Learn how shoestring budgets can go a long way to expanding reach for your campaign. Gain examples of using a variety of platforms & recognising their audiences. Learn how to build content by growing an online community of users.
Aytug Ozeli & Richard Lane: Using Digital Platforms
1. Using digital platforms to turbo boost
campaign reach
Richard Lane
Aytug Ozeli
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2. Who is Scope?
• Where have we come from?
• What do we exist to do?
• How do we use digital to achieve these
aim?
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3. Why is digital so important to
us?
• Sharing disabled
people’s voices
• Challenging
assumptions
• By-passing a
mainstream media
narrative
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4. What do we mean when we say
‘campaigns’?
• Stories
• Campaigns
• Brand
• Programmes
• Media
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5. #DDA20
• 2015 was the 20th anniversary of the
Disability Discrimination Act
• We wanted to mark the moment… without
‘stepping on toes’ and without much budget
• With a total spend of £1,020 we created our
most shared content ever
• Who did we target and why?
• What did we learn?
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7. #100Days100Stories
• How to run an election campaign without
capacity?
• How to get around ‘email fatigue’?
• What reach did we get?
• Importance of working across teams -
press, public affairs etc
• What did we learn?
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8. #100days100stories
• Forget hunches and internally arguing
about which bits of content to
promote…
• Let your audience decide where to
place your budgets
• Always concentrate on your best
performers
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17. Back to marketing 101
• Keep the audience at the heart of your
campaign
• Who knows quite a bit about their
audience(s)?
• Use Facebook audience insights – it’s
free!
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24. How do I use this info?
• Build up a portfolio of core audiences
• Test at multiple levels
– Between major groups
– But also test at a granular level. Just how
much traction do we have amongst David
Bowie fans compared to Will Young fans?!
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25. Let’s look at a recent campaign
• Who do you think they were targeting?
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26. So…
• Who do you think War Child were
targeting?
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27. #EndtheAwkward
• Why did we launch End the Awkward?
• What did we set out to achieve?
• What tools did we use?
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28. • Any guesses?
Who did Scope target for End the Awkward?
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29. Who did Scope target for End the Awkward?
• 20-something year olds
• Interested in C4 comedies
– 8 out of 10 cats
– Simpsons
– Celebrity Juice
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30. Who did Scope target for End the Awkward?
Unsurprisingly digital advertising indexed
really highly with this audience along with
cinema and C4 / E4 advertising
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31. Let’s think audiences
You each have a distinct audience to
target for End the Awkward. Which
platform / targeting would you use?
• 18-24 year olds
• New mums
• Social justice seekers
• Silver surfers
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32. Some quick tips on our favorite channels
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33. Unleashing the power of Facebook ads
• “Native” advertising
• Use the appropriate format for your
objective
• Want to boost reach? Use promoted
posts
• Colder audiences or want more control
over targeting? Use newsfeed ads
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34. Get the right views on YouTube
• The first 5 seconds of your videos are
key! 85% will tap or click ‘Skip ad’
• Use frequency capping. Don’t show
your ads to the same person too many
times
• Target your campaign using Topics and
Interests
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35. Comparing channels – just my thoughts!!
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Platform Reach Targeting Value for
Money
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
36. Hot off the press!
Using evidence to shape your campaigns
and help with PR buy-in
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