Social Marketing for Publishers Designing Engagement that Drives Circulation

Xochi Adamé, Digital Marketing + Social Business Strategist

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1. Where are magazines successfully engaging consumers on the social web?

2. Engagement is great, but how are magazines driving subscriptions in these social networks?

3. What strategies should I develop to increase subscribers?

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1. Build out your buyer personas

2. Monitor social conversations

3. Cross-promote your networks

4. Measure engagement and growth

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Car & Driver Cosmopolitan ELLE Esquire Good Housekeeping

Seventeen

Facebook Likes

1,225 440 507 167 44 824

Facebook Comments

123 39 22 21 15 49

Facebook Shares

124 32 34 22 5 18

Facebook Clicks

1,744 3,345 909 503 183 1,484

Twitter RTs

6 22 13 5 0 2

Twitter Clicks

419 1,435 91 285 30 100

Average engagement generated per post (includes editorial and consumer marketing):

Engagement varies broadly across brands and networks

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Car & Driver Cosmopolitan ELLE Esquire Good Housekeeping

Seventeen

Facebook Likes

49 289 298 68 15 1,005

Facebook Comments

0 33 9 8 4 22

Facebook Shares

3 32 15 6 2 41

Facebook Clicks

215 2,186 756 185 114 1,736

Twitter RTs

1 4 16 6 1 0

Twitter Clicks

236 222 49 668 78 2

Average engagement generated per consumer marketing post:

Consumer marketing messaging receives considerably less engagement

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Post Content

vs. Sweeps Page Views

Sub Signups

You've still got time to enter our "Good Life Giveaway Sweepstakes"...don't miss out on your chance to be one of five lucky readers to win $100. http://goodhousekeeping.com/sweepstakes/25866

Sweeps 927 24

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Sweeps 697 19

5 tell-tale signs a man is cheating: http://cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/relationship-advice/how-to-tell-if-a-guy-is-cheating

Content 57,307 18

Enter to win "Hair Color for a Year," complete with a one-year supply of hair color, color-safe shampoo, conditioner and color-enhancement treatment. What color would you dye your hair? http://womansday.com/sweepstakes/25471

Sweeps 349 18

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Sweeps 561 15

Enter for a chance to win a stylish Lenovo Aqua Blue Ultrabook IdeaPad laptop! http://womansday.com/sweepstakes/25541

Sweeps 861 13

RT for a chance to win this @VictoriasSecret runway makeup kit! #freeVSswag (Rules: http://cosmopolitan.com/victoria-secret-fashion-show-sweepstakes-official-rules-clone-1354660042 )

Sweeps 4,544 12

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Content 99,174 10

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Content 84,794 10

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Content 58,441 10

Top 10 Posts that Drove New Subscriptions

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Post Page

Views Sub

Signups

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Give 2 gifts for the price of 1 a limited time only! https://subscribe.hearstmags.com/subscribe/harpersbazaar/119815?source=fb

401 1

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Subscribe to House Beautiful and you could win a Mediterranean towel set. Details here: http://www.housebeautiful.com/sweepstakes/25395

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A subscription to Popular Mechanics makes a great stocking stuffer. https://subscribe.hearstmags.com/subscribe/popularmechanics/119794?source=fb

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Subscribe today and give a gift for free! https://subscribe.hearstmags.com/subscribe/harpersbazaar/119815?source=twitter

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Top 10 CTA Posts that Contained the Word “Subscribe”

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• Editorial posts drove considerably more engagement than consumer marketing (CM) posts

• Status updates ranked lowest, with photo and video updates ranking highest, among both editorial and CM posts

• Direct CTAs to subscribe

performed worst among CM posts

• Comments on direct CTAs to

subscribe tend to be questions and complaints pertaining to subscriptions or cover art, or from excited fans who already have the issue

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• All top-performing CM posts referenced contests

• Contests link to trial subscription pages as the sweepstakes entry

• Top-performing CM posts maintained brand voice, whereas worst-performing posts adopted a marketing tone and/or hard sell

• “Like this” calls to action generated the greatest engagement among CM posts

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• Install Twitter Cards for site content

• Include photos, videos and links in tweets

• Photo/video tweets get 4-5x the engagement

• “RT” calls to action generated

the greatest engagement among CM posts

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Seventeen – Bring Me to 1D

• No. 1 post that drove most engagement and subscriptions

• Top performing FB post: "Like this post if you wish you could meet Zayn in person! Click here to enter for your chance to meet him (plus the rest of 1D!!) >> [url]”

• Top performing tweet: "Retweet this if you want to meet @onedirection! Enter the Bring Me to 1D sweeps here: [url]”

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Cosmopolitan – How to Tell if a Guy is Cheating

• Results: 57,307 click-thrus and 18 new subscribers

• Social media post: “5 tell-tale signs a man is cheating: [URL]”

• Editorial/content landing pages incorporate ads

• Content/editorial post that drove the most subscriptions

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• Focus on editorial content for greatest engagement

• Pin-to-Win contests link to subscription pages

• DIY pins link to content pages with embedded subscription banner ads or widgets

EDITORIAL

CONTESTS

COVERS

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• Custom Facebook tabs not successful

• Facebook ads using 8th Bridge social shopping solution not successful

• Facebook-sponsored ads had limited success

– Social Advertising

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• Facebook Gifts showing promise –plans to double up during holiday season

• Facebook Offers show greatest success to date

• Facebook Custom

Audiences, Saved Target Groups, Lookalike Audiences and Power Editor

– Social Advertising

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#1: Design Media-rich Creative Content for Editorial and Sweepstakes that Link to Subscriptions Pages

• Focus on interactive, shareworthy experiences

• Harness the short-form explosion

• Design engaging storytelling campaigns

• Create mix of content mediums for each campaign

• Always speak in the brand’s voice, never in a marketing tone

"Magazines need to abandon the write-read model [for digital content] for an inspire-connect strategy." – Troy Young, President of Hearst Magazines Digital Media

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#2 Build Influencer Marketing Strategies for Editorial and Sweepstakes Campaigns

• Experts and trendsetters whose loyal audiences are composed of your ideal consumers

• Identify and court your niche’s influencers

• Awareness, crisis mitigation,

audience insight • Incentivize influencers and brand

advocates (not on payroll) • Traackr and Klout for Business

“In this highly social web, information travels like waves. These waves are created by people who

generate content and build followings.

A subset of these people create stronger

waves than others.”

– Traackr

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“You cannot trust algorithms alone. Regardless of the tool you use, you must add a layer of human analysis and investigation to verify the Lists and to ensure the results you’re working with are legitimate influencers in the space. And, of course, none of these tools will do your outreach for you.” – Jason Falls Leading digital marketing strategist, bestselling author of No Bullshit Social Media and The Rebel's Guide to Email Marketing

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• Miley appealed to her 13,197,465 fan base on Twitter

• More than14,000 RTs, 6,000 faves and 1,000 replies to the @Cosmopolitan handle of Miley-related content, and 34,000 mentions of #MileyCosmo hashtag

• 19,000 new Twitter followers in 3 days (more than double normal rate)

• More than 90 million total impressions

Cosmopolitan – Miley Cyrus Influencer Campaign

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#3 Increase User-generated (UGC) and Co-created Mobile Content to Inspire High-volume Engagement in Sweeps and Editorial

• Brands are now co-created

• Overwhelming content volume needed

• UGC = awareness, loyalty, credibility

• Harness the mobile app explosion iTunes: 48K photo apps 33K video apps 3K editor apps

• 2016: 1.5 billion online video users

• 2017: Mobile video will be two-thirds global mobile traffic

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Xochi (sōchē) Adamé xadame@cds-global.com @xochiadame