keyes, Fred Thompson The Republican Candidates
33. Mike Gravel, Barack Obama, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, Joe Biden, Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton The Democratic Candidates
37. Democratic & Republican Candidates & Web 2.0 Comparing Candidates: Engagement and Participation Number of Opportunities to Engage and Participate on Web sites June 2007 Blogs on Candidate Web sites Grassroots activity by Candidate Presidential Candidates on MySpace
40. Presidential Marketing Campaigns Barack Obama John McCain Marketing messages “ Hope”, “Change we can believe in” “ Country first”, “The original maverick” Offline marketing channels TV, radio, print (including candidate’s books), direct mail TV, radio, print (including candidate’s books), direct mail Online marketing channels E-mail, display, organic and paid search, in-game advertising, mobile, social media E-mail, display, organic and paid search, social media Budget $150 million in Sept 2008 alone $ 84 million (public funds) Marketing strategies Energize young voters; spread optimism and hope; emphasize McCain’s similarities to Bush Energize the right wing; attack Obama’s weaknesses; emphasize experience and military service
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43. Obama’s 50 State Strategy (2) Campaign Expenditures Expenditures in Target States (in millions)
47. My.barackobama.com allows users to join groups, connect with other users, plan events, raise money, write own blogs and volunteer. Basic tools for grassroots organizing at your fingertips! My. BarackObama.com – Dashboard
56. Innovations – In-game advertising For weeks Obama ran in-game ads in 18 games such as Burnout Paradise for the Xbox 360 across 10 battleground states. The Obama campaign paid Massive Incorporated $44,465.78 for online advertising in early October.
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61. McCain’s missteps: astroturfing Asking supporters to cut and paste talking points into blog comment threads in exchange for prizes? Its bribing, not authentic and undermines what social media are all about . See www.womma.org for Word Of Mouth Marketing Code of Conduct!
65. YouTube Obama McCain Videos 1,827 330 Views 120,479,084 25,995,773 Subscribers 149,258 28,343 Special features of YouTube page Contribute to campaign via Google Checkout; link to YouTube page on barackobama.com Find events; host events
66. Politicians on YouTube YouTube Politicians Top 10: 4,496 videos generate 189,011,052 clip views!
69. Facebook Statistics * Unofficial group ‘One Million for McCain/Palin’ has 200,251 members Unofficial group ‘One Million Strong for Barack’ has 986,470 members ** Beyond basics like Posted Items, Events, Discussion, Wall posts Data from February 4, 2009 Official Obama McCain Members/Supporters in largest group 5,066,446* 583.518* Number of Wall posts 572,383 none Special features of profile page** Videos, find out where to vote, register to vote none
116. A Social Media Marketing Program Grey = one off activity Green = community building and ongoing eCRM (optional) Orange = ongoing activity (i.e. 4 to 6 reports per year) 0. Brand Assessment within the Social Space (track conversations about brand, products, services, competitor) 1. Identification of Social Influencers (identify right people on the right topics) 2. Outreach to Social Influencers (invite them to participate in online community) 3. Turn Influencers into Brand Advocates (build online community and engage influencers) 4. Full Year Conversational Tracking Program (track conversations, sentiment, insights on brands, products, services in target markets)
117. Campaigns And Program Product launch 1 Product launch 2 Product launch 3 Product launch 4 social media marketing campaign supports: product launch 1 social media marketing program supports: brand revitalization process social media marketing campaign supports: product launch 2 smm campaign supports: product launch 3 smm campaign supports: product launch 4 Time
121. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION LET’S DRINK, LISTEN AND SHARE CONNECT Paul van Veenendaal [email_address] CONNECT Igor Beuker igor@lacomunidad.nl
Editor's Notes
The is the extended case study of the Barack Obama campaign. This presentation was done by Igor Beuker , to 150 marketers at the SRM Guru meeting 2009 in Amsterdam. The session lasted 2 hours and the audience was excited and inspired by Obama’s great “brand interaction strategy”. Please see the foot notes for the story. All research was done by Paul van Veenendaal , who used over 250 different sources to create this huge slide deck. If you are inspired by this story, you will probably also like our blog: http://www.ViralBlog.com All credits go to Barack Obama and his campaign team. Barack Obama, marketer of the year!