Brandwatch conducted research for Vice to help them understand their potential audience for the launch of Viceland UK. They segmented audiences into millennials, UK Vice readers, US Viceland viewers, and the general UK population. Brandwatch analyzed these groups using social media data and found key insights around shows like Made in Chelsea being "guilty pleasures" for the target Viceland audience. Their findings and suggested actions helped Vice make strategic decisions for the Viceland UK launch.

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Webinar/ Understanding your audience:
Bex Carson, Director, Global
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Hannah Tregear, Customer
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How Vice discovered unique insights in the launch of VICELAND UK

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Coming Up
• Introductions to VICE and Brandwatch
• Discussion on VICELAND Launch in UK
• Q&A

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Vice

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VICE is the world’s preeminent youth media company and content
creation studio. Launched in 1994, VICE now operates in over 30
countries and distributes its programming to viewers across digital,
linear, mobile, film and socials. VICE includes an international network
of digital channels; a weekly and daily news programming partnership
with HBO; a television and feature film production studio; a magazine;
a record label; an in-house creative services agency; and a newly
launched TV network, VICELAND.

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Brandwatch

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Brandwatch is the world’s leading social intelligence company. The company’s flagship
products, Brandwatch Analytics and the Vizia platform, fuel smarter decision making
around the world.
The Brandwatch platform is used by over 1,200 brands and agencies, including Unilever,
Whirlpool, British Airways, Asos, Walmart and Dell. Brandwatch continues on its
impressive business trajectory, recently named a global leader in enterprise social
listening platforms by the latest reports from several independent research firms.
Increasing its worldwide presence, the company has offices around the world including
Brighton, New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Stuttgart, Paris and Singapore.

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Discussion

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What was the opportunity VICE had in front of
them? Any potential threats?

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Why did Vice ask for Brandwatch to conduct
this research?

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What was the approach Brandwatch took to
help solve this for VICE?

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Audience Segmentation
Millennials
“21st Birthday next week!”
“Can’t believe I’m nearly 30”
“Student at Uni. Southampton”
“Moving out of my parents house”

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Audience Segmentation
UK Vice Readers
Shared links to Vice articles in
past 6 months

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Audience Segmentation
US Viceland Viewers
Shared Viceland content or discussed
the channel/shows since launch

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Audience Segmentation
UK general population benchmark

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Audience Segmentation
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Potential UK
Viceland Viewers
Overlap/neighbouring behaviours &
preferences of three related groups.
Differentiated from the general
population.

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What methodology did you use to get to know
the different audiences? Did you come up
against any problems?

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Did you use any data from the US and Canada
launch?

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Did you employ any new tactics in this
research that perhaps you hadn’t used
before?

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Did the Brandwatch data match any internal
insights that the team at Vice had gathered?

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Were there any insights you found especially
surprising?

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Guilty Pleasures
“ Guilty pleasure time #MIC
#MadeInChelsea @E4Chelsea
@E4Tweets ”
“ Made in Chelsea has been my
guilty pleasure for a good few
years now ”
“ Daughter and I are watching
#MadeInChelsea (our guilty
pleasure) - watching them dine.
We're like 'fill up mi plate nuh!’ ”
“ The guilty pleasure is back 😄
#LoveIsland ”

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What were the key findings and suggested
actions based on the research?

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Q & A

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