Posts Tagged ‘Programmatic’
3 Audience Insights from the 2014-15 TV Season
As summer is now in full swing, the 2014-15 broadcast television season is officially history. Just before the start of the season, in September, we examined how the previous year’s renewals often times had greater success in social engagement. For example, The Blacklist was not only last year’s breakout hit, but also had the most…
Read More3 Insights from the Classic Hip-Hop Radio Format Flip
At Affinity Answers, we are in the business of extending reach based on brands’ social engagement with other brands. The brand, while always evolving, shows evidence of this change slowly on social media; for example, engagers migrate from Facebook to Instagram over a period of twelve months. These changes are generally initiated by the users…
Read MoreWhen Good Partnerships Go Bad
At Affinity Answers, we are in the business of unlocking the power of mutual affinity to help our clients figure out which celebrities (or TV shows, websites, etc.) are most relevant to fans of their brand on social media. These insights have added a lot of value for clients, as seen in our case studies. However, mutual affinity cannot predict when celebrities will act inappropriately or how events might be judged in the court of public opinion. Today, when outrage on social media is more common than not, we thought it would be interesting to look at how people engage with these celebrities on social after a major scandal. Do fans of the brand become less engaged with the celebrity? Most importantly, what implications does this have for brands?
Read MoreFall TV Success Hinges on Audiences as Much as Viewers
Just as we did in our last blog post, we take a look at another sign that fall is here: the start of the new television season. Although we are in a time when cable networks’ year-round schedules and shortened seasons have prompted broadcast networks to follow suit, this event still holds particular significance because of its tradition, and more importantly, the financial health of the “Big Five.” In a marketplace with heightened competition for eyeballs, it has become increasingly necessary for a program to establish itself as its own brand, reaching the consumer wherever she is.
Read MoreSuper Bowl Halftime Show: Is It Worth the Pay to Play?
The NFL season kicked off last Thursday, so in the eyes of many, fall has officially arrived. Football is arguably bigger than it has ever been – last season, the most watched program in the United States was NBC’s
Read MoreHow Coca-Cola Won the World Cup
The World Cup festivities have ended, and Team Germany has taken its victory lap. But the war between soft drink titans Coke and Pepsi is never over. Which was the off-field victor in the 2014 World Cup? There are many different metrics that can define success for marketers. I’ll review some of them in a moment, but let’s first take a look at which soft drink brand won the title of greatest growth among fans of the tournament, according to Affinity Answers data… Coca-Cola’s reach among tournament fans grew at twice the rate of its chief rival Pepsi. Affinity Answers data also shows that Coca-Cola was and is the #1 soft drink among tournament fans
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…
Read MorePolitics Heats Up: Using Social Media Data To Look At The Republican Presidential Candidates
Since we started looking at the political and causes space in the middle of last year, we’ve been waiting for the time when we could start applying our data to hot political races. So we were excited this year when we got the chance to take a look at Newt Gingrich for the Huffington Post…
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