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Colligent Affinities Utilized to Identify Correlation of TV Ad Spend with Brand’s Social Engagement
This morning our client and partner, TVB issued a press release of our landmark study with them. The study measures social behaviors of fans of TV shows and brands. It then correlates it to the show’s audience size (as measured by Nielsen) and ad spend (as measured by Kantar Media). The results show that higher the…
Read MoreSocial Media “Engagement” is a Means to an End
Social media “engagement” gets you halfway, its what you do next that matters. Over a decade ago, when Social Media was emerging, people made fun of measurement, social media strategy, and any hint of a brand or business trying to monetize social media efforts. This sounds impossibly crazy today, but it’s true. The common refrain was “Social…
Read MorePepsi & Nicki Minaj: Identifying Sponsorship Opportunities
The Situation: Pepsi was looking re-energize their brand around their new positioning “Live For Now”. They were looking to sponsor an artist that best resonated with their audience. Based on the theme, they arrived at 4 artist candidates to choose from. To help them decide, they asked Colligent to analyze and recommend the best choice.…
Read MoreForrester Recognizes Social Affinity Market
At SXSW, Nate Elliot announced the notion of the “database of affinity” as the evolution of the “database of intent” and harnessing affinities holds huge opportunties for brands. Nate’s presentation sheds incredible insight on affinities and emotions and we are glad to know we are in lock step with much of the Forrester VP’s…
Read MoreA Little Insight into our Big Data
Here is a behind the scenes look at a few of our numbers. It is a massive challenge to capture and organize our data as there are few to no rules saying big data must be static. In fact, it is constantly changing. Two components which we maintain weekly are the categories or buckets which…
Read MoreSocial Media Analytics: Market Segmentation in the New World.
Market Segmentation, even to many marketers, is a fuzzy concept that is recognized as difficult and time consuming. The thought of market segmentation conjuors up thoughts lengthy surveys, followed by an even longer analysis. Coupled with the fear of being late to market, it is little wonder why marketers struggle to properly segment their consumers.…
Read More2013 Social Media Brand Analysis Infographic
With interest intensifying on how to best leverage social media for brands and businesses, we thought it would be clever if we turned our platform back onto the social media networks to see which brands, TV networks, and celebrities the social networks’ fans engaged and identified with the most. Since this was new to…
Read MoreTop 10 Things You Can Do That the Big Guys are Already Doing
Social media intelligence is evolving at an incredible pace. As brands and brand agencies look to uncover deeper behavioral characteristics of consumers, understanding a brand’s social engagement and mutual interests are logical starting points. Brand engagement can be thought of as how much someone interacts with a particular brand on one or many social media…
Read MoreUsing Social Data for Market Research
Sree recently had a converstation with Chris O’hara to discuss how brands can benefit from using social media data. The article goes into great depth sharing the value of mutual affinities and how we use them to help brands with their marketing and advertising. Below is an intro to the article, and here is the…
Read MoreHow to Destroy Your Current Paid Marketing ROI Using Behavioral Keyword Analysis
Determining paid search keywords by observing social networks behavior provides incredible results. I’ve done more than my fair share of paid marketing, whether using Adwords, Yahoo (classic), Bing, AOL, CNET, Commission Junction, and probably 10 others. In my years of trying to optimize CTR, ROAS, Impressions, and CPA the one thing that I constantly…
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