SEJ's chief social media strategist, Brent Csutoras, talks about why brands should be be active on Reddit at the 2015 SEJ Summit in Dallas, as sponsored by Searchmetrics.
Summary:
With over 150 million visitors viewing over 6 billion pages a month,Reddit is simply one of the best opportunities to connect directlywith your brand’s target audience. As a Redditor for over 8 years whohas run thousands of successful campaigns, Brent will break downrecent examples of big brand successes on this hyper-engaged socialplatform, and run through ideas for your own brand's Reddit strategy.
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5. • Brands are afraid of Reddit
• Feel Reddit hates marketers, but they really don’t
• http://www.slideshare.net/Sonic-Boom/state-of-
public-discourse
• Brands want Engagement, but on their terms
• Brands don’t understand Reddit
• Not willing to learn or market specifically to the Reddit
audience
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6. Regardless the reason, if you’re ignoring
Reddit, you are missing out on what
could be one of the best marketing
opportunities for your company.. And here is
why!
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8. Date UVs PVs
2011 13 mil 1 bil
2013 85 mil 4 bil
2015 151 mil 6.5 bil
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13. We're looking forward to continuing our
experiment with reddit advertising -- In less
than a month we're seeing better
responses, statistics and
engagement from the reddit
community. We're looking forward to
making more of an investment going forward.
- Director Social Media & Audience Engagement
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14. The response we received was everything
we could have asked for and
more.
- Sr. Director of Marketing
iCrossing
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16. Designed for Reddit
Connects their Brand with Redditors
Uses Self Post format
/r/finance/
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17. Stayed involved the entire time
Light hearted / humor
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21. And at the end of the day, we obviously hope you end up picking
Transamerica. But if you are at least able to walk away
and make a better, informed decision, that’s really
the win, because financial literacy is so low across the board.
We want to go towards that captive audience and just kind of have them be
a mini-focus group in terms of what they wanna know about
financial terms and how can we help.
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24. Designed for Reddit
Uses Self Post format
Peaks User Interest
Engaged & Friendly
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If you could have one thing from Amazon, what would it be?
29. Within hours of topping the front page, the story of our Nissan/Amazon
partnership showed up across more than 150 articles in 30
countries.
The story quickly became the #1 trending topic on Reddit. Even Jerry
Seinfeld took a break from his “Ask Me Anything” to comment, wondering
if the box was real or a hoax? The story leaped from Reddit
and spread across the rest of the internet… The campaign
was covered in 35 countries and on 5 continents making it a story that was
almost as big as the box itself.
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36. Identify the right people to run your campaign (or AMA)
Review Similar AMAs to see what worked and failed
Be genuine, transparent, and engaged (through entire
campaign)
Embrace tough questions
Identify the right Subreddit and Target Audience
/r/finance
Create your campaign for Redditors
Know the right format for your audience
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