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Alban MARTIN @ Pau, 14th October 2009 Freeconomics on the internet

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Voici la présentation que je vais donner au séminaire annuel de meteorage, sur le thème de l'économie du gratuit et des modèles reposant sur l'abondance à l'heure d'internet

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Alban MARTIN @ Pau, 14th October 2009

Freeconomics on the internet

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Agenda

• Why free, specially online ?

• How to make money with free stuff

• Concrete examples of business strategy around free products or services

• Emerging trends of online advertising

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Agenda

• Why free, specially online ?

• How to make money with free stuff

• Concrete examples of business strategy around free products or services

• Emerging trends of online advertising

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Correspond to the way innovations are created online…

• Only 3 ways to innovate when launching a new online service or product (Jyri Engestrom)– Simpler– Or cheaper– Simpler and cheaper

• Consequences: driving prices down from one service (or version) to the next one

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…enabled by structural elements…

• Cheaper bandwidth & Cheaper storage

Source graphic: G. Champeau

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…enabled by structural elements…

• Cheaper technology• Ex Transistors prices :

– 1961 : 10 dollars– 1965 : 2.5 dollars– 1968 : 1 dollar– 1975 : 0,1 dollar– 1982 : 0,01 dollar– Today: 2billion transitors

for 300dollars = 0,00000015 dollar

Source : C. Anderson, Free, Pearson education France, septembre 2009

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…enabled by structural elements…

• « Web 2.0 » tools to engage and interact with the audience and cocreate value with customers

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…enabled by structural elements…

• New forms of copyright (=copyleft) protecting digital creators AND enabling copies

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…enabled by structural elements…

• Fluidity of information – online social links– efficient recommendation tools

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…enabled by structural elements…

• Critical mass of potential users (=audience)• The online advertising market

Display

Magazines

Press

Radio

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Source:Zenith Optimedia; Yankee Group; Jupiter Research; ABI Research

Advertising investments Western Europe - (Billion €)

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…and increased by abundance…

• Online copy = does not prevent from using the « original » copy = Non rival goods

• Abundance of content, products and services versus scarcity– Democratization of creation and editing tools– Read write rewrite media– User Generated Content

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…and increased by abundance…

• 57% of teens are content creators online (Pew internet)

• 2 billions pictures on FlickR (3/4M per day) and 4 billions sur Facebook• Facebook users translated the site from English to Spanish via a Wiki in

less than 4 weeks and cost Facebook $0 (source: socialnomics)

• More than 1.5 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared on Facebook…daily (socialnomics)

• 70 000 videos uploaded per day on youtube• 2 millions articles on Wikipedia • 8000 music albums on Jamendo and 250 000 songs on soundclicks

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…deeply modifying resources management

Source:C. Anderson, free, pearson education 2009, and online http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/mf_freer?currentPage=2

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Agenda

• Why free, specially online ?

• How to make money with free stuff

• Concrete examples of business strategy around free products or services

• Emerging trends of online advertising

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Eight models for monetizing digital content

Source : Forrester Research, 8 models for monetizing digital content, june 2009

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4 models in particular are “monetizing” free products and services

Source: C. Anderson, “Free”

Cross-subsidies

Example: iTunes and iPod

Give a software + free content (or below market price content) for selling another expensive one

MP3 Margin : 1%-60 cents record company-19c VAT-7c right owner-3c artists-1c bandwith-1c transaction costs-1c DRM-5c marketing & plateform hosting

iPod Margin : 30%

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4 models in particular are “monetizing” free products and services

Example: Gmail free 8Gigas mail box

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4 models in particular are “monetizing” free products and services

Example: Free weather but paying full info

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4 models in particular are “monetizing” free products and services

Example: Wikipedia

•If you were paid a $1 for every time an article was posted on Wikipedia you would earn $156.23 per hour

•+200K persons occupied by +150K open source projects (source: Ohloh)

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Agenda

• Why free, specially online ?

• How to make money with free stuff

• Concrete examples of business strategy around free products or services

• Emerging trends of online advertising

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Example of 1-800-GOOG-411

• 7 billion dollars market per year for AT&T and other operators in the US

• 50cents to 1.75 dollars per call• Google enters the market with free information (whereas it could

be charged 1Euros• Estimated “loss”: 144Million dollars until 2012• Why and for which benefit?

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Example of 1-800-GOOG-411

• Innovation: cheaper AND simpler

• Quicker growth of market share compared to entry market strategy with paid information

• Obtain for free millions of data for fine-tuning voice recognition system (=14M dollars worth of data)

• According to Google’s Peter Norvig, “1-800-GOOG” serves as a trial for a mobile vocal search engine !

• Search on mobile market will be worth 2.5billion dollars in 2012

Source: C. Anderson, “Free”

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Example of Google Maps

Source: C. Anderson, “Free”

• Innovation: cheaper AND simpler

• Rapid growth and dominant market position thanks also to “open” API

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Example of Google Maps

Money for google

Money for google

Money for google

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Example of Google Maps

Money for google

Money for google Money for google

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Example of Google Maps

Example of 3rd party use of googlemap: http://earthquakes.tafoni.net/?hl=en

If more than 50K Pages views per day generated by 3rd party using googlemap

consider it is a dedicated business

charge

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10 rules of free – C. Anderson

1. If it is digital, it will become sooner or later free2. Atoms would also like to be free, but not that

easy3. Free cannot be stopped4. You can earn money with free5. Redefine your market6. Pull price down as much as possible7. Sooner or later you will compete with free stuff8. Waste9. Free is making other things more valuable10. Manage abundance not scarcity

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Agenda

• Why free, specially online ?

• How to make money with free stuff

• Concrete examples of business strategy around free products or services

• Emerging trends of online advertising

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What if the time spent online with the products was entertaining?

• Development of online brand content– “relatively new form of advertising medium that blurs conventional

distinctions between what constitutes advertising and what constitutes entertainment” (source: wikipedia)

– Short movies, online series, clips– Events– web-tv– Guides– Calendars– Consumer magazines, books– Advergaming, advertainment

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What if the time spent online with the products was entertaining?

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What if your consumers were doing your job?

• Cocreation of advertising– Dailymotion « motion

maker »– Eyeka « creatives »– Blogbang « creatives

and bloggers »

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What if your consumers were doing your job?

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R&D Marketing Sales 

Another model for lowering prices to the maximum : the cocreation of value

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R&D

WHO? niche, mainly B2B, start-ups, SMEs, independant, also students

HOW? cooperation & co-creation plateforms, in real life happenings (workshops, barcamp, conference)

KPIs? # contributions, deals/new partners, ideas, suggestions

Another model for lowering prices to the maximum : the cocreation of value

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R&D Marketing Sales 

WHO? Targeted and small audience, geeks, early adopter

HOW? beta test, “netnology”, online discussion monitoring, forums

KPIs? # answers, ratings, feedbacks

Another model for lowering prices to the maximum : the cocreation of value

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R&D Marketing Sales 

WHO? opinion leaders, From small to large market,

HOW? Blog marketing, Word of mouth marketing, Social Media Optimization

KPIs? Audience, followers, transmission-rate, interaction with the message

Another model for lowering prices to the maximum : the cocreation of value

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Thanks !