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Social networks

Social networks. Facebook phenomenon. Every persons profile is a potential goldmine of information Age, location, favorite activities HSBC discovered its decision to scrap interest-free checking for recent university grads was making headlines

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Social networks

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  1. Social networks

  2. Facebook phenomenon • Every persons profile is a potential goldmine of information • Age, location, favorite activities • HSBC discovered its decision to scrap interest-free checking for recent university grads was making headlines • Stop the Great HSBC Graduate Ripoff has over 7500 members • 20 groups on Facebook alone dedicated to anti-HSBC discussion

  3. Personal Brands versus Corporate Brand • Employees build their own brands on social network sites • Venting about corporate conditions • Discussing customer interaction, or profiling customer stupidity • Acting out in ways that do not fit with the corporate brand • Ie: Scotland Yard officers doing videos of mock striptease while handcuffed to chairs

  4. Are Brands Safe in a Social Network Environment? • While it is trendy to talk about user-generated content, most brands would rather be in charge of the way their identity is presented. • Don’t try to fit your brand where it does not fit • Monitor social networks and act on what you find. • Not disasters but feedback, offers and futher word of mouth potential • Cannot stop staff from using networks • Treat this as an insight into employees and to find out where you need to work on management issues

  5. Death by YouTube • Why user-generated content is killing the ad business • Is the Web 2.0 cultural revolution of user-generated content good news for the ad industry? Will the explosion of fashionable blogs and social networks increase the size of the advertising economy? Can the YouTubification of professional creative content and the wikifying of mainstream authoritative media benefit advertisers and advertising companies?

  6. NO • Web 2.0 is, in truth, the very worst piece of news for the advertising industry since the birth of mass media. • Web 2.0 hysteria marks the end of the golden age of advertising • it might even mark the end of advertising itself.

  7. NO • Evidence of the crisis of mass media is depressingly ubiquitous. • recorded music business is in free-fall • As Craigslist gives away free classified ads and fewer and fewer of us are reading a daily newspaper, so journalists are being laid off while physical papers are shrinking in size and even being shuttered • Magazines aren't doing much better, nor is radio • Meanwhile, the advertising-driven television business is about to be engulfed by the perfect technological storm of the digital video recorder and the YouTube content revolution.

  8. So how does this cultural freedom and its chaotic corollary, the eruption of infinite user-generated content, affect the advertising industry? • What Web 2.0 is doing, compounded by the online consumer's shrinking attention span and his or her hostility towards the "inauthenticity" of commercial messages, is radically deflating the value of advertising. • Web 2.0 advertising is like user-generated content: inane, ephemeral and annoying. In a word: worthless.

  9. ADWEEK Online Poll • Which channel's demise has been the most overstated?  • Collateral 4% • Direct mail 12% • Magazines 10% • Newspapers 15% • Radio 8% • TV 51%  • Results of our poll that was posted on 10/4 arebased on 540 responses as of press time, 10/11.

  10. Why Target made more friends in college than Wal-Mart on Facebook • By most accounts, one of the smartest moves a marketer can make is to solicit, and interact with, consumers' comments and critiques about their brands. • With that in mind, a number of marketers have ventured into social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn. But while some were warmly welcomed, others, including Wal-Mart and McDonald's, have gotten burned • One company that has met with success is Target Stores, the retailer that positions itself as a hip, rood brand for the masses.

  11. Target and Social Networks • Target made its first foray into social networking by sponsoring a page on Facebook, a site rich in college students. (Half of Facebook's 46 million members who logged on in the last month were in college, according the company.) • Its already strong brand identity with younger consumers and a Facebook page in rune with its brand values of design and affordability helped make its initiative a positive experience. • (Its back-to-school campaigns in their entirety helped lift sales 6.1 percent in August 2007 compared to August 2006, per the National Retail Federation.)

  12. Target rejiggered its marketing approach from storytelling to, well, party planning. • all brands should research the conversation and community before jumping in: "Just like going to a cocktail party, the savvy attendee will know how to dress and won't jump into any conversations before understanding the context."

  13. Target on Facebook • Target then focused on the finding that college is a period of anxiety and worry for students, who are moving into small, boxy rooms, often with strangers. • As a result, Target's Facebook page was given the theme of "Dorm Survival Guide." • "It was all about the box," says Charlie Taylor, group account director at AKQA, referring to the small rooms. • Attention was paid of course to essentials such as comforters, pillowcases and furniture, but the real focus, Taylor notes, was offering aid. • Along with member posts and discussion groups, the site gave students design advice, recipes for the odd ingredients likely to be in their refrigerators and a personality test tied to their furniture. • The page initially included video and photos of dorm rooms designed by roster shop Wieden + Kennedy, later replaced by photos of members' actual dorm rooms. The site also helped members upload and swap pictures of their homes away from home.

  14. Target on Facebook • ." A brand has to fit in if it wants to be accepted there, he explains. "Target's tips about decking out your dorm totally fits with the brand perception of bringing design to the masses for low prices, so the students didn't reject it,“ • By watching the discussion threads, Target could identify the people who tended to serve as mentors for future marketing efforts.

  15. Walmart on Facebook • "Wal-Mart is known for discounts, not style," says Renegade's Neisser. "They are stepping away from their core brand truth and trying to play in foreign waters. Students immediately perceived the inauthenticity of Wal-Mart trying to give fashion/style/taste advice and called them out on it." • more than half who have posted--criticize the company's labor practices and corporate reputation. One posting reads: "Wal-Mart is toxic to communities and livelihoods." Another notes: "We don't support dais company's use of a space for social networking to further horrendous business practices."

  16. McDonald's is another company that has been bruised by social networking. Its career recruitment-sponsored page on Facebook, McCareers, was put on the site in mid-summer. Not too long after its launch, it was filled with negative comments about the company and its employees. The brand subsequently turned off the posts and discussions.

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