Posts Tagged ‘Official Blog Posts’
Celebrity Couple Affinities
Love is in the air, not just on Valentine’s Day, but any time we see strong affinity between two brands, TV shows or movies. Our latest infographic shows that celebrity couples have strong social affinity and that affinity grows stronger with time.
Read MoreThe 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.
Online Ad Targeting Using Social Affinity: Chris O’Hara in AdExchanger
This week our advisory board member Chris O’Hara published a column in AdExchanger that gives a good overview about how social affinity facilitates a more complete understanding of your consumers. Here’s the link to his post: Social Affinity Data: The Key To The Fabled ‘360 Degree View’ As Chris makes…
Read MoreFacebook Strategic Shift: The Importance of Social Affinities in a Pay-to-Play Environment
Big changes are underway at Facebook — ones you should know about if you rely on Facebook for reaching your fans. These changes are discussed in detail in a new whitepaper, “The New Facebook Strategic Shift: Reach & Frequency Model,” just published by social media marketing agencies Fanscape and The Marketing Arm. The report’s author, Tom Edwards, keeps a close eye on Facebook, and his study is comprehensive about the ways…
Read MoreChanging Our Name: Affinity Answers
This month we’ve changed the name of both our company and our flagship service to Affinity Answers. We did this to make it as easy as possible for everyone in the marketplace to understand what we do. The name reflects our own belief that we’re not simply providing our clients with data, software, insights, consulting, or targeting. Rather, we’re committed to using consumer affinity data to bring our clients the answers for their specific marketing questions. That’s how we help our clients get results.
Our CEO, Sree Nagarajan, chose the name Colligent when he founded the company in 2005…
Read MoreAre You An Index Or Alpha Marketer?
Marketing on the quantitative side can be treated essentially as investment management. Thus there are parallels marketers can learn and apply from the investment world. In the investing world, there are two competing approaches – Index investor. Believes you can not beat the market, so buy a piece of every stock in an index (e.g.,…
Read MoreThe Most Insidious Trap in New Media Targeting
Is it – Fuzzy strategy? Unclear target segment? Bottom fishing for cheap inventory? While they are all valid issues, the sin that is most insidious and common is aiming for relevance but buying reach instead. Various media research and targeting tools available in the market today make it easy to get reach with some relevance…
Read More#1 Challenge Facing Brand Marketers Today
Is it – Big data overload? Confidence in making decisions? Job security? While the above challenges are all real, the key challenge facing each of us as brand marketers is how do I find receptive audience to engage at scale with my brand? Colligent answers this question using something we’ve been collecting in our backyard –…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreColligent 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…
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