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DIGITAL BRANDS +
LIVE EXPERIENCES
CONNECTING WITH
YOUR AUDIENCE IRL
DIGITAL BRANDS +
LIVE EXPERIENCES 1
In this paper, we’ll outline and explore:
• The cultural landscape digitally native brands inhabit
• Consumer, tech and marketing trends
• The benefits digital brands can gain through meeting
their audiences offline
• How digital brands can make meaningful real-life
connections
When done well, experiential marketing — or
more specifically, live experiences — delivers
opportunities for consumers to interact with
brands in uniquely meaningful ways.
For brands with a real-world footprint, live engagement is a no-brainer. But for
brands that exist solely in the realm of zeros and ones, connecting with users in
real life can seem like a big leap – one digital brands must take if they want to
build lasting consumer relationships.
Why is now such a critical time for digital brands to add live experiences to
their marketing mix? With a fresh awareness of the consequences of
ultra-personalized news feed “bubbles,” consumers are grappling with their
digital media and product choices. Consumers have a renewed commitment to
improving their digital health – and a sense that they’re overdue for a
check-up.
Perhaps inevitably, this increasing wariness of digital information is
affecting our perception of brands we only interact with through our
digital devices.
The result is an environment where the pull of human, flesh-and-blood
experiences is becoming stronger – and digital brands are increasingly seeking
opportunities to hybridize their relationships with consumers.
DIGITAL BRANDS +
LIVE EXPERIENCES 2
THE LAND OF ECHO
CHAMBERS & CHATTY BOTS
Over the last decade, high consumer demand for
personalized products has pushed brands and media
channels to serve up meticulously curated
experiences. On the one hand, personalization is a
must for brands that want to show their customers
that they truly understand their needs and wants –
and it works.
On the other hand, you have the “echo chamber”
– a digital bubble where information sources don’t
expand, but only reflect personal viewpoints. This
phenomenon has recently lead to a backlash against
digital media sources (and our Facebook friends) for
enabling and producing narrowly targeted user
experiences.
We have to wonder – is the familiarity that digital
brands have worked so hard to cultivate actually
starting to breed distrust?
Relationship Issues:
Why Consumers Swipe Left
Digitally native brands – those whose services are
accessed via devices instead of physical stores – are
able to connect with consumers whenever they fire
up an app or log in to a service.
Through artificial intelligence, algorithms and
predictive interfaces, these brands can deliver the
level of immediate, always-on customer service that
today’s consumers expect and demand. And with
data collected through users’ ongoing interactions,
digital brands have a unique advantage in getting to
know their audiences – as far as 1-to-1,
device-dependent experiences allow, anyway.
Have you hugged your chatbot lately?
The rise of artificially intelligent chatbots and
speech-controlled Internet of Things (IoT)
assistants such as Amazon Echo’s Alexa or
Google Home signals a shift in the fundamental
ways people expect to interact with and receive
services from a brand.
But even as 2016 saw Facebook Messenger
introducing more than 30,000 chatbots and
Google scanning romance novels to make its AI
more conversational, data still has limits –
especially when it comes to evoking human
emotion.
The friendliest of chatbots or app alerts can be
ignored or silenced, or not ask the right
questions, leading to a frustrating or dead-end
user experience – and perhaps triggering Clippy
flashbacks for older generations. Researchers are
making advances in machine learning every day,
but for now, it still takes a human touch to really
get at what consumers are thinking and feeling,
and to deliver what they want.
DIGITAL BRANDS +
LIVE EXPERIENCES 3
Humans: The Missing Link
In this climate of fact-check fatigue, Millennial
marketing cynicism, a fragmented and
oversaturated media landscape, and short
attention spans, it’s critical that digital brands get
some face time with their audiences in order to
build trust and create meaningful relationships.
This means offering experiences that put a living,
breathing human face on your brand, or finding
positive ways to connect your brand to everyday
human activities.
Live experiences – from pop-up stores to music
festival activations – have the power to build trust
and convey authenticity, the Holy Grail of B2C
engagement. They can also break through the
noise and clutter of competing apps and online
services, as well as consumers’ algorithm-
controlled information and marketing feeds.
According to the Mintel North America 2017
Consumer Trends forecast, “Brand disruption is
paramount in getting inside of consumers’ echo
chambers and making connections with them.
Human interaction could prove effective because
advice from real people has the benefit of being
more trustworthy.”
“Artificial intelligence isn’t equipped
to deal with more complex or more
nuanced situations that customers
face on a daily basis. So although it’s
perfectly fine to get
excited about bots, it’s
also critical to remember
that the main reason
people love messaging
is because of the
human being on the
other end.”
(Source: Information Age)
DIGITAL BRANDS +
LIVE EXPERIENCES 4
Perhaps that’s one reason why digital juggernaut
Amazon opened brick-and-mortar bookstores in
Seattle, San Diego and Portland, OR.
Amazon Books merchandises online bestsellers in a physical store staffed with human
booksellers. Although customers can get the same products and weigh user reviews
online, here they get real-time human recommendations, plus the chance to not just
preview, but flip through an entire book’s pages, before buying. The ability to see and
touch the books and devices – and talk to experts – in person offers stronger
validation of shoppers’ purchasing decisions.
Meanwhile, Amazon Go takes a different tack,
proving that emotional connections aren’t just
about human interaction, but the promise of
instant gratification in a real-world,
tech-enabled retail environment.
The store’s beta experience, currently located
near Amazon’s Seattle HQ, uses so-called “Just
Walk Out” technology to allow shoppers to grab
what they want from the store’s shelves and then
leave without passing through check-out lines.
The Amazon Go app tracks user selections and
handles transaction charges.
While they don’t employ humans, these
“driverless” stores are live experiences that put
the power of the entire transaction in shoppers’
hands (literally) and still create a positive
connection between the consumer and the
digital brand.
Empathetic Tech FTW
In a counterpoint to the automation revolution, French
grocery chain Monoprix responded to the launch of
Amazon Go with a promo video that parodies the
Amazon spot and introduces their own new service.
Like Amazon Go shoppers, Monoprix customers can
walk out without paying – but they can’t take their
groceries with them.
Monoprix still employs the services of a checker, who’ll
tally your tab after you leave, and then dispatch your
groceries for delivery within one hour. So while
shoppers don’t have to lug their groceries home, it’s
not exactly grab-and-go instant gratification.
Nice try, humans. We have to give this point to
technology because, as in the case of Amazon Go, it’s
hard to argue that automation isn’t pro-human and
capable of empathy, despite its impact on
human-occupied jobs.
DIGITAL BRANDS +
LIVE EXPERIENCES 5
THE MEDIA ECHO CHAMBER: THREE FACTORS
By the end of 2016, three factors had surfaced as the main architects
of consumers’ media bubbles.
Algorithmic Bias
Human bias is something we as individuals can
control, but algorithmic bias – as experienced
on Facebook and Instagram – is much harder
to opt out of.
31% of U.S. consumers
say they use algorithm-driven
social media platforms as a
news source.1
Fake News (aka Propaganda)
It’s every consumer’s responsibility to verify
information sources, but deceptive digital media
sites are getting smarter about how they fabricate
and peddle fake news.
54% of U.S. consumers
admit they aren’t always sure if
online information is true.1
Post-Truthiness
It’s been 10 years since “truthiness” (beliefs based
on gut feelings) was named Merriam-Webster’s
Word of the Year. Thanks to the 2016 election
cycle, its close cousin, “post-truth,” earned the
same designation from Oxford Dictionaries.
Post-truth (adj.):
Relating to or denoting circumstances in
which objective facts are less influential
in shaping public opinion than appeals
to emotion and personal belief.2
1 Mintel North America 2017 Consumer Trends
2 Oxford Dictionaries
DIGITAL BRANDS +
LIVE EXPERIENCES 6
FOUR BENEFITS OF LIVE EXPERIENCES
Taking your digital brand out into the real world has obvious advantages –
for one, people crave and enjoy human interaction. But how do live
experiences create additional value for your digital business? We’ve
identified four key benefits.
1. Following through with always-on expectations.
Consumers expect immediate service and results – and as technological
advances continue to provide greater convenience, expectations only get
higher. Good service is no longer limited to one-off transactions, but extends
to ongoing interaction.
Digital brands can “be there” 24/7 for their users, but after
the transaction ends, where can digital brands go to follow
through? To not just continue, but deepen, the conversation?
Offline.
In the summer of 2014, PBJS helped Microsoft’s Bing in the
Classroom safe-search program be there for teachers.
We sent the Back-to-School Crew, teams of Microsoft
employee volunteers, to 10 schools nationwide to give tech
training and troubleshooting presentations to more than 200
teachers. Talks at each school were built around teachers’ top
technology needs.
The goal of this program was to help teachers and
administrators get ready for the new school year while driving
brand affinity and adoption. What were the results of Microsoft
Bing following through on their brand promise? A much higher
grade. Favorability of Bing jumped from 33 to 100 percent
among teachers surveyed before and after their involvement
in the Back-to-School Crew program.
“Moving forward, the approaches most prized
by consumers will be hybrid ones that pair the
convenience of robots with unsurpassable
humanity.”
(Source: Mintel)
DIGITAL BRANDS +
LIVE EXPERIENCES 7
2. Transforming the digital into the tangible.
Turn users into loyal fans through hands-on live experiences. By giving
consumers opportunities to explore and create through the lens of your
brand, you not only create rewarding moments, but also show your
audience that your brand is not afraid to be open and inclusive. You
know: human. The result of tangible and transparent engagement is
more powerful – and memorable – than any digital marketing campaign.
“[L]ive events are completing the circle in the marketing
journey created around the modern consumer, from the
initial brand engagement, all the way to the desired
action by the end user.”
(Source: Forbes)
3. Learning in the real world.
In digital-only transactions, there’s a constant exchange of data between
the user and brand, whose actions inform and guide future actions.
A PwC study on creating post-transaction customer value defines this as
“consumption data,” which may take the form of “statistics on
consumption, relevant social alerts and social connections.” This is all
very helpful to the user and the brand, of course, and increases the
digital product’s value.
Live experiences provide similar opportunities to generate and learn
from real-world consumption data that go beyond online comments and
reviews. It’s a win-win for consumers and digital brands. Being
empowered to share in-person customer feedback naturally changes
how people feel about a brand, and can help a brand shape future
transactions and product innovations.
4. Expanding 1-to-1 into 1-to-many reach.
Live experiences also have the benefit of transforming solely 1-to-1
digital relationships, where the user is only interacting with the brand via
her personal device, into 1-to-many social amplification opportunities
that embrace potential new users.
Attendee bonus: live experiences provide social sharing opportunities
for attendees that will amplify a brand’s message, potentially recruiting
new users. According to the Event Marketer 2016 Event Track report,
98 percent of consumers create digital content at branded events —
and 100 percent share it with their social networks.
72%
of consumers say they
positively view brands
that provide quality
event content
opportunities and
experiences.
74%
say engaging with
branded live marketing
experiences makes them
more likely to buy the
products being
promoted.
(Source: Event Marketer)
DIGITAL BRANDS +
LIVE EXPERIENCES 8
FOUR WAYS DIGITAL BRANDS CAN MAKE
LASTING IMPRESSIONS IRL
These four tactics can be applied by any brand. However, they’re especially
important for digital brands attempting to create an authentic and
memorable real-world presence – even if it’s just for a moment.
1. Listen and be present.
As in any good relationship, it’s important to take the time to listen. For
digital brands, listening is easy. But turning user habits and feedback into
meaningful two-way conversations is more of a challenge when you’re only
interacting via digital channels. As with any online romance, you’re eventually
going to want to meet your brand’s paramours in real life.
On-demand online mattress retailer Casper understands that live
experiences are an essential step in the brand relationship. One Casper
activation, the Snooze Bar, put pop-up showrooms in several cities to let
customers test the merchandise while sipping cocktails and having artists
draw interpretations of their dreams (agency: Preacher). Their mobile Nap
Tour took the brand’s quirky personality further, parking a “napmobile” on
city streets and inviting passersby inside for some impromptu shut-eye
(agency: MKG).
Each of these experiences used what Casper had already learned about their
target customers through digital data to create in-person engagements that
continued the brand conversation in authentic ways.
Image Source: Casper
“Experiential marketing in
general is really
important to Casper
because we’re
interested in picking up
where our digital
conversations leave off
and connecting with
consumers, blurring the
lines between our social
media following and our
actual communities on
the ground.”
— Monica Brouwer, Director of
Experiential Marketing, Casper
(Source: Event Marketer)
DIGITAL BRANDS +
LIVE EXPERIENCES 9
2. Be true to your brand.
Remember, authenticity is mandatory. Brands can’t be shy about transparency –
consumers have an uncanny knack for sensing when there’s something off-brand
about a live experience.
Avoid gimmicks and stunts that may confuse users about what the activation
has to do with your brand, or eclipse your brand identity. In other words, if you
want to achieve greater intimacy with your audience, don’t forget to do you.
PayPal takes the essence of its cashless payment service – helpfulness – and
successfully carries that through to live experiences. Since 2012, PBJS has
partnered with PayPal at the Outside Lands music festival to alleviate common
pain points for festival fans. Activations authentic to the PayPal brand have
enhanced the festival experience in helpful ways, including onsite locker rentals,
a convenience store that benefits charity, games in which everyone’s a winner,
and integration of PayPal POS and mobile sale technology into festival vending.
Year after year, festivalgoers responded by making the PayPal footprint a
mandatory OSL destination. In 2014, the PayPal activation garnered 57.5M+
total social impressions, up 500 percent from 2013, and tent attendance saw a
20 percent lift from the previous year.
3. Leverage brand-enhancing partnerships.
You don’t have to go it alone in the real world. Buddy up with an established
and complementary digital or analog organization to extend your reach
through their positive brand vibes and built-in audience. Just make sure you
partner with a brand that enhances, rather than overshadows, your own. The
goal is to buoy your brand by association, not confuse consumers with an
odd-couple pairing.
Whether listing a Halloween night stay in a Romanian castle (complete
with coffin for sleeping), or Publicis Groupe founder Maurice Lévy’s former
office, Airbnb loves to collaborate to create unique experiences for
its users.
Airbnb partnered with the Art Institute of Chicago – with help from Publicis
Groupe’s Leo Burnett agency – to create Van Gogh BnB, a to-the-brush-stroke
and move-in ready replica of the artist’s “The Bedroom” painting.
During the exhibit featuring all three versions of Van Gogh’s “The Bedroom”
together for the first time, lucky Airbnb users could immerse themselves in
the experience by renting the life-sized copy from “Vincent” for just $10 a
night. By teaming up with the museum, Airbnb got an award-winning
campaign that painted its service in a positive light, while the Art Institute got
a lift in attendance – its highest in 15 years, according to Leo Burnett.
DIGITAL BRANDS +
LIVE EXPERIENCES 10
Image Source: Airbnb.com
Image Source: Creative Commons
4. Offer transformative moments.
Go big or go home, as they say. Getting your brand out there takes
bravery, but elevating a live experience to a transformative level requires
an unwavering commitment to giving customers substantive takeaways.
Beyond taking your digital brand offline and into unexpected territory,
think of what your live experience can offer your audience that results in
truly transformative moments. What can you help customers learn about
the world or themselves while they’re interacting with your brand?
Consider the recent Mozilla-Tactical Tech Collective collaboration in
New York City. The brand behind the Firefox web browser partnered
with the arts organization to open a pop-up tech store, The Glass Room,
on Cyber Monday 2016. Only it wasn’t really a store – it was a
digital-literacy happening.
The slick, minimalist retail space was set up to seem familiar to
unsuspecting visitors, but then offered darkly educational twists on
traditional tech merchandising. The room featured more than 50 art
projects with a mix of mock and real technology. For example, the
“Unfitbit,” by artists Surya Mattu and Tega Brain, is a Fitbit attached to a
metronome that demonstrates how easy it is to fake user data. Meanwhile,
at the “Detox Bar,” Genius-Bar-style experts showed people how to
disconnect from digital services that track their data.
For open-source advocate Mozilla, this is all very in line with their brand,
which strives to educate consumers about their digital choices.
DIGITAL BRANDS +
LIVE EXPERIENCES 11
Image Source: The Glass Room
“[T]here’s an increasing
need, as the internet
grows and we move into
the world of the Internet
of Things ... that people
are more conscious of the
choices they’re making.”
— Mark Surman, Executive
Director, Mozilla Foundation
(Source: FastCoDesign)
LET’S CHAT
LINDSAY ROWE
VP, CLIENT ENGAGEMENT AND STRATEGY
917-935-2524
LINDSAY.ROWE@PBJS.COM
WWW.PBJS.COM
ABOUT PBJS
PBJS is an experiential agency with
offices in New York, Seattle, Chicago
and St. Louis. We are trusted advisors
to clients like Microsoft, Samsung,
Walmart and Citibank. Our ideas
come to life as brand strategies, live
events, digital experiences and video
content – imagined and executed by
our integrated creative and
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Digital Brands & Live Experiences: Connecting with Your Audience IRL

  • 1. March 2017 DIGITAL BRANDS + LIVE EXPERIENCES CONNECTING WITH YOUR AUDIENCE IRL
  • 2. DIGITAL BRANDS + LIVE EXPERIENCES 1 In this paper, we’ll outline and explore: • The cultural landscape digitally native brands inhabit • Consumer, tech and marketing trends • The benefits digital brands can gain through meeting their audiences offline • How digital brands can make meaningful real-life connections When done well, experiential marketing — or more specifically, live experiences — delivers opportunities for consumers to interact with brands in uniquely meaningful ways. For brands with a real-world footprint, live engagement is a no-brainer. But for brands that exist solely in the realm of zeros and ones, connecting with users in real life can seem like a big leap – one digital brands must take if they want to build lasting consumer relationships. Why is now such a critical time for digital brands to add live experiences to their marketing mix? With a fresh awareness of the consequences of ultra-personalized news feed “bubbles,” consumers are grappling with their digital media and product choices. Consumers have a renewed commitment to improving their digital health – and a sense that they’re overdue for a check-up. Perhaps inevitably, this increasing wariness of digital information is affecting our perception of brands we only interact with through our digital devices. The result is an environment where the pull of human, flesh-and-blood experiences is becoming stronger – and digital brands are increasingly seeking opportunities to hybridize their relationships with consumers.
  • 3. DIGITAL BRANDS + LIVE EXPERIENCES 2 THE LAND OF ECHO CHAMBERS & CHATTY BOTS Over the last decade, high consumer demand for personalized products has pushed brands and media channels to serve up meticulously curated experiences. On the one hand, personalization is a must for brands that want to show their customers that they truly understand their needs and wants – and it works. On the other hand, you have the “echo chamber” – a digital bubble where information sources don’t expand, but only reflect personal viewpoints. This phenomenon has recently lead to a backlash against digital media sources (and our Facebook friends) for enabling and producing narrowly targeted user experiences. We have to wonder – is the familiarity that digital brands have worked so hard to cultivate actually starting to breed distrust? Relationship Issues: Why Consumers Swipe Left Digitally native brands – those whose services are accessed via devices instead of physical stores – are able to connect with consumers whenever they fire up an app or log in to a service. Through artificial intelligence, algorithms and predictive interfaces, these brands can deliver the level of immediate, always-on customer service that today’s consumers expect and demand. And with data collected through users’ ongoing interactions, digital brands have a unique advantage in getting to know their audiences – as far as 1-to-1, device-dependent experiences allow, anyway. Have you hugged your chatbot lately? The rise of artificially intelligent chatbots and speech-controlled Internet of Things (IoT) assistants such as Amazon Echo’s Alexa or Google Home signals a shift in the fundamental ways people expect to interact with and receive services from a brand. But even as 2016 saw Facebook Messenger introducing more than 30,000 chatbots and Google scanning romance novels to make its AI more conversational, data still has limits – especially when it comes to evoking human emotion. The friendliest of chatbots or app alerts can be ignored or silenced, or not ask the right questions, leading to a frustrating or dead-end user experience – and perhaps triggering Clippy flashbacks for older generations. Researchers are making advances in machine learning every day, but for now, it still takes a human touch to really get at what consumers are thinking and feeling, and to deliver what they want.
  • 4. DIGITAL BRANDS + LIVE EXPERIENCES 3 Humans: The Missing Link In this climate of fact-check fatigue, Millennial marketing cynicism, a fragmented and oversaturated media landscape, and short attention spans, it’s critical that digital brands get some face time with their audiences in order to build trust and create meaningful relationships. This means offering experiences that put a living, breathing human face on your brand, or finding positive ways to connect your brand to everyday human activities. Live experiences – from pop-up stores to music festival activations – have the power to build trust and convey authenticity, the Holy Grail of B2C engagement. They can also break through the noise and clutter of competing apps and online services, as well as consumers’ algorithm- controlled information and marketing feeds. According to the Mintel North America 2017 Consumer Trends forecast, “Brand disruption is paramount in getting inside of consumers’ echo chambers and making connections with them. Human interaction could prove effective because advice from real people has the benefit of being more trustworthy.” “Artificial intelligence isn’t equipped to deal with more complex or more nuanced situations that customers face on a daily basis. So although it’s perfectly fine to get excited about bots, it’s also critical to remember that the main reason people love messaging is because of the human being on the other end.” (Source: Information Age)
  • 5. DIGITAL BRANDS + LIVE EXPERIENCES 4 Perhaps that’s one reason why digital juggernaut Amazon opened brick-and-mortar bookstores in Seattle, San Diego and Portland, OR. Amazon Books merchandises online bestsellers in a physical store staffed with human booksellers. Although customers can get the same products and weigh user reviews online, here they get real-time human recommendations, plus the chance to not just preview, but flip through an entire book’s pages, before buying. The ability to see and touch the books and devices – and talk to experts – in person offers stronger validation of shoppers’ purchasing decisions. Meanwhile, Amazon Go takes a different tack, proving that emotional connections aren’t just about human interaction, but the promise of instant gratification in a real-world, tech-enabled retail environment. The store’s beta experience, currently located near Amazon’s Seattle HQ, uses so-called “Just Walk Out” technology to allow shoppers to grab what they want from the store’s shelves and then leave without passing through check-out lines. The Amazon Go app tracks user selections and handles transaction charges. While they don’t employ humans, these “driverless” stores are live experiences that put the power of the entire transaction in shoppers’ hands (literally) and still create a positive connection between the consumer and the digital brand. Empathetic Tech FTW In a counterpoint to the automation revolution, French grocery chain Monoprix responded to the launch of Amazon Go with a promo video that parodies the Amazon spot and introduces their own new service. Like Amazon Go shoppers, Monoprix customers can walk out without paying – but they can’t take their groceries with them. Monoprix still employs the services of a checker, who’ll tally your tab after you leave, and then dispatch your groceries for delivery within one hour. So while shoppers don’t have to lug their groceries home, it’s not exactly grab-and-go instant gratification. Nice try, humans. We have to give this point to technology because, as in the case of Amazon Go, it’s hard to argue that automation isn’t pro-human and capable of empathy, despite its impact on human-occupied jobs.
  • 6. DIGITAL BRANDS + LIVE EXPERIENCES 5 THE MEDIA ECHO CHAMBER: THREE FACTORS By the end of 2016, three factors had surfaced as the main architects of consumers’ media bubbles. Algorithmic Bias Human bias is something we as individuals can control, but algorithmic bias – as experienced on Facebook and Instagram – is much harder to opt out of. 31% of U.S. consumers say they use algorithm-driven social media platforms as a news source.1 Fake News (aka Propaganda) It’s every consumer’s responsibility to verify information sources, but deceptive digital media sites are getting smarter about how they fabricate and peddle fake news. 54% of U.S. consumers admit they aren’t always sure if online information is true.1 Post-Truthiness It’s been 10 years since “truthiness” (beliefs based on gut feelings) was named Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year. Thanks to the 2016 election cycle, its close cousin, “post-truth,” earned the same designation from Oxford Dictionaries. Post-truth (adj.): Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.2 1 Mintel North America 2017 Consumer Trends 2 Oxford Dictionaries
  • 7. DIGITAL BRANDS + LIVE EXPERIENCES 6 FOUR BENEFITS OF LIVE EXPERIENCES Taking your digital brand out into the real world has obvious advantages – for one, people crave and enjoy human interaction. But how do live experiences create additional value for your digital business? We’ve identified four key benefits. 1. Following through with always-on expectations. Consumers expect immediate service and results – and as technological advances continue to provide greater convenience, expectations only get higher. Good service is no longer limited to one-off transactions, but extends to ongoing interaction. Digital brands can “be there” 24/7 for their users, but after the transaction ends, where can digital brands go to follow through? To not just continue, but deepen, the conversation? Offline. In the summer of 2014, PBJS helped Microsoft’s Bing in the Classroom safe-search program be there for teachers. We sent the Back-to-School Crew, teams of Microsoft employee volunteers, to 10 schools nationwide to give tech training and troubleshooting presentations to more than 200 teachers. Talks at each school were built around teachers’ top technology needs. The goal of this program was to help teachers and administrators get ready for the new school year while driving brand affinity and adoption. What were the results of Microsoft Bing following through on their brand promise? A much higher grade. Favorability of Bing jumped from 33 to 100 percent among teachers surveyed before and after their involvement in the Back-to-School Crew program. “Moving forward, the approaches most prized by consumers will be hybrid ones that pair the convenience of robots with unsurpassable humanity.” (Source: Mintel)
  • 8. DIGITAL BRANDS + LIVE EXPERIENCES 7 2. Transforming the digital into the tangible. Turn users into loyal fans through hands-on live experiences. By giving consumers opportunities to explore and create through the lens of your brand, you not only create rewarding moments, but also show your audience that your brand is not afraid to be open and inclusive. You know: human. The result of tangible and transparent engagement is more powerful – and memorable – than any digital marketing campaign. “[L]ive events are completing the circle in the marketing journey created around the modern consumer, from the initial brand engagement, all the way to the desired action by the end user.” (Source: Forbes) 3. Learning in the real world. In digital-only transactions, there’s a constant exchange of data between the user and brand, whose actions inform and guide future actions. A PwC study on creating post-transaction customer value defines this as “consumption data,” which may take the form of “statistics on consumption, relevant social alerts and social connections.” This is all very helpful to the user and the brand, of course, and increases the digital product’s value. Live experiences provide similar opportunities to generate and learn from real-world consumption data that go beyond online comments and reviews. It’s a win-win for consumers and digital brands. Being empowered to share in-person customer feedback naturally changes how people feel about a brand, and can help a brand shape future transactions and product innovations. 4. Expanding 1-to-1 into 1-to-many reach. Live experiences also have the benefit of transforming solely 1-to-1 digital relationships, where the user is only interacting with the brand via her personal device, into 1-to-many social amplification opportunities that embrace potential new users. Attendee bonus: live experiences provide social sharing opportunities for attendees that will amplify a brand’s message, potentially recruiting new users. According to the Event Marketer 2016 Event Track report, 98 percent of consumers create digital content at branded events — and 100 percent share it with their social networks. 72% of consumers say they positively view brands that provide quality event content opportunities and experiences. 74% say engaging with branded live marketing experiences makes them more likely to buy the products being promoted. (Source: Event Marketer)
  • 9. DIGITAL BRANDS + LIVE EXPERIENCES 8 FOUR WAYS DIGITAL BRANDS CAN MAKE LASTING IMPRESSIONS IRL These four tactics can be applied by any brand. However, they’re especially important for digital brands attempting to create an authentic and memorable real-world presence – even if it’s just for a moment. 1. Listen and be present. As in any good relationship, it’s important to take the time to listen. For digital brands, listening is easy. But turning user habits and feedback into meaningful two-way conversations is more of a challenge when you’re only interacting via digital channels. As with any online romance, you’re eventually going to want to meet your brand’s paramours in real life. On-demand online mattress retailer Casper understands that live experiences are an essential step in the brand relationship. One Casper activation, the Snooze Bar, put pop-up showrooms in several cities to let customers test the merchandise while sipping cocktails and having artists draw interpretations of their dreams (agency: Preacher). Their mobile Nap Tour took the brand’s quirky personality further, parking a “napmobile” on city streets and inviting passersby inside for some impromptu shut-eye (agency: MKG). Each of these experiences used what Casper had already learned about their target customers through digital data to create in-person engagements that continued the brand conversation in authentic ways. Image Source: Casper “Experiential marketing in general is really important to Casper because we’re interested in picking up where our digital conversations leave off and connecting with consumers, blurring the lines between our social media following and our actual communities on the ground.” — Monica Brouwer, Director of Experiential Marketing, Casper (Source: Event Marketer)
  • 10. DIGITAL BRANDS + LIVE EXPERIENCES 9 2. Be true to your brand. Remember, authenticity is mandatory. Brands can’t be shy about transparency – consumers have an uncanny knack for sensing when there’s something off-brand about a live experience. Avoid gimmicks and stunts that may confuse users about what the activation has to do with your brand, or eclipse your brand identity. In other words, if you want to achieve greater intimacy with your audience, don’t forget to do you. PayPal takes the essence of its cashless payment service – helpfulness – and successfully carries that through to live experiences. Since 2012, PBJS has partnered with PayPal at the Outside Lands music festival to alleviate common pain points for festival fans. Activations authentic to the PayPal brand have enhanced the festival experience in helpful ways, including onsite locker rentals, a convenience store that benefits charity, games in which everyone’s a winner, and integration of PayPal POS and mobile sale technology into festival vending. Year after year, festivalgoers responded by making the PayPal footprint a mandatory OSL destination. In 2014, the PayPal activation garnered 57.5M+ total social impressions, up 500 percent from 2013, and tent attendance saw a 20 percent lift from the previous year.
  • 11. 3. Leverage brand-enhancing partnerships. You don’t have to go it alone in the real world. Buddy up with an established and complementary digital or analog organization to extend your reach through their positive brand vibes and built-in audience. Just make sure you partner with a brand that enhances, rather than overshadows, your own. The goal is to buoy your brand by association, not confuse consumers with an odd-couple pairing. Whether listing a Halloween night stay in a Romanian castle (complete with coffin for sleeping), or Publicis Groupe founder Maurice Lévy’s former office, Airbnb loves to collaborate to create unique experiences for its users. Airbnb partnered with the Art Institute of Chicago – with help from Publicis Groupe’s Leo Burnett agency – to create Van Gogh BnB, a to-the-brush-stroke and move-in ready replica of the artist’s “The Bedroom” painting. During the exhibit featuring all three versions of Van Gogh’s “The Bedroom” together for the first time, lucky Airbnb users could immerse themselves in the experience by renting the life-sized copy from “Vincent” for just $10 a night. By teaming up with the museum, Airbnb got an award-winning campaign that painted its service in a positive light, while the Art Institute got a lift in attendance – its highest in 15 years, according to Leo Burnett. DIGITAL BRANDS + LIVE EXPERIENCES 10 Image Source: Airbnb.com Image Source: Creative Commons
  • 12. 4. Offer transformative moments. Go big or go home, as they say. Getting your brand out there takes bravery, but elevating a live experience to a transformative level requires an unwavering commitment to giving customers substantive takeaways. Beyond taking your digital brand offline and into unexpected territory, think of what your live experience can offer your audience that results in truly transformative moments. What can you help customers learn about the world or themselves while they’re interacting with your brand? Consider the recent Mozilla-Tactical Tech Collective collaboration in New York City. The brand behind the Firefox web browser partnered with the arts organization to open a pop-up tech store, The Glass Room, on Cyber Monday 2016. Only it wasn’t really a store – it was a digital-literacy happening. The slick, minimalist retail space was set up to seem familiar to unsuspecting visitors, but then offered darkly educational twists on traditional tech merchandising. The room featured more than 50 art projects with a mix of mock and real technology. For example, the “Unfitbit,” by artists Surya Mattu and Tega Brain, is a Fitbit attached to a metronome that demonstrates how easy it is to fake user data. Meanwhile, at the “Detox Bar,” Genius-Bar-style experts showed people how to disconnect from digital services that track their data. For open-source advocate Mozilla, this is all very in line with their brand, which strives to educate consumers about their digital choices. DIGITAL BRANDS + LIVE EXPERIENCES 11 Image Source: The Glass Room “[T]here’s an increasing need, as the internet grows and we move into the world of the Internet of Things ... that people are more conscious of the choices they’re making.” — Mark Surman, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation (Source: FastCoDesign)
  • 13. LET’S CHAT LINDSAY ROWE VP, CLIENT ENGAGEMENT AND STRATEGY 917-935-2524 LINDSAY.ROWE@PBJS.COM WWW.PBJS.COM ABOUT PBJS PBJS is an experiential agency with offices in New York, Seattle, Chicago and St. Louis. We are trusted advisors to clients like Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart and Citibank. Our ideas come to life as brand strategies, live events, digital experiences and video content – imagined and executed by our integrated creative and production talents.