Talk given to Miami Ad School, Europe students on 11th August, 2014. By Simon Law, CSO at Fabric.
Admittedly, this is just an updated version of last year, but some bits were better. The embedded notes in the ppt aren't exactly what I said, but gives you some idea of content and meaning… What I actually said was obviously smarter, wittier and generally more compellingly informative and entertaining!
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Yet it might change the world…
“Big Data will open the door to making smarter
decisions in every field of human activity”
The New York Times, March 23, 2013
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In other words, Behavioural Data
What people really do
Rather than what they claim in research groups
The trails of their interests, their interactions and their affinity
And gives planners the ability to start from facts and reality
Not just googling to find out who’s published an opinion
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What Addressable Media is…
Targeted Media = Addressable Media
• Addressable media is where you can pick the audience specifically
• In other words, the media can show a DIFFERENT ad to each person
• That may be based on their demographics, or some kind of behaviour
• BUT it’s always based on KNOWING something about the audience
• It tends to be digital, but that doesn’t mean it’s banners any more…
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Have we
seen you
before?
What
were you
interested
in?
Do we
have any
demog
data?
Does that
fit one of
our target
groups?
Where
did you
come
from?
Can we
guess
what you
want?
What
time is it?
What’s
most
relevant
now?
What ads
have you
seen
before?
Example targeting questions (i.e., Machine options)
What’s
your
location?
Does that
change
anything?
Using the Groups we have and the Content
we’ve got available, what do we show?
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Addressable makes new things possible
• Mainly, it’s about Targeting – both Ads + Content
But it also means:
• Flighting (i.e., choosing what order people see ads/content in)
• Capping frequency
• Personalising ads/content (to a degree!)
• Recognising who saw your ads/content later
• Learning what effect those ads/content had
• Seeing how people respond to ads/content (in reality, not in research)
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66% of consumers are comfortable with Amazon
recommending relevant products based on past purchases
and site usage
vs.
33% of consumers are comfortable with Facebook using
profile information to target them with ads
Source: Harris Interactive/Placecast surveyin US - 2012
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As all these things become possible,
future planners and creatives will
conceive of something amazing…
They will create a new campaign that
goes into the hall of “awesome”.
Will it be you?
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Campaign
Launch
See early
activity and
responses
Create
specific
ads to
address
response
Monitor
reactions
and sales
impact
Re-edit TV
campaign
to increase
interest
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①
②
③
Targeted Ads within Campaigns
Campaigns that Evolve
Pre-testing in the real world
Three Thought Starters…
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The thought starters I’ve given you are dull.
They’re rational approaches.
This needs genius – the moment where
it turns into something awesome.
And that’s your challenge…
It will make whoever does it famous
Hinweis der Redaktion
Worked at Goodby Silverstein, Saatchi’s and more.
Before my current job, I was head of planning at TBWA in London
And I’ve worked on most sectors and lots of great clients.
In short, I’ve been lucky.
But today, I do something a little different.
Which I believe may be a part of the future – both the future of planning and creative.
Which is why I wanted to talk to you about the world of big data today.
But not the boring world of data analysis and business intelligence.
I want to talk about how it’s going to drive a new world of creativity.
Or, more to the point, how you could make this the future… I’m not going to give you all the answers, but I’m going to try to give you the input you need.
And, at the end, feel free to ask questions.
Broadly, I’ll talk about 3 areas…
The main thing I want you to think at the end of this talk is “how do we do this well?”
Because there’s lots of people out there doing it badly today.
So, let’s start with Big Data…
Apple browsers
A third less likely to buy a mobile phone
But 1.5 times as likely to buy a TV
And we know which one is most likely, which they’ll consider, what they look at before upgrading…
Sainsbury’s,
5 billion searches a year for recipes, and yet people’s repertoires are stuck at 10
The problem is that recipes aren’t really that useful – they’re great as a browse, but are you really going to cook something massively different for the family? Actually, you’re not.
Which is where spag bol comes in – it’s the go to recipe for UK mums.
And the link between 3 recipes and uplifted choice
Colgate – a shift from dentists?
And is growing through new technology…
Facebook uses Big Data to work itself – that’s how it delivers your own page, for everyone that logs in.
It’s how you can use Facebook Connect across any site – and be pre-logged in if you’re logged into Facebook.
But it’s also how their advertising system works.
But it is Facebook – and that’s the biggest show in town.
Particularly now they’re about to start selling video ads at $1m a day.
But more on that later…
Facebook can serve depending on:
Location (inc. mobile location)
Your age, sex, education
Your interests and activities
Your affiliation (Likes) to a brand (or not)
One of the most frequently cited examples of Big Data having a positive impact on creativity is Nike+
Turning running (which can be enormously solitary) into the most social sport. Until the others followed suit!
TIGHTER AUDIENCE = LESS CAUTION
PRE-TESTING = LESS IPSOS
Targeting has always been a murky science – buying “Men” on TV just means that you have ‘less housewives’. There’s no real targeted buy. Everything we’ve done in the past, as advertisers, has to recognize the reality that it will be overheard. You can’t target any group specifically, so you have to produce work that doesn’t offend anyone. Work that your client can show around the business without getting fired.
But what happens when you can pick who sees the ad? Surely, this is the moment when you stop presenting ads that are acceptable to all audiences and start showing things that are specifically going to grab the attention of your audience.
BETTER BRIEFS
MORE FOCUS ON THE MESSAGE YOU NEED AT THIS POINT IN THE MARKETING JOURNEY, LESS “COVER IT ALL”
FLIGHTING MEANS FOCUS ON A POINT IN THAT JOURNEY
In the same way, surely we can start to be more focused… If you’re not talking to everyone and we have the data to see what motivates purchase, then ads can become more single-minded. Less need to cram everything in, because we know who we’re talking to and what they need to hear to have an effect.
Briefs will start to get punchier and the creative task will be more focused. To use the old analogy, you’ll be pitching one ball at your audience, not 3 – leaving more opportunity for creative engagement, not just wall to wall product explanation.
VARIETY/VERSIONS FOR DIFFERENT AUDIENCES AND FOR DIFFERENT STAGES
BRANDS WITH MORE PERSONALITY – SHOWING DIFFERENT SIDES ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS AND FOR DIFF AUDIENCES
Of course, if you’re targeting acutely, you’ll need to have more than one execution. Once you split older/younger or male/female or previous purchases vs. new, then you’ll need to talk to them differently. The challenge for agencies and creatives will be how to produce more variety rather than just versions of the same thing.
The great thing is that we’re talking about more creativity, rather than less. The opportunity to produce more varied work and to find different ways to present a consistent brand – because you’re talking to different audiences.
THE ABILITY TO TRACK YOUR WORK AS IT LAUNCHES
AND TO HAVE A MISSION ROOM MENTALITY – WHAT NEXT?
Finally, there’s a whole new science to tracking active campaigns. Again, the capabilities of Big Data mean that you’ll see more campaigns reporting in real time. As a team, you’ll see what happened the day before (if not the hour before). The impact the TV ads are having as well as the feedback people give. The amount of people that watch the whole way through, the actions taken, and so on. It’s happening to a degree today with digital ads – the best agencies already see live data on digital and social campaigns.
But what happens when that ‘control room’ mentality hits the rest of advertising? Are you going to be able to edit on the fly? Can the print ads be subtly changed to work harder? Do you flip the existing media rollout and start with something digital that you bubble up to TV, rather than launching on TV and supporting in other media? Or is someone going to make a campaign that morphs as it plays out – changing daily and constantly enthralling the audience?
Almost more important than everything before, is the possibility this brings…
What will people do, when they can treat people as if they know something about them?
How do we do awesome new ideas, rather than just becoming creepy marketing freaks?
Big Data should be an accelerator of Bravery and Ambition, not just a planning tool.