How can you analyze what people are sharing and engaging with on Facebook? Up until recently this was not possible, but now it is with Facebook Topic Data.
In this presentation we'll cover what this means for the world of marketing (and doing business in general). We’ll also cover ways you can analyze Facebook Topic data – and turn it into actionable intelligence – through Sysomos Scout.
5. Marketers Are Making Big Investments in Facebook
1 BILLION+
DAILY ACTIVE USERS
PEOPLE SPEND
46 MINS/DAY
ON FACEBOOK (1)
50M+
SME BUSINESSES
WITH ACTIVE
FACEBOOK PAGES
2.5M+
ACTIVE ADVERTISERS
$5.6B Q415
AD REVENUES
GROWING 57% YoY
Source: Facebook Q4 2015 Earnings Report (1) Facebook, Messenger, Instagram.
6. Don’t Settle for Partial Insights
Without Facebook topic data you only get a glimpse of what is possible!
7. Topic Data Unlocks Unique Insights for Marketers
DATASIFT + FACEBOOK Partnership FACEBOOK TOPIC DATA
ENGAGEMENT ACROSS FACEBOOK
16. What Targets Are Available for Analysis in Scout?
Age Ranges: 18-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64, 65+, unknown
Author Type Fan page or user page
Country Breakdown by country
Gender Breakdown by gender
Hashtags Find out what the top hashtags used are
Interaction Type Story, comment, like, share, or re-share
Links Top links shared around a topic
Media Type Post, photo, share, link, video, or note
Top Topics “Top Topics” and related topics (determined by Facebook)
Sentiment Sentiment of posts (determined by Facebook)
This different
“Targets” are ways
users can filter
reports and can be
“stacked together”
like top links from
women in the UK
18. Sysomos Scout Capabilities: Unlock Unique Insights
Brand • Product Content • Links Industry • Topic Audience
Brand Analytics Content & Media
Analysis
Industry & Topic
Research
Market Research to
Inform Creative &
CampaignsBrand Reputation
Management
Campaign Analysis
Competitive Analysis
Influential Media Analysis
Topic Analysis
Content Discovery
Industry Benchmarking
Topic-Specific Analysis
Vertical Applications (e.g.
TV)
Creative & Campaign
Design
Audience Affinity Analysis
Audience
Discovery/Expansion
19. Sysomos Scout will support any use case that does
not rely on the specific identity of the individual,
including, but not limited to:
• Market Research
• Creative Content Optimization
• Reputation Management
• Share of Voice
• Measuring Customer Satisfaction
• Demand Forecasting
• Risk Management
• Resource Allocation
Sysomos Scout data provides secondary support to
use cases such as influencer identification and
customer service by providing the big picture
behind the individual-level interactions.
…Across Your Organization
BRAND HEALTH
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
MARKETING OPTIMIZATION
OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY
REVENUE GENERATIONINNOVATION
20. Use Case:
Content Validation
• Weight loss company assumes target
audience is middle-aged women
• Turned to Scout to validate claim, learning
engagement is being lead by men
• Used this insight to retarget their campaign to
appeal to both men and women
21. Use Case: Display Ads
• Game developer is about to launch a new game
• Using Sysomos Scout, they identify the sources (YouTube
Blogs, etc.) being shared most often by their target
demographic when interacting around a competitor
• Use this information to sponsor the same channels with
targeted influencers and display advertising to push the
launch of the new game
Human created data continues to accelerate as seen through the enormous growth in social networks such as Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr and others. However, gaining insights into this data is hugely challenging due to the unstructured nature of the data, the massive scale and speed at which the data is created and the fact that in many cases privacy regulation and terms of service often dictate how and when this data can be used and applied by businesses.
And Facebook’s own numbers are showing the results. Facebook continues to out grow the competition off of an already massive base. The numbers here speak for themselves in terms of both the audience on Facebook as well as the breadth of sharing and spending taking place.
According to a recent eMarketer report Facebook is now making up 65% of total social ad spend and is out growing the competition.
If you are not taking Facebook into account you are missing the majority of how and what people are engaging with on social.
There literally is no other place on the planet that is growing as quickly and is as high a priority for your customers.
Pages and Ads APIs are built for specific purposes and do not give full picture.
Facebook topic data gives full picture in privacy safe way
So how does topic data stack-up against other API’s like Facebook Pages? Have a look at this comparison for an automotive brand over a 7 day period. While many “fans” and customers will interact with a brand page the vast majority of sharing and engagement is done via the news feed. If I am going to rave or rant about my car I am way more likely to simply share it with my friends then go to the vendor’s page and post directly to them.
So how is Facebook different from other social networks in terms of finding and understanding your audience?
Facebook topic data is a rich multi-dimensional data set containing 1,000s of ways to create insights and add value to the data. The dimensionality you see here on the slide plus numbers other data attributes enables new ways of not only analyzing brands, but understanding industries, competitors and baselines against the general public. With full visibility into hashtags, links and topics and the demographics of people engaging with them, building new verticalized products, automating trend detection, or any variety of other use cases provide endless new possibilities. We are confident that once you understand topic data and the programmable nature of our platform you will find ways to build new solutions never contemplated before.
In order to provide insights into what people are sharing and engaging with across Facebook we have partnered with the Facebook team on an entirely new privacy-first approach.
All of the findings and analysis from topic data happen on the individual posts, comments and shares inside Facebook, only aggregate results about demographics, location, links, hashtags and other standard and custom defined attributes are returned. This ensures user privacy is protected.
As you can see we’ve taken great care to ensure the results are kept anonymous including: User Identity being removed before processing, keeping all detailed data inside Facebook’s data centers, ensuring only results that are over a minimum audience size are returned and only storing data for a defined period. All of this ensures we meet the high expectations of privacy from people on Facebook.
The foundation of topic data is the underlying posts and engagements made on Facebook. When we aggregate the information we enable customers to gain insights into the audience engaging around the brand, industry, topic or event they define including drilling into the links, hashtags and topics they are sharing. Starting in October we will also enable you to see a sample of verbatim text from public posts to further help you validate your insights and filter criteria so you can have complete confidence in your findings.
In order to deliver Facebook topic data we have innovated a platform that runs inside Facebook’s firewall and delivers results to you for analysis.
This solution provides real-time updates every time you query the index so you can keep the analytics and analysis being run current for each one of your customers.
1 • FILTER
Each customer defines their specific filter based on their criteria.
2 • CATEGORIZE
Filtered data can be classified with customer-specific rules.
3 • INDEX
Filtered and categorized data is indexed into a real-time analysis engine.
4 • QUERY
The Index is sub-queried and further processed using CSDL against 60+ fields.
5 • ANALYZE & VISUALIZE
Aggregated and anonymized data returned for developers to create applications, analysis and visualizations.
Which brings us to Sysomos Scout, the product we have created to maximize the impact from this valuable data.
Display ad and content validation
What do people think of our campaign?
Who is interacting most with my campaign?
Is the creative resonating with my target audience?
What other topics are being discussed along side my campaign?