Sports Fans use of Social Media. Check out findings from GMR Marketing study
Insights
- Sport fans are 10 times more likely to check the Internet for breaking sports news than they are to turn to sports radio.
- Slightly more people use Facebook and Twitter than national news websites, at 41% to 40%.
- 86% of respondents check sports news at work and even during work meetings
- 13% get their breaking sports news from TV, and 4% from radio.
- It doesn’t matter where fans are; social media lets them get their sports fix in any place, any time.
- Nearly three quarters of respondents said they’ve checked social media for sports news at a party, nearly 70% during a meal, and 58% while in the bathroom!
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Any website/brand you suggest with amazing video product reviews?
Any website/brand you suggest with amazing video product reviews?
I am putting together a paper with best practises on video product reviews and any suggestion is appreciated.
So far the below are some of the top websites with great video product reviews:
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Key Intakes from keynote Sheyrl Sandberg COO Facebook at the the Association of National Advertisers convention in Phoenix
- Facebook shouldn’t be the only thing marketers do online or in marketing. It should just be part of everything they do.
- “Social by design” was her fundamental takeaway for marketers, echoing what’s fast becoming the pre-eminent marketing catch phrase of 2011, and standing for a strategy in which the glue that holds together marketing plan is designing all elements to amplify or be amplified by social media.
- Overall, fb sharing is doubling every year via “Zuckerberg’s Law,” she noted, but the number of daily fan page “likes” also has doubled in the past year to 100 million daily.
- She mentioned: “If you look at the numbers for almost any brand, but certainly any brand that’s invested any time or effort on Facebook, the number of people who are your Facebook friends massively dwarfs the number of people who visit your website,” Ms. Sandberg said. “So I think one of the questions this industry needs to ask itself is why? Why continue to build as many microsites as we do when we know it’s so much easier to reach people where they already are?”
- She added that, “We are big supporters of everything you do online and think you should be doing more not less.” But she noted that “other ads only talk one way,” whereas operating within Facebook with “for the first time, real identity, real relationships, real personalization, marketing can really fulfill its promise.”
- Citing data from Nielsen, she said Facebook significantly outperforms other online media for reach either against narrow or broad targets, thanks in part to the friends-of-friends effect.
- She also delivered what many marketers have found lacking from their early social-media efforts — case studies with hard numbers showing sales lift from Facebook-centered programs.
- American Express’s “Small Business Saturday” program following last November’s Black Friday, using Facebook at its core but also executed through other local media such as newspaper advertising, produced a 28% sales lift vs. 9% year over year for retailers overall that day, she said.
- A Hong Kong-based “social by design” campaign for Kimberly-Clark Corp.’s Huggies got people to upload their baby photos to the brand’s fan page, then placed those photos in montages on bus and subway ads. The result, Ms. Sandberg said, was a 4.2% increase in market share and “by far the best quarter in Huggies’ Hong Kong history.”
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Strategies for effective Facebook wall posts - Research Findings by Buddy Media
Buddy Media analized more than 200 clients (different industries) Facebook post during two weeks and found some interesting insights in terms of engagement.
If you do not have the time to read the study, below are the key intakes:
- Keep posts length short and sweet – the longer the post length, the less engaging fans find it.
- Do not short ulrs – as fans will not know the destination page.
- Sunday and week nights are the highest times fans engage with posts but most companies miss it. Most post companies post are during week days –day time- when everyone is posting- messages get diluted within other thousands.
- If you have to pick from week days, Thursdays and Fridays presented higher engagement rates than any other week day
- If you want to ask a question, ensure the question is asked at the end of the post.
- The use of “Would” drives spikes in “likes”. This is likely due to fans using “like” as a way to vote: “yes” on the question rather than posting “yes” on the comment box.
- Posts with questions that start with “Where”, “when”, “would”, “should” have generally better engagement rates than posts with questions starting with “why”, “did”, “what”, “who”, “how”.
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