FEED: The 2009 Razorfish Digital Brand Experience Report
Garrick Schmitt, Group Vice President, Experience Planning Email:
[email protected] Twitter: @gschmitt
Experience Matters.
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HELLO
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How Do Consumers Engage With Brands In An Increasingly Digital World?
THE DETAILS
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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 INCOME?
• Visited a community site (MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, Yelp, etc.) • Consumed or created some form of digital media such as photos, videos, music or news
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This equates roughly to the U.S. broadband population which is about 200m based on the Pew Internet and American Life Project. 6
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Yes, You Can Build A Brand Online. You Have No Choice HAS AN EXPERIENCE YOU HAVE HAD ONLINE EVER CHANGED YOUR OPINION ( EITHER POSITIVELY OR NEGATIVELY ) ABOUT A BRAND OR THE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES IT OFFERS?
Marketers have never thought of 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
HAS THAT EXPERIENCE INFLUENCED WHETHER OR NOT YOU PURCHASED A PRODUCT OR SERVICE FROM THE BRAND?
• 97% of them report that experience influencing whether or not they purchased a product or service from that brand
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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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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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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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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 SWEEPSTAKES , DOES IT GENERALLY DO THE FOLLOWING :
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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DIGITAL PRIMACY
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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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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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Connected Consumers Are The New Mainstream THE TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION CURVE
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BRAND CULTURE
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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 18
Facebook And Twitter Creating Fan Culture For Brands WHEN YOU “ FRIEND ” A BRAND ON FACEBOOK OR MYSPACE , DOES IT GENERALLY DO THE FOLLOWING?
After deals, the main reason 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 customer WHEN YOU FOLLOW A BRAND ON TWITTER , DOES IT GENERALLY DO THE 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 19
Fans And The Future Of The Marketing Funnel HAVE YOU EVER PARTICIPATED IN A BRAND - SPONSORED CONTEST OR SWEEPSTAKES?
Brand culture and fan culture are dramatically reshaping the traditional funnel as consumers leap from experience to advocacy (or the inverse) almost instantly.
• 70% have participated in a brand-sponsored contest WHEN YOU HAVE PARTICIPATED IN A BRAND - SPONSORED CONTEST OR 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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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 21
THE BOTTOM LINE
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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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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 AND SERVICES IT OFFERS
HAS THAT EXPERIENCE INFLUENCED WHETHER OR NOT YOU PURCHASED A PRODUCT OR SERVICE FROM THE BRAND?
HAVE YOU EVER MADE YOUR FIRST PURCHASE FROM A BRAND BECAUSE OF A DIGITAL EXPERIENCE ( E . G ., A WEB SITE , MICROSITE , MOBILE COUPON , EMAIL ) ?
The answer was a resounding “yes”. Experiences have a much greater influence over brand affinity and consumer purchasing than even we anticipated:
• 65% of consumers have had a digital experience change their opinion about a brand. • 97% of those report that experience influencing whether or not they purchased a product or service from that brand. • 64% of consumer report making a first purchase from a brand because of digital experience (e.g. website, banner, etc.) 24
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Thank You
Garrick Schmitt, Group Vice President, Experience Planning Email:
[email protected] Twitter: @gschmitt