Heading into 2013, David Meerman Scott predicted that marketing campaigns as they are typically known would change, but acknowledged that change is difficult. "The old model of marketing built on a company timeline doesn't work so well, but after decades of 'campaigns' planned way in advance, it's difficult for marketers to change a mindset based on speed." Planning out campaigns with a beginning and end, and then analysis of the effectiveness of the campaign, was no longer appropriate. It's simply not how consumers operate in today's economy based upon instant everything and millions of choices.
At dmexco 2013 - one of the largest digital marketing conferences of the year - MediaCom's EMEA CEO Nick Lawson admitted that, while interest in real time marketing continued to spike, universal adoption has been slow. Apparently, it's not easy to react in the moment as a marketer.
But, as Meerman Scott predicted, real time marketing did make huge strides in 2013. Remember the infamous Oreo cookie Tweet during the Super Bowl blackout? During the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII when a power outage at the Superdome caused some of the lights to go out for 34 minutes, the sandwich cookie’s social media team jumped on the cultural moment, tweeting an ad that read “Power Out? No problem” with a starkly-lit image of a solitary Oreo and the caption, “You can still dunk in the dark.”
The message caught on almost immediately, getting nearly 15,000 retweets and more than 20,000 likes on Facebook – not quite Beyoncé halftime show numbers, but pretty impressive for a one-off joke made by a cookie. And IBM's Global Report on the state of marketing showed that half of all marketers used real-time tactics on social media.
Real time marketing hasn't usurped campaign based marketing, but it is definitely "in" and here to stay. This has important influences on Artists because we are uniquely positioned to market to fans in real time - at the moment. And since they have their phones with them, mobile is the perfect device to reach out to fans in their "moment of inspiration" to connect with fans and market to them.
Think about that during your 2014 shows.
At dmexco 2013 - one of the largest digital marketing conferences of the year - MediaCom's EMEA CEO Nick Lawson admitted that, while interest in real time marketing continued to spike, universal adoption has been slow. Apparently, it's not easy to react in the moment as a marketer.
But, as Meerman Scott predicted, real time marketing did make huge strides in 2013. Remember the infamous Oreo cookie Tweet during the Super Bowl blackout? During the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII when a power outage at the Superdome caused some of the lights to go out for 34 minutes, the sandwich cookie’s social media team jumped on the cultural moment, tweeting an ad that read “Power Out? No problem” with a starkly-lit image of a solitary Oreo and the caption, “You can still dunk in the dark.”
The message caught on almost immediately, getting nearly 15,000 retweets and more than 20,000 likes on Facebook – not quite Beyoncé halftime show numbers, but pretty impressive for a one-off joke made by a cookie. And IBM's Global Report on the state of marketing showed that half of all marketers used real-time tactics on social media.
Real time marketing hasn't usurped campaign based marketing, but it is definitely "in" and here to stay. This has important influences on Artists because we are uniquely positioned to market to fans in real time - at the moment. And since they have their phones with them, mobile is the perfect device to reach out to fans in their "moment of inspiration" to connect with fans and market to them.
Think about that during your 2014 shows.
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