6. Where are the users?
Social
Network Characteristics M Users Rank
Facebook General. 124 5
MySpace General. Popular in the United States, Canada and Europe. 250 7
hi5
General. Popular in Portugal, Cyprus, Romania, Thailand and Latin
America. 80 17
Skyrock Leading Social Network in French-speaking world 22 49
Orkut
Google. Popular in Brazil, Paraguay and India. some popularity in the
USA and Canada. 67 63
Netlog Mostly Italy and Belguim 36 67
Bebo General, Popular in the US, UK, Ireland, NZ and the Pacific Islands 40 101
Tagged spread out - US, India, UK, Mexico, Indonesia 30 118
StudiVZ University students, mostly in the German-speaking countries 8 144
Sonico
General. Popular in Latin America and Spanish and Portuguese
speaking regions. 17 198
LinkedIn Business 30 206
Badoo General, Popular in Europe 13 210
Wamba Spain 44% - Site number 13 in Spain 257
Last.fm Music (U, China, UK, Germany, India( 21 327
Tuenti Spain - site number 7 in Spain 372
XING Business (primarily Europe (Germany( and China( 6 1074
Plaxo Business 15 1749
Source: Wikipedia . December 2008
7. Should we care about ?
• 4th most visited site on the Web (comScore(
• 120 million active users (FB)
• 63% from outside of the U.S (Compete, Alexa)
• 35 million unique visitors/month (Compete, Alexa)
• 18 million Unique Visitors in UK
• 65% of visitors are “addicts” returning daily (Quantcast)
8. More about
• Fastest-growing demographic: users 25+ years of age
• 24K+ 3rd
party applications, 52K apps in total
• 140 new applications added per day
• Visitors are more female (Quantcast)
• Income more than Internet avg (Quantcast)
• More than 6 million active user groups on the site (FB)
• No. 1 photo sharing application on the Web (comScore)
16. Travelchannel.com FB App - Kidnap!
3,110,299 Monthly active users
In the 6 weeks after launch:
• 1,711,300 Kidnap Requests
Sent
• 225,521 Monthly Active Users
• 23,034 Daily Active Users
19. FB App - Green Patch
6,184,006 monthly active users
• Nature.org
• Average of $125/charity
• 26.2M total installs, 262K daily active users
• 6,184,006 monthly active users
Nature.org FB App - Green Patch
22. Sony Pictures "30 Days of Night" movie
Used Vampires App
1,060,533 monthly active user
•Had already 3 Million Registered users
• Scary movie and related to Vampires
• Prize : 4 wheel ATVs and $1500
• Period: 3 weeks
23. What worked for Sony?
Results:
• 60,000 users registered - success was deemed at 10k
• 11,642,051 visits for bite page
• 17,652,567 visits for the stats page
What worked?
• Fishing where the fish are
• Work with professionals
• Compliment the existing user experience
25. Blogging
• Which companies have a blog ?
• A good blog is like a snow ball
• A good blog must have unique content
• Increases engage with the readers
• Expend using: RSS, comments, blogroll,
trackbacks, voting buttons etc.
27. Most Popular Corporate Blogs
(Technorati ranked) - May 2008
Successful companies communicate with their users in an unofficial way
28. “Nothing is personal”
CEO’s Blogs:
1. Jonathan Schwartz - (President & CEO, Sun Microsystems)
2. Scott Ragsdale - (Founder and CEO, Naseba)
3. Mark Cuban - (Owner, Dallas Mavericks)
4. Guy Kawasaki - (CEO, Fog city software (1993 – 1995))
5. Craig Newmark - (CEO, Craig’s List)
6. Kevin Lynch - (Chief Software Architect, Adobe)
7. Reed Hastings - (CEO, Netflix)
8. Marc Andreessen - (Co-founder, Netscape Communications)
9. Alan Meckler - (CEO, Jupiter Media)
10. Matt Blumberg - (CEO, Return Path)
29. Paulo Coelho’s Blog
The Experimental Witch Project
Filmmakers:
• Mission: Film from through the eyes of a narrator
• Prize: €3,000 + Your film edited by professionals
Musicians:
• Mission: Send ideas for soundtrack to Myspace
• Prize: €1,500 and must sign away the rights for the film
Result:
• collaborative film of The Witch of Portobello
• 6,000 submissions, 15 winners
• ~€ 60,000 Campaign
30. Stormhoek Winery South Africa
• 305 blog posts after 1 month
• In 3 years $1 million gown to a $10 million sales
• Private label for Microsoft
31. “Wine is a social lubricant”
Gapingvoid -
Hugh MacLeod
46. Forums
• External vs internal forums
• Content
• Moderators
• Rewording
• Be a part of the community
• The new PR
• Only 5 % are active
47. Why ?
• Rating the web’s newest content
• 150th most popular site on the Web (Alexa)
• Over 20 million unique visitors/month (Compete)
• 2.7 million registered users (Estimated; John Grahan-cunning)
• Demographics: 25-34 years old, international (Quantcast)
48. How Digg works?
• Good content
• Gain reputation
• Be active
• Check the upcoming news
• “Friend” with Diggers
49. Organic Linkbait
Content:
• Tips & Tricks
• Lists
• News
• Humor
• Controversial
• Attack high profile bloggers
• Say something unpopular
• running awards or competitions
• Story
60. link
Live Poker by Zynga
• Play with 1.5M daily
players – FB, Myspace
• Helps you find friends
61. Participating in social media - Summary
Choose your audiences
Fish where they are
Choose your play ground
Role the snow ball
Less money more engagement
Build your story
62. Thank You !
Michal Geva
Social Media Marketing
michal@michalgeva.com
+972.523.530507