Kyle Kitsch, Andy Lomasky, Venkat Rajaji, Adam Smith, Jacob Willis, Kevin Wu Interactive Marketing / Data Gathering Advertising Channels Analytics & Behavioral Targeting Mobile Advertising Online Video Advertising E-Commerce How do you define “interactive” marketing? Interactive Marketing is the use of technological channels to target specific advertisements to consumers based on their preferences Advertisers Ad Agencies Ad Networks Publishers Consumers How do companies reach consumers? Internet Banner Ads (Google Ads) Targeted Browsing Ads (Amazon) E-mail Advertising TV Everywhere (Hulu) Mobile Ads (SMS) Purchase History Financial & Credit Data Demographic Data Psychographic Data Life Event Data Ability to link online customer identity & behaviors with offline customer identity & attributes Increased effectiveness of targeted ads Increased value per advertising dollar spent Increased revenue from more effective crossselling According to Forrester Research: Amount spent on advertising on social media sites (2009): $600 million Total advertising in U.S.: $18 billion Amount spent on advertising on social media sites (2012): $8.9 billion It is vital to advertisers to understand consumer wants and needs… behavioral targeting is the most effective way to create a meaningful connection with online customers and prospects. The most reliable indicators of a web visitor's interests are how that individual interacts with content and behaves during online transactions. Web analytics Personas • Break down visitor mass into a number of discrete channels • A virtual profile is made to match each channel • Predetermined profiles act a base points for website operators • General profile content, navigation, layout matched accordingly • Software combines cookies, geographic, and statistical data Behavioral • Makes rule based decision about what content to serve Software Real Media introduced Insight ACT, an analytics technology that enables behavioral targeting through audience clustering The company also introduced Open AdStream 5.7, the most current version of the company's ad management solution. The company says together these two products provide its publishing customers with a fully-functional and totally integrated analytics, behavioral targeting and ad serving solution, that also provides inventory forecasting and control as well as performance reporting by behavioral segment. Big Brother and Invasion of Privacy? Companies selling personal information, emails, preferences, social media analytics Many online users and advocacy groups are concerned about privacy issues around doing this type of targeting. This is a controversy that the behavioral targeting industry is trying to contain through education, advocacy and product constraints to keep all information non-personally identifiable or to obtain permission from end-users. Triggered by rise of SMS & Smartphone capabilities Out of 250 Million mobile phone users, 141 Million use SMS Users request to receive information, instead unwanted messages Cell Phones Outnumber: TV Sets 2:1 Internet Users 3:1 Computer Users 4:1 2008 NFL Draft, Coors offered SMS Notification Service In each SMS Notification, a small blurb about Coors was in bottom of message Partnered with Draftfcb Mobile Phones as platform allow for two-way exchange Users are able to customize information received, user service Ex: CHA-CHA, web service to answer any question, supported by mobile advertising 421 Million in 2006 5 Billion by 2011 Expected to hit $10 Billion by 2013 In 2009… 77% of the total US Internet population has viewed online video. 14.8 billion online videos have already been viewed. 52.4 billion minutes of online video have been consumed — up 82% from January 2008 147 million domestic users have watched an average of 96 videos each. The average viewer has consumed 101 minutes of online video. Pre-roll: The Office http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/video/epis odes/?vid=1168975#vid=1168975 Overlay: Stay Fly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1jn31bDEY Interactive: Drew Barrymore http://www.videoclix.tv/#vcx_hp8aapdo29 http://www.iab.net/media/file/DV_In-Stream_Metrics_Definitions.pdf http://www.facebook.com/TheFourthKind https://twitter.com/TheFourthKind http://www.thefourthkind.net/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVRHOh LP-aA http://www.hulu.com/watch/89451/movietrailers-the-fourth-kind E-Commerce – any transaction completed over a computer mediated-network that involves the transfer of ownership or rights to use goods or services. E-Business – any process that a business organization conducts over a computer mediated-network E-Infrastructure – the infrastructure used to support electronic business processes and conduct electronic commerce transaction Source: Fraumeni, Barbara; Manser, Marilyn; Mesenburg, Thomas Jr. Government Statistics: E-Commerce and the Electronic Economy. June 15, 2000 E-Commerce • Amazon • eBay • Bluefly • Dell E-Business • SAP • Oracle • JDA Software • i2 EInfrastructure • Cisco Systems • IBM • HP • Sun Microsystems Gap has integrated all of its brand websites (Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, etc.) Customers can buy from the different brands using one shopping cart order and shipment Should help grow Gap online revenue to over $1B 1/3 of online shoppers use a search engine to find what they are looking for 1/4 shop online through word of mouth When an online shopper has a good first experience, 60% of the time, they will return to buy more from that website U.S. Online retail sales are projected to grow by 11% to $156B for 2009 Online sales expected to represent 7% of overall retail revenue in 2009 Source: Trends in Online Shopping a Global Nielsen Consumer Report. http://www.nielsen.com/solutions/GlobalOnlineShoppingReportFeb08.pdf Source: Legatt, Helen. “Forrester: Growth Forecast for 2009 online retail sales.” January 30, 2009. Situation Challenge People spending more time on web and less time on TV and radio • How do we effectively target our markets and grow sales? First time User Experience Critical to Follow on Sales • How do we get people to come to our site in the first place? • How do we create a buzz about our site to drive word of mouth traffic? Word of mouth a key driver for online sales Online retail sales are growing and taking up more share of total retail sales • How do we get people to continue shopping at our site and how do we improve the customer experience? Resolution • Need to pursue an online advertising strategy • Target users through search advertising, mobile advertising • Viral marketing through provocative video and display ads as well as through social networking • Provide value added services by recommending purchases and targeting buyers based on their behavior and previous purchases