The MillerCoors Deal with FX Networks: Better with Social Affinity

Last week MillerCoors signed a three-year deal with FX Networks to place its beer brands on shows on the FX, FXX, and FXM channels. In a minute, we’ll talk about how this partnership could benefit from using social affinity to find the best fits between specific MillerCoors beer brands and specific FX Networks programs. But first let’s take a look at the rationale behind the deal.

Targeting Audience Segments with Relevant Content
This is an exclusive deal for product placements, not just advertising or other sponsorships, which brings key benefits for both parties:
– Unlike advertisements, product placements will live on after the FX shows — Sons of Anarchy, The Americans, and so on — go into syndication.

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The Holy Grail of Brand Marketing: Engage Audience at Scale. Part 1

As digital and social media get brand marketing to the next level, the question increasingly on brand marketer’s mind is “How can I engage with my audience at scale?“. Large reach has always been easier to achieve with traditional method of demographics based segmentation. Traditional media measurement systems such as Nielsen and comScore made it…

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Social 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.…

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