Where We Are Up to With Social Media | Mark Jones, Fox Sports | iStrategy Sydney 2010
1. WHERE WE ARE UP TO
WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
HOPE YOU ‘LIKE’ ME ...
2. Intro to Fox Sports
Subscription TV model
- In 2.2M homes
- 4000 hotels/venues &
- 190,000 hotel rooms
- 20 hrs of live sport/day
Web Advertising model
- UBs 100K per day (3)
- Page Duration 1:32 (1)
- Session duration 9m+
- 6 major sports deeply
- Broad news from all sports
5,000 friends...so what?
3. Why worry about social media at all?
3 Source: ExactTarget, April 2010. Study looked at 1506 US respondents aged 15 and older.
6. But we are seeing fanatics don’t
connect at this level
- Connection to passion is
at the closest point to the
individual
- Cricket, AFL, NRL,
Football, Rugby,
Motorsports
- Fanatics are the 10% of
friends that curate and
share to their 150
Spectator <1K
• 9MSN 92
• Bigpond 587
Fan <20K
• Fox Sports 5,100
• Herald Sun 16,000
Fanatic >100K
• NRL.com.au 233K
• MyNRL 298K
• AFL 252K
7. So we have to connect more personally
- Drill in on each sporting
code, programme and
talent
- Allow fans to feel part of
the action
- Shift our tone to speaking
WITH people, not TO
them
12. But we are still in training
before we go for the title
Our approach:
1. FOCUS
2. LISTEN
3. DISTRIBUTE
4. SUPPORT COMMUNITIES
13. And why the mad rush, it isn’t a
popularity contest ... ?
14. Do friends really tell us the
impact this is all having
- Tracking behaviours
that change as we
move people to act
- Seek out the right High
Street in large online
communities
- What can we learn to
dynamically adjust what
we offer with APIs
Followers or
Retweets?
Likes or Shares that
drive comment?
15. A poetic parting thought
from theQuoteWhore
[I replaced ‘she’ with ‘social media’]
If SM’s amazing, SM wont be easy.
If SM’s easy, SM wont be amazing.
If SM’s worth it, you wont give up.
If you give up, you're not worthy.
Twitter: 4 hours ago
16. Thank you
Mark Jones
Digital Director, Premier Media Group
E: mark.jones@foxsports.com.au
T: @markdamonjones
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