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UGC is soo 2007

by Jesse Wynants on Nov 11, 2007

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We gave This presentation on Stichting Marketing's student conference in a full BOZAR. The conference's theme was User Generated Content and with our provocative title we tried to make a point about the limited scope when UGC is mentioned in the marketing sphere.

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Looking back on a year off typical (ie "ask the consumer to make a commercial') UGC, it's sriking to the unpredictable level of quality.

8. Tom Coates of Plasticbag currently leads the revolt against marketeers who are determined to exploit the online creative class. His movement signal the flaws of the mainstream definition of UGC. UGC that exploits the 1% creators is bound to hit the bottom soon and to experience a backlash (which is happening as we speak).

20. "pervasiveness of the web" is about how digital communication isn't any longer limited to the computer screen. with applications like dodgeball or twitter, we see the emergence of "interreality" a new space that originates on the edge of the virtual and real world. through twitter's mobile and web interface i get a sense of belonging to my group of peers, independent from my physical location.

23. The Dutch association of advertising agencies organised this year a poll to elect the best Dutch ad slogan ever. Everybody expected Heineken's "Biertje" or Centraal Beheer's "Even Apeldoorn bellen" to win the evergreen award. But then one of Holland's most popular blogs geenstijl.nl decided to propose the equally well known but totally absurd "we from WC eend recommend WC eend" and mobilised their readers to vote for it.

24. "Begonia" is our inhouse conversation tracker tool that aggregates the data from 20 conversation platforms (youtube, flickr, technorati and the like). This gives us an ideo of the metadata (or associations people give) to a given search term. Quite predictably online conversations about hotel brand "Hilton" aren't necessarily about hotels.

27. We concluded our presentation with 4 routes that go beyond the conventional definition of user generated content (being : "ask the consumer to make an ad"). We plotted these 4 strategies on 2 axes. The vertical one is about the focus of your strategy. Do you want to invite people to do "something" with your brand, or do you want your brand do "something" inspiring with what consumers were already doing before your brand came in. The horizontal axis is more straightforward and determines whether you engage with a niche or mainstream audience.

28. This strategy is about collaborating with consumers on a deeper level than advertising. It can be business or marketing, but most of the time you invite people to co-create new products. This typically attracts a small audience of vocal consumers, but because the collaboration goes deeper, chances are that you attract people that are after more than only 5 minutes of fame.

31. Here the brand will create a powerful statement, which strikes an emotional chord, which will lead consumers to talk about the brand. The conventional approach is to create a shocking viral but the two examples given here illustrate that a well designed branded conversation starter can start a chain reaction of conversations that goes deeper than "have you seen that commercial"

32. The first case is Stormhoek who sent personalised samples of its wines to influential bloggers. The difference with conventional blog marketing is that wine is a conversation starter on its own. Most of the time it sits on a table along with food and people.

34. Dove "evolution" is an example of "customer fortified content" where the conversations add meaning to the original piece of content. Read Pete Blackshaw's article here : www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623811

38. "Brand your consumers' content" is the other way round of UGC. Observe what consumers are already doing and try to enhance one of their current activities through your brand's offering.

39. There are hundreds of printing services for digital pict

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  • tijs Tijs Vrolix , Strategic Lead at Boondoggle Bright Interesting presentation!

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  • SePP Jesse Wynants , LifeLabs Idea Producer at Boondoggle LifeLabs This strategy is about collaborating with consumers on a deeper level than advertising. It can be business or marketing, but most of the time you invite people to co-create new products. This typically attracts a small audience of vocal consumers, but because the collaboration goes deeper, chances are that you attract people that are after more than only 5 minutes of fame.

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  • SePP Jesse Wynants , LifeLabs Idea Producer at Boondoggle LifeLabs Nike Plus is probably the ultimate example of user generated content. As a consumer you generate content by simply running. This content has usage value for you but also becomes currency for a wider community of fellow runners. Nike Plus is a platform that is constantly evolving but its main characteristic is that it exists on the edge of online and offline world where people provide content that is enhanced by the brand's services.

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  • SePP Jesse Wynants , LifeLabs Idea Producer at Boondoggle LifeLabs The Yellow Arrow project is not a brand but an art project but stil is a very interesting example of a project that comes to life though the massive participation of people on- and offline. Go to the site to learn more about the project.

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  • SePP Jesse Wynants , LifeLabs Idea Producer at Boondoggle LifeLabs SysAdmins are essential to each company but few people are aware of the work he does. With the 'Love your Sysadmin' action, Boondoggle tried to enhance his status via a 'send us a picture of your SysAdmin and vote for him' action online.

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  • SePP Jesse Wynants , LifeLabs Idea Producer at Boondoggle LifeLabs The fourth strategy is also about enhancing as a brand what people are doing in real life. The only difference here is the scope. This strategy reaches out to a wide audience, not just a creative few.

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  • SePP Jesse Wynants , LifeLabs Idea Producer at Boondoggle LifeLabs With HyPe, HP reached out to artists and photographers in a very natural way. It offered them a way to print their work on top-notch HP printers and show it in the HyPe gallery. The rest is history. Hype lives on the internet and got a second round in several European cities after it's first London success.

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  • SePP Jesse Wynants , LifeLabs Idea Producer at Boondoggle LifeLabs There are hundreds of printing services for digital pictures but only Moo built a genuine brand out of it. Why? Moo transform your pictures in unique objects : stickers, cards, xmas cards in surprising formats, nicely packaged with quirky phrases on them. The fact that they rose to fame through the Flickr photo-community also explains the Moo-phenomenon of course...

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  • SePP Jesse Wynants , LifeLabs Idea Producer at Boondoggle LifeLabs 'Brand your consumers' content' is the other way round of UGC. Observe what consumers are already doing and try to enhance one of their current activities through your brand's offering.

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