1. External data from sources like news, social media, and big data analytics is becoming one of the richest sources for business insights and strategic decision making.
2. Executives will increasingly look beyond internal reporting and focus on understanding external data to anticipate what is happening and where opportunities may arise.
3. Media intelligence and monitoring will become a core strategic function for companies rather than just focusing on measuring mentions.
4. This shift towards externally derived insights will change the way companies are run and decisions are made in real-time.
5. Marketing and communications departments have an opportunity to play a strategic role by helping analyze external data and provide valuable insights to senior leadership.
6. #MWBrainFood
Meltwater: Global leader in news & social media analytics
FOUNDED 2001
in Oslo, Norway
HEADQUARTERS
in San Francisco
1000+ employees
worldwide
23,000
corporate clients
50 offices across
6 continents
Built without
external funding
$15k
8. #MWBrainFood
“Every two days now we create as much
information as we did from the dawn of
civilization up until 2003”
- Eric Schmidt
Executive Chairman, Google
9. #MWBrainFood
Big data company: We process 100 million
documents and 2 trillion searches every day
data
capture
data
enrichment
proprietary
search
engine
real-time
analytics
10. #MWBrainFood
We track Leading Performance Indicators
(LPIs)
real-time
analytics
Client
Satisfactions
Industry
Trends
Competitive
Intelligence
Brand
Perception
Share
of Voice
11. #MWBrainFood
Lagging Performance Indicators
30 years of rigor
in mining internal data...
BI
ERP
SFA
CRM
MRP
SCM
…is being disrupted
by an explosion of external data
Leading Performance Indicators
Product
reviews
Hiring
patterns
Competitor
analysis
InvestmentsClient
satisfaction
Employee
behavior
Real-time
3rd party data.
Benchmarked
A shift in focus from internal to external data
Fire wall
16. Mining external data is looking at leading performance indicators
and the road ahead
17. External data is added
to the decision process
New data Timing Benchmarking
DECISION MAKING IS CHANGING IN 3 KEY ASPECTS
Decisions are moved
from after-the-fact to the
point when events start
to unfold
Move from isolated
analysis to real-time
benchmarking with
peers
22. #MWBrainFood23
The new guest of honor in the board room will be an
analytics engine benchmarking your company with
competitors in real-time on leading performance
indicators
23. #MWBrainFood
A new, large software category will emerge
News clippings Social media analytics Big data analytics
based on a wide range
of external data types
1st Generation 2nd Generation 3rd Generation
24. #MWBrainFood
MarCom has the opportunity to fill the void
Moving from mentions to
leading performance
indicators and business
insights
Combining media
intelligence with insights
found in other external
data types
Move from justifying
budget spend to
support key decision
making
Analytics Beyond media Resource to CXO
25. Summary
1. External data is becoming one of the richest sources
for business insights
2. Executives will look beyond their internal reporting
systems in order to understand what is happening
3. Media Intelligence becomes strategic
4. The way companies are run will as a consequence
change
5. MarCom can help provide valuable insights to aid
strategic decision making
74. ZMOT and MICRO-MOMENTS
We know the purchase
decision is happening
much sooner than
before.
Google
Zero Moment of Truth
We also know the
purchase is the result of
a series of personalized
moments.
Think with Google
Micro-Moments
75. Cisco Research on the Customer Journey
Winning the New Digital Consumer with Hyper-Relevan
76. Motivations that influence purchase
When do people purchase?
1. Efficiency - When it makes life
easier.
2. Emotion - When it makes life
happier.
3. Facts - When it makes sense.
4. Trust – When they trust you.
78. Practice versus reality
We create content that:
• Entertains
• Inspires
• Educates
• Convinces
We should create content
that:
• Feeds Intent
• Feeds Motivation
• Feeds Needs
• Feeds Emotion
79. Example: Healthcare - efficiency
• Looking for a quick and efficient visit
• No patience for long waiting times
• Often look for the “best” in the business
• Will often choose convenience
• Have a tendency to “put off’ healthcare needs because of time
• Impressed by awards won and academia achieved
• Want an office that looks clean and is up to date with latest
technology
80. Example: Healthcare - EMOTION
• Needs their doctor to be likable and friendly
• Want a physician who will listen to them
• Up to date waiting area aesthetically pleasing
• Short wait times, bored easily
• Like “popular” doctors
• Being treated like a friend by all staff is important
• May choose an attractive doctor first
• More willing to try “alternative” medicine
81. Example: Healthcare - Facts
• Will likely have the same doctor their entire life
• Testimonials are important
• Need a warm and friendly, family oriented atmosphere
• Need to know How things are done
• Appreciate a traditional approach
• Doctor must be thorough and not rushed
82. Example: Healthcare - TRUST
• Couldn’t care less about aesthetics
• Most concerned with education and experience
• Traditional doctors only, no whacky experimental stuff
• Physician must dot every “i” and cross every “t”
• No detail or possibility left undone.
• Need and overly cautious and worrisome physician.
83. How we comprehend
• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinesthetic
Integrated
• Whitepapers
• Infographics
• Podcasts
• Videos
• Real
Photography
• Real Stories
86. PERSONALIZATION + real-time = brand control
Providing a seamless, personalized
experience reduces consumer friction,
reduces reputation issues online, and
increases customer satisfaction. Word of
mouth and testimonials drive greater trust,
greater (good) visibility.
Social monitoring is imperative.
88. MELTWATER - Taxonomy, ontology, Lexical Onomies
Analyzed
600,000
social &
search
terms
Developed
Conversatio
n Cloud
Onomies
Analyzed
Engagemen
t by Social
Channel
Implemente
d Site
Hierarchy,
Audited
Existing
Content
Reproduce
d Existing
Ranking
Content
Trained
Editorial
and Social
Staff on
Optimizatio
n
Integrated
CMS social
sharing
capabilities
Aligned PR
and
Content
Promotion
89. RESULTS OF content authority
1. Less
Content
2. Improved
Content
3. Researched
New Content
4. Coordinated
Promotion
91. STILL HUNGRY?
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It’s great to see so many clients and so many people here today! Thank you for making it here :)
My name is Kaveh Rostampor – I am from Sweden in Scandinavia and live in San Francisco where we have our head quarters, I am head of the organization in North and South America.
We did a rebranding and repositioning of Meltwater a few months ago on the back of a 25million dollar investment in technology – today I’m going to talk about what we see quickly approaching on the horizon. And what impact we believe it will have for everyone in this room!
I’m going to share 3 propositions that we in Meltwater think will fundamentally shape your industry and how you and your peers are working.
Of course all of you in this room working with MarCom consider your role strategic, and it is, but I’m talking about elevating it much further than it’s considered today.
The propositions on the previous slide might seem bold, but we have seen this industry shape up for a long time.
Meltwater started almost 14 years ago… The picture is showing our server park consisting of a bunch of used computers monitoring 13 Norwegian news papers.
Very differently from a lot of other startups these days, we started out with very limited funding.
Today we are an international company, and global leader in news and social media analytics. We are a 1000+ people today in 50 offices on 6 continents. And with 23,000 clients all over the world.
We work with clients from all industries and fields. Fortune 500 companies (GE, HP, Nike, Oracle), top universities (Harvard, Oxford), the biggest NGOs (Unicef, Greenpeace) car companies (Volvo, BMW, Audi, Tesla), list goes on from small to large organizations. I’ve included some Finnish clients here as well …..
We had a product vision back in 2001 which we are still staying true to;
When a decision maker is having her morning cup of coffee they should be able to very quickly get an understanding of what has happened in their echo system over the last 24 hours.
Up to date information about your own brand, competitors, products, clients or your industry should help you stay on top of things and make more well informed decisions.
As we believe our 2001 product vision is more relevant than ever.
A LOT has happened since we started Meltwater in 2001.
As Eric Schmidt said, “every two days, we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003”
It’s a BIG Data world out there.
It’s mind boggling numbers we talk about.
And the vast majority of the information is publically available for everyone to process and take in.
We started out monitoring 13 Norwegian newspapers 14 years ago, today we process over 100 million documents and do 2 trillion searches. PER DAY.
We capture it from numerous sources (News, social channels, blogs, forums, public records, etc.), we enrich the data (geography, sentiment, demographics), we index the data and make it searchable, and in the presentation layer of the product we produce real-time dashboards with analytics (graphs and insights).
A tweet where your brand is mentioned, that is written somewhere, can be displayed in a graph or delivered in your email or to your phone within less than 2 mins.
And there are 1000’s of tweets written every second….. But the biggest value does not lie in reading all documents, but to understand the patterns and trends.
What we do is to track Lead Performance Indicators of your business.
What we mean by that is that we help you identify and track indicators that might influence your business in the feature.
An example is that you start seeing the share of voice of one of your competitors increasing in Europe – you want to undertand how and if that might effect sales in that region.
What would you do today to prevent your competitor eating your lunch in that region in 6 months time?
Or it could be that you see the client satisfaction decrease of a certain product – that could be a clear indication that the sales of that product will go down or that you might want to speak to your marketing colleagues to help increase the marketing budget of a certain product line.
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New software categories and massive companies have been built the last 30 years based on helping companies crunch and analyze internal data to better understand performance.
Software categories like ERP, CRM, Business intelligence and billion dollar companies like Oracle, HP, SAP, IBM and Salesforce have been built from that need.
While internal data will continue to be extremely important, we believe it is being disrupted by the explosion of external data. New software categories and new companies will be created from understanding and benchmarking 3rd party external data, in real-time.
There’s a goldmine of information and digital breadcrumbs in external data to help understand employee behavior, client satisfaction, for doing competitive analysis, or understand hiring patterns.
I’ll give you an example of how studying global job posting can give you a good sense of what your competitors are doing.
So to summarize and make it very simple... Mining internal data is looking at history….. It’s like trying to drive forward by looking in the rear view mirror : )
Whereas mining external data is looking at leading performance indicators and the road ahead. Seeing the obstacles, the threats, the opportunities…. The road ahead will be more predictable!
External data is added to the decision making process
We will be quicker at adapting to events as they happen
We will continuously benchmark with peers/competitors
And we will do all this with the help of data power.
IBM’s Deep Blue vs. Kasparov back in the late 90’s revealed an upcoming truth:
Computer technology had evolved an edge over the most talented and disciplined human minds.
IBM’s Watson was kicking everyone’s ass in Jeopardy. Watson could process natural language, resolve linguistic ambiguities and evaluate the puns, slang, nuance and oblique allusions characteristic of a typical Jeopardy. It’s fantastic.
Computers will be our tireless assistant in making more well informed decisions.
So what are the consequences of all this?
Looking into the crystal ball
In real time you test different strategies to understand how your echosystem and competitors react.
A competitor is dropping their prices in Europe.. How do you react to that? You can test different strategies and see how they are received and unfold.
We think this will rise to the top of the companies and into the boardrooms as well.
Big shocker: lots happening in mobile
In just 8 years, smartphones have taken over the world
2B on the planet today; soon will be 4, then 8
Just last year, time watching that small screen in your hand surpassed watching that big screen on the wall
In 5 years … amount of voice usage has been constant …
Data has skyrocketed more than 3400%
2/3 of Americans are regularly confronted with mobile ads
Mobile video advertising is up 61% in the US in just the last year
And … people are responding.
M-commerce jumped 123% in Q1 … from the Christmas quarter of 2014
100s of mobile ad networks
Get better Verve logo?
Massive complexity in mobile advertising
Fraud …
6M click study in 2012 found 40% were fraudulent
Microsoft: $1B lost to fraud in 2013
Assoc of Nat. Advertisers: $6.3B in 2015 for all digital
Bots
Stacked banners
Invisible video running in 1x1 pixel frame
Off-screen ads
Tricky links inviting fat-finger clicks
Add it all up … can be overwhelming for brands
These guys live here
Most of these guys … not so much
We talked to 20 of the leading mobile ad networks, agencies, and players
We studied data from over 500 million ad impressions
We surveyed 1500 Americans
We think we found 12 things
Found plenty that’s wrong, too … but we’ll save that for another night
Small problem …. we don’t have time for 12 things
But … I’m going to highlight the most important ones
And … if you want all the data and insights from the report … I’ll give it to you after this show
The 12 are in mostly random order … but this is maybe the most important
Obvious, maybe, but often ignored
RevMob
YouTube: dance and jump for Carnivale …
Used phones motion sensors
Captured mindshare: people talking about it
S4M
Devious Maids: which Maid are you?
80% engagement
Opera
The CW: Catch the Flash mini-game in the ad
40% who saw the ad … played the game
Jaguar: configure the color of your vehicle in the ad
Geo-targeting; geo-conquesting
This:
Verve
Honda geo-conquesting Toyota
The result was an average of 20 seconds attention to the ad, and an increase of 377% in average foot traffic lift, according to a study of 125 geolocated ad campaigns s in the automotive sector.
Almost 75% of us have tapped on ads for local retailers
It’s always good to have data, and location data is important data
But you have to be careful with a point in time … geo-history is more valuable
Single points can be dangerous
Berlin …
Wasteful and annoying
Mobile video is HOT
Snapchat users watch 2 billion videos a day, just debuted 10-second video ads
Spotify has plans to unveil a video offering in addition to its music play
Online community Reddit just launched video in May
Twitter is building a sort of native-advertising-meets-video for Periscope and Vine, its two video properties
Facebook launched 15-second video ads for Instagram late in 2014
Google, of course, has had video ads on YouTube for year
And Facebook is starting to challenge YouTube for video views with over 4 billion video views daily in April … up 25% in just three months
Remember this slide?
There’s a reason we’re pumping all that data out, and it’s called mobile video
As we’ve already seen, mobile video ad spend doubled from 2013 to 2014, reaching $1.4 billion. It’s likely to double again this year and hit almost $7 billion in just a few short years.
Question of course: is it working?
In a study covering tens of millions of mobile ad placements, Millennial Media found that video ads generally average 5X the engagement of static banner ads. That ranges from lows of 2-3X in the automotive and entertainment verticals, to 6-7X in the finance, retail, telecom, and technology services spaces.
Despite those outsized engagement numbers, only 27% of entertainment campaigns use video, and only 10% of automotive. Interestingly, despite the fact that consumer goods video ads generate 561% more engagement, only 22% of consumer goods campaigns use video.
Land Rover uses a lot of native advertising.
The company commissioned a story on smartphones, GPS, and -- of course -- a Land Rover. Published it on Quartz, a very visual news site, and tied it into the commissioning of an interactive game, available on the web and mobile, based on The Vanishing Game by novelist William Boyd.
“People were interested in the content and shared it,” says Kyaw.
Native content fits right in where mobile ads are most effective … in the stream of content.
In fact, ads on the News Feed (both desktop and mobile … but especially mobile) were both the cheapest for brands per-click and the most successful (i.e. highest clickthrough rate) ad placement type in 2014
Guess what works best there? Content similar to what people are seeing from their friends. Native content.
I’m sure everyone recognizes this …
Perhaps the best example of brand spontaneity … Bonin Bough … Oreos during super bowl power outage …
But … failure
But, Bough now says, that brilliant real-time social media success was also a “huge failure.”
"On one hand, Dunk in the Dark was a huge success, but in reality, it was a huge failure," Bough told Fast Company. "Imagine if at that moment we had been able to programmatically change every piece of media that we were buying to turn on the Oreo ad."
Adidas had its Oreo moment in the last men’s World Cup of soccer
Both teams in the final sponsored by Adidas
Minutes after winning … special jersey available
No-one knew
Now: Thomas Muller scores fro Bayern Munich … jersey available … ad running … 6.6% CTR
“You can have your lawyer in the room, and you can have your creative set up,” says von Cranach.
Ecosystem
What’s not working
Fraud
Local and beacons
That’s what the report is for
You’ll get it … bounce around it in … enjoy
But now it’s time for the panel …
Meltwater’s new real-time monitoring. Dashboards are updated in real-time with automatic reporting.
Synonomy – similar terms used for the same topic.
Antonomy – opposing or differing terms associated with the topic.
Hyponomy – specialty terms associated with the topic.
Meronymy – the parent topic(s).
Holonymy – the subtopic members
17 million pages, black-hat SEO
No ranking above page 2
No sharing or promotion alignment
Increased site ranking, conversion rate by 23%
One of the most important recent advances in business thinking is the recognition that people, in their purchase decision-making, respond to more than simply the tangible product or service being offered. The tangible product – a pair of shoes, a refrigerator, a haircut, or a meal – is only a small part of the total consumption package. Buyers respond to the total product. It includes the services, warranties, packaging, advertising, financing, pleasantries, images, and other features that accompany the product. Philip Kotler, 1973, Journal of Retailing