The fusion between two distinct technology disciplines are becoming one. MarTech and AdTech collide to create MadTech, a whole new possibility of solutions that are emerging and giving marketers an avenue of technologies that will give them an advantage with marketing tactics.
Jenny Wilburn: Senior Manager, Digital Communications and Social Media at The Coca-Cola Company
Chris Hackney: President and COO at Insightpool
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Coca-Cola Journey is the
company’s corporate website
turned content platform – a
storytelling engine hosting unique
and original content about the
company
What is Journey?
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For Example…
Company’s New Parental Leave
PolicyEffort led by a
Millennial Task Force (TCCC)
We knew publishing this
story would resonate
everywhere…
and we were right!
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PAID is still a very new thing for the Coca-Cola
Company social properties.
a creative organic way to spread
love for our products and
company
Not brand, Coca-Cola Company
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Without PAID, we were
missing out
Heavy focus on social, but
with a strategy that evolves
daily.
We go where our readers are
and engage them there.
Our CPMs & CPEs
would blow your mind!
Most people would not guess, but around 2/3s of Coca-Cola Journey’s audience is millenials.
To that point, we make sure that we are both publishing content that might appeal to milennials, as well as highlighting work done by millenials at Coke.
One example is the story we released a few weeks ago about the company’s new parental leave policy. This was an effort led by a millenial task force at TCCC. We knew that publishing a story on a millenial task force working hard to enact change at the company was something that would do well everywhere – and we were right!
Overview: A group of Millennial employees serves as a change agent for senior leadership and a kickstarter for innovation and cultural change at The Coca-Cola Company. Learn more at http://CokeURL.com/MV
Targeting: Millenial brand, Biz/Marketing Professionals, career development interested (linkedin, start-ups)
Less blue
Digital Environments that POEM – bringing this together
Systems are coming together
Fast forward to 2015, and it became clear that counting on organic
wasn’t going to get us anywhere. The vast majority of our traffic
comes from social – our homepage is no longer the first thing most
people see when engaging in our content. So, in order to make sure
people saw ANY of our content, we had to quickly make the case to
upper management that w/o paid, we were missing out.
Paid is still a very new thing for the Coca-Cola Company social properties. Not brand, company. When Journey was created a few years ago, the idea was that this would be a nice organic way to spread love for our products and company.
So, in order to make sure people saw ANY of our content, we had to quickly make the case to upper management that w/o paid, we were missing out.
Now, as a team, we have a paid strategy for all of current social networks. Our budget isn’t huge, but we have a really smart team that makes the most out of every single penny.
We focus heavily on social – b/c that is definitely where our bread is buttered – but it’s a strategy that evolves every single day. We try to go where our readers are – and hit them there.
We’re on all the social networks, but know that FB is where we get most of our traffic, so we heavily weight our budget there. In addition, we’re constantly looking for different ways to spread our message – like InsightPool.
In addition – and this is crazy, I know – we do our media buys ourselves. We’re a nimble team who love to crunch numbers – and because of that we’ve been able to really get the most for our money by staying on top of it. Some of our CPMs and CPEs would blow your mind!
http://www.coca-colacompany.com/stories/id-like-to-buy-the-world-a-coke-motorhome/
Posted on FB, ran a 2 day paid campaign with a WHOPPING $300.
We went hard core on the hypertargeting with the post (GMC Motorhome, American Restoration, Motor home, Pawn Stars, Rvs) and the results were great.
104,896 People (Paid Reach)
110,784 People (Organic Reach)
5,902 Post Likes
3,191 Clicks Through to Journey
1,059Post Shares
624Comments
But then. Then we got the call that Hilltop was going to be used in the finale of Mad Men. We didn’t know how – JUST that it was going to be in the last episode. So, we did some extra work. We freshened up Ted’s piece, added some new images, more links, etc. Then, we put together the bones of a story about Hilltop appearing on Mad Men – a story that needed to be finished up once we actually saw how the ad was used.
Then, as the show aired, we added a little paid support – and the results were insane. Hilltop – and specifically Journey’s version of Hilltop was everywhere.
We need to bring it back to the Modern Marketers Paradox and talk about how marketers are armed with more data than ever via Mar Tech and Ad Tech and that is what is driving the strategic importance of the CMO.
We need to bring it back to the Modern Marketers Paradox and talk about how marketers are armed with more data than ever via Mar Tech and Ad Tech and that is what is driving the strategic importance of the CMO.