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Issue 1 - February 2013



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Mobile retargeting                         Email marketing messages                               Tour of ‘tech cities’




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                                                 Contents
                                                 Mobile retargeting: The modern marketer’s
                                                 dream comes true in 2013                      04
                                                 People prefer marketing messages by
                                                 mail and email                                07

                                                 Take a tour of ‘tech cities’                  10

                                                 Trend-spotting redux By Doug Sacks             13

                                                 Careful steps on foreign soil                 16

                                                 Carry yourself with style                     19


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Mobile
retargeting:
The modern marketer’s
dream comes true in 2013
By Simon Wajcenberg




N    inety-five per cent of users leave a
     website without making a transaction,
but once retargeted, they are 70 per cent
                                               consumers on desktop for some years, with
                                               much success. Now, new technology means
                                               that this success can be translated to the
more likely to complete a purchase. Simon      growing brigade of mobile shoppers. 2013 is
Wajcenberg explores how, with 75 per cent      going to see mobile retargeting seriously
of the world’s population now having           taking off.
access to a mobile device, the opportunities      The speed of mobile’s crusade against the
offered by retargeting on mobile are going      PC has been so rapid that many marketers
to turn the mobile marketing myth into a       have been left reeling. But, while the web
reality this year.                             took 15 years to disrupt everything, it has
   Retargeting – the ability to get back the   only taken the smartphone five. During these
98% of shoppers who look but don’t buy or      five short years 45% of all American adults
the 60% who leave their shopping basket        have acquired a smartphone and 18% a
agonisingly full but fail to checkout – has    tablet. These figures are only set to rise:
finally come of age for mobile.                 Analysts are predicting that in two years, 90%
   Advertisers have been able to retarget      of mobile users will own a smartphone.


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New technology, enhanced opportunity            Advantages of retargeting and mobile
M-commerce – the purchasing of products         provide real ROI for advertisers
on smartphones and tablets – is booming, as     So, while adhering to the highest privacy
all the sales figures over the holiday season    standards, mobile retargeting enables
2012 proved. We found that clickthrough         advertisers to re-engage consumers who
rates on mobile ads rose 23% over Black         have previously shown an interest but never
Friday and Cyber Monday in contrast to a        actually committed. In fact, it is estimated
five per cent rise in clickthrough rates         that just two per cent of online shoppers
on desktop ads over the same period.            make a purchase on their first visit to an e-
Importantly, we have found that retargeted      commerce site. With mobile retargeting,
mobile ad campaigns generate, on average,       marketers can take advantage of location
an impressive 40% conversion rate from          tracking and RTB, to retarget relevant ads at
previously abandoned leads.                     the right time and place, to the right
   Until now, mobile retargeting has been       audience and on the right device.
impossible due to strict mobile privacy            The hard facts are that now brands can
regulations. However, there is now new          target and retarget mobile users in 220
mobile retargeting technology that has been     countries resulting in a potential 60 billion
developed in compliance with privacy            monthly impressions. And at Clash, we
regulations. It securely maps anonymously       charge on a results only basis, so ROI is
held keys to a given user. Supporting this      further increased.
technology are five servers handling 85
million user records and processing             Simon Wajcenberg is global CEO, Clash
thousands of queries per second, per server,    Group – the major New York and London-
at an average query time of five milliseconds.   based full service digital media company.




Analysts are predicting that
in two years, 90% of mobile
users will own a smartphone.

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People prefer marketing messages by

mail and email
David Cole dissects the information gleaned
from the latest fast.MAP Marketing-GAP Report.




E   mail and direct mail continue to run neck
    and neck in the favourite-marketing-
contact-route stakes; holding their own
                                                   These findings are included in the August
                                                8, 2012, wave of the influential fast.MAP
                                                Marketing-GAP Report – sponsored by
against all newcomers, according to new         MarketReach, part of Royal Mail and in
research.                                       partnership with the Institute of Sales
   People prefer to hear about some subjects    Promotion (ISP) and Institute of Direct
by email, others by mail and none of the        Marketing (IDM) – which has been tracking
other media come anywhere close to them         consumer attitudes to marketing and
in popularity.                                  measuring ‘the GAP’ (how closely marketers
   For example, banking – the subject about     are keeping up with the changes), since
which the largest number of consumers           2005.
want to receive marketing information – 35%        It achieves this by using two online
(up one per cent year-on-year) “are happy”      questionnaires; one completed by a fast.MAP
to be contacted by mail and 27% (down from      panel of 1,000+ demographically-balanced
30% in 2011) by email.                          consumers; the other by a panel of 350+
   These routes are 500% more popular than      marketers.
nearest rivals landline (five per cent up from      The study reveals that overall, landline is
three per cent) and SMS (five per cent up        dropping out of favour as more people move
from two per cent).                             to mobiles, or more accurately, SMS, since



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less than two per cent of adults are happy to
receive marketing information via mobile             80% of people open direct mail, the same
calls (up one per cent on last year). Other       as in 2010; after rising to an impressive 87%
social media are even less popular as             last year, the highest since Marketing-GAP
marketing contact routes.                         was launched in 2005.
    Marketers overestimated the popularity of        A third of these open all direct mail, while
all marketing media, but especially mobile        45% only open messages from companies
and social networks which they typically          they use. Both groups have fallen by four per
expected to be at least 200% more popular         cent year-on-year.
than they actually are.                              Marketers thought eight per cent fewer
    “This results of this study really are not    would open all mail, but only overestimated
surprising.”, said Matt Bright, Insight manager   by two per cent the percentage who only
at MarketReach. “Marketers are rightly,           open mail from known companies.
closely engaged with new media channels,             The challenge for marketers is to target
but they should regularly consider how their      this digitally-acquiescent minority accurately
behaviour differs from their customers.            enough to generate a satisfactory return on
    “The digital audience is highly diverse and   investment; yet be prepared to stick to
not all are engaged at the same level. This       traditional contact routes, if the newer media
survey shows us that consumers of all ages        do not offer a close match with prospects.
still care about the printed communication
they receive from companies more than the
digital engagement they have with them.”          David Cole is MD of fast.MAP.




The digital audience is highly diverse and
not all are engaged at the same level. This
survey shows us that consumers of all ages
still care about the printed communication




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Take a tour of
‘tech cities’
Laurent Boninfante (pictured) discusses a global
phenomenon and its impact on digital marketing.




T   here has been a revolution in recent
    years in urban development that is
changing marketing as well as the physical
                                                    (TCIO), the body set up by the UK
                                                    government to drive investment inside the
                                                    city walls, we can expect some senior-level
environment. ‘Tech cities’, as they are loosely     social media knowledge and know-how to
labelled, have started cropping up in key           add a new vibrancy and impetus to
locations around the world.                         marketers in the area.
   As a global marketing technology                    From my own experience, this and every
company that has recently moved into                other tech city offers a range of more
London’s tech city, I wanted to take you on a       intangible benefits over and above the
tour of some of the most interesting                obvious investment and publicity gains. The
examples and provide some ideas and                 feeling of community among companies is
insight into the likely impact these will have      making each area greater than the sum of its
on digital marketing.                               parts, while broader benefits of better
   London’s tech city has grown steadily            infrastructure and a more established
since its inception in November 2010 when           ecosystem are evolving local communities
Prime Minister David Cameron announced              as well as driving fresh talent to companies
his vision for the initiative. With the news last   in these locations. There is, of course, also a
month that Joanna Shields, ex-VP EMEA for           risk that major technology companies could
Facebook, is taking up the helm as CEO of           drain skills from smaller start-ups, but the
the Tech City Investment Organisation               general feeling is that the additional


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attention brings more benefit than                 innovation. Companies such as Facebook
challenges.                                       and eBay are actively acquiring technology
   Looking around Europe, Skolkovo in             developed in the area meaning the
Russia is also going to be making waves.          purported aim to replace, rather than
Innovations relevant to us marketers that         replicate, Silicon Valley cannot be
have already been developed by this tech          immediately dismissed. Israel is potentially
city include a single platform for all            seeing a faster innovation curve in areas
ecommerce orders and buildings that               such glass-less 3D content viewing
become giant screens for marketing                (Eyevector), personalised ecommerce
messages. When you consider that Skolkovo         (C&ST), location-based advertising (Mobli)
has tempted Intel’s former                                           and facial recognition, all of
CEO Craig Barrett onto its                                           which will play a bigger
leadership team, Mark                   “When you consider role in our future digital
Zuckerberg of Facebook                  that Skolkovo has            lives.
recently spent time there                                                China’s incredible 20-
and the 2014 G8 summit is
                                    tempted Intel’s former year history in creating
being hosted there, this            CEO Craig Barrett onto technology parks cannot
location is sure to be upping          its leadership team,          be ignored either. With six
its innovative edge                                                  more currently in the
                                       Mark Zuckerberg of
considerably over the next                                           works, in addition to the 88
few years.                              Facebook recently            further state-level
   Further afield, Konza               spent time there and           locations, these parks
Techno City in Kenya, also          the 2014 G8 summit is            created revenue of $2.06
known as ‘Silicon Savannah’,                                         trillion in 2011, proving the
could have a strident impact           being hosted there,           incredible value of such
on mobile marketing,                 this location is sure to initiatives, should anyone
especially for mobile                       be upping its            still be querying this. The
financial services, in years to                                       country already leads the
come. There are reportedly
                                         innovative edge”            world in patent
now more mobile phones in                                            applications, while its fast-
Kenya than there are adults,                                         growing economy and
while the country also leads the world in the     innovations in areas such as social gaming
use of mobile payments, with half of all          and mobile apps will mean other countries
transactions being conducted in Kenya.            look to China for what’s coming next in
   While the rest of the world is eagerly         these sectors.
awaiting the availability of near-field               And last but not least, for those wanting to
communications (NFC) to enable easy               start out truly global, there is even a
mobile payments, consumers in this ‘mobile        fascinating project underway to develop a
first’ nation are happily paying for their         brand new tech city on a vessel anchored in
weekly shop in supermarkets on their              international waters just off the coast of
mobiles via the M-PESA microfinance service California. Backed by Peter Thiel, founder of
from Safaricom, the Kenyan mobile network         Paypal, Blueseed is currently focusing on
operator.                                         applications from the tech start-up
   Harnessing this, and other burgeoning          community, but investment partners such as
innovations, is something that both local and Lumia with its strong focus on marketing,
global businesses will look to Konza for –        data and content, show that marketing
and if the organisation’s official website is       companies will also be a future focus.
indicative of the sophisticated approach the         Running global marketing programmes
initiative is taking, I expect to see this tech   from international waters could be a very
city rise to the fore.                            interesting aspect of this initiative!
   Israel’s Silicon Wadi area around Tel Aviv is
already relatively mature due to the country’s Laurent Boninfante is EMEA managing
historical capability for technology              director, Acquisio.


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Sailing the
economic ship
GMA columnist Doug Sacks (pictured), reporting from the
USA, takes a look at trends marketers should be aware of.



A   sluggish US economy showing signs of
    emerging from a long hibernation, but not
yet fully awake, compounded by reports of
                                                  thoughts about health equals pure gold for
                                                  some industries and accounts for generic
                                                  drugs, pilates & yoga, self-tanning products,
double and triple dip recessions in some          3D printers (used for medical technology) and
regions of the world, makes me look at trends     online eyeglasses making this list. But really,
to see where the money is or where it may be      online anything is a growth category and will
heading. Marketers, like bank robbers, need to    only get stronger. Here’s a thought – in a year
know where the money is, in order to be           or two the ageing boomers will be dying off.
successful.                                       Maybe mortuary services should make the
   Almost a year ago, IBISWorld reported on       next Top 10 list.
the ten fastest growth industries in the US.
Let’s review them here, although I don’t see
many of these as being able to right America’s
economic ship. It’s a big ship and these are
                                                  2.    Back to nature, awareness that the
                                                        destruction of the environment erodes
                                                  our quality of life, and the lessening of our
small amounts of ballast. But many underlie       reliance on foreign oil are all reaching new
larger trends which we can set sail upon.         heights of public acceptance which will drive
                                                  the solar panel and Green building
•   Generic Pharmaceutical Manufacturing          construction sectors along with all forms of
•   Solar Panel Manufacturing                     the ‘Buy Local’ and ‘Eat Healthy’ (see ageing,
•   For-Profit Universities                        hypochondriacal baby boomers), and ‘Save
•   Pilates & Yoga Studios                        the Farmland’ movements. This is one trend
•   Self-tanning Product Manufacture              that crosses generational boundaries, which
•   3D Printer Manufacture                        could give it some staying power. However,
•   Social Network Game Development               less destruction of the environment seems to
•   Hot Sauce Production                          be in direct contradiction to some of the
•   Green & Sustainable Building Construction     technologies that will, theoretically, reduce
•   Online Eyeglasses and Contact Lens Sales      our reliance on foreign oil. These include
                                                  hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to release oil

1.   The Baby Boomer generation is ageing.
     And, although they like to believe that 60
is what 40 was a generation ago, anyone who
                                                  and gas deposits at the cost of serious water
                                                  contamination and human health issues and
                                                  building a contested pipeline from Canada to
is 60 or more knows that’s a bunch of             transfer the oil derived from shale.
malarkey. Combine the ageing thing with the
American obsession with health, shake well
and you get a potent cocktail. We are
obsessed about our health. A nation of ageing
                                                  3.    Hot sauce production. Well, as the
                                                        Republican Party has learned a bit too
                                                  late, the US demographic is not changing. It
hypochondriacs. Obsession with health             HAS changed. Latino culture is here to stay
should not be confused with actually being        and growing super-fast compared to white,
healthy or adopting healthy lifestyles. But we    black and Asian groups. Plus Latino tastes in
at least want to think we are. So an ageing       food, music and culture have, by the force of
demographic and ever more obsessive               sheer numbers, gone mainstream. Politicians



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will fall all over themselves cozying up to this   products/wholesalers/gasoline stations,
demographic during the next four years, as         industrial machinery, cattle ranching,
will marketers for a generation to come.           employment services, computer systems
                                                   design. Commodity prices hitting sky-high

4.   Social network development, along with
     mobile phone anything, has to be a huge
growth area. But, I predict one will long
                                                   levels, growing interest in domestic oil
                                                   production, bringing American jobs back to
                                                   the US are driving some of these. Computer
outlast the other. Social networking will fizzle    design and employment services sector
within a few years as the college crowd gets       growth are self-evident.
jobs and becomes too busy to be so self-
absorbed. And business-related social
networking sites have yet to prove their worth
– and, in fact, may not have any outside of an
                                                   7.   One last trend that is here to stay also has
                                                        to do with demographics. If you want a
                                                   job, look for a woman to hire you. US
inflated stock price making investors happy.        women-owned businesses are outpacing all
But reliance on a super-smart phone with           other business sectors and have been for the
more and more capability is here to stay.          past decade. Consider these facts about
                                                   women business enterprises (WBEs):

5.   For-profit universities indicate a
     ferociously competitive job market (for
both college graduates and late-in-life career
                                                   • WBEs employ 7.7 million people. That’s 40%
                                                     more people than the three largest
changers), plus its focus on online courses          employers – McDonald’s, IBM and Wal-
feeds into the continuing reliance on the            Mart – combined
Internet. Looks like a win-win for that one at     • There are 8.3 million WBEs in the United
least until the economy recovers. The real           States
value of those ‘diplomas’ remains to be seen.      • WBEs generated $1.3 trillion in 2011 alone
                                                   • WBEs will create 5.5 million new jobs by

6.   Forbes adds private industry sectors like:
     support activities for mining, petroleum
                                                     2018, representing 1/3 of all new jobs
                                                     expected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.



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Careful steps on
foreign soil
Look before you leap into international multi-channel
marketing, says Steve Kemish (pictured).
Tread carefully and you score sky-high ROI.




T    here are a multitude of factors to consider
     when adopting a multi-channel approach
internationally. Decent translation of content
                                                    won’t be understood in a particular country,
                                                    then it’s unlikely you’ll see any ROI and will
                                                    waste your valuable budget that could be
across channels is a first obvious step, but         spent in more effective ways.
understanding cultural differences and                   If you are convinced that international really
implications is far more crucial and beneficial      is right for you, it’s important not to just shoot
in the long term.                                   and run. Digging deeper for facts is now
   Poor cross-culture marketing can have a          crucial. Understand your target audience’s
significantly negative impact on a brand. A          preferences. Research where you can. Will
lack of cultural awareness and poor translation     Thai recipients respond better to social media
for example, will mean marketers are unlikely       or direct mail? How will your targeted contact
to see much bang for their buck. And                view their communications? On their phone,
remember, the human touch is required when          on their laptop? At work, at home? Consider
communicating to any consumer and people            time differences and public holidays, too –
around the world have very different nuances         before you press ‘send’.
and perceptions of this. It is also important to        Once you have understood the variances,
understand regional differences within               translated and adapted your content, strategy
countries . . . not every country is as small as    and approach to fit the culture and target
the UK!                                             audiences, the launch of your international
   It may be a tough call, but is your product or   campaign is the logical next step.
service actually right for all the countries you        But wait! Have you considered your use of
plan to target? It may be tempting to treat         data? Are you aware of relevant data laws in
‘foreign’ as one big targetable land mass, but      the countries you are targeting? Germany, for
you’d be very wrong to do so. If your instincts     example, is a data danger zone when it comes
are telling you that your product or service just   to sending unsolicited communications.


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Trending countries                                  engine advertisement and social media are
So which countries are catching the eyes of         popular throughout Turkey and the younger
big-time investors and large corporations?          generation is fashionable, modern and
These ‘next generation countries’ will begin to     technologically well connected.
emerge and impress in the world of                     Angola is another emerging marketplace to
technology and trade and therefore marketing.       keep an eye on. Following the end of the civil
   Russia is determined to shake off its ‘bread      war in 2002, Angola is now a stable investment
queue’ associations and become a real part of       environment with diamonds and oil making up
the global economy with big investment in           60% of the economy. Key trading connections
trade. The retail market there is booming,          with Canada meant it was one of the world’s
along with luxury car sales. Western brands are     fastest growing countries just before the
noticing Russians craving modern living,            financial crisis hit.
helped by an influx of credit and higher levels         Whether it is Turkey, Angola, Russia – or
of disposable income. The younger Russian           even Mars in the future! – multi-channel rules
population has a strong work ethic and              must still apply. Understand your target
understands that studying is the key to             audience and what makes them tick, when
improving their prospects. This is driving down     and how. International is not just one big
unemployment rates and improving economic           dartboard for you to throw all your arrows at
growth. Communication links have been               and hope to hit the bull’s eye. You wouldn’t run
improved throughout the country and, in the         a campaign in this way in the UK, so don’t fall
past decade, businesses are developing and          into the ‘one size fits all’ trap abroad. Do your
growing, due to faster internet connections         research, take your time, gain knowledge and
and better communication links.                     understanding, and only then will you stand a
   Without travelling too far south, we arrive in   chance of international success.
Turkey. After years of gradual economic
growth and rising incomes, Turkey is now            Steve Kemish is managing director at Cyance
becoming a country to watch out for. The            and will be presenting at Technology for
digital and advertising market is growing, with     Marketing and Advertising (TFM&A) at Earls
heavy investment in creativity and IT. Search       Court 2 in London on February 26. His
                                                    presentation, ‘How vital it is to embrace a
                                                    multi-channel approach?’, covers current
                                                    trends and tricks you need to arm yourself
                                                    with for 2013.




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Carry yourself
with style
(thanks to BRTV)
Digby Orsmond explains how best to
harness Brand Response Television.




D    RTV (Direct Response TV) is often seen
     as the poor relation of traditional high
budget brand advertising, but in the past five
                                                  and we find that the multitasking 18-35-year
                                                  age group react positively to BRTV ads –
                                                  especially if these are highly creative and
years, the increased use of the internet by       slightly edgy.
consumers has narrowed the gap. This has             Younger viewers especially are happy to
recently led to the creation of a new low cost    immediately visit a BRTV advertiser’s website
genre of TV advertising called BRTV (Brand        and just as importantly share what they’ve
Response TV).                                     found with their friends on Facebook &
   These are 30-second spots that promote a       Twitter. Results are even more powerful
URL to drive viewers with tablets or              when the BRTV ad offers a free sample or
smartphones to visit a website and make a         special discount.
purchase. With BRTV, the focus is less on            We’re on a mission to make BRTV more
name recall and more about driving online         affordable in the UK and one of our recent
traffic. This type of ad qualifies as ‘direct        successes has been to help a dynamic young
response’ and allows the clients’ media           online company to significantly grow sales of
agency to purchase airtime that can cost as
much as 50% less than fixed-position brand
inventory in which a guaranteed TV audience
level is purchased. With BRTV, there is usually
a more effective viewer engagement via the
advertiser’s website and this more than
makes up the difference in spend levels.
Additionally, the airtime discount minimises
risk and allows first time advertisers to safely
test TV.
   At ARM Direct, our experience is that a
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generated within 10 minutes of a well-made
BRTV spot being transmitted. Nielsen tells us
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their hero brand.                                 February 2013 campaign and plans to make
   Founder, Claire Barratt, took to social        further BRTV ads to support the brand later in
media in 2011 to sell her unique customised       the year.
ClaireaBella bags and Chloe Simms from the           Research ‘TV and Online: better together’,
hit UK TV show – The Only Way is Essex –          conducted by Thinkbox & IAB, confirms that
bought one and was ‘papped’, with the photo       TV advertising can drive people online in a
appearing prominently in a national               host of ways, the benefit being that the
newspaper. Claire said: “I was bowled over        smartphone consumer journey is now much
with the immediate response online! A few         shorter and viewers often respond to TV ads
days later, Chloe was also spotted in series 2    as and when they are seen in real time. From
of the TV show with her bag and my Twitter        their analysis, it became apparent that the
timeline went crazy!”                             role of TV in driving online response has
   Later that year, Claire got in touch with an   been undervalued. Partially, this is down to
online gift website called ToxicFox.co.uk and     the fast changing technological landscape
they were soon collaborating and extending        and the huge increase in smartphone
the range further.                                ownership. Plus, BRTV campaigns are based
   Clinton Njie (CEO of ToxicFox) decided to      on hard facts as the response numbers don’t
explore whether television was an affordable       lie – meaning that results can always be
option and, in September 2012, he appointed       improved month-on-month by cutting out
ARM Direct to make a stylish 30-second            the slow performing TV channels and testing
BRTV creative, using the catch phrase, ‘Carry     others.
yourself with style’, featuring three young          Television’s impact on website response
models and fun character animations by Nick       all too often slips under the radar but the
Sneath.                                           reality is this – making a low-cost highly
   For a modest media budget, this was            creative BRTV ad can help drive significant
tested on selected UK TV channels and             online traffic, especially as all BRTV ads
ToxicFox website sales increased significantly     shown on broadcast channels can now
with ClaireaBella fast becoming a ‘must have’     instantly be searched, shared and copied
bag in the all-important pre-Christmas online     adding a whole new dimension to agency
sales period. This initial test proved so         accountability. At ARM Direct we welcome
successful that ToxicFox is now rolling out a     this new challenge.



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  • 3. FEBRUARY 2013 Talkback GMA TALKBACK: Sarphatipark 44-I, 1073 CZ AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands GMA TalkBack Editorial tel: +44 (0)20 7193 5402 The marketing world is never Web: www.the-gma.com Email: sally@dmi-news.com short of ideas and opinions – DMI News is published by Interpres but expertise can be more Media which incorporates The Global Marketing Alliance, DMI difficult to find. magazine, DMI News, www.the- gma.com, DMI Events, But now, your GMA has iDi Marketers Forum, Talk Back tracked down top-level and Talk Back Live! comment from around the WHO’S WHO: world. New for 2013, GMA Editor Sally Hooton Design Jim Counsell Talkback offers invaluable Publisher Matt Edgar analysis and insight from matt@dmi-news.com Origination Interpres Media marketing heavyweights and brand leaders. Printing Newspaper Club, UK. It runs alongside GMA NewsWire - delivered regularly to Copyright Interpres Media. All rights are reserved. your inbox, and our online news service gma.com Reproduction in whole or part Sally Hooton without the publisher’s permission is forbidden. Subscribe GMA Talkback is a product of The Global Marketing Alliance. Editor of DMI Publications Annual membership of GMA is Content Director the-GMA.com £179.99 from: www.the-gma.com ISSN: 2045-3663 gma Global Marketing Alliance Contents Mobile retargeting: The modern marketer’s dream comes true in 2013 04 People prefer marketing messages by mail and email 07 Take a tour of ‘tech cities’ 10 Trend-spotting redux By Doug Sacks 13 Careful steps on foreign soil 16 Carry yourself with style 19 www.the-gma.com 03
  • 4. Talkback FEBRUARY 2013 Mobile retargeting: The modern marketer’s dream comes true in 2013 By Simon Wajcenberg N inety-five per cent of users leave a website without making a transaction, but once retargeted, they are 70 per cent consumers on desktop for some years, with much success. Now, new technology means that this success can be translated to the more likely to complete a purchase. Simon growing brigade of mobile shoppers. 2013 is Wajcenberg explores how, with 75 per cent going to see mobile retargeting seriously of the world’s population now having taking off. access to a mobile device, the opportunities The speed of mobile’s crusade against the offered by retargeting on mobile are going PC has been so rapid that many marketers to turn the mobile marketing myth into a have been left reeling. But, while the web reality this year. took 15 years to disrupt everything, it has Retargeting – the ability to get back the only taken the smartphone five. During these 98% of shoppers who look but don’t buy or five short years 45% of all American adults the 60% who leave their shopping basket have acquired a smartphone and 18% a agonisingly full but fail to checkout – has tablet. These figures are only set to rise: finally come of age for mobile. Analysts are predicting that in two years, 90% Advertisers have been able to retarget of mobile users will own a smartphone. 04 www.the-gma.com
  • 5. FEBRUARY 2013 Talkback New technology, enhanced opportunity Advantages of retargeting and mobile M-commerce – the purchasing of products provide real ROI for advertisers on smartphones and tablets – is booming, as So, while adhering to the highest privacy all the sales figures over the holiday season standards, mobile retargeting enables 2012 proved. We found that clickthrough advertisers to re-engage consumers who rates on mobile ads rose 23% over Black have previously shown an interest but never Friday and Cyber Monday in contrast to a actually committed. In fact, it is estimated five per cent rise in clickthrough rates that just two per cent of online shoppers on desktop ads over the same period. make a purchase on their first visit to an e- Importantly, we have found that retargeted commerce site. With mobile retargeting, mobile ad campaigns generate, on average, marketers can take advantage of location an impressive 40% conversion rate from tracking and RTB, to retarget relevant ads at previously abandoned leads. the right time and place, to the right Until now, mobile retargeting has been audience and on the right device. impossible due to strict mobile privacy The hard facts are that now brands can regulations. However, there is now new target and retarget mobile users in 220 mobile retargeting technology that has been countries resulting in a potential 60 billion developed in compliance with privacy monthly impressions. And at Clash, we regulations. It securely maps anonymously charge on a results only basis, so ROI is held keys to a given user. Supporting this further increased. technology are five servers handling 85 million user records and processing Simon Wajcenberg is global CEO, Clash thousands of queries per second, per server, Group – the major New York and London- at an average query time of five milliseconds. based full service digital media company. Analysts are predicting that in two years, 90% of mobile users will own a smartphone. www.the-gma.com 05
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  • 7. FEBRUARY 2013 Talkback People prefer marketing messages by mail and email David Cole dissects the information gleaned from the latest fast.MAP Marketing-GAP Report. E mail and direct mail continue to run neck and neck in the favourite-marketing- contact-route stakes; holding their own These findings are included in the August 8, 2012, wave of the influential fast.MAP Marketing-GAP Report – sponsored by against all newcomers, according to new MarketReach, part of Royal Mail and in research. partnership with the Institute of Sales People prefer to hear about some subjects Promotion (ISP) and Institute of Direct by email, others by mail and none of the Marketing (IDM) – which has been tracking other media come anywhere close to them consumer attitudes to marketing and in popularity. measuring ‘the GAP’ (how closely marketers For example, banking – the subject about are keeping up with the changes), since which the largest number of consumers 2005. want to receive marketing information – 35% It achieves this by using two online (up one per cent year-on-year) “are happy” questionnaires; one completed by a fast.MAP to be contacted by mail and 27% (down from panel of 1,000+ demographically-balanced 30% in 2011) by email. consumers; the other by a panel of 350+ These routes are 500% more popular than marketers. nearest rivals landline (five per cent up from The study reveals that overall, landline is three per cent) and SMS (five per cent up dropping out of favour as more people move from two per cent). to mobiles, or more accurately, SMS, since www.the-gma.com 07
  • 8. Talkback FEBRUARY 2013 less than two per cent of adults are happy to receive marketing information via mobile 80% of people open direct mail, the same calls (up one per cent on last year). Other as in 2010; after rising to an impressive 87% social media are even less popular as last year, the highest since Marketing-GAP marketing contact routes. was launched in 2005. Marketers overestimated the popularity of A third of these open all direct mail, while all marketing media, but especially mobile 45% only open messages from companies and social networks which they typically they use. Both groups have fallen by four per expected to be at least 200% more popular cent year-on-year. than they actually are. Marketers thought eight per cent fewer “This results of this study really are not would open all mail, but only overestimated surprising.”, said Matt Bright, Insight manager by two per cent the percentage who only at MarketReach. “Marketers are rightly, open mail from known companies. closely engaged with new media channels, The challenge for marketers is to target but they should regularly consider how their this digitally-acquiescent minority accurately behaviour differs from their customers. enough to generate a satisfactory return on “The digital audience is highly diverse and investment; yet be prepared to stick to not all are engaged at the same level. This traditional contact routes, if the newer media survey shows us that consumers of all ages do not offer a close match with prospects. still care about the printed communication they receive from companies more than the digital engagement they have with them.” David Cole is MD of fast.MAP. The digital audience is highly diverse and not all are engaged at the same level. This survey shows us that consumers of all ages still care about the printed communication 08 www.the-gma.com
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  • 10. Talkback FEBRUARY 2013 Take a tour of ‘tech cities’ Laurent Boninfante (pictured) discusses a global phenomenon and its impact on digital marketing. T here has been a revolution in recent years in urban development that is changing marketing as well as the physical (TCIO), the body set up by the UK government to drive investment inside the city walls, we can expect some senior-level environment. ‘Tech cities’, as they are loosely social media knowledge and know-how to labelled, have started cropping up in key add a new vibrancy and impetus to locations around the world. marketers in the area. As a global marketing technology From my own experience, this and every company that has recently moved into other tech city offers a range of more London’s tech city, I wanted to take you on a intangible benefits over and above the tour of some of the most interesting obvious investment and publicity gains. The examples and provide some ideas and feeling of community among companies is insight into the likely impact these will have making each area greater than the sum of its on digital marketing. parts, while broader benefits of better London’s tech city has grown steadily infrastructure and a more established since its inception in November 2010 when ecosystem are evolving local communities Prime Minister David Cameron announced as well as driving fresh talent to companies his vision for the initiative. With the news last in these locations. There is, of course, also a month that Joanna Shields, ex-VP EMEA for risk that major technology companies could Facebook, is taking up the helm as CEO of drain skills from smaller start-ups, but the the Tech City Investment Organisation general feeling is that the additional 10 www.the-gma.com
  • 11. FEBRUARY 2013 Talkback attention brings more benefit than innovation. Companies such as Facebook challenges. and eBay are actively acquiring technology Looking around Europe, Skolkovo in developed in the area meaning the Russia is also going to be making waves. purported aim to replace, rather than Innovations relevant to us marketers that replicate, Silicon Valley cannot be have already been developed by this tech immediately dismissed. Israel is potentially city include a single platform for all seeing a faster innovation curve in areas ecommerce orders and buildings that such glass-less 3D content viewing become giant screens for marketing (Eyevector), personalised ecommerce messages. When you consider that Skolkovo (C&ST), location-based advertising (Mobli) has tempted Intel’s former and facial recognition, all of CEO Craig Barrett onto its which will play a bigger leadership team, Mark “When you consider role in our future digital Zuckerberg of Facebook that Skolkovo has lives. recently spent time there China’s incredible 20- and the 2014 G8 summit is tempted Intel’s former year history in creating being hosted there, this CEO Craig Barrett onto technology parks cannot location is sure to be upping its leadership team, be ignored either. With six its innovative edge more currently in the Mark Zuckerberg of considerably over the next works, in addition to the 88 few years. Facebook recently further state-level Further afield, Konza spent time there and locations, these parks Techno City in Kenya, also the 2014 G8 summit is created revenue of $2.06 known as ‘Silicon Savannah’, trillion in 2011, proving the could have a strident impact being hosted there, incredible value of such on mobile marketing, this location is sure to initiatives, should anyone especially for mobile be upping its still be querying this. The financial services, in years to country already leads the come. There are reportedly innovative edge” world in patent now more mobile phones in applications, while its fast- Kenya than there are adults, growing economy and while the country also leads the world in the innovations in areas such as social gaming use of mobile payments, with half of all and mobile apps will mean other countries transactions being conducted in Kenya. look to China for what’s coming next in While the rest of the world is eagerly these sectors. awaiting the availability of near-field And last but not least, for those wanting to communications (NFC) to enable easy start out truly global, there is even a mobile payments, consumers in this ‘mobile fascinating project underway to develop a first’ nation are happily paying for their brand new tech city on a vessel anchored in weekly shop in supermarkets on their international waters just off the coast of mobiles via the M-PESA microfinance service California. Backed by Peter Thiel, founder of from Safaricom, the Kenyan mobile network Paypal, Blueseed is currently focusing on operator. applications from the tech start-up Harnessing this, and other burgeoning community, but investment partners such as innovations, is something that both local and Lumia with its strong focus on marketing, global businesses will look to Konza for – data and content, show that marketing and if the organisation’s official website is companies will also be a future focus. indicative of the sophisticated approach the Running global marketing programmes initiative is taking, I expect to see this tech from international waters could be a very city rise to the fore. interesting aspect of this initiative! Israel’s Silicon Wadi area around Tel Aviv is already relatively mature due to the country’s Laurent Boninfante is EMEA managing historical capability for technology director, Acquisio. www.the-gma.com 11
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  • 13. Talkback FEBRUARY 2013 Sailing the economic ship GMA columnist Doug Sacks (pictured), reporting from the USA, takes a look at trends marketers should be aware of. A sluggish US economy showing signs of emerging from a long hibernation, but not yet fully awake, compounded by reports of thoughts about health equals pure gold for some industries and accounts for generic drugs, pilates & yoga, self-tanning products, double and triple dip recessions in some 3D printers (used for medical technology) and regions of the world, makes me look at trends online eyeglasses making this list. But really, to see where the money is or where it may be online anything is a growth category and will heading. Marketers, like bank robbers, need to only get stronger. Here’s a thought – in a year know where the money is, in order to be or two the ageing boomers will be dying off. successful. Maybe mortuary services should make the Almost a year ago, IBISWorld reported on next Top 10 list. the ten fastest growth industries in the US. Let’s review them here, although I don’t see many of these as being able to right America’s economic ship. It’s a big ship and these are 2. Back to nature, awareness that the destruction of the environment erodes our quality of life, and the lessening of our small amounts of ballast. But many underlie reliance on foreign oil are all reaching new larger trends which we can set sail upon. heights of public acceptance which will drive the solar panel and Green building • Generic Pharmaceutical Manufacturing construction sectors along with all forms of • Solar Panel Manufacturing the ‘Buy Local’ and ‘Eat Healthy’ (see ageing, • For-Profit Universities hypochondriacal baby boomers), and ‘Save • Pilates & Yoga Studios the Farmland’ movements. This is one trend • Self-tanning Product Manufacture that crosses generational boundaries, which • 3D Printer Manufacture could give it some staying power. However, • Social Network Game Development less destruction of the environment seems to • Hot Sauce Production be in direct contradiction to some of the • Green & Sustainable Building Construction technologies that will, theoretically, reduce • Online Eyeglasses and Contact Lens Sales our reliance on foreign oil. These include hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to release oil 1. The Baby Boomer generation is ageing. And, although they like to believe that 60 is what 40 was a generation ago, anyone who and gas deposits at the cost of serious water contamination and human health issues and building a contested pipeline from Canada to is 60 or more knows that’s a bunch of transfer the oil derived from shale. malarkey. Combine the ageing thing with the American obsession with health, shake well and you get a potent cocktail. We are obsessed about our health. A nation of ageing 3. Hot sauce production. Well, as the Republican Party has learned a bit too late, the US demographic is not changing. It hypochondriacs. Obsession with health HAS changed. Latino culture is here to stay should not be confused with actually being and growing super-fast compared to white, healthy or adopting healthy lifestyles. But we black and Asian groups. Plus Latino tastes in at least want to think we are. So an ageing food, music and culture have, by the force of demographic and ever more obsessive sheer numbers, gone mainstream. Politicians www.the-gma.com 13
  • 14. Talkback FEBRUARY 2013 will fall all over themselves cozying up to this products/wholesalers/gasoline stations, demographic during the next four years, as industrial machinery, cattle ranching, will marketers for a generation to come. employment services, computer systems design. Commodity prices hitting sky-high 4. Social network development, along with mobile phone anything, has to be a huge growth area. But, I predict one will long levels, growing interest in domestic oil production, bringing American jobs back to the US are driving some of these. Computer outlast the other. Social networking will fizzle design and employment services sector within a few years as the college crowd gets growth are self-evident. jobs and becomes too busy to be so self- absorbed. And business-related social networking sites have yet to prove their worth – and, in fact, may not have any outside of an 7. One last trend that is here to stay also has to do with demographics. If you want a job, look for a woman to hire you. US inflated stock price making investors happy. women-owned businesses are outpacing all But reliance on a super-smart phone with other business sectors and have been for the more and more capability is here to stay. past decade. Consider these facts about women business enterprises (WBEs): 5. For-profit universities indicate a ferociously competitive job market (for both college graduates and late-in-life career • WBEs employ 7.7 million people. That’s 40% more people than the three largest changers), plus its focus on online courses employers – McDonald’s, IBM and Wal- feeds into the continuing reliance on the Mart – combined Internet. Looks like a win-win for that one at • There are 8.3 million WBEs in the United least until the economy recovers. The real States value of those ‘diplomas’ remains to be seen. • WBEs generated $1.3 trillion in 2011 alone • WBEs will create 5.5 million new jobs by 6. Forbes adds private industry sectors like: support activities for mining, petroleum 2018, representing 1/3 of all new jobs expected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 14 www.the-gma.com
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  • 16. Talkback FEBRUARY 2013 Careful steps on foreign soil Look before you leap into international multi-channel marketing, says Steve Kemish (pictured). Tread carefully and you score sky-high ROI. T here are a multitude of factors to consider when adopting a multi-channel approach internationally. Decent translation of content won’t be understood in a particular country, then it’s unlikely you’ll see any ROI and will waste your valuable budget that could be across channels is a first obvious step, but spent in more effective ways. understanding cultural differences and If you are convinced that international really implications is far more crucial and beneficial is right for you, it’s important not to just shoot in the long term. and run. Digging deeper for facts is now Poor cross-culture marketing can have a crucial. Understand your target audience’s significantly negative impact on a brand. A preferences. Research where you can. Will lack of cultural awareness and poor translation Thai recipients respond better to social media for example, will mean marketers are unlikely or direct mail? How will your targeted contact to see much bang for their buck. And view their communications? On their phone, remember, the human touch is required when on their laptop? At work, at home? Consider communicating to any consumer and people time differences and public holidays, too – around the world have very different nuances before you press ‘send’. and perceptions of this. It is also important to Once you have understood the variances, understand regional differences within translated and adapted your content, strategy countries . . . not every country is as small as and approach to fit the culture and target the UK! audiences, the launch of your international It may be a tough call, but is your product or campaign is the logical next step. service actually right for all the countries you But wait! Have you considered your use of plan to target? It may be tempting to treat data? Are you aware of relevant data laws in ‘foreign’ as one big targetable land mass, but the countries you are targeting? Germany, for you’d be very wrong to do so. If your instincts example, is a data danger zone when it comes are telling you that your product or service just to sending unsolicited communications. 16 www.the-gma.com
  • 17. FEBRUARY 2013 Talkback Trending countries engine advertisement and social media are So which countries are catching the eyes of popular throughout Turkey and the younger big-time investors and large corporations? generation is fashionable, modern and These ‘next generation countries’ will begin to technologically well connected. emerge and impress in the world of Angola is another emerging marketplace to technology and trade and therefore marketing. keep an eye on. Following the end of the civil Russia is determined to shake off its ‘bread war in 2002, Angola is now a stable investment queue’ associations and become a real part of environment with diamonds and oil making up the global economy with big investment in 60% of the economy. Key trading connections trade. The retail market there is booming, with Canada meant it was one of the world’s along with luxury car sales. Western brands are fastest growing countries just before the noticing Russians craving modern living, financial crisis hit. helped by an influx of credit and higher levels Whether it is Turkey, Angola, Russia – or of disposable income. The younger Russian even Mars in the future! – multi-channel rules population has a strong work ethic and must still apply. Understand your target understands that studying is the key to audience and what makes them tick, when improving their prospects. This is driving down and how. International is not just one big unemployment rates and improving economic dartboard for you to throw all your arrows at growth. Communication links have been and hope to hit the bull’s eye. You wouldn’t run improved throughout the country and, in the a campaign in this way in the UK, so don’t fall past decade, businesses are developing and into the ‘one size fits all’ trap abroad. Do your growing, due to faster internet connections research, take your time, gain knowledge and and better communication links. understanding, and only then will you stand a Without travelling too far south, we arrive in chance of international success. Turkey. After years of gradual economic growth and rising incomes, Turkey is now Steve Kemish is managing director at Cyance becoming a country to watch out for. The and will be presenting at Technology for digital and advertising market is growing, with Marketing and Advertising (TFM&A) at Earls heavy investment in creativity and IT. Search Court 2 in London on February 26. His presentation, ‘How vital it is to embrace a multi-channel approach?’, covers current trends and tricks you need to arm yourself with for 2013. www.the-gma.com 17
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  • 19. FEBRUARY 2013 Talkback Carry yourself with style (thanks to BRTV) Digby Orsmond explains how best to harness Brand Response Television. D RTV (Direct Response TV) is often seen as the poor relation of traditional high budget brand advertising, but in the past five and we find that the multitasking 18-35-year age group react positively to BRTV ads – especially if these are highly creative and years, the increased use of the internet by slightly edgy. consumers has narrowed the gap. This has Younger viewers especially are happy to recently led to the creation of a new low cost immediately visit a BRTV advertiser’s website genre of TV advertising called BRTV (Brand and just as importantly share what they’ve Response TV). found with their friends on Facebook & These are 30-second spots that promote a Twitter. Results are even more powerful URL to drive viewers with tablets or when the BRTV ad offers a free sample or smartphones to visit a website and make a special discount. purchase. With BRTV, the focus is less on We’re on a mission to make BRTV more name recall and more about driving online affordable in the UK and one of our recent traffic. This type of ad qualifies as ‘direct successes has been to help a dynamic young response’ and allows the clients’ media online company to significantly grow sales of agency to purchase airtime that can cost as much as 50% less than fixed-position brand inventory in which a guaranteed TV audience level is purchased. With BRTV, there is usually a more effective viewer engagement via the advertiser’s website and this more than makes up the difference in spend levels. Additionally, the airtime discount minimises risk and allows first time advertisers to safely test TV. At ARM Direct, our experience is that a hefty 20% of additional online response is generated within 10 minutes of a well-made BRTV spot being transmitted. Nielsen tells us that some 60% of television viewers watch the box and surf the Internet simultaneously www.the-gma.com 19
  • 20. Talkback FEBRUARY 2013 their hero brand. February 2013 campaign and plans to make Founder, Claire Barratt, took to social further BRTV ads to support the brand later in media in 2011 to sell her unique customised the year. ClaireaBella bags and Chloe Simms from the Research ‘TV and Online: better together’, hit UK TV show – The Only Way is Essex – conducted by Thinkbox & IAB, confirms that bought one and was ‘papped’, with the photo TV advertising can drive people online in a appearing prominently in a national host of ways, the benefit being that the newspaper. Claire said: “I was bowled over smartphone consumer journey is now much with the immediate response online! A few shorter and viewers often respond to TV ads days later, Chloe was also spotted in series 2 as and when they are seen in real time. From of the TV show with her bag and my Twitter their analysis, it became apparent that the timeline went crazy!” role of TV in driving online response has Later that year, Claire got in touch with an been undervalued. Partially, this is down to online gift website called ToxicFox.co.uk and the fast changing technological landscape they were soon collaborating and extending and the huge increase in smartphone the range further. ownership. Plus, BRTV campaigns are based Clinton Njie (CEO of ToxicFox) decided to on hard facts as the response numbers don’t explore whether television was an affordable lie – meaning that results can always be option and, in September 2012, he appointed improved month-on-month by cutting out ARM Direct to make a stylish 30-second the slow performing TV channels and testing BRTV creative, using the catch phrase, ‘Carry others. yourself with style’, featuring three young Television’s impact on website response models and fun character animations by Nick all too often slips under the radar but the Sneath. reality is this – making a low-cost highly For a modest media budget, this was creative BRTV ad can help drive significant tested on selected UK TV channels and online traffic, especially as all BRTV ads ToxicFox website sales increased significantly shown on broadcast channels can now with ClaireaBella fast becoming a ‘must have’ instantly be searched, shared and copied bag in the all-important pre-Christmas online adding a whole new dimension to agency sales period. This initial test proved so accountability. At ARM Direct we welcome successful that ToxicFox is now rolling out a this new challenge. 20 www.the-gma.com
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