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1. Nielsen Net Ratings: 2013
Traditional models of disruption through – say
advertising or direct mail – are increasingly redundant.
Our users are now in charge of curating
their own information needs.
For a message to penetrate an audience effectively,
it needs to be shared by a trusted source and be in
a format that allows for easy consumption.
Users control what they
see, not us
The impact of content increases enormously (>70% 1)
if the receiver knows or trusts the originator and
engages with it by choice.
Good content generates
discussion, either with the
originator, or through onward
sharing among interested parties.
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Why you need your employees to be engaged
According to the National Business Research Institute engaged employees:
• Produce twice as much work output in the same time as unengaged employees
• Are much more likely to actively share information with others.
In this way engaged employees become brand advocates using social media tools.
Similarly research from Technorati shows:
• Your employees can reach an audience that is up to 10-times larger than the one you are
currently reaching
• Acceptance of a recommendation is on average around 70 per cent higher through personal
recommendation as opposed to unsolicited communication (e-mail etc)
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Cohort model
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Channels
• All brands are affected by these changes but few have
moved beyond their broadcast mentality.
• As cohorts are self-selecting they are much less
“controllable” but more enagaged as a result. They
emerge at the intersection of where need meets
provision
• Employees can play a crucial role in bringing a
human interaction to discussions, but only when
empowered and armed with the right information
• Not only are engaged employees twice as productive,
they can be responsible for up to 80 per cent of your
clients’ overall brand satisfaction
• Cohort groups can create a channel to market in their
own right
Governance
Networks
ContentChannel
Advocacy
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So how do you complete the picture?
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12. PwC
You still have to pay up
• Twitter provides volume, while LinkedIn tends to offer more quality.
• So Twitter has given us higher levels of engagement but visitors coming from LinkedIn:
• spent longer on the site
• are more likely return to the site
• engaged with more of the content
• shared their personal information
• The Click Through Rate we are experiencing from our paid activity has constantly exceeded
the average for our industry in a number of areas
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17. Your audience is channel agnostic and seek brand experiences not channel experiences
AWARENESS
Targeted
Promoted
Content
Social
Follow/Like
Personal
Networks
Print
Media
Showrooming Direct
Marketing
Branded
Search
Remarketing
Click
Offline
Ads
Generic
Search
CONSIDERATION ACTION
ONLINEOFFLINE
WOM
Social
Search
Targeted
Promoted
Content
Display
Ads
PPC
Ads
Website
Visit
Store
Visit
Direct
Marketing
P2P
Dialogue
TV
Ads
THE COMMUNICATIONS QUANDRY
18. INSIGHT
Who to sell to?
Where to reach them?
How are they buying?
THE COMMUNICATIONS QUANDRY
ENGAGEMENT
How do you increase
engagement?
How do you interact?
CONTENT
What works best?
What drives
engagement?
INFRASTRUCTURE
How do you best
organise yourselves to
deliver integration?
In this channel agnostic world you need to understand four key areas
22. Traditional approaches do not clearly define behaviours and preferences
PPC data suggests I am
just interested in gadgets
Search data suggests I
only seek reviews
Display ad data suggests I
am interested in a PC
Web data suggests I have
visited the product page
Traditional approaches to audience persona creation only look at the above in silos
‘GEEK’
THE COMMUNICATIONS QUANDRY
23. Join multiple data sources together to answer the questions about how, where and when to engage
‘GARETH’
THE COMMUNICATIONS QUANDRY
36 year old male
based in Kent
Uses an HTC
Android device
Interests include
tech, food, music
Uses social for brand
engagement
Reads NME,
Gamespot, IGN
Engages with Paid
Content regularly
24. Broad reach activation across
multiple audience profiles and
channels
Identify those audience profiles
engaging with the most content and
the channels they are using
Retarget those audience profiles
who have driven the highest
engagement with tailored content
Build ‘look-a-like’ profiles of these
audiences and continue to target
Brands need to spend more time ‘learning’ what their customers like and dislike and apply this to planning
#HOTDATA
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25. CASE STUDY: IROBOT
TARGET:
THE MODERN
PROFESSIONAL
AGE 40 - 55
Older children or Empty Nesters
CITY
DWELLERS
High Disposable Income
#HOTDATA:
THE YOUNG
FAMILY
AGE 35 - 45
Very young or tween children
OUT OF
TOWNERS
Moderate Disposable Income
26. CASE STUDY: IROBOT
TARGET:
THE MODERN
PROFESSIONAL
CONTENT:
Time Saving
High-End
PLACEMENT:
Lifestyle
Luxury
#HOTDATA:
THE YOUNG
FAMILY
CONTENT:
Family Activities
Pets
PLACEMENT:
Parenting
Kids
28. CASE STUDY: IROBOT
THE MODERN PROFESSIONAL THE YOUNG FAMILY
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
4000
Aug-14 Sep-14 Oct-14 Nov-14 Dec-14
UK France Germany Switzerland
Applying audience learnings to content creation drove deeper more meaningful engagements with fans
UNPAID
#HOTDATA
PAID
#HOTDATA
29. 1. Ask why your audience does something not what they do (and listen)
2. Don’t silo data - centralize data collection and analysis
3. Pilot small campaigns to generate greater audience insight
4. Test and learn, test and learn…then test and learn
5. Don’t split audiences via platform - be agile & authentic storytellers
KEY TAKEOUTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
34. How do PR agencies
respond?
This appears if you Google image ‘PR Client’.
How
integrated/capable are
most PR agencies?
How are agency results
measured?
What target metrics are
agencies given?
Source: prmoment.com
35. Who decides? Who pays?
And who manages?
Can any single component
make a good campaign?
Which component counts for
the most? Which gives the
most value? To which
audience?
37. How to create a successful balance between
paid, earned and owned media
Gareth Davies, UK Head of Studio D UK,
Waggener Edstrom
Nick Masters, Head of Online, PwC
Sanjani Shah, International Senior Brand
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