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Virality: How to catch it.
We’ll start the show shortly…
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Who’s presenting?
Jay BaerPresidentConvince & Convert@jaybaer
Tom WebsterVP MarketingEdison Research@webby2001
Eric BoggsCEOArgyle Social@ericboggs
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Details
• Eric will lead Q & A at the end of the call.
• Tag your tweets with #virality
• We’re recording this shin dig.
• We’ll send an email follow up to everyone with the recording & slides.
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15 Second Commercial
Featuring interviews with social pros from:
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Sound & Credible Social Media Consumer Research, From Edison Research
Virality: How to catch it.
What is virality?
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Required inputs:
- Host cell(s)- Payload- Delivery
mechanism
Back to Bio101…
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Lifecycle
A VIRALITY STORY…
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The Showtime Lakers…
• Lakers community site w/ millions of readers / month
• On Twitter: @LakersNation
• 21,843 total posts. 119,813 followers.
• 711,587 total retweets (32.5 per post)
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Fan site vs official site
RTs Top Viral Content
12,750
Steve Nash, Kobe Bryant, Ron Ron, Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard. That's not a bad starting five.
2,067
It's time to wake up - the Dwightmare is over. Dwight Howard is a Laker. http://t.co/kHIpHbS7
2,049
Dwight Howard reportedly willing to sign an extension w/ the Lakers. Says he's 'excited' about L.A. http://t.co/16NZoqlS
RTs Top Viral Content
6,010
Your new starting 5 together for the 1st time in the gold. What'd you think? #LakersCamp http://t.co/Lmm9ZlJZ
2,024
And your new look Lakers backcourt. @SteveNash & Kobe Bryant. #LakersCamp http://t.co/YbG1tnWO
1,495
The new look Lakers front court. @DwightHoward & @paugasol #LakersCamp http://t.co/3pdNUKzv
@LakersNation – 120k followers@Lakers (Official) – 2.7M followers
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80/20 Applies for Lakers Nation
• 134,552 total “retweeters” (RTers)
• 5.3 retweets per RTer
• 2,200 RTers have RT’d 1 out of every 400 posts.
• 6 RTers have RT’d1 out of every 20 posts.
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Lakers Nation’s Influential Retweeters
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Retweeters of High-Engagement Tweets
Retweeters
Vir
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Retw
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1,088 Retweeters
DIGGING IN TO THE DATA…
#solvingedgerank
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Dataset
• 1M tweets• 10M RTs• Thousand of Twitter accounts• Diverse industries, verticals, sizes• Past 12 months
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60% of RTs Happen in first 60 minutes
0 10 20 30 40 50 600%1%2%3%4%5%6%7%8%
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Retweet Delay (First 60 Minutes)
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95% of RTs Happen in first 24 hours
0 4 8 12 16 20 240%
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Retweet Delay (First 24 Hours)
Retweets % of Retweets (Cumulative)
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Most accounts don’t get the viral bump
Twitter Account Retweet Rates
Accounts
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Lots of retweets
Very few retweets
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Posts with !!! get ~50% more RTs
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Posts with ? get ~70% more replies
Posts with Question Marks Posts without Question Marks
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WHAT ABOUT TARGETING INFLUENCERS?
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Minnows more valuable than whales…
Perception: big influencers drive shares.Reality: small-following influencers drive shares.
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This isn’t about Klout score…• Universal influence score isn’t always
useful.• Minnows by definition have low
influence.• You want to know what users help
you generate engagement.
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Tracking influence internally…
WHY DO PEOPLE RETWEET?
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How Word-Of-Mouth Advertising Works
34%
25%
21%
20%
Reasons To Share
Product InvolvementSelf InvolvementOther InvolvementMessage Involvment
Ernest Dichter“How Word of Mouth Advertising Works”1966
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A RT is like telling someone else’s joke
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Interest intersection drives virality
Account Topic # of accounts in the top 50
Sports 21
Religion 3
Consumer Tech 3
Entertainment 3
Higher Ed 2
Local 2
All other (no topic had more than 1)
16
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Interest intersections illustratedMy Interest My Follower
Concentration
Their Follower Concentration
Viral oppy?
SMM High High Very good
Parenting Medium Medium Good
Carolina basketball Medium Medium Good
Heavy metal music Tom and my brother ??? Poor
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Measuring content interest areas…
4 TAKEAWAYS…
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1.) A Gangnam Style moment is unlikely.
Only .0006% of posts in our sample had a positive viral coefficient.
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2.) Grow your audience.
Many minnows are more valuable than a few whales.
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3.) Interest intersection drives virality.
High-density interests drive viral results. Frame viral content around your followers’ followers.
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4.) Help yourself with audience mgmt.
80% of the Retweets come from 20% of the Retweeters. Socialize accordingly!
WRAP UP, Q&A, HILARIOUS BANTER