The document discusses trends observed at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference in 2014, with a focus on insights relevant to healthcare and millennials. Some of the top trends included debates around big data and privacy, the rise of wearable technology, and the emergence of celebrities over technologists at conferences. The healthcare track at SXSW 2014 was the largest to date, covering topics like wearable technology and how to understand millennial conversations and interests through analyzing their online behaviors and shared content across various social media platforms and websites.

1. What Matters to Millennials?
Naimul Huq | @naimul
Director, W2O Group
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millennial
/miˈlenēəl/
noun
“Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents.” – TIME
1. a person reaching young adulthood around the year 2000; are 18-34 year old.
Google Image Results:

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“Among Americans age 40 and older, there’s a
pastime more popular than football, Candy Crush
or HBO.
It’s bashing millennials.”
Frank Bruni, NYTimes
June 7, 2014
frugal lazy
wasteful
fashionable
distracted
entitled
narcissistic
entrepreneurial
different
consumers
80 Million
of them
Online:

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the hashtag generation
noun
1. Younger than millenials. Often overlapping interests, influenced by millennials. Digital natives.
Google Image Results:
“The #generation naturally collaborates.”

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“In 2009, more data will be generated by individuals than
in the entire history of mankind through 2008.”
- Andreas Weigend, Chief Scientist, Amazon.com, 2009
50 Million Instagram Posts Per Day
500 Million Tweets Per Day
Billions of Interactions on Facebook
Trillions of Text messages, IMs, Snapchats, Secrets, Vines, Emails,
YouTube Videos, Livestreams, Reddit Submissions….
66% use more than one mobile device, daily
They look at their mobile phones 45+ times
per day – SDL Report

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There is a ton of data out there.
It tells a story and you don’t need a background in
math to tap into it.

7. W2OGROUP Clients (Examples)
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8. How We Try to Understand Millennials
• We analyze thousands of conversations per day and
extract the most shared content from Millennials, from
music to gaming to healthcare, across a multitude of media
platforms.
• From a marketing standpoint, this helps us craft content
that speaks directly to their interests. Our creative team is
agile.
• We have to be mindful of human truths. Basic rules of
behavioral psychology are the reason why social
networking is so popular. And with that in mind, we create
and connect. Logic and Emotion.
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9. The Psychology of Social
Operant
Conditioning
Information
Cascade
Herd
Mentality
Conformity
Operant Conditioning is what
makes social media work well.
Social media incites
psychological response.
Fear of what others are doing
without us gets us to sign in.
Fear of being apart drives us to
engage.
We model our behavior against
the behavior of others. Memes,
trends, fads are all a function of
human conformity.
Humans tend to value the
opinions of those they trust.
Reviews from friends carry more
weight than any advertisement
and dictate our behavior.
Source: http://www.danah.org, http://www.danzarella.com
“In order to know how society works, you need to be a part of it.”
-Danah Boyd, Microsoft Research

10. The 1-9-90 Model of Influence
1 9 90
Influencers
• Top opinion leaders – 1%
or less who drive the ideas
that fuel conversation share
with current/potential
customers
• Important to focus content
and relationships here
Active Engagers
• Second concentric circle of
influence – the people who
carry the message, and
where top influencers source
ideas
• Important to surround sound
with paid + earned media
The Market
• Reflects what customers read,
search and discover online
every day. What do they learn?
Where are they? How can you
connect?
• Important to listen, educate,
share and provide unique
experiences
1% of People Create Content 9% Share and Repackage 90% Listen and Learn
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11. Tremendous Reach in Top Influencers
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“Competitive Strategy In The Age Of The Customer,” Forrester Research Inc., June 6, 2011
500 Billion
Brand or Product impressions via consumers in social media.
6%
of
influencers
80%
of
impressions

12. Follow the Leaders
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Influencers
are out
there and
they are
intricately
connected

13. Ten Areas of Online Influence
Influence Areas Trend Relevance
Audio
Favorite of sales force,
customers on the go
Podcasts of all types, plus audio tracks of video segments are an undefined area of online,
yet have growing utility
Blogs
>200MM; trend is to have
multiple blogs, multiple
languages
We should know the top influencers by topic who drive relevant share of voice. The
numbers of influencers are small, precision is key.
Data / Slides 30MM uniques at SlideShare A great location to share all public presentations.
Forums
The engine of conversations
and passion online
Knowing who is driving conversation in forums is key. We should treat high volume
moderators with the same respect as we do with journalists.
Images
Is all content tagged to impact
natural search?
Companies often forget to tag all content in the 10 languages that reach 95% of the online
population.
Micro Blogging
An effective way to alert
influencers, help propel news
cycles
A great opportunity to build a network of influencers who want to share your news in real
time. Twitter is a prime example.
Search
Yes, Google is #1, but
YouTube is #2
We need to know the influencers on the first screen for our brand and key topics. We also
need to understand where people are taken when they search.
Social Networks
The communities that are
often our “first place” to go
online
Our day often starts and ends with Facebook or MySpace or Orkut or other depending
where we live.
Video
Consumption habits are
starting to favor video vs.
copy
There are over 50 video sites to analyze, which sometimes house ratings and reviews of
our products.
Wikis
Free online peer edited online
encyclopedia
Nearly every topic has a Wikipedia entry, which means it could be the first information a
consumer finds about any topic they are seeking information about.

14. Brands Doing this Well
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#YOLO

15. Back to Millennials
Now that you understand that
everything is data, let’s have a look
at some.
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16. Millennial Conversations
Most Data Removed due to Proprietary Nature
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Frequently shared domains
Domain Frequency UMV’s Domain Frequency UMV’s
twitter.com 8,869 34,290,315 hintmag.com 46 1697
youtube.com 1,291 163,911,384 streamdb3web.securenetsystems.net 44 80,563
etsy.com 932 11,491,241 media.tumblr.com 42 3,873,261
refinery29.com 575 166,640 31.media.tumblr.com 42 1,679,295
instagram.com 534 25,239,765 keek.com 41 306,765
twitch.tv 283 1,721,205 tv.mtvema.com 38 36,445
vine.co 209 2,918,977 reverbnation.com 38 1,617,619
adoptapet.com 183 989,062 i.imgur.com 38 4,020,389
itunes.apple.com 163 13,127,909 apps.facebook.com 38 74,455,505
soundcloud.com 145 3,475,520 twitlonger.com 36 165,538
thaproducesection.com 130 20,691 washingtonpost.com 35 10,988,215
stumbleupon.com 122 5,210,429 buzzfeed.com 34 7,492,439
twitpic.com 122 488,160 socialclub.rockstargames.com 33 213,008
facebook.com 120 164,616,160 blogtalkradio.com 33 696,263
warriorplus.com 97 105,457 theindianbeauty.com 32 unknown
nymag.com 88 1,349,948 gameinformer.com 32 557,880
mashable.com 83 2,143,781 gospelsynergy.com 32 unknown
pursebop.blogspot.com 74 unknown nytimes.com 30 17,179,190
25.media.tumblr.com 74 2,192,880 styloradio.com 29 unknown
fashionista.com 70 115,415 politicususa.com 29 209,747
datpiff.com 69 2,517,367 reggaetape.blogspot.se 29 unknown
huffingtonpost.com 66 45,629,957 ny.racked.com 28 24,929
ign.com 64 4,503,957 bbc.co.uk 28 8,862,146
24.media.tumblr.com 64 1,952,731 taiyomusi.web.fc2.com 27 unknown
mizsunshine.com 54 2,065 ultimate-guitar.com 27 1,769,259
• Frequently shared domains aligned to millennial interests around social, music,
entrepreneurial spirit, social causes, fashion and gaming

18. #SXSW Insights: W2O Remix
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19. W2O on SXSW
• Top trends @ sxsw 2014
• Healthcare’s first ‘official’ rodeo at sxsw – what were
the key topics covered and what did we take away?
• Our top 5 insights from the meeting
• What we think it all means for you
What we’re going to cover
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20. top trends @ SXSW 2014
• The debate over big data versus privacy was the #1 topic. The top trending
topic was the relationship between national security and technology, spurred by
appearances by Edward Snowden (185,005 mentions) and Julian Assange
(48,252 mentions). Snowden’s presentation via video only fueled the buzz around
this topic.
• Wearables (which are small) will be huge. They were a major focus of the
Consumer Electronic Show and continued to be a key topic at SXSW. This will
likely continue to be a top trend for some time.
• Additional hot topics included 3-D printing, food innovation, mobile, and social business.
• The emergence of celebrities over technologists. Lady Gaga and Zac Efron
confirmed it – SXSW is one of the hottest red carpets around. Similar to the TED
conference, actors, politicians and Fortune 500 CEOs ruled the day. And even
within the tech world, its often more about the personality than the company,
industry or topic. #snowden
• Its all Global. Over 540,000 tweets were associated with the #SXSW hashtag
around the world, peaking Monday, March 10 with 160,881 unique mentions
surrounding Edward Snowden's session. Only 10% of SXSW-related tweets
originated in Austin, though still comprised the highest geographic concentration.
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21. healthcare’s biggest rodeo yet @ SXSW
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2014’s healthcare track was the biggest and best yet – way more than 8
seconds, more like 5 days and 23 sessions
• 3 million tweets with the hashtag #sxsw, 72,290 with #sxswi, 575 with official Health Track #sxswh
• Key areas of focus included:
• wearable technology and how it can impact behavior – and what to do with all the data collected, ensuring health innovation is
available to everyone, best practices on how doctors, patients, companies and advocates can work together to advance care,
and some really cool technology in development – like a breath analyzer that can detect lung cancer and an ingestible drug-
dosage monitor that’s the size of a grain of sand

22. what do we think it means?
• Wearables = human data center
• Anything our body does will generate data, matched with all available content on
a topic
• Actions of our body lead to results on what to do, e.g. Ask MD
• Concrete behavior patterns are emerging – what we do with that is yet to come
(male vs. female behavior change, disease management)
• How we consume information about health is fast tracked
• Proof: the shift from 86% of clinical trials being delayed to 86% enrolling early
• Mass media gives way to highly focused outreach to right patients
• Health is transformed as medicine reaches the market earlier
• There’s room for HC companies to engage in the conversation @
SXSW
• The next slides shows how one of our clients, Kaiser Permanente, partnered with
us to get engaged in the conversation via a customized news dashboard, live
from the meeting
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23. Kaiser Permanente at #SXSW

24. our top 5 insights from SXSW
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25. insight #1: you need to be a brilliant storyteller
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Mad Men are now MiddleMen
• There is a shift from the brand as publisher to brand as storyteller – and customers
should help be the one telling the story
• Brand and trust are more influenced by what others say about companies/organizations
than they say about themselves thanks to social media
• “You have two ears, one mouth. Listen twice as hard before you start to speak.” – Andrew
Bowins, SVP Corporate & Digital Communications, MasterCard
• We have to learn how to be more active on social media by listening; then adjust and
adopt new roadmaps against what the customer needs

26. insight #2: content is still king, but must be channel
neutral
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Marriage between content and technology is key
• People want to find content that is real, good and valuable to them – now. It shouldn’t be
manufactured. Focus is on what they WANT to know vs. what they need to know
• People want to feel they are finding something “new” in their content – things that new,
stories that are new. They want the discovery, not to feel handled in someone “providing”
information to them
• Content should be channel neutral – we don’t have a FB strategy or a Twitter strategy;
we have a content strategy and technology allows us to activates across all channels

27. insight #3: its all about the beta (and the next beta)
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Sometimes it really is about the journey
• “The word “brand” and what that represents is the single most important thing to everything Google
is going to do.” – Jeben Berg, Senior Lead YouTube/Google
• Everything is beta – if everything stays in beta that means that everything that we do is a test and
has room to change and be made better
• Every brand has marketing objectives and those objectives are test worthy. How you achieve them
is test worthy. You need to study, learn and make better decisions. Then scale it – across brands,
the company and the industry

28. insight #4: making a difference is a big deal
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It’s not always easy to change status quo, but it is necessary
• It takes optimism, pragmatism and a lot of tenacity, but what is getting marketing and digital teams into
the c-suite table is the ability to hear what our stakeholders are saying and bring that to leadership
• Give your teams the time and support to bring innovative ideas to the table
• Embrace the new – Take risks. Lead. Both within your organization and outside. And then tell others how
you did it – perhaps at a SXSW panel

29. insight #5: healthcare has some catching up to do
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Polls in: technology change in HC is happening too slowly
• Clear call to action that we need to stop designing for the healthy population and look at how to
solve for those that need it
• Case in point: Sanofi’s fourth generation of the Diabetes Design Challenge is leveraging open data and Sanofi does not
own the IP. Focus is on how to collaborate with patients and service innovators – and that will enable rapid prototyping
• Products must be compelling and engaging, meaning beautiful, easy, fun – and importantly,
highly available – they must have access to a broad distribution
• Case in point: Mango Health, a mobile app that applies gaming to medication adherence, has demonstrated 90%
adherence in patients and is now able to charge $3 per patient

30. so, what do we think it all means for you?
• There is a shift occurring – from “big data” to “forensic analytics”
• You need solid foundation on the five fundamentals – listening,
influencers, language, content & channel
• Corporate vs. brand, global in focus
• The insights trifecta: Multi-year, real-time and location-based
• Use the power of storytizing – not advertising – to help establish
who you are and what you stand for
• Define your content strategy first, that + your forensic analytics
will tell you where you need to go
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31. Thanks!
@naimul on Twitter
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