Disrupting Hollywood Paradigms with Analytics October 2016
Jan 13, 2017
Disrupting Hollywood Paradigms with Analytics
October 2016
Hollywood Paradigm: Four Quadrants
Note: Using the US population as an illustrative example.
Traditional Hollywood Four Quadrant
Legendary Applied Analytics Micro Segment
Four Quadrant: 4 groups of 80 million Micro Segment: 80 million groups of 4
Hollywood Paradigm: Spray and Pray
General Population
Hard Core Fans
Market To
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Audience
Box Office
Legendary Analytics: Invert Audience Building
Extended Reach
Efficiency Gain
Market B
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Box Office
Audience
Hard Core Fans
General Population
People and Locations
Based in Boston
Extension in LA
Diverse set of over 70 people and growing
People and Locations
Based in Boston Extension
in LA
Growing in Beijing
Diverse set of over 70 people and growing
Transform Marketing
Identify, Understand, Reach, Persuade
Individuals
Goal: Reduce Media Spend by 15-20%
Virtuous Cycle
Virtuous Cycle
Conversation
Social People
Content
• 1.5B email addresses • 200M households with PII • Hundreds of attributes per
person from many sources
• 500M Twitter profiles • 100M Facebook profiles • Hundreds of attributes per
person from many sources
• Billions of Tweets • All of Reddit • All of Wikipedia • Thousands of news sites
and blogs
• Box Office by theater for all movies since 2007
• All US ads run since 2007 • Meta data by second for
thousands of movies
Substantial sets of data integrated in unique ways
Virtuous Cycle
Web Traffic
Warcraft Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Hobbit 2 Hobbit 3
Hobbit 1
Godzilla
Jurassic World
Conversation Analysis
Social Interactions by Geography
Extensive analyses using traditional and innovative techniques
Virtuous Cycle
Proprietary, sophisticated platform that integrates data, analytics, and campaigns
Virtuous Cycle
•Build audience profiles •Create hundreds of microsegments • Identify key persuadable points •Produce detailed, actionable insights •Uncover persuadable audience •Measure changes in intent • Test and develop creative
Actionable insights emerging from data and analytics – at a rate of over 50 per movie per week
Virtuous Cycle
Deep API integration allows for scale execution and sophisticated reporting
Virtuous Cycle
Campaign data allows for continual optimization
• Investment • $160 million Production
• $120 million Advertising
• Testing • 8 audience screenings (including extensive biometrics)
• 3 different versions screened in the same night (a record!)
• Reception • 26% by critics on Rotten Tomatoes
• 83% by fans on Rotten Tomatoes
• 98th Percentile in ratio of Critics to Fans reception
WARCRAFT CHINA CASE STUDY THE NEXT PARADIGM DISRUPTED
Extensive global release in June 2016 for a unique property
APPLIED ANALYTICS: WARCRAFT CHINA CASE STUDY TARGETED MARKETING AT SCALE
Four-Quadrant publishing line
TENCENT PLATFORM
QQ tips window: 34.3M targeted ads.
BAIDU PLATFORMS
Nuomi: 29 million individuals targeted.
Maps: 17 million individuals targeted.
Music: 16 million individuals targeted.
Search ads: Thousands of keywords covered
Delivered 79 million impressions (high CTR at 3.5%)
150+ MILLION TARGETED INDIVIDUALS:
6.5x Return on Media
3.0x More Likely to Buy a Ticket
IMPACT:
WARCRAFT CHINA CASE STUDY THE NEXT PARADIGM DISRUPTED
$300M+ box office in its first week, $430M+ total, with a record setting $230M in China
Disrupting Hollywood Paradigms with Analytics
October 2016