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#RUNFORBOSTON: CASE STUDYMeasuring a decoupled, viral campaign
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This is Chris Field• Holds a degree in
Christian Ministry• Founded Mercy
Project in 2009• Loves to run• Launched BCS
Marathon, started in 2011
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On April 15, 2013, our lives changed.
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The Facebook page went viral.
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FacebookIdea forms. Starts
Facebook Community.
Facebook goes viral. By the end of the day, over 1.7 million people have seen your posts. The page has over 12,000 likes.
Twitter goes viral. By the end of the day, your hashtag reaches almost 1.6 million people. Press find Chris via Twitter.
YouTubeAbout 60 videos of runners are viewed by over 12,000 people.
TwitterCreates and
encourages use of #runforboston
News MediaOver 164 news media articles appeared in the last week about #runforboston
BloggersOver 10 million
women notified via BlogHer
network
TodayDay 3-7Day 2Day 1
An Idea Goes Viral
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Methodology• Facebook data from Facebook Insights and Polygraph Media
courtesy download / analysis tool
• Twitter data from SocialBakers, Topsy, Social Mention, and TweetReach
• Blogger audience estimates from Alexa, Compete, and Sitetrail
• All data spans 4/16 – 4/22 as the analysis window.
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SummaryMedium Exposure (Audience Size)
Facebook 2,220,201
Twitter 12,928,370
News* 3,530,333
Bloggers** 7,370,000
Total 26,048,094
*Average active viewers = Total US News Media viewership as per the Pew Research Center State of News Media report 2011 * stations covering RFB** Assumed opened emails by BlogHer active email database
Exposure estimates do not include those media that have yet to have published established audience benchmarks, such as: Pinterest, Instagram, Photobucket, Picasaweb, Metacafe, Flickr, Tumblr
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FACEBOOKReached over 2.2MM people within 48 hours
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Facebook StatsAudience Reached:
2,220,201
People who posted or shared content:
59,168
Total impressions:
6,722,616
Most of the reach and impressions came from people posting their photo on the page’s wall.
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2,000,000
2,500,000
3,000,000
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4,000,000
fan mention other page post user post
Viral Impressions by Content Type
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Over half viewed 2+ times
While about half of your audience on Facebook only looked at one RFB post, many looked at 2 or more.
(and 57,431 people looked at your content more than 20 times!)
1,010,059
477,812
233,548
135,692
80,500
163,109
62,050 57,431
1 2 3 4 5 6-10 11-20 21+
How Often People Viewed RFB Content
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Very young and very old indifferent to RFB
It’s important to compare the population that “likes” your page to the overall Facebook population to understand your audience.
RFB had higher than average participation from men and women age 25-54.
RFB significantly underindexed for young people (24 and under) and older people (55+).
-636.6%
-78.2%
27.8% 47.3% 24.0%
-33.7%
-132.5%
-1299.2%
-97.1%
42.8% 48.8%
-7.8%
-86.6%
-236.6%
13-17 18-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65+
RFB Likes Index By Age and GenderMen Women
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Global participationThe overwhelming majority of “likes” on RFB came from the United States. However, there was a significant amount of participation internationally.
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Canada UnitedKingdom
Mexico Germany Australia Costa Rica Sweden Italy Poland Japan Belgium Spain Ireland Brazil
Participation by Country (excludes US, top 14)
US 24,323
International 755
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Texas DominatedNine of the top 20 cities of those who “liked” RFB on Facebook came from Texas.
It’s interesting to note that Boston, MA was the #2 most represented city.
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College Station, TX
Boston, MA
Houston, TX
Dallas, TX
Austin, TX
Bryan, TX
San Antonio, TX
Grand Rapids, MI
New York, NY
Fort Worth, TX
The Woodlands, TX
Chicago, IL
Washington, DC
New Orleans, LA
Eugene, OR
Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, OH
Katy, TX
Brooklyn, NY
Philadelphia, PA
Portland, OR
US Participation by City
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Facebook Word Cloud of Fan Comments
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TWITTERReaching over 1.5MM people within 8 hours
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24 hour peakBetween April 17 and April 18:• 1,594 tweets • 1,246 tweeters• 1,572,516 people
reached• 2,316,186 impressions
Exposure:Range Count
0-99 Followers 623100-999 Followers 7531000-9999 Followers 21010000-99999 Followers 5100000+ Followers 3
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April 16 – April 26• 8,769 shared links to
local runs• 13,105 tweets with
the hashtag #runforboston
• 5,570 photos tweeted
• 39 videos tweeted
• Approx 19MM impressions
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Twitter Hashtag Users Word Cloud
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VIDEONews media and international video content
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One thousand participants in the race village in memory of the victims of terrorism in Boston, wanted the Councillor Chiara Bisconti. *
Warsaw, Poland Romania Milan, Italy
International Events
“In Park Skaryszewski next to the National Stadium in Warsaw we host the action Run for Boston - run of solidarity , which got under way all the action on Facebook.”*
*I used Google Translate. Forgive translation errors.
“Reality TV and the Romanian Rugby Federation, in partnership with the Municipality, held Sunday, April 28, 2013 an exceptional event: a popular cross country race in memory of victims of the Boston marathon.
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Concord, NH Eastown, MI
Knoxville, TN GreenBay, WI Chicago, IL
Local News Coverage
Asheville, NC
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BLOGGER OUTREACHSeveral prominent bloggers picked up the story
(and participated)
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BlogHer picks up the story• BlogHer is a community of
women bloggers that has a daily readership in the millions.
• They have fairly strict requirements for being in their network.
• They also send email digests daily of top stories. It was in one of these emails Run For Boston content was featured.
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A Foodie Stays Fit• Over 107,000
monthly pageviews• 3,090+ Twitter
followers• 1,090+ Facebook
fans• 1290+ Instagram
followers• 815+ Pinterest
followers• Part of the BlogHer
network, which emails content to over 10 million women
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Nutritious Eats• Over 5,000 monthly
pageviews• 1,300 Twitter
followers• 1,238 Facebook
Likes• 461 Pinterest
Followers
• Part of the BlogHer network, which emails content to over 10 million women
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Jess Runs• Over 5,000 monthly
pageviews• 2,195 Twitter
followers• 1,238 Facebook
Likes• 461 Pinterest
Followers
• Part of the BlogHer network, which emails content to over 10 million women
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Daily Garnish• Over 5,000 monthly
pageviews• 4,001 Twitter
followers• 1,475 Facebook
Likes
• Over 11,000 email subscribers
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Pumps and Iron• Over 150,000
pageviews / month• Over 8,000 visitors /
month• Professional fitness
blogger
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HONORABLE MENTIONOne of the Facebook fans, @oberbecca on Twitter, created a Google Doc asking people to log how far they ran for Boston
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Run For Boston Google Doc• As of last check, 4,239 people had added to the document• Runners have logged over 21,000 miles for Boston• A word cloud of their comments is on the following page.
• It’s interesting to note that MSNBC’s Rachael Maddow found this Google Doc, inspiring her to blog about it and mention it on-air.
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Google Doc Word Cloud
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CLOSING THOUGHTSLessons learned
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Context• On day 1 the campaign received
~6 million views, and by day 7, over 40 million views
• Twitter following increased 2700% and Facebook fan interaction was up 800%
• Oldspice.com website traffic was up 300%
• The Old Spice YouTube channel became the all time most viewed channel
• The campaign has generated 1.4 billion impressions
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Closer comparison• 16,033 retweets• 6,224 favorites• Approx. 23MM
impressions
• Took about 2 years to create a social media war room, policies, and staff
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Closest comparison
• 167,000 Messages across social• 102K Facebook likes• 2,362 Twitter followers
• 18,413 Tweets using the #26acts hashtag• 1 million web page views
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The takeawayWhat Worked
• Authenticity• Agility• Timeliness• Participatory
What Didn’t
• Not having a website• Lack of integration