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Spotify spreads music news via Facebook Ticker
Music streaming service Spotify used Facebook to spread awareness about its latest releases via Facebook updates. Spotify used an app on Facebook to show which songs their friends have listened to recently through updates in the Facebook Ticker. It also allowed sharing music with their Facebook friends through the use of the service’s inbox. When music is discovered through friends, people are more likely to listen and to check out a wider variety of artists.
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Brand: Spotify | Sector: Entertainment | Objective: build brand awareness and increase user base | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Sporting News referrals jump 63% with Facebook social plugin
AOL-owned sports media brand Sporting News used Facebook to provide a quick and easy way to share articles with friends with like button and recommendations plugin increase engagement on their site. Sporting News also used traffic data to optimize the implementation and refine their utilization approach. Facebook referrals to Sporting News increased 63% from October to December 2010. Facebook activity on Sporting News increased 49% in total in January and February 2011. Three months after the Facebook Social Plugin integrations, traffic to the Sporting News site doubled. Since the integration, Facebook has become one of the top three referrers of traffic to Sporting News – up from #16.
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Sporting News
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Brand: Sporting News| Sector: News | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
ShoeDazzle boosts Facebook sharing by 600% with API tools
Hollywood-based fashion accessory network ShoeDazzle used Facebook to provide customer service and enable conversations with friends and the overall ShoeDazzle community. ShoeDazzle leveraged Facebook Pages, the Comments plugin, Feed APIs, Graph API’s, Like button to create more easy ways for people to share the ShoeDazzle shopping and discovery experience with friends and encourage people to share and surface their tastes. Members who used Facebook Connect demonstrated above average loyalty, buying more frequently than members who had not connected through Facebook. Shares through customized News Feed invitations increased over 600%, making Facebook one of ShoeDazzle’s highest volume referral channels. Likes on products, reached hundreds of thousands.
Facebook case study Shoedazzle Facebook page | Shoedazzle
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Brand: ShoeDazzle | Sector: Fashion| Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Pose creates stylish Facebook buttons to attract Fashionistas
Fashion app Pose used Facebook to attract new users and re-engage existing users by encouraging people to create and share their sense of style and fashion through Open Graph. It mapped the most frequent interactions people take in their app - pose, comment and love - to Open Graph actions to maximize the number of stories users publish. As more people interact with the story, the more the story will appear in news feed. Open-graph has increase in daily signups for their mobile app and web site since launching by 5 times and made it easy for people to share the different products and fashion they like with friends.
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Brand: Pose| Sector: Fashion | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Pinterest creates own ‘pin’ and follow’ buttons on Facebook to boost daily visits 60%
Pinterest attracted new users and re-engage existing users by creating ‘pin’ and ‘follow’ actions on Facebook. Pinterest focused on the most frequent and social things people do on their site - pin and follow - and built Open Graph stories that people could identify with. It prompts people to add the app to their timelines through a clear call out that is integrated into the design of the site. They implemented Pinning, following pinners and comment and liking pins into open-graph. Daily visits have increased by more than 60% since the integrations of open-graph.
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Brand: Pinterest | Sector: Entertainment / Technology | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Moviefone gets 300% rise in Facebook traffic using film-related sharing buttons
Cinema ticket information service Moviefone used Facebook to attract users and engage by pushing unique content directly to interested audiences and drive additional traffic back to AOL Moviefone. The Facebook implementation leveraged Login with Facebook, Graph API, Events API, Like Button and the Activity Feed to enable social sharing and engagement with AOL Moviefone and its offerings. The Facebook integration since September 17th 2010 resulted in 300% increase in traffic from Facebook back to Moviefone. Referrals have increased from an average of approximately 40,000 per month to 250,000 per month. The average user returns and clicks back to Moviefone about seven times.
Facebook case study | Moviefone
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Brand: Moviefone| Sector: Entertainment | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
How Kobo used Facebook to increase brand engagement
eReader Kobo used Facebook for single sign-on to simplify the registration process, avoiding the need for people to create new usernames and passwords. The firm educated people on the benefits of logging in with Facebook and provide detailed controls for people to manage what stories are shared to Facebook. Kobo defined Open Graph actions for some of the most conversational aspects of reading a book – such as beginning and finishing a book, highlighting a passage in book, write a note, add a book – to encourage sharing and stimulate discussions with friends. Since launching with Open Graph in January, Kobo has seen traffic from Facebook grow by more than 50% and daily registrations increase by more than 90%.
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Brand: Kobo | Sector: News and Entertainment / Technology | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Izlesene adds user’s friends to Facebook sign-up box to boost conversions
Video sharing site Izlesene used Facebook to attract new users and re-engage existing users by sharing the videos they watch with friends by using the built-in Open Graph watch action. Izlesene educates people and communicates the key benefits of sharing activity with friends. Izlesene discovered that some people who initially declined the auth dialog (application's first point of contact) will accept it if they are given more context. Presenting the dialog again with a ‘facepile’ of friends who use the app and a clear call to action made the experience relevant and familiar, which increased conversion. Open-Graph has increased number of videos a user views per day has by over 3 times and monthly active users have grown from 250,000 to over 4,000,000.
Facebook case study | Izlesene
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Brand: Izlesene| Sector: Entertainment | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Guardian boosts reader base with Facebook video content
The Guardian newspaper used Facebook to reach a new audience, increase engagement on their site and ultimately grow their base of readers through Open Graph. Guardian built a Facebook app to bring news, video and audio content to readers. The app publishes actions across a range of content: news articles, videos, and even podcasts. They also created lightweight actions 'agree' and 'disagree' for opinion articles to enable people to share their sentiment on issues. Open-graph actions and objectives such as read an article, watch a video, play a podcast, agree or disagree with an article were incorporated. The app has grown to over 3.9 million monthly active users, over half of which are under the age of 25.
Facebook case study | The Guardian Facebook App
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Brand: Guardian| Sector: News and Entertainment / Technology | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Goodreads lets Facebook users rate books to boost engagement
Book-sharing app Goodreads used Facebook to generate book ratings and deepen engagement with users through the Open Graph. They used Open-graph actions to make it easy for people to take an action - rate a book and mark a book as to-read - with just a single click. The number of daily active users has increased by more than 77% and over 6 million books have been rated, marked as read or to-read on Goodreads since launch with Open-graph.
Facebook case study | Goodreads Facebook app
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Brand: Goodreads| Sector: News and Entertainment / Technology | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Foodspotting creates stories and actions to boost Facebook sharing
Visual food app Foodspotting used Facebook to attract users and engage by newsfeeds from friends. It creates interesting stories by providing detailed information about each dish such as location, number of friends who have loved a dish. It also displays large user generated photos to make the newsfeed relevant. Open-graph actions such as spot a dish, love a dish, nom a dish, try a dish and want a dish were implemented. Since launching with Open Graph in January, Foodspotting has seen referral traffic from Facebook increase by 4 times and monthly active users grow by 2 times.
Facebook case study | Foodspotting
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Brand: Foodspotting| Sector: Food and beverages / Hospitality | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Flipboard uses Facebook logins to get 50% higher retention rate
Online magazine content aggregator Flipboard used Facebook to increase distribution by letting users discover and share content in a visually beautiful magazine style. Flipboard integrated Facebook News Feed, Walls, Pages, Photo Albums, and Photos Tagged of You as sections within the Flipboard social magazine. They also added Page and Group search via the Graph API, to help users discover new sections to add to their Flipboard. This resulted in 50% higher retention for users who signed into Facebook compared to who didn’t. Also the majority of users who connected to Facebook spent about half their time in Flipboard on the Facebook section
Facebook case study | Flipboard
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Brand: Flipboard | Sector: Entertainment / Technology | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Diamond Dash uses Facebook registrations to reach new audiences
Diamond Dash implemented ‘Login with Facebook’ to create an easy way for new users to sign up, and helping users find friends and recruit new customers quickly by logging in with their Facebook account, without the need to create new usernames and passwords and unnecessary typing. It allows players to invite friends to join the game and lets players who finished their daily allocation of games ask their friends to send them new lives. It implemented the Open Graph actions such as reach a level, win a medal, unlock feature. As a result users who log into the game via Facebook are eight times more likely to spend money, and spend 50% more on average. The percentage of users choosing to Login with Facebook via single sign on has continued to rise since the game launched – from 28% of users in December 2011, to 64% and rising at the end of March 2012.
Facebook case study | Diamond Dash
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Brand: Diamond Dash| Sector: Gaming | Objective: Reach out new audiences| Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Endomondo boosts Facebook traffic 75% via sharing workout stats
Fitness app Endomondo used Facebook to streamline the registration process, allowing users to register and sign in with no need to create a new username and password. The app associates an Open Graph object – such as running, biking, cycling and hiking – with each workout, allowing them to determine a user's last workout and top sports. Through the activity feed, users can find friends who recently joined and follow their workout, which starts conversations and encourages sharing. They complement its mobile app with a desktop web app where users can analyse their own workout statistics. It uses location to display workout routes, which appear as rich maps on a user's timeline. The app also calculates and shows workout metrics – including total distance, average speed and calories burnt – to create more interesting stories. Since launching with Open Graph in March, Endomondo has seen traffic from Facebook increase by more than 75% and the number of workouts shared daily on Facebook grow by over 150%.
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Brand: Endomondo| Sector: Technology | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Deezer promotes new music via Facebook to increase user base
Deezer used Facebook to spread awareness about their new music releases via Facebook updates. Deezer used to Open-Graph actions to make it easy for friends to share the music they love from liking a song, sharing a playlist and commenting on songs. Deezer's music activity feed shows people what their friends are listening to, what songs friends like and who recently joined to improve discovery of new music and increase sharing. The number of monthly active users has increased by over 3times, from 605,000 to nearly 2 million since launch of Open graph in Sept 2011.
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Brand: Deezer | Sector: Entertainment | Objective: build brand awareness and increase user base | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Bud Light 'Facebook Hotel' uses RFID technology to bring offline event to life
Bud Light used Facebook to generate more word of mouth. At the annual Super Bowl-related event, the brand took over an actual hotel, and it turned to Facebook to spread the experience beyond the hotel’s 200 rooms. Bud Light created a tab on its Facebook Page where people could follow the Dallas event. At the hotel, guests got RFID wristbands enabling them to take photos of themselves with friends at kiosks stationed throughout the hotel property. They could then tag the people in their pics and publish the shots to their news feeds, boosting awareness of the event within friends’ networks. Sharing the Bud Light Hotel event on Facebook resulted in a 200% increase in engagement on the brand’s page.
Facebook case study | Video case study
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Brand: Bud Light | Country: USA| Sector: FMCG Drinks | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
American Express 'Small Business Saturday' boosts local purchases via Facebook promo
American Express used Facebook to engage with people to encourage shopping at local merchandisers on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. The initiative ‘Small Business Saturday’ used the Facebook Premium Ad format to drive people to the Small Business Saturday Page, where visitors got further information. Shoppers who used their American Express cards on the designated day received a $25 credit when they spent $25 at a participating merchant. American Express also provided 10,000 small businesses with free advertising on Facebook to promote the day. After the campaign, 40% of the general public was aware of Small Business Saturday, the company claims.
Facebook case study | Video case study
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Brand: American Express | Country: USA| Sector: Finance | Objective: build brand awareness & engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Airbnb links registrations with Facebook profiles to build brand value
Online marketplace Airbnb used Facebook to integrate with their own website, allowing users to register and sign into their website. The site leverages the Graph API to personalize search results according to how users are connected to hosts or reviewers enabling them to filter search results by connected listings, providing them the option to stay exclusively at places within their social network. The shorter registration process and personalised experience resulted in increase in the average daily Facebook logins by over 30%. Facebook sign-ups on launch day were double the normal rate and currently remain a record for user sign-ups in one day.
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Brand: Airbnb | Sector: Travel | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook Page
07/11/2012
Secret tackles cyber bullying and wins customers with Facebook engagement campaign
Secret used Facebook to engage with its customers on a growing problem for teen girls bullying. Several clever campaign tools were used, people were offered ‘good graffiti app’, referral page directed girls seeking help to 24-hour counselling centres, video clips and T-shirts with anti-bullying messages were available for purchase. Secret also engaged its fans by offering a $1 deodorant coupon that triggered a $1 donation to PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Centre when used. The 26 week long campaign on Facebook resulted in 24times increase in fan engagement. By using Facebook network the brand encouraged its fans to spread an anti-bullying message and associate the brand to not just its range of products but a meaningful message and cause. The brand smartly used the campaign to create a positive emotional connect with its consumers.
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Brand: Secret | Country: USA| Sector: FMCG | Objective: build brand engagement | Format:
Facebook Page
06/11/2012
AT&T ‘Facebook team’ answers social questions to boost conversions
US telecoms giant AT&T used 20 representatives on Facebook to respond within 15 mins of any query / post. The effort also resulted in word of mouth and fans talking to each other by responding to posts, queries of other subscribers on the page. Customers whose problems are resolved via social media often come back to the page to thank AT&T. The Facebook page resulted in two times higher conversion rates compared to other online and offline marketing campaigns.
Facebook case study | Video case study
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Brand: AT&T | Sector: Telecom | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook page
06/11/2012
Case study: Norway tourist firm targets US travellers with Facebook app
Innovation Norway, a state-owned company with a focus on promotion and development of Norway, used a previous successful experience with a Facebook app to run a new campaign targeting travellers in the US. This case study demonstrates how the firm managed to boost engagement and add 23,000 fans to its Facebook page, as well as lift website referrals by a massive 238%.
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Brand: Innovation Norway | Country: US | Sector: Travel, Tourism | Objective: build brand awareness | Format: Facebook
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Diageo lifts sales across 5 brands via Facebook ads
Back in 2010, drinks brand Diageo enlisted the help of Nielsen to measure the impact of its newly launch Facebook brand pages and ad campaign. The premium ad campaign resulted in a 19 percent increase in total sales among those exposed to Diageo’s Premium Ads, versus those not exposed, within the test parameters. The lift was seen collectively across the five brands participating in the test.
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Brand: Diageo | Country: Gloabal| Sector: FMCG- Alcoholic beverages | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook
02/11/2012 | Full story...
Delta Airlines pioneers Windows 8 ads in NBC News App
US airline Delta launched a new advertising campaign called “Up” that is all about upping the ante in travel with the airline. The Razorfish creative team leveraged the unique, creative campaign and content of “Up” to conceptualise a Windows 8 Ads in Apps concept for Delta in the NBC News app that is an intuitive, contextually relevant and immersive experience, which is ideal for a tablet. When in the NBC News app, a user can initiate the ad by touching on the Delta tile so that it expands up the screen. The user can swipe ‘up’ to continue a visual journey of a travel experience—from checking in at the airport, to bags going up the ramp, until the plane is up in the sky—that is simple and aspirational. Once the experience is closed, users are returned to the NBC News app content.
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Brand: Delta | Country: US | Agency; Razorfish | Sector: Travel | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Windows 8, Display, App, Mobile
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Huggies Hong Kong drives sales with Facebook baby competition
Facebook is well known for its popularity among mothers sharing baby photos, and Huggies Hong Kong made smart use of this via a snapshot competition, resulting in 4,000 photos in just 3 weeks and and a boost to brand awareness. Working with Social@Ogilvy, Huggies asked fans in Hong Kong to upload their favorite baby snapshots to its Huggies HK Facebook Page. The 60 photos receiving the most fan votes would appear on the city’s buses. At least, that was the plan. Using Facebook Ads to help drive campaign awareness, Huggies received an overwhelming response—more than 4,000 photos were uploaded in just three weeks.
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Brand: Huggies | Country: Hong Kong | Sector: FMCG- Healthcarel | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Facebook, Social Media, Outdoor
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Reuters turns event attendees into reporters via Twitter push
Reuters used Mass Relevance to curate over 100,000 Tweets for its Davos Media Wall during the World Economic Forum. When the Reuters editorial team had its kickoff meeting for Davos, the objective for their 2012 conference was clear: surface the best articles, blog posts, videos and photos from the event so everyone could see the active conversation happening at the event. Alex Leo, Reuters' Director of News Products, faced a familiar challenge. Reuters wanted to capture both the day-to-day networking, conversations, and on-line commentary taking place at the World Economic Forum, and the pictures and videos that offered viewers a deeper insight into the conference.
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Brand: Reuters | Country: US | Sector: Media | Objective: build brand engagement | Format: Twitter
02/11/2012 | Full story...
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