If you want to fail, assume there is an audience
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Presentation takes a deliberately provocative stance and is a personal view – there is after all, no official ‘philosophy’ about anything at Wieden+Kennedy – but it is my belief that our task as communicators is not merely nurturing enthusiasm, but overcoming indifference. For most people don’t care that much about our output. Brands and their communications just don’t matter that much to most people.
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- 1. HOW TO + (NOT) FAIL WIEDEN+KENNEDY AMSTERDAM
- 2. OR:
- 3. WHY THERE IS NO AUDIENCE FOR WHAT WE MAKE
- 4. AND WHY THAT TRUTH WILL SET US FREE
- 5. THIS IS THE LANGUAGE OF MARKETING...
- 6. ‘AUDIENCE’
- 7. ‘FANS’
- 8. ‘COMMITMENT’
- 10. ‘ENGAGEMENT’
- 11. ‘LOVE’
- 12. IT’S THE LANGUAGE OF CONSUMERS GIVING A SHIT
- 13. ALL RHETORIC NO EVIDENCE
- 14. SO IF YOU WANT TO FAIL DO THIS...
- 15. ASSUME THAT PEOPLE CARE ABOUT BRANDS
- 16. ASSUME THAT PEOPLE WANT TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR BRAND
- 17. ASSUME THAT YOUR FANS ARE YOUR MOST VALUABLE CONSUMER
- 18. ASSUME THAT EVERYONE WANTS TO PARTICIPATE
- 19. ASSUME THAT PEOPLE WILL FIND YOUR CONTENT
- 20. ASSUME THAT DEPTH IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN BREADTH
- 21. WHAT?
- 22. MOST PEOPLE DON’T CARE THAT MUCH ABOUT BRANDS
- 23. “Welcome to the Domestos Germ buster app. Play the germ buster game to destroy those ‘menacing nasties’ that lurk in your home and learn about the benefits of Domestos over thin bleach.”
- 24. MOST PEOPLE DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE BRAND THEY BUY
- 25. 50% OF ALL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT A BRAND IS HELD BY JUST 20% OF ITS BUYERS SOURCE: JENNI ROMANUIK, BYRON SHARP: ‘WHERE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR BRAND RESIDES: THE PARETO SHARE OF BRAND KNOWLEDGE’, REPORT 44 FOR CORPORATE SPONSORS, 2008, EHRENBERG-BASS INSTITUTE FOR MARKETING SCIENCE
- 26. 80% OF A BRAND’S BUYERS KNOW A LITTLE OR NOTHING ABOUT THAT BRAND SOURCE: JENNI ROMANUIK, BYRON SHARP: ‘WHERE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR BRAND RESIDES: THE PARETO SHARE OF BRAND KNOWLEDGE’, REPORT 44 FOR CORPORATE SPONSORS, 2008, EHRENBERG-BASS INSTITUTE FOR MARKETING SCIENCE
- 27. “ ALMOST EVERY APP BUILT FOR A BRAND ON FACEBOOK HAS PRACTICALLY NO USAGE... HEAVY, ‘IMMERSIVE’ EXPERIENCES ARE NOT HOW PEOPLE ENGAGE AND INTERACT WITH BRANDS... HEAVYWEIGHT EXPERIENCES WILL FAIL BECAUSE THEY DON’T MAP TO REAL LIFE.” PAUL ADAMS, GLOBAL HEAD OF BRAND DESIGN AT FACEBOOK
- 28. 0.5% PROPORTION OF FANS TALKING ABOUT A BRAND ON FACEBOOK SOURCE: KAREN NELSON-FIELD & JENNIFER TAYLOR, ‘FACEBOOK FANS: A FAN FOR LIFE?’, ADMAP, MAY 2012
- 29. PEOPLE DON’T HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR BRAND
- 30. THE VAST MAJORITY OF CONSUMERS HAVE MULTIPLE PARTNERS
- 31. 72% OF PEPSI DRINKERS ALSO DRINK COCA-COLA SOURCE: TNS IMPULSE PANEL (UK)
- 32. ‘YOUR CONSUMERS’ ARE JUST SOMEBODY ELSE’S CONSUMERS WHO OCCASIONALLY BUY YOU
- 33. HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS DEMAND MASSIVE PROCESSING POWER
- 34. 100 BILLION NEURONS WITH ROUGHLY ONE MILLION BILLION CONNECTIONS EACH FIRING AT 10 TIMES PER SECOND
- 35. RELATIONSHIPS ARE A MATTER OF LIFEAND DEATH
- 36. PEOPLE WITH STRONG SOCIAL NETWORKS LIVE LONGER SOURCE: GILES, GLONEK, LUSZCZ, ANDREWS, ‘EFFECT OF SOCIAL NETWORKS ON 10 YEAR SURVIVAL IN VERY OLD AUSTRALIANS: THE AUSTRALIAN LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF AGING’, J EPIDEMIOL COMMUNITY HEALTH 2005;59:574-579
- 37. COMPARED WITH HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS BRAND RELATIONSHIPS ARE THIN
- 38. “MOST OF US GO THROUGH LIFE FINDING IT HARD ENOUGH TO HAVE GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE REAL PEOPLE IN OUR LIFE LET ALONE ALL THE BRANDS WE BUY.” BRUCE MCCOLL, GLOBAL CMO, MARS
- 39. WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?
- 40. YOUR FANS ARE NOT YOUR MOST VALUABLE CONSUMER
- 41. THIS IS 000’s of HHs buying FRUCTIS 12300 9225 6150 3075 0 1x 2x 3x 4x 5x 6x 7x 8x 9x ANNUAL PURCHASE FREQUENCY SOURCE: NIELSEN
- 42. THIS IS WHAT IT NEEDS TO DO TO LOOK 000’s of HHs buying LIKE PANTENE 12300 9225 6150 3075 0 1x 2x 3x 4x 5x 6x 7x 8x 9x ANNUAL PURCHASE FREQUENCY SOURCE: NIELSEN
- 43. 000’s of HHs buying 12300 9225 FANS 6150 3075 0 1x 2x 3x 4x 5x 6x 7x 8x 9x ANNUAL PURCHASE FREQUENCY SOURCE: NIELSEN
- 44. YOUR BRAND’S HEALTH DEPENDS ON LOTS PEOPLE WHO DON’T KNOW YOU WELL DON’T THINK OF YOU MUCH AND DON’T BUY YOU OFTEN IF AT ALL
- 45. THESE CONSUMERS GENERATE PUBLICITY NOT REVENUE
- 46. DISTINGUISH BETWEEN ACTORS AND THE THE AUDIENCE
- 47. MOST PEOPLE DON’T WANT TO PARTICIPATE
- 48. PASSIVE CONSUMPTION IS NOT DEAD
- 49. 6.4bn hrs. Aggregate consumption year to May 2011 182m hrs. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn TV SOURCE: DELOITTE/BARB AND UKCOM/NIELSEN, UK
- 50. OF 200 BRANDS STUDIED ONLY ONE SHOWED A LEVEL OF ENGAGEMENT OVER 2% source: Karen Nelson-Field & Jennifer Taylor, ‘Facebook fans: A fan for life?’, Admap, May 2012
- 51. PEOPLE’S DIGITAL PARTICIPATION IS WITH EACH OTHER
- 52. 20% 60% 17% PASSIVE EASY INTENSE 44% INITIATION FRIENDS, FAMILY & PHOTOS TV, ENTERTAINMENT & LIFESTYLE SOURCE: BBC
- 53. JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE PARTICIPATING WITH EACH OTHER DOESN’T MEAN THEY WILL PARTICIPATE WITH BRANDS
- 54. MASS REACTION MATTERS MORE THAN MASS PARTICIPATION
- 55. PEOPLE WILL NOT FIND YOUR CONTENT
- 56. 1 IN 1,000,000 ODDS OF A PERSON VIEWING YOUR CONTENT ON YOUTUBE SOURCE: WISTIA.COM
- 57. 0.9% AVERAGE CLICK THROUGH RATE SOURCE: ADVERTISING RESEARCH FOUNDATION
- 58. 4,875 PIECES OF CONTENT THE AVERAGE FACEBOOK USER RECEIVES EVERY DAY SOURCE: FACEBOOK
- 59. OVERLOOKED CONTENT SOURCE: YOUTUBE
- 60. UNTIL PUBLICIZED SOURCE: YOUTUBE
- 61. DEPTH IS NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN BREADTH
- 62. BRANDS DEPEND ON BIG, BROAD POPULATIONS 12300 9225 6150 3075 0 1x 2x 3x 4x 5x 6x 7x 8x 9x ANNUAL PURCHASE FREQUENCY
- 63. THE BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BIG AND SMALL BRANDS IS NOT HOW MUCH LOYALTY THEY GET BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE BUY THEM
- 64. ‘ENGAGEMENT’ HASN’T REPLACED REACH
- 65. SO...
- 66. MUCH OF WHAT WE MAKE IS NOT VITAL BUT TRIVIAL
- 67. MUCH OF WHAT WE MAKE IS NOT VITAL BUT INCIDENTAL
- 68. INCIDENTAL TO THIS:
- 87. ORDINARY AWFUL AWESOME EVERYDAY LIFE
- 88. THERE IS NO AUDIENCE FOR WHAT WE MAKE
- 89. OUR TASK IS NOT NURTURING ENTHUSIASM BUT OVERCOMING INDIFFERENCE
- 90. THIS SHOULD INSPIRE NOT DEPRESS US
- 91. ALL CREATIVITY DEMANDS RESISTANCE
- 92. AND OVERCOMING INDIFFERENCE DEMANDS AWESOME
- 93. BE PART OF WHAT INTERESTS PEOPLE
- 94. GIVE MORE THAN YOU TAKE
- 95. TAKE A POSITION DON’T JUST HAVE ‘A POSITIONING’
- 96. “JUST MOVE ME, DUDE” DAN WIEDEN
- 97. + @mweigel martin.weigel@wk.com wkamst.com