The document discusses how digital experiences are increasingly important for building brands. It summarizes research from a survey of 1,000 connected US consumers. Some key findings include: - 65% of consumers had an online experience that changed their opinion of a brand, with 97% saying it influenced a purchase. - Consumers are actively engaging with brands online through activities like following on Twitter (26%) and friending on Facebook (40%). - Digital experiences are highly effective at driving awareness, consideration, purchases, and recommendations for brands. - Brands like Uniqlo, Red Bull, Barbie, Nike, Virgin America, and Microsoft's Bing are excelling by putting experiences first.

1. FEED:
The 2009
Razorfish Digital
Brand Experience
Report
Garrick Schmitt, Group Vice President, Experience Planning
Email: garrick.schmitt@razorfish.com
Twitter: @gschmitt

2. Conventional Wisdom Says
Advertising Is Failing...
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3. nies lie in ads
76% of pe ople think compa ey did last year
77% trust comp anies less than th
companies will d o what is right
8% o f people believe the programs
3 ads as much as
15% of people enjoy the
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4. Worse?
83% Of Mad Men’s Time-Shifted
Audience Fast Forwards Through
The Commercials
TIVO, September 25th, 2009

5. But It’s Not That Advertising Is
Failing…It’s That Experiences
Matter More Than Ever
Before.
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6. HELLO
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7. How Do Consumers Engage
With Brands In An
Increasingly Digital World?

8. THE DETAILS
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9. Meet The “Connected Consumer”
WHAT IS YOUR AGE? In August 2009 Razorfish surveyed
1,000 U.S. “connected consumers”*:
• Broadband access
• Spent $150 online in the past six
months (travel, Netflix, tickets,
Amazon, etc.)
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BEST DESCRIBES YOUR COMBINED HOUSEHOLD • Visited a community site
INCOME?
(MySpace, YouTube, Facebook,
Yelp, etc.)
• Consumed or created some form
of digital media such as photos,
videos, music or news
* This equates roughly to the U.S. broadband population which is about 200m based on the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
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10. READ THIS

11. Yes, You Can Build A Brand Online. You
Have No Choice
HAS AN EXPERIENCE YOU HAVE HAD ONLINE EVER CHANGED YOUR OPINION Marketers have never thought of
(EITHER POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY) ABOUT A BRAND OR THE PRODUCTS
AND SERVICES IT OFFERS? digital as a wonderful place to build a
brand, but they should:
• 65% of consumers have had a
digital experience change their
opinion about a brand
• 97% of them report that
HAS THAT EXPERIENCE INFLUENCED WHETHER OR NOT YOU PURCHASED A
experience influencing whether or
PRODUCT OR SERVICE FROM THE BRAND? not they purchased a product or
service from that brand
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12. Actions Speak Louder Than Advertising
PLEASE RATE THE FREQUENCY OF WHICH YOU DO THE FOLLOWING: Branded experience are the new
advertising. And consumers are
increasingly hungry for them,
sometimes ravenously so:
• 97% have searched for a brand
online
• 77% have watched a
commercial on YouTube
• 69% have read a corporate blog
• 65% have played a branded,
browser-based game.
• 73% have posted a product or
brand review on a site like
Amazon, Facebook or Twitter
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13. Brand Culture Or Fan Culture?
HAVE YOU EVER “FRIENDED” A BRAND ON FACEBOOK OR MYSPACE? Conventional wisdom holds that
consumers don’t want brands
encroaching on their social lives – but
that’s just not true:
• 76% of consumers welcomed
brand advertising on social
networks (FEED, 2008)
HAVE YOU EVER FOLLOWED A BRAND ON TWITTER? • 40% of consumers “friended” a
brand on Facebook and/or
MySpace
• 26% of consumers have “followed”
a brand on Twitter
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14. The Outlet Malls Of Tomorrow?
Facebook, MySpace & Twitter
Marketers shouldn’t assume that consumers are as passionate about their brands
as they are: Consumers don’t want a conversation with brands – they want deals.
WHAT IS THE PRIMARY REASON YOU FOLLOW A BRAND ON TWITTER?
• 44% of consumers who follow a
brand on Twitter do so for deals
• 37% of consumers who “friended” a
brand on Facebook and/or MySpace
do so for deals
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15. Bottom Line: Digital Brand Experiences
Create Customers
Digital is not simply an “awareness” or CRM play, it’s a customer-creation play.
The overwhelming majority of consumers who engage with a brand online move
from passive “receivers” to advocates almost instantly :
WHEN YOU HAVE PARTICIPATED IN A BRAND-SPONSORED CONTEST OR • 97% report increased brand
SWEEPSTAKES, DOES IT GENERALLY DO THE FOLLOWING:
awareness
• 98% show increased consideration
• 97% will more likely purchase a
product
• 96% may recommend the
brand to their friends
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16. DIGITAL
PRIMACY
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17. Consumers Turning First, Foremost To
Digital
PLEASE RATE THE FREQUENCY OF WHICH YOU DO THE FOLLOWING: According to Forrester consumers
now spend nearly as much time online
as they do watching TV*. We found
that their technical fluency is far
greater than most believe:
• 57% of consumers actively
customize their homepages
• 84% share links or bookmarks
• 55% subscribe to RSS feeds
• 33% get their news from
Facebook
• 20% get their news from Twitter
*Forrester 2009 North American Technographics Survey
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18. Mobile Internet Service Use Skyrocketing
Mobile Internet services are being consumed broadly. Majority of consumers own
a smartphone and use it actively.
WHAT TYPE OF SMARTPHONE DO YOU HAVE? • 57% access the Internet from their
phone
• 50% have downloaded an app for
their phone
• 30% have interacted with an ad
banner on their phone
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19. Connected Consumers Are The New
Mainstream
THE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION CURVE
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20. BRAND
CULTURE
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21. Are Consumers Really In Control?
PLEASE RATE THE FREQUENCY OF WHICH YOU DO THE FOLLOWING: Conventional wisdom says that every
generation of consumer grows smarter,
shrewder and more immune to marketing.
But that’s not true – consumers are actively
choosing to engage with brands,
everywhere.
• 40% have “friended” a brand on
Facebook and/or MySpace
• 26% have “followed” a brand on Twitter
• 77% have watch an advert on YouTube
• 69% have read a corporate blog post
• 73% have posted a review of a brand
on a site like Amazon or Yelp
• 52% have blogged about brand’s
product or service
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22. Facebook And Twitter Creating Fan
Culture For Brands
WHEN YOU “FRIEND” A BRAND ON FACEBOOK OR MYSPACE, DOES IT After deals, the main reason
GENERALLY DO THE FOLLOWING?
consumers “friend” a brand? Because
they *really* are a fan (or a customer,
at least). Social media platforms are
proving to be customer service
platforms.
• 33% friend a brand on Facebook/
MySpace because they are a
WHEN YOU FOLLOW A BRAND ON TWITTER, DOES IT GENERALLY DO THE
customer
FOLLOWING?
• 24% follow a brand on Twitter
because they are a current
customer
• 23% follow a brand on Twitter for
“interesting or engaging” content,
which shows promise for a new
type of relationship
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23. Fans And The Future Of The Marketing
Funnel
HAVE YOU EVER PARTICIPATED IN A BRAND-SPONSORED CONTEST OR Brand culture and fan culture are
SWEEPSTAKES?
dramatically reshaping the traditional
funnel as consumers leap from
experience to advocacy (or the
inverse) almost instantly.
• 70% have participated in a brand-
WHEN YOU HAVE PARTICIPATED IN A BRAND-SPONSORED CONTEST OR
sponsored contest
SWEEPSTAKES, DOES IT GENERALLY DO THE FOLLOWING?
• 24% have produced content to
participate in a contest
• 26% have attended a brand
sponsored event, such as Nike’s
Human Race
• 24% have downloaded a branded
application for their mobile phone
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24. Experiences Not Only Build Brands,
They Make Or Break Them
Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple
and Nike are all experiential brands
that know consumer preference isn’t
formed in reaction to a message, but
to a series of experiences over time.
There’s good reason. Of consumers
who interact:
• 97% report increased brand
awareness
• 98% show increased consideration
• 97% will more likely purchase a
product
• 96% may recommend the brand to
their friends
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25. THE
BOTTOM
LINE
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26. Getting To The Bottom Of Brand
Engagement
Everyone is chasing after a metric to
define brand engagement. Millward
Brown says “digital consumers” have
15% stronger relationships with
brands. The Altimeter Group attempts
to correlate social media activity to
financial performance, citing Dell,
Starbucks and eBay as leaders.
We at Razorfish took a different tack:
we simply wanted to know if there was
any direct correlation between a
consumer’s digital interaction with a
brand and their likelihood to purchase
a specific product or service.
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27. Digital Experience Create Customers
HAS AN EXPERIENCE YOU HAVE HAD ONLINE EVER CHANGED YOUR OPINION
(EITHER POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY) ABOUT A BRAND OR THE PRODUCTS
The answer was a resounding “yes”.
AND SERVICES IT OFFERS
Experiences have a much greater
influence over brand affinity and
consumer purchasing than even we
anticipated:
HAS THAT EXPERIENCE INFLUENCED WHETHER OR NOT YOU PURCHASED A
• 65% of consumers have had a
PRODUCT OR SERVICE FROM THE BRAND?
digital experience change their
opinion about a brand.
• 97% of those report that
experience influencing whether or
not they purchased a product or
HAVE YOU EVER MADE YOUR FIRST PURCHASE FROM A BRAND BECAUSE OF
A DIGITAL EXPERIENCE (E.G., A WEB SITE, MICROSITE, MOBILE COUPON, service from that brand.
EMAIL)?
• 64% of consumer report making a
first purchase from a brand
because of digital experience (e.g.
website, banner, etc.)
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28. Five Brands That Are
Excelling In An Experience-
Driven World…

29. 1. UNIQLO: Japanese Retailer Surprises
And Delights Audiences With Every
Interaction
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30. 2. Red Bull: Pioneered Experiential
Marketing With Subversive Events And
Sponsorships
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31. 3. Barbie: Reinvented An American Icon
For The Pop Sugar Set And Broke Sales
Records
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32. 4. Nike: Human Race. Chalkbot. Nike Is
Setting A New Standard For Experiential
Marketing
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33. 4. Virgin America: Brand Built By
Breakthrough Experiences – And The
Marketing Of Them
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34. 5. Microsoft’s Bing: Accomplishing The
Impossible By Putting Experience First And
In Every Ad
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35. Thank You
Garrick Schmitt, Group Vice President, Experience Planning
Email: garrick.schmitt@razorfish.com
Twitter: @gschmitt