GUCCI is increasing its investment in social media marketing. It has developed strategies like "Cut & Craft" to generate user-generated content and engagement. This campaign allowed users to make paper versions of GUCCI bags. GUCCI measures the effectiveness of its social media campaigns through various metrics like brand equity, shareholder value, customer service efficiency, and direct sales. Its campaigns have achieved high levels of engagement, sharing, views, and votes, demonstrating the impact of social media for luxury brands.
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1. Social media for luxury
brands: building GUCCI’s
online presence
Micael Barilaro Erinn Leahy
Worldwide Digital Project Coordinator VP Sales
GUCCI Buddy Media Europe
2. Today’s agenda
Social media marketing in the luxury sector:
trends, challenges, successes
GUCCI strategy and case studies
Measuring effectiveness: What does success look
like? How can luxury brands like GUCCI gauge the
success of online campaigns?
5. More Than Half of Local Online
Populations Engage in Social Networking
North America North America Europe Middle East & Africa Asia Pacific
Canada 94% Argentina 96% Austria 86% Israel 94% Australia 96%
United States 98% Brazil 97% Belgium 93% South Africa 88% China 53%
Chile 94% Denmark 94% Hong Kong 93%
Colombia 96% Finland 91% India 95%
Mexico 96% France 91% Indonesia 94%
Peru 96% Germany 90% Japan 58%
Puerto Rico 90% Ireland 95% Malaysia 94%
Venezuela 96% Italy 93% New Zealand 95%
Netherlands 94% Philippines 96%
Norway 89% Singapore 94%
Poland 95% South Korea 87%
Percentage of Online Population Portugal 96% Taiwan 94%
Using Social Networking Russia 88% Vietnam 85%
Spain 98%
around the World* Sweden 93%
% Reach of Online Population Switzerland 90%
Turkey 96%
* Data is based on the 43 countries on which United Kingdom 98%
comScore reports individually.
Source: comScore Media Metrix, October 2011
6. Prestige brands on Facebook: local
content
Source: L2 Facebook IQ Index, June 2012
13. GUCCI: Managed Audience
9 million fans 2K+ followers
450K+ followers 5K+ followers
1.3M+ followers 160K+ followers
2M+ views 3M+ total downloads
190k+ followers and more in Asia..
14. GUCCI: Tone. Narrative. Product. Micro Trends
Storytelling
What Makes Us Different Micro Trends
Total reach 1M fans What Makes Us Editorial
Total reach 2M fans
Iconinc Products
What Makes Us Editorial
Total reach 1.5M fans
16. GUCCI: Overall Stats
Views – 500,000
Primary Events – 610,000*
*a sum of all actions taken on the tabs (Votes, Form
Submitted & products clicked etc).
Tab Shares – 8,000
Link Clicks – 30,000
Source: Buddy Media Analytics
Data – 16th April – 17 August
2012
17. GUCCI “Cut & Craft”: The Campaign
The ―Cut & Craft‖ campaign showcases the Bamboo, Jackie and
Stirrup handbags by giving users a paper pattern to create their own
version, to give them the chance to have their bag shown to creative
director Frida Giannini.
Objectives:
- Create awareness of Gucci Icons
- Enable user-generated content
- Build brand loyalty and ambassadors
- Express craftsmanship
19. GUCCI “Cut & Craft”: Multichannel Strategy
inspiration products selection
prop origami concept based on ROP
Cut & Craft videos
gucci.com direct marketing blogs & e-pub
in store events
social media digital adv
20. GUCCI “Cut & Craft”: Social Content hub
A dedicated tab on Gucci Facebook page host Cut & Craft, available
inKorean and Japanese, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Arabic.
Users are able to experience short 3-D films introducing the three
bags along with an image gallery and description of the current
collection, linked to Gucci Digital Flagship Store.
Up to 800K views
On Youtube
21. GUCCI “Cut & Craft”: User Generated Content
Users are invited to download patterns and style out their
own bags from the Cut & Craft Facebook Tab as well as view
instructional videos for each pattern.
Total reach 3M fans for editorial post
22. GUCCI “Cut & Craft”: Voting Contest
Users who take a picture of their pop-up bag and upload it
to our designated Facebook tab, will be featured in the voting
section .
The most popular bags will be featured as the cover photo
on Gucci’s Facebook Timeline.
In Japan and Korea, the campaign has an actual prize, and
winners there will receive complimentary bags.
24. GUCCI “Cut & Craft”: Enhancing Experiences
Traditionally, we have viewed offline and
online experiences as two separate things
— complementary, perhaps, but separate.
Today, physical and digital are revealing
themselves to be two sides of the same
experience.
People want to be immersed. They want to get
involved in a story, to carve out a role for
themselves, to make it their own.
Launch of ―Cut & Craft‖ Campaign during Fashion's Night Out at Gucci Fifth Avenue on September 6, 2012 in New
York City
28. Measuring effectiveness
5 measures:
Brand Equity
Shareholder Value
Talkability
Customer Service efficiency
Web traffic referrals
+ 1 ROI deep-dive: SALES
29. Brand Equity
Fans v. NON-Fans
Brand Awareness: +58%
Brand Favourability: + 46%
Share of Wallet: 4X (13% v. 3%)
Blackberry owners case:
NON-Fans: 44% would recommend
Fans: 87% would recommend
CMOs perspective - Social has a measurable effect on:
BRAND AWARENESS: 82.3% Agree
BRAND LOYALTY: 81.5% Agree
Sources: Millward Brown UK 2011, Forrester US 2012, BazaarVoice 2012
30. Shareholder Value
“Strong financial results thanks to
continued investment in innovative
design, digital marketing and retail
strategies”
A. Ahrendts – CEO, Burberry
Sources: Source: Marketing Week, Feb 2012
31. Shareholder Value
"At Ford, Social Media is bigger
than advertising.”
+600%
Matt VanDyke – Mktg Dir. Ford US
Source: AdAge, Feb 2012
33. Customer Service efficiency
“Diverting resources from call
centers to Social channels has made
us much more efficient in managing
our customer service costs”
Top Exec. at a major UK Bank
34. Web Traffic referrals
YouTube gets more traffic from
Facebook than from Google
comScore, UK and US, Feb. 2012
Source: comScore Source/Loss report UK and US, Total entries, Feb 2012
35. Sales – deep-dive
Source: comScore “The Power of LIKE – Europe” July 2012
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Finally sales! If you measure ROI in Sales coming directly from Social, if your ROI measures are focused on the immediate, transactional aspect of your return from social…Throughout this white paper we have evaluated the incremental reach and diversity of audience that a brands’ social network on Facebook can achieve. Higher rates of visitation of retail brand’s Friends of Fans potentially point to a pre-existing receptivity of a wider audience for brand messaging, product information and promotions. As the Fan Networks of the selected retail brands in this study represent audience sizes in the millions, these brands are capable of marketing to consumers who exhibit lighter visitation patterns at impressive scale. A final area of analysis that is often enquired about by brands is whether paid media and earned media on Facebook are effective at driving increased purchasing behaviour. To explore this further we have conducted two additional analyses, which provide further evidence that both social impressions and paid impressions on Facebook can drive action. We have used examples from ASOS to illustrate the case. The first analysis examines the likelihood of making a purchase on the ASOS site for an ASOS Fan and Friend of Fan (ASOS Site Visitors, Social) compared to an ASOS Site Visitor that is not a Fan or Friend of Fan (ASOS Site Visitors, Non Social). The purchasing behaviour is identified through the ASOS.com Thank You page that is displayed post-purchase and the data below is indexed against the total purchasing audience. The below illustration shows that ASOS Site Visitors who are a Fan or Friend of Fan (ASOS Site Visitors, Social) are over 10 percent more likely to make a purchase on the ASOS site as compared to site visitors that are not within ASOS’s Friend of Fan reach. While the below correlative data doesn’t indicate the extent to which these differential purchase rates are attributable to media’s influence, it reveals that Fans and Friends of Fans represent a group of shoppers shown to be within ASOS’s consideration set of target consumers. Our second analysis examines the likelihood of conducting a purchase on the ASOS site after exposure to a paid impression on Facebook. As with the above example, purchasing behaviour is identified through the ASOS.com Thank You page that is displayed post-purchase. These results highlight the ability of Facebook paid ads to drive purchase in the weeks following exposure. In this campaign, 1.7 percent of those exposed to an ASOS sponsored ad on Facebook purchased from the ASOS site at least once in the four weeks after first exposure to the campaign; compared to only 0.7 percent of those not exposed to the campaign. Facebook advertising generated an uplift of 130 percent in purchase behaviour on the ASOS site. This is relative to those consumers who were not exposed and importantly demonstrated a similar affinity to ASOS as the test group (e.g. site visitation and purchase) in the four weeks prior to the advertising campaign.