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The iPod Touch Is This Generation’s Tamagotchi

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/SM6HjEBs9Ok/the-ipod-touch-is-this-generations-tamagotchi

All these wonderful things we’re learning today, from data! First, we find out that Android is a guy thing. Now, we discover that the iPod Touch shares more demographics with glittering vampires than smartphones. iPod Touch: Kid stuff.

The age distribution makes a lot of sense, especially with the direct available comparison of the iPhone: the iPod Touch is a good gift, a plausible purchase, and a good investment for a young person right now. An iPhone with a $70-a-month minimum contract is a tougher sell, either to parents, or to kids mostly supported by their parents.

And these kids don’t just buy different gadgets than adults—they use them differently, too. For example, they looooove apps:
But they’re stingy little bastards, these kids:
Buying an app can be tough without a credit card, so again, this isn’t shocking. But it does poke a little hole in the idea of the iPod Touch as a massive moneymaker for Apple. Hardware sales are tremendous and highly profitable, sure, but once the devices are in users’ soft little baby hands, they don’t keep raking it in like the iPhone does. [AdMob]

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Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Uncategorized No Comments

Evian baby viral video has much higher ROI than Etrade baby superbowl ad

The Evian baby viral ad (red spike) got almost as much search volume as eTrade’s Superbowl ad of 2009 (blue spike). But Evian paid millions less by skipping the expense of airing the video on traditional media; instead they just posted it to YouTube for free. But notice that in both cases the effect was ephemeral (not long lasting) — notice the narrowness of the spike. Interest in the viral video also subsided quickly. But at least Evian didn’t waste millions on producing and airing it — thus achieving a massively larger ROI than Etrade who paid to make the ads and then air it at great expense on the Superbowl for the last 3 years.

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Etrade Baby Ad

Evian Baby Viral Video

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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 Branding, analytics, search No Comments

AdAge Top Viral Videos: all take 3 – 6 months to reach full viral effect

Samsung Sheep Viral Video – 2 months

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T-Mobile Dance viral video – 5 months

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Cadbury Dancing Eyebrows Viral Video – 4 months

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Geico Numa Numa Guy viral video – 3 months

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McDonalds Filet-o-Fish Viral Video – 5 months

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etrade baby took 4 months to reach full viral

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Super cameleon viral video took 3 months to reach full viral

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Durex bunnies viral video took 3 months to reach full viral

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Dennys banana pancake viral video took 4 months to reach full viral

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Lewist Hamilton Grand Prix took 2 months to reach viral

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the shape of the views curve is different for a NON-viral video — it just accumulates views over the years.

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link back to the original article showing 12 points that demonstrate why I think the JK Wedding video has a manufactured viral effect.

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Friday, July 31st, 2009 Uncategorized 1 Comment

Social “media” is created – the total quantity, reach, frequency, and intensity are not pre-known

Social “media” is created – the total quantity, reach, frequency, and intensity are not pre-known. The “media” that is generated can be positive or negative or both. Extremity or “extreme-ness” is usually a necessary ingredient. Extremely positive, extremely entertaining, extremely negative, etc.

Oprah Winfrey KFC Grilled Chicken disaster, coupon debacle. Her reputation may have been permanently tarnished because she was found out to have been paid by KFC to promote the coupon tied to the launch of KFC grilled chicken.

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Dominos was on the hot seat when 2 employees shot a video of them sticking mozzarella cheese up their nose and then putting it into the pizza.

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Motrin offended the sensibilities of moms when they implied that a baby was a cool “accessory.”  The blogosphere and twitter lit up with people taking exception to that.

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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 social networks No Comments

Viral videos are cool and all, but most of them don’t drive sales.

Samsung LED Sheep – how do I even buy an LED from Samsung, if I wanted one?

T-Mobile Dance – not sure exactly what it means or how it is related to cell phone service, but it SURE was cool!

Cadbury Eyebrows – cool, and forwardable video. but what does Cadbury make again? So I can go buy some of whatever they make?  ;-)

etc. etc.  you get the point…

the only videos (below) that actually have anything to do with the product are Filet-O-fish, condom bunnies doing their thing, and Denny’s banana on pancakes.


Source:
http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=135717

Last Week Brand Campaign Agency Current Week Views* % Change in Views** Watch the Spot
1 1 Samsung Extreme Sheep LED Art The Viral Factory 2,866,364 +39% Samsung: Extreme Sheep LED Art
2 2 T-Mobile T-Mobile Dance Saatchi & Saatchi, MediaCom 876,946 -15% T-Mobile: Dance
3 4 Cadbury Eyebrow Dance Fallon 636,418 +27% Cadbury: Eyebrow Dance
4 New Geico It’s the Gecko/ Numa Numa The Martin Agency, Horizon Media 442,653 New Geico: It's the Gecko/Numa Numa
5 5 McDonald’s Talking Filet-O-Fish Arnold 378,488 -2% McDonald's: Talking Filet-O-Fish
6 9 E-Trade E-Trade Baby Grey, New York 323,100 +17% E-Trade: Baby
7 New Ray-Ban Never Hide Cutwater 304,970 New Ray-Ban: Never Hide
8 8 Durex Get It On Fitzgerald & Co., SuperFad 235,290 -18% Durex: Kama Balloon Animal Sutra
9 Back on chart Denny’s Nannerpuss Goodby, Silverstein & Partners 178,359 -3% Denny's: Nannerpuss
10 6 Vodafone Lewis Hamilton and the RC Office Grand Prix Outsider 171,123 -49% Vodafone: Lewis Hamilton and the RC Office Grand Prix

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Monday, July 6th, 2009 Uncategorized No Comments

lift in search due to paid TV advertising

List of 2009 Superbowl spots on AdAge.com

http://adage.com/superbowl09/article?article_id=134136

Lift in search is a great indicator of interest. Modern consumers may be inspired by TV ads, but they usually go online to do more research for themselves, to inform their own purchase decision. The following examples show the lift in search after Superbowl commercials or for launch of products like Subway Footlongs. The use of unique, made-up words makes it easier to detect lift in search (see related post: made up words are great for tracking buzz and search volume ). There is now a correlation between offline paid advertising and online behaviors of modern consumers that can be tracked and ultimately related to sales.

What is harder to do is track lift in search from smaller TV media buys or from terms which are generic — e.g. American Express OPEN, Proctor & Gamble’s TAG (men’s deoorant), etc. And furthermore, people may or may not remember the brand name itself and may type in a more general search query — e.g. “talking baby” instead of” e-Trade” or “dancing lizards” instead of “SoBe LifeWater.” And most people usually forget to type in special URLs specified in the ads. So the opportunity is to 1) use made-up words which can be used to detect lift in search and 2) search-optimize around other more generic terms that people may search for if they remembered the ad, but did not remember the brand name itself.

key learnings include:

1. only the superbowl TV ads generates enough awareness to drive lift in search volume detectable above the noise or normal levels

2. made up words are useful in correlating paid advertising and subsequent online actions (e.g. search) because most users forget or are too lazy to type special URLs

3. is is always better to have real analytics from the site to see when paid campaigns hit; site analytics will also reveal more information about users including demographic information, what they are looking for, and even whether they “convert” to a sale or a desired action — like print off a coupon, etc.

Notice the January spikes for several of the examples below — these are their Superbowl ads in action. But also notice how sharp the spikes are — most of them go back to prior levels within 1 – 3 days (see related post: the ephemerality of the Superbowl halo )

Source: Google Insights for Search

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ecoimagination

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lifewater

drinkability

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