Hear how one of Brandwatch's longest running clients has evolved their use of Brandwatch from the work they do with analytics, to myriad other ways they partner with Brandwatch to go beyond data.
2. AGENDA
01. Intro
02. Why MPAA
A bit more about me
What kind of data is important to us?
03. Partnerships
04. Q&A
Why do all the work yourself?
Shoot.
4. Don’t judge me.
Sports Nomad
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I’ve worked in Digital for nine years.
Senior Director, Digital at MPAA
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Dual-citizen
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ABOUT me.
Don’t judge me.
Sports Nomad
6. Analytics should be the backbone of any
good Communications or Marketing
strategic planning. You don’t need me to
tell you that though.
But don’t just limit it to that.
How we
use it.
MPAA has been a Brandwatch
customer since 2012
Traditional insights and data The fun stuff
ANALYTICS PARTNERSHIPS
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This was done with Brandwatch’s managed
services team.
How about
an Audit?
Best to find out what people are saying first.
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Ratings discussion was almost equal to the
amount of conversations surrounding our
anti-piracy efforts.
Actually the split
was very different
Piracy
Policy
Ratings
9. As a trade organization, we constantly try
to be aware of the conversation around
our important issues.
It informs when we decide to interject,
and the influencer tagging allows to
understand how a particular conversation
is spreading
Issue
Tracking
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A co-branded effort with Brandwatch to try to predict Oscar
winners through levels of online conversation.
What We Did
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Highly successful with our picks.
86% Accurate
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Placements in EW, Popular Science, ClickZ, Geek, Read Write
and more.
Great Press Coverage
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Social Oscars.
14. ARCHIE
Brandwatch is helping us create the structure for
streamlining our online monitoring across
international offices
Global Social Media Monitoring
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Early stages of working to pull all of our varied
communication efforts into one set of metrics to
determine value
Universal Metric/ROI
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Upcoming Tasks
So I’ve worked in Digital for just about 9 years. I started at a Social Media Marketing agency in 2007…back when a large part of our publishing strategy for clients involved posts in forums and on message boards.
So I’ve worked in Digital for just about 9 years. I started at a Social Media Marketing agency in 2007…back when a large part of our publishing strategy for clients involved posts in forums and on message boards.
Right now I oversee all digital aspects of the organization, domestically and abroad (we have offices in Singapore, Brussels, Brazil, Mexico and Toronto), This involves Website design, social media platform creation, and overall digital communication strategy. In my time here I’ve built out 3-4 new social media platforms and launched four new or redesigned sites
I love each of these teams dearly, and most times when I login to Brandwatch, I just want to track sports conversation more than anything else. I can explain these team allegiances afterwards if any of you really care.
And in the lackadaisical way that permeates island life, while I was born here in the US, I’m also a citizen of the Bahamas With a Bahamian passport and everything to prove it.
Lastly, I have a lovely wife, who would be mortified if I shared her picture publicly with a bunch of strangers.
So let’s get into the meat of the work we do with Brandwatch
One of the first things I did upon getting to the MPAA was to go under contract with Brandwatch.
There are two main things that the MPAA, a trade organization, does with Brandwatch. Analytics, which is pretty obvious and then Partnerships and projects, which is probably a little less obvious.
So I’ll start at the beginning. I get to the MPAA in the fall of 2012, and the first thing on my mind is trying to figure out where to start. We had so far to go, so many things that people in our company wanted to try out. Also, there’s the thing you always feel at a new company…how can I quickly prove my worth/make some kind of impact?
I talked to a few people I really respected, but I’d already kind of had the idea that an audit was an important benchmark to start out with
Before I got started on building up our social media presence, I wanted to see what the prevailing conversation was up to that point. (Include image from deck in here somewhere). Many of my new colleagues were convinced that the majority of online conversation related to our issues.
However, the strong majority of conversation was actually about our ratings system. Brandwatch reporting helped me disprove a longstanding internal myth shortly after I started there.
Like most trade organizations, we represent our member’s interests on a variety of issues, one of the main functions of the site. This is a little hard to see, but it’s a dashboard related to conversations around Fair Use, something we are very interested in as an organization.
That massive spike in late March is the result of a thunderclap campaign
When we come to consensus with our members, we will react to things, a lot of times though it is extremely helpful to just understand how a conversation is spreading
Now let’s take a look at some of the partnerships we’ve done Brandwatch so far. We try to be creative, and judicious in our digital engagements.
Great press coverage (EW, Popular Science, Read Write Web and a bunch more)
86% accurate (better than anything else that year)
Most importantly, it got great response from our member companies
It worked out so well, that we doubled down the next year
We liked the first project so much, that we decided to go all-in and use online conversation to predict the outcomes of all of the major film award shows (Globes, SAG, PGA, DGA, Oscars)
Amazingly well designed
But we learned something that we probably could have researched beforehand...no one talks about the SAG, PGA or DGA awards ahead of time
In the summer of 2013, we decided to sponsor a lounge at SXSW 2014. In the lead-up to the event, my boss said “We have to have some kind of digital aspect to our lounge”. I conveyed this to my rep, and he came back with Brandwatch Vizia
Tracked conversation around the Film section of SXSW, from all sources of online content
Got an amazing response in the room