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E-shop+ beleving

De uitdaging van door Seqwood geproduceerde e-shops+ is om de koopbeleving via internet steeds meer te laten lijken op de koopervaring in het echte leven. Aan de multi-disciplinaire Seqwood Agile tafel is het doel dit uurlijks te bereiken voor onze opdrachtgevers en beter; beyond that.

Social activatie

In retail wordt de consument gedurende z’n bezoek aan een sociale omgeving ook niet continue met call to actions belaagd. Zinvol is het om interactie te creeeren dmv een gerelateerd event zowel online als off-line te adopteren of beter te organizeren. Hierdoor ontstaat een sociale longtail waar je als brand gedurende een periode op kan leunen.

Het op grote schaal in sociale adoptie investeren was in het pre-social tijdperk enkel voorbehouden voor the bigger brands; Drum Rhythm, Heineken Music of Bavaria street races, wie kent ze niet. Deze kostbare social events zorgde voor aandacht en/of kennismaking met het merk. Met de opkomst van websites, bloggers, nieuwsbrieftools en facebook is het voor MKB+ mogelijk om op grote schaal fans te mobiliseren, te informeren en of te laten kopen. Wie de klant heeft is in charge en klanten wil je pamperen en binden.

Onlangs stuiten we op een case van deze trend, hoofdpersonen zijn Macha, Melissa & Rowena.

Het event

Een offline Beautygloss Party georganiseerd door de Nederlandse blogger Mascha. Leidend voorbeeld van deze post, Mydress is 1 van deelnemende online mkb-ers die de online consument in de gelegenheid stelt om offline te ervaren. Mydress vind als fashion e-tailer haar doelgroep op beauty event en heeft daar daardoor geen fysieke winkel nodig. Melissa is blogger van pink sensation en is een bezoekster van het event en het schrijnende verhaal van Rowena die spijt heeft, omdat zij voor haar studie meer tijd nodig had. Veel gedoe om een relatief klein event (650 bezoekers), honderd duizenden viewers beleven dit echter online mee.

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Hieronder Rowena & Macha, gelukkig nog steeds vriendinnen.

Using print media in a smart way, can create a nice interaction. Take a look at this one, and imagine driving by each day.

We’ve been pushing Foursquare (and other location based services) before as the next great tool to promote your businesses.

Here’s an excellent example from Boston’s Tom O’Keefe. Tom is pretty savvy when it comes to social networking. He’s the man behind Boston Tweet, a Twitter-based guide on everything that’s going on in Boston. He also saw the potential of Foursquare and turned it into a business model that serves both local restaurant businesses and their customers. Read the rest of this entry »

Tron Legacy is shaping up to be one of the best (and most expensive) movie marketing campaigns of all time. You can’t turn your head without seeing something interesting and artful about this film in every and all media. Yesterday, Tron launched the first iAd for iPad. This consumer video shows it off a bit. (I especially love the navigation around :35 in.)

Last week one of the Dutch commercial cable channels happily reported it’s new studio show “Beat De Mol” opened with an average of 550,000 viewers. The dirty secret however of cable TV is audience numbers are often pitifully small, with many programs drawing under a few 100,000 viewers. Even though a Belgian newspaper reported in the same week that YouTube with it’s 500,000,000 users generates a staggering 35 hours of video footage every single minute (!) drawing only a few 100,000 viewers weekly is not a challenge for a select group of YouTube creators.

This cadre of stars is no longer toiling away in Internet obscurity in the hopes of breaking into TV. Instead, they are raking in six-figure ad revenue deals from Google, commanding up to 15,000 Euro a pop for branded videos and even dabbling in merchandising.

First and foremost, the top YouTubers have honed their craft over the past three or four years, building large and loyal audiences. Many of the top stars fall in the general entertainment category, doing offbeat skits. The most successful heavily incorporate audience interaction.
The numbers they draw can be staggering. Comic actor Shane Dawson averages nearly 1.5 million views per day, according to video analytics service TubeMogul, and has racked up 670 million views of his videos over two and a half years. The typical YouTube star will average 250,000 views per video. On any given night or day or two, the top 10 YouTubers will have more views than any cable channel.

Brands are taking notice too. GE for example recently tapped 15 YouTubers to make a series of videos for its “Tag Your Green” campaign. In just three weeks, the videos have gotten more than 12 million views.

With devices like AppleTV becoming increasingly popular and affordable, brands should start asking their agencies how to tap into this vast YouTube universe that is changing the global TV audience landscape almost by the minute.

Meet a few of the top YouTube stars after the click.
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Using celebrities to sell unsustainable products like bottled water is nothing new. From Jennifer Aniston to Monique van de Ven, celebrities hype the bad habit. The latest, though, is sure to spark a little more attention. Dita Von Teese, an American burlesque dancer that has scored a huge amount of fame among Europeans has become the latest advocate of bottled water through a new commercial for Perrier, in which she showers. So, not only is it promoting a wasteful habit, but also a wasteful use of the product..all to keep a few eyes glued to the television screen, which is great! Check out the commercial..

Dita Von Teese pouring Perrier onto herself is not an unpleasant confrontation but what’s even better is it’s only a portion of the interactive campaign by the bottled water company, where visitors can try to take pictures of Dita in the dark, or roll dice to get her to either lick her lips or strip down for Perrier. The website warns that it “contains scenes which some young viewers may find disturbing.” But we’re sure you’ll like it. Enter The Perrier Mansion (Flash alert!!)

Will this campaign cash-up the brand? Hell no, but do you care?

Brilliant, real time, impactful, measurable, social media marketing. The Old Spice Man (Isaiah Mustafa) shot YouTube videos in response to people’s tweets. Those people consisted of known-by-everybody people like Kevin Rose, actress Alyssa Milano, Justin Bateman, and lesser-known people like Lucretia Pruitt, or Jason Peck who also retweeted the videos.

old spice youtube statsHe’s done over a 100 thus far and the effect has been nothing short of Viral Nirvana. A mashup of traditional media, YouTube and Twitter. SInce Old Spice front man Isaiah Mustafa started talking back to the social media world during the last 48 hours, the campaign has become one of the most talked-about of the year. The Old Spice YouTube channel has become the third most viewed and fourth most subscribed YouTube sponsor channel of all time. It is also the most viewed sponsor channel this month. Old Spice videos (some of which appeared before this week’s ground-breaking social media drive) have been viewed more than 53 million times.

Here’s a quick glimpse of some of the videos responses to tweets from notable people and organizations.

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With all the buzz about Facebook and privacy going on this is something you should really pay attention to. The UK Office of Fair Trade published an interesting study about behavioural advertising; “Online Targeting of Advertising and Prices“. According to Marketing Magazine

“…the study concludes the online industry “could do more” when it comes to behavioural targeting. The OFT has said the industry should provide consumers with more comprehensive information about how personal information is collected and used, to avoid the misuse of data.”

I’ve never been a believer or fan of behavioral advertising. I think it’s a monster born out of our insatiable urge to measure and monitor anything that goes on on the web that feeds itself browsing through your mail, admin, library, photo albums and anything else that you consider private in your family home or office.

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Samsung ran three nights of an amazing 3D projection mapping installation in Amsterdam to promote their new range of 3D LED TVs.

Perfectly mapped to a historic building in Amsterdam, the projection realistically cracks the building in half, sending debris shattering down before it fills up with water and then drains into a rain forest revealing the new Samsung 3D LED TV! While I’ve seen other attempted 3D perspectives, this certainly has to be the best 3D experience I’ve seen from Projection mapping!

But that wasn’t enough for Samsung’s marketing guys so they had a chat with Youtube and some smart creatives with a pretty cool first-timer promotion & game on YouTube cracking the YouTube screen and redoing the 3D projection simulation through a simple game. I do like it, although I think it’s a pretty expensive gig.

To see the original YouTube promotion go here.

Mini event’s binnen enkele dagen populair, yes it happen’s. Bedrijven die actief werken met hun klantenbestand (CRM) door gebruik te maken van social media scoren aan de lopende band.

Event’s die voorheen maanden van te voren moesten worden aangekondigd om het publiek te bereiken weten nu in een paar dagen volle zalen te trekken d.m.v. sociale activering. Een bedrijf verspreid content en de lezers geven het door aan hun volgers. Het klassieke ‘Word of Mouth’, maar dan online.

Middelgrote bedrijven kunnen theoretisch hetzelfde effect als een Corporate  behalen maar continuïteit, intensiteit en het geven van aandacht aan je lezers en volgers vergt veel energie. Bij middel/grote bedrijven gaat het budget naar content managers, vormgevers en strategen deze professionals zijn vaak full-time voor opdrachtgevers bezig.

Directie en management van middelgrote bedrijven herkennen de trend en investeren in steeds grotere mate, voormalige, offline budget [print] in online media. Niet alleen vanwege het nieuwe bereik, maar ook aangejaagd door een wil om effectiever de klant te kunnen bereiken. Waarbij het resultaat van de campagne met de huidige sociale technologie een duurzamere is dan het lezen van een artikel of zien van een abri.

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