This is an analysis of the digital presence of three whiskey brands, one large, one medium, and one small: Johnnie Walker, The Macallan, and Kings County.
This includes a look at their customer base as well as an audit of owned, earned, and paid media, followed by recommendations for improvement.
7. JOHNNIE WALKER
Name: Mike
Age: 29
Career: Financial Analyst
Personal Traits:
• Works hard & plays harder
• Sophisticated in a subtle way
• Quality-life seeker
• Keeps Moving & Strives for success
• Confident & Bold
Why Johnnie Walker:
Quality premium drink
Classic brand that reflects
desired social status
Represents a quality
good time
Fascination Triggers:
Trust
Power
8. Name: Benjamin
Age: 48
Career: CEO of a public company
Personal Tactics:
• High Income & advanced
degree
• Married with 2 children
• Travel for business
• Read Wall Street Journal
• Watch tennis
• Mercedes E Class
The Macallan
Why The Macallan:
High quality and luxury
brand image
Sophisticated Tastes to
match their credentials
Fascination Triggers:
Power
Prestige
9. KINGS COUNTY
Name: Jackson
Age: 31
Career: Graphic Designer
Personal Traits:
• Works so he can enjoy nightlife,
music and travel
• Transitioning into adulthood
• Fan of indie/alternative culture
• Seeks out new restaurants and bars
Why Kings County:
Local brand that proudly
represents Brooklyn
Unique flavor that can only be
found in select bars
Symbolizes enjoying life with
friends
Fascination Trigger:
Passion
Rebellion
12. OWNED MEDIA
Johnnie Walker 4.3m 4,542 30,097 241
The Macallan 19k 17k/4K 2,512 494 467
Kings County 3,054 2,774 213
Bravo! It’s ok. Why even have it? Yet to be filled
26. OWNED MEDIA
Johnnie Walker 4.3m 4,542 30,097 241
The Macallan 19k 17k/4K 2,512 494 467
Kings County 3,054 2,774 213
Bravo! It’s ok. Why even have it? Yet to be filled
27. Quiet on All Social Media Except Twitter
SOCIAL MEDIA Add an twitter Post example?
28. WEBSITE
Easy to navigate?
Loading speed good?
Responsive Design?
Convey the message?
Useful information for users?
Brand Identity?
Creativity?
33. The most expensive whiskey
EARNED MEDIA
Limited Edition Product Review
‘Old whiskey’ Every Year
Can you find a better
Coverage pic of
water of life charity?
35. ✖SEM
✔Advertisement by third party retailers
SEARCH MARKETING
SEO: Keyword -Single Malt
Whisky- Page 2
SEO: Keyword- Luxury Whiskey,
Premium Whiskey, High End
Whiskey–???
38. OWNED MEDIA
Johnnie Walker 4.3m 4,542 30,097 241
The Macallan 19k 17k/4K 2,512 494 467
Kings County 3,054 2,774 213
Bravo! It’s ok. Why even have it? Yet to be filled
48. JOHNNIE WALKER
OWNED MEDIA
PAID MEDIA
EARNED MEDIA
SEARCH MARKETING
Blog
Best social media practice
Mobile app
Expand banner ads to wider site
lists
Retargeting ads
Work with bloggers to initiate
#keepwalking movement
Launch a blog to tell brand story
Rank for more keywords
Better Text Ad copy & add call to
action
49. RECOMMENDATIONS
OWNED MEDIA
PAID MEDIA
EARNED MEDIA
SEARCH MARKETING
Premium blog
Unleash social media potential
Develop useful app features
Digital Ads placement
Native Advertising
Real-time marketing
Target more keywords
50. Kings County
OWNED MEDIA
PAID MEDIA
EARNED MEDIA
SEARCH MARKETING
Website overhaul
E-commerce
YouTube account
Banner ads and sponsorships for
book
Regional press outside NY
Local events
SEM for book
SEO: become top listing for New
York/Brooklyn whiskey searches
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Meet the customers
Use our own picture
Add cover slide, delete right column
Use glasses
Multiple Apps designed in different languages
Cover slide
Is it the best copy? Where’s call to action?
Add cover slide, delete right column
Use glasses
Same information across platform, but should it be? ----and then recommendation about different app strategy
Cover slide
In 2010, a bottle of The Macallan 64-year-old single malt whisky was sold for $460,000 at an auction in NYC.
In 2012, The Macallan received the Guinness World Record for the most expensive whisky ever sold at auction.
`long tail strategy ----
Add cover slide, delete right column
Use glasses
Owned: no blog, mobile app, relatively low, lack of best practices of some social media channels.
Paid Media: no retargeting, limited sites
Earned Media: good hashtag, high organic mentions
Search marketing: Whisky- page 3/ Whiskey –no where to be found except for paid ad
Redesign website (could run a contest via social media for someone to design their website)
Invest in SEM so they come up first for terms like “Brooklyn whiskey”
Target local press outside of New York area (NJ, Connecticut, etc.), more national press, and more coverage in whiskey blogging community
Leverage book release to brand themselves as experts on whiskey industry in general
Become more active on Pinterest
Create official YouTube account (can post distillery tours, tasting videos, content on whiskey industry in general)