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www.compete.com Social Media Espionage Presented at Monitoring Social Media | Boston October 5, 2010

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Stephen Dimarco, CMO of Compete, explains how some of the biggest brands gain competitive intelligence and advantage over their competitors.

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Social Media EspionagePresented at Monitoring Social Media | Boston

October 5, 2010

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Why “Social Media Espionage?”

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Alternate title: “Snooping on your Rivals”

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Let’s stick with “Social Media Espionage”

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“Imagine how hard physics would be if particles could think.”

Nobel Prize-winning elementary particle physicist Murray Gell-Mann

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It’s holistic and non-linear…just like consumersThe perfect marketing measurement system

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CONSUMERS

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New tools expand your insights and success

But why use the same information as everyone else?

• Opportunity to tap into new tools that complement ones you are already using

• Consumer-centric research panels offer all new, granular and competitive insights

• The value increases as you shift mindset from collecting to connecting metrics

We all use hundreds of existing tools including:

bitly

Cymfony

Crimson Hexagon

Digimine

Facebook Insights

Radian6

Sysomos

Trendrr

Scout Labs

Twitter Stats

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Understand how BestBuy is tapping Facebook to generate incremental website

visits, shoppers and sales

Gain new insight into how American Express has engaged a steadily growing base of small and medium-sized business owners

Looking past views and comments to understand the behavioral after-effects of video campaigns

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Amex co-opted Twitter to Build an Audience

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www.openforum.com (circa 2009)

www.guykawasaki.com (circa 2009)

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www.openforum.comcirca 2010

Now building an audience that sticks and grows

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OPEN brand page on Facebook

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OPEN Forum twitter page

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Monthly Unique Visitors to open.com and openforum.com

…building an audience that sticks and grows

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Top referring social sites to openforum.com

5.6% of all traffic to openforum.com is from social networks

…building an audience that sticks and grows

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102%Growth in

Total Referrals

Share

Top referring sites to openforum.com

…building an audience that sticks and grows

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Understand how BestBuy is tapping Facebook to generate incremental website

visits, shoppers and sales

Gain new insight into how American Express has engaged a steadily growing base of small and medium-sized business owners

Looking past views and comments to understand the behavioral after-effects of video campaigns

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Seeing beyond Facebook Insights

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Microsoft AdidasVitaminWater

Red Bull BestBuy Verizon Chase

Fans(As of 1/5/10)

79,341 2,242,670 1,098,586 2,155,422 1,053,491 824,546 2,024,144

Visitors per Month (Q4 2009 Average)

4,082 8,028 33,756 41,764 76,565 123,251 1,194,796

Fan Penetration(Average Monthly Q4 UVs /

Fans as of 1/5/10) 5.1% 0.4% 3.1% 1.9% 7.3% 14.9% 59.0%

Frequency (Session / UV)

1.0 1.2 1.2 1.3 1.1 1.0 1.4

Intensity (Pageviews / Session)

1.7 2.1 1.8 2.0 1.9 1.6 6.6

Engagement (Min / Session)

1.6 1.9 0.6 0.8 0.6 0.7 1.7

Click and Engage(View more than one page on

a brand FB site per month) 47% 46% 42% 47% 40% 25% 71%

Click and Return (UV returns to brand FB site

within 30 days) 49% 57% 47% 51% 46% 26% 72%

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Best Buy engaged holiday shoppers on Facebook…

• 1.1M fans on Facebook as of Q4 2009

• 127,000 visitors to its Facebook site during November alone from visitors searching for Black Friday deals

• The site provides:- Individual category brand pages- Shopping functionality- Gift idea generator- Store locator, - Twelpforce Twitter feed

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• 74% of time spent within the Best Buy Facebook site was spent within the Shop and Share tab

• 73% of visitors to facebook.com/bestbuy also visited the actual BestBuy.com site in Q4 2009

…and channels them into its shopping funnel

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4.3% of all traffic to Bestbuy.com is from Facebook

Now building an audience that sticks and grows

Top referring site to bestbuy.com

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Understand how BestBuy is tapping Facebook to generate incremental website

visits, shoppers and sales

Gain new insight into how American Express has engaged a steadily growing base of small and medium-sized business owners

Looking past views and comments to understand the behavioral after-effects of video campaigns

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Old Spice revitalizes its brand…

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…reaching new consumers…

Indexed to Online Video Watcher Population

126 129

9182

75

42

Under 24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 Over 65

Age

• 4.4 MM Aggregate Views in first month (8.4MM YTD)

• Average viewer watched video 2.2 times

• Online reach of 2MM unique people (3.8MM YTD)

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…generating positive scentiment…

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Old Spice branded searches made up 45x as

many searches after viewing

1% of the audience used search to navigate to Old

Spice branded sites

…and creating new consumer behaviors

17% of the audience

visited an Old Spice

branded site

Social media discussions on brand increased by

600%

Consumers posted over 1,700 links to video

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For more information or copies of the ppt, feel free to email me at [email protected].

It pays to spy.