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15 oktober 2013

KIRSTEN HAVER DROEZE
Digital Marketing Lead

The Case 2013
© 2013 IBM Corporation
€ 4925,50
© 2013 IBM Corporation
#4
+4% 78,808$m

© 2013 IBM Corporation
The IBM mainframe

© 2013 IBM Corporation
The IBM personal computer

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Improving traffic flow
IBM and NXP work with the city of Eindhoven to create a smarter traffic system

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Helping Schiphol to grow
Baggage system can successfully process up to 70 million bags a year in the future

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Get better customer insight
Wehkamp.nl is using Analytics from the IBM Cloud to better understand customers

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Target the right customers
KPN deploys predictive modeling to guide marketing decisions and increasing
customer response rates by up to 1,000 percent.

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Helping companies to progress

© 2013 IBM Corporation
CHALLENGE: NEW SOLUTIONS, NEW
TARGET AUDIENCES, NEW BUYERS

© 2013 IBM Corporation
When leaders think about the
way the world should work,
they challenge the status quo

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Challenge the status quo

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Surprising ideas

© 2013 IBM Corporation
© 2013 IBM Corporation
© 2013 IBM Corporation
DRIVING EARNED MEDIA

© 2013 IBM Corporation
To get more value, IBM’s owned media needs to increase
generation of earned media through authentic engagement

Certain characteristics of
owned media assets lead to
more authentic engagement

Finding #1 Characteristics
Finding #1 Characteristics
are key
are key

How assets are deployed and
positioned is critical and must
be planned for in advance

Finding #2 Asset deployment
Finding #2 Asset deployment
and positioning is critical
and positioning is critical

Need to apply a simple,
consistent and disciplined
approach to developing and
deploying owned media assets

Finding #3 Apply a
Finding #3 Apply a
disciplined approach
disciplined approach

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Assets that generate the most engagement have a sense of the
unexpected, are newsworthy or are provocative in nature
Initial characteristics
22 SME interviews
30 secondary sources

Statistic
Trending
Personal
Unexpected
Passion
Arousal
Newsworthy
Quote
Community of
Participation
 Utility
 Provocative










‘Winning’ characteristics
Analysis of 500 assets

Unexpected -- Includes something
Unexpected Includes something
surprising or unusual
surprising or unusual
“To be widely shared, an asset needs to offer a
view of the world that is somehow surprising.”
- Ethan McCarty, IBM

Newsworthy -- Are you
Newsworthy Are you
making news?
making news?
64% say news is the type of content they
share most frequently, the most of any
type of content*

Provocative -- Contains a
Provocative Contains a
point-of-view that challenges
point-of-view that challenges
conventional thinking
conventional thinking
“Videos that go viral typically make a
grand proclamation, for example, the
5x5.” - George Faulkner, IBM
© 2013 IBM Corporation
The research revealed that characteristics that drive
engagement differ by each asset type

Top Characteristics - Tweet

Top Characteristics - Video

5000

250
200

# Comments

# Comments

4000
3000
2000

150
100
50

1000

0

0

Passion

Personal

Passion

Unexpected

Top Characteristics - Blog

Statistics

Top Characteristics - Discussion
250

# Comments

250
200
# comments

Newsworthy

150
100

200
150
100

50

50

0

Provocative

# Comments

Statistics

Passion

0

Participation

Personal

Utility

© 2013 IBM Corporation
However, characteristics alone are not enough. It is imperative to
define goals, target constituencies and influencers.

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Paid-Owned-Earned contact strategy

L
ear auch
n
o
to ed m f
You ed
tub ia
e

Lau
n
me ch of
vid dia w paid
eo
i
to i ban th
ner
bm
dom .com s
ain

EARNED
6 Juni

18 Juni

PAID
PAID

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Paid Media: direct mail

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Paid Media: display ads

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Paid Media: LinkedIn ads

© 2013 IBM Corporation
Paid Media: eDM

© 2013 IBM Corporation
EARNED
Constituencies
•
Innovation
•
Traffic & Mobility
•
Government - General, Cities and Public safety

2. Build your asset

The Smarter Planet movie was already
created. Video matched with the video
criteria unexpected and personal.

5. Measure

Target: 840 views

3

1

4

Build your story
We customized the message per
the constituency and per asset
type characteristics.

Determine the platforms
We identified which platforms we
wanted to use to position the asset.

Identify your influencers
We selected the IBM influencers
with a reach to the different
constituencies.

Example
Tweet – Public Safety
32% of severe accidents in cities
happen on zebra crossings. 10year old invents a solution.

Example
9 LinkedIn groups
2 blogs
1 community
5 Twitter channels

Example
IBMers per constituency
Innovation – Pierre de Wit

© 2013 IBM Corporation
EARNED

Paid

Earned

Where the
constituency was led

Placed a Banner on Financial Daily
(fd.nl) and LinkedIn. Led to the ibm.nl
(IBM Netherlands domain)

Used the ESP Lead to the Youtube Smarter
Planet Movie – Linkedin, Twitter, FB, External
Blogs, Communities

Impressions

1.35 Million Impressions on fd.nl (96%)

52,000 impression from Social Media (4%)

Views

2600 views on IBM domain

2380 views on Youtube

Engagement

29 Comments /30 Likes
© 2013 IBM Corporation
EARNED
And with the ESP approach we were able to have a reach
within the targeted constituencies

Participation per audience

STATISTICS
• 123 Tweets; 29 ReTweets
• Maxium impressions: 34,008
• Estimated impressions: 10,000

LINKEDIN

STATISTICS
• 20 Updates ; 7 Group Posts
• Maximum impressions: 18,000
• Estimated impressions: 5,000

TWITTER

Participation per audience

LINKEDIN

Participation per group

STATISTICS
• Smarter City’s group: 9
comments
• Civil Servant group: 20
comments
© 2013 IBM Corporation
Results

 In a short period of time IBM was able to reach the target audience with their Smarter Planet
vision
 It opened up doors for IBM that were closed before
 Clients came with ideas and wanted to share their cases
 Major cities came to IBM to discuss ideas
 12 Smarter Planet references in 2012
 4 Smarter Planet references in 2013
 6% growth in a declining market

 Unexpected spin off towards employees

© 2013 IBM Corporation
CONTENT THAT COUNTS

KIRSTEN HAVER DROEZE

Digital Marketing Lead
@Kirsten_HD
nl.linkedin.com/in/kirstenhaverdroeze/

The Case 2013
© 2013 IBM Corporation

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  • 1. CONTENT THAT COUNTS 15 oktober 2013 KIRSTEN HAVER DROEZE Digital Marketing Lead The Case 2013 © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 2. € 4925,50 © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 3. #4 +4% 78,808$m © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 4. The IBM mainframe © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 5. The IBM personal computer © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 6. Improving traffic flow IBM and NXP work with the city of Eindhoven to create a smarter traffic system © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 7. Helping Schiphol to grow Baggage system can successfully process up to 70 million bags a year in the future © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 8. Get better customer insight Wehkamp.nl is using Analytics from the IBM Cloud to better understand customers © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 9. Target the right customers KPN deploys predictive modeling to guide marketing decisions and increasing customer response rates by up to 1,000 percent. © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 10. Helping companies to progress © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 11. CHALLENGE: NEW SOLUTIONS, NEW TARGET AUDIENCES, NEW BUYERS © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 12. When leaders think about the way the world should work, they challenge the status quo © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 13. Challenge the status quo © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 14. Surprising ideas © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 15. © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 16. © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 17. DRIVING EARNED MEDIA © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 18. To get more value, IBM’s owned media needs to increase generation of earned media through authentic engagement Certain characteristics of owned media assets lead to more authentic engagement Finding #1 Characteristics Finding #1 Characteristics are key are key How assets are deployed and positioned is critical and must be planned for in advance Finding #2 Asset deployment Finding #2 Asset deployment and positioning is critical and positioning is critical Need to apply a simple, consistent and disciplined approach to developing and deploying owned media assets Finding #3 Apply a Finding #3 Apply a disciplined approach disciplined approach © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 19. Assets that generate the most engagement have a sense of the unexpected, are newsworthy or are provocative in nature Initial characteristics 22 SME interviews 30 secondary sources Statistic Trending Personal Unexpected Passion Arousal Newsworthy Quote Community of Participation  Utility  Provocative          ‘Winning’ characteristics Analysis of 500 assets Unexpected -- Includes something Unexpected Includes something surprising or unusual surprising or unusual “To be widely shared, an asset needs to offer a view of the world that is somehow surprising.” - Ethan McCarty, IBM Newsworthy -- Are you Newsworthy Are you making news? making news? 64% say news is the type of content they share most frequently, the most of any type of content* Provocative -- Contains a Provocative Contains a point-of-view that challenges point-of-view that challenges conventional thinking conventional thinking “Videos that go viral typically make a grand proclamation, for example, the 5x5.” - George Faulkner, IBM © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 20. The research revealed that characteristics that drive engagement differ by each asset type Top Characteristics - Tweet Top Characteristics - Video 5000 250 200 # Comments # Comments 4000 3000 2000 150 100 50 1000 0 0 Passion Personal Passion Unexpected Top Characteristics - Blog Statistics Top Characteristics - Discussion 250 # Comments 250 200 # comments Newsworthy 150 100 200 150 100 50 50 0 Provocative # Comments Statistics Passion 0 Participation Personal Utility © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 21. However, characteristics alone are not enough. It is imperative to define goals, target constituencies and influencers. © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 22. Paid-Owned-Earned contact strategy L ear auch n o to ed m f You ed tub ia e Lau n me ch of vid dia w paid eo i to i ban th ner bm dom .com s ain EARNED 6 Juni 18 Juni PAID PAID © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 23. Paid Media: direct mail © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 24. Paid Media: display ads © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 25. Paid Media: LinkedIn ads © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 26. Paid Media: eDM © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 27. EARNED Constituencies • Innovation • Traffic & Mobility • Government - General, Cities and Public safety 2. Build your asset The Smarter Planet movie was already created. Video matched with the video criteria unexpected and personal. 5. Measure Target: 840 views 3 1 4 Build your story We customized the message per the constituency and per asset type characteristics. Determine the platforms We identified which platforms we wanted to use to position the asset. Identify your influencers We selected the IBM influencers with a reach to the different constituencies. Example Tweet – Public Safety 32% of severe accidents in cities happen on zebra crossings. 10year old invents a solution. Example 9 LinkedIn groups 2 blogs 1 community 5 Twitter channels Example IBMers per constituency Innovation – Pierre de Wit © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 28. EARNED Paid Earned Where the constituency was led Placed a Banner on Financial Daily (fd.nl) and LinkedIn. Led to the ibm.nl (IBM Netherlands domain) Used the ESP Lead to the Youtube Smarter Planet Movie – Linkedin, Twitter, FB, External Blogs, Communities Impressions 1.35 Million Impressions on fd.nl (96%) 52,000 impression from Social Media (4%) Views 2600 views on IBM domain 2380 views on Youtube Engagement 29 Comments /30 Likes © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 29. EARNED And with the ESP approach we were able to have a reach within the targeted constituencies Participation per audience STATISTICS • 123 Tweets; 29 ReTweets • Maxium impressions: 34,008 • Estimated impressions: 10,000 LINKEDIN STATISTICS • 20 Updates ; 7 Group Posts • Maximum impressions: 18,000 • Estimated impressions: 5,000 TWITTER Participation per audience LINKEDIN Participation per group STATISTICS • Smarter City’s group: 9 comments • Civil Servant group: 20 comments © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 30. Results  In a short period of time IBM was able to reach the target audience with their Smarter Planet vision  It opened up doors for IBM that were closed before  Clients came with ideas and wanted to share their cases  Major cities came to IBM to discuss ideas  12 Smarter Planet references in 2012  4 Smarter Planet references in 2013  6% growth in a declining market  Unexpected spin off towards employees © 2013 IBM Corporation
  • 31. CONTENT THAT COUNTS KIRSTEN HAVER DROEZE Digital Marketing Lead @Kirsten_HD nl.linkedin.com/in/kirstenhaverdroeze/ The Case 2013 © 2013 IBM Corporation