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- 1. Digital Strategy Marketing Moviesin a Wired World
- 2. Contents 1 2 3 What is digital strategy? Creating your strategy Making it happen 2
- 3. What is digitalstrategy? 3
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- 5. “You didn’t havea strategy” 5
- 6. Strategy vs Plan •Strategy comes first: before the plan • Strategy takes unforeseen events into account • Strategy can contain multiple plans 6
- 7. digital strategy An adaptable plan that will keep us focused on our goal – no matter what happens 7
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- 9. Digital, once upona time 9
- 10. And today… 10
- 11. Anything arising fromaudience use of technology that we can influence, track and measure digital strategy 11
- 12. Anything arising fromaudience use of technology that we can influence, track and measure digital strategy An adaptable plan that will keep us focused on our goal – no matter what happens 12
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- 14. So you’re makinga movie… Q: When should you start thinking about digital strategy? 14
- 15. So you’re makinga movie… Q: When should you start thinking about digital strategy? A: As soon as possible 15
- 16. What you needto consider AUDIENCE • Who will watch the movie? • Where can you find them? HOOKS • Can they be segmented? ASSETS • Who to engage first? PROPERTIES ACTIVITY OUTCOMES 16
- 17. What you needto consider AUDIENCE • What will draw people in? HOOKS • Theme, source material? ASSETS • Cast, location, genre? • Historical events? PROPERTIES ACTIVITY OUTCOMES 17
- 18. What you needto consider AUDIENCE HOOKS • What can you use? • Trailers, behind-the-scenes? ASSETS • In-world media? PROPERTIES • Interactive content? ACTIVITY OUTCOMES 18
- 19. What you needto consider AUDIENCE HOOKS • Websites ASSETS • Social media profiles PROPERTIES • Who can you influence? • Where will you send people? ACTIVITY OUTCOMES 19
- 20. What you needto consider AUDIENCE HOOKS ASSETS • What will you do and when? • Who will do it? PROPERTIES ACTIVITY OUTCOMES 20
- 21. What you needto consider AUDIENCE HOOKS ASSETS • What will you achieve? PROPERTIES • Focus on hardcore fans? • Build audience database? ACTIVITY • Promote cinematic release? OUTCOMES 21
- 22. What you needto consider AUDIENCE Look for the connections HOOKS between these areas… ASSETS PROPERTIES …each one ACTIVITY influences the other OUTCOMES 22
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- 24. This is whereit’s more like a plan “No plan survives contact with the enemy” 24
- 25. This is whereit’s more like a plan “No plan survives contact with the enemy” No plan survives contact with reality 25
- 26. Getting the planin place • Synchronise with production schedule – When is script locked down? – When does principal photography end? – When will the rough cut be finished? – When’s the premiere? • These dates won’t affect the substance of your digital strategy, but they are critical to its execution 26
- 27. 1. Set updigital properties • Create website • Set up Twitter account, Facebook page, Tumblr etc • Think about naming strategies – Do you need to abbreviate or shorten your movie title? – What if your title changes? 27
- 28. 2. Roles &Responsibilities • Who is doing what? • Who has the passwords? • Be very clear about who is in charge of what – Dangerous when two people update a blog at the same time – Even more dangerous when everyone thinks “someone else will do it” 28
- 29. 3. Tone ofVoice • How should your digital voice sound? • How should you communicate? • If someone is rude about your trailer in the YouTube comments, would you: – Be abusive / insulting in response – Ignore them – Be sharp, witty but polite 29
- 30. 4. Think aboutthe Links • Do your profiles, properties & sites link to one another? • Where are you driving people? • Avoid playing “link tennis”, e.g. with YouTube linking to Facebook linking back to YouTube • What’s your main property – your website? Your Facebook page? 30
- 31. 5. Measurement • Whatdata will you gather? • How will you report and share it? • What are the Key Performance Indicators (or KPIs) • What will you do with the data? – Web traffic – YouTube views – Facebook friends – Twitter followers – Email addresses 31
- 32. 6. Unexpected events •How will you change your plan if unexpected events happen? • Is there a Plan B? Plan C? Plan X? • Things to consider: – Delay in shooting schedule – Competing studio working on similar film – News event forces release delay – Internet audience response makes you change some ideas (e.g. Snakes On A Plane) – Things going better or worse than expected 32
- 33. To recap Creating yourstrategy Executing your strategy 1. Audience 1. Set up properties 2. Hooks 2. Roles & Responsibilities 3. Assets 3. Tone of Voice 4. Properties 4. Think about the Links 5. Activity 5. Measurement 6. Outcomes 6. Unexpected Events 33
- 34. Thank you! 34
Editor's Notes
- #5 The word is thrown about a lot.
- #6 If you watch the apprentice…you'll have heard people say things like "we didn't have a strategy" - but do we really know what it means?
- #7 Plan vs StrategyStrategy comes first: before the planStrategy needs to take into account different eventualities and unforeseen eventsStrategy can contain multiple plans which would kick off at different stages, or in different events
- #8 So we need a strategy to begin with - when we know very little, when anything might happen - and if is a good one we'll still be using it when nearly everything has been said and done
- #9 Now “digital” – what do you think it means?
- #10 Go back a few years and this generally meant "the web"
- #11 But today it means a lot more than that, every year there are more networks, services, websites to consider. Overlap between digital and analogue worlds… when you go to a venue that used to be an analogue event but (app) it's digital now: expect more of that in future
- #12 however if the cinema has a computer system that tracks ticket purchases, that doesn't really fall into this definitionSo I'd say a good working definition is "anything arising from audience use of technology that we can track & measure"
- #13 So that's "Digital" and "strategy"
- #15 OK so you're working on a film and you need to have a digital strategy in place. When should you start thinking about it
- #16 It’s never too early. Start early and you can shape what you shoot, capture footage etc
- #20 do your cast or crew or production company have websites or twitter accounts you can use?Maybe create a flow diagramshowing where you expect people to go, e.g. see a trailer posted on a forum, view it on youtube, look at facebook page, friend us, etc
- #22 Is your digital strategy to focus only on hardcore fans and expect them to evangelise the film on your behalf? Then maybe you want to concentrate more on direct approaches to bloggers and critics, rather than building rich interactive promotional gamesIs your film likely to get a limited release at certain cinemas? Then maybe you want to get contact details and postcodes of potential audience members, so you can directly contact them when your movie is screening near their house ("geo-location")
- #23 For example, as you get an understanding of the sites, networks, blogs, forums etc your audience is using, this will influence the properties you choose. Or the hooks in your film will influence the assets that form part of your campaign. If your film's about a comic book author, for example, you could consider making the in-movie comics central