Wychwood Festival: Voice Case Study
Author: Sylwia Presley, August 2010
Voice
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Vanessa Blake David Dixon Euan Semple Chris Denton Howard Lake Sylwia Presley Adrian Phillips
Introduction
Wychwood Festival takes place in June every year just outside Cheltenham. It is a firm favourite on the festival circuit and attracts artists of the calibre of Supergrass, Billy Bragg, Duffy and Seth Lakeman and has a reputation for being family friendly. About nine thousand people enjoyed the Festival in 2010, many of them regular visitors since the event began in 2005.
www.wychwoodfestival.com
General Insights Majority of conversations occurred during the event and during the week after the festival. Second day of event generated almost 50% less of conversations then the first day. First week after the event high volume of conversations continues, as people as still uploading their content (photos, videos, blog posts).
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General WOM – Who?
40% of conversations was generated by the engaged ambassadors. 30 % of collected word of mouth was generated by press, however we had no information about twitter names of all press pass holders, so this number should be considered as an estimate.
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General WOM – Where?
When we looked at the types of social media where the conversations were created, we have found that almost a half of those was uploaded of photo sharing websites. Microblogging became second favourite activity of festival attendees.
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General WOM by topic
Please note: due to the restricted amount of time we had to simplify the topics and add photos and videos as a topic. Performances still remain the major topic of discussions.
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Apart from photos, videos and conversations about performances people shared feedback on the event, talked about food and camping. General topic stands for informative updates.
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General WOM – Sentiment
Majority of content is neutral (Sentiment 1). Both positive (7%) and negative posts (1%) expressed personal feedback on performances, venue, food and camping.
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General WOM - Intent
All of the post expressing intent were positive, however the percentage of discussions containing intent was very small (1%).
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Examples of positive conversations
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/index.php?s=0676c5b92a174589149e04474aabf826&showtopic=147596
http://www.irregularexpressions.co.uk/?p=149
http://www.facebook.com/GlosWhatsOn
http://www.wychwoodfestival.com/1292/wychwood-though-bloggers-eyes/
Examples of neutral conversations
http://twitter.com/benweblight/statuses/15624440050 http://twitter.com/BMWavesBlog/statuses/15561109815
http://twitter.com/colda/statuses/15714977379 http://twitter.com/dutchcloggie/statuses/15546104029
Examples of negative conversations
http://emergencybunny.blogspot.com/2010/06/wychood-festival-2010-round-up.html
http://www.efestivals.co.uk/forums/index.php?s=0676c5b92a174589149e04474aabf826&showtopic=147596
http://tweetphoto.com/25988012
http://technokitten.blogspot.com/2010/06/festival-season-has-begun-with-wychwood.html
Examples of conversations with feedback
http://twitter.com/Arcadiankicks/statuses/15570882481
http://twitter.com/DaisyChapman/statuses/15619695149
http://twitter.com/HedgeWatch/statuses/15629880276
http://twitter.com/festiduck/statuses/15617634579
Blogger engagement We have invited bloggers to use free press passes to attend the event and document it through various social media channels. Half of the engaged bloggers was chosen and contacted by Wychwood employees. Half of the passes was given away through Wychwood blog and Twitter account.
Blogger engagement The engaged bloggers generated 40% of discussions (465 units of conversation) about Wychwood Festival. Most of those discussions was neutral as it was designed to document the event. The bloggers used primarily Twitter, but provided the event with photo, video, audio and blog documentation too.
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Case studies – Connor, young blogger
http://www.wychwoodfestival.com/1292/wychwood-though-bloggers-eyes/
http://charliebrownesblog.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/summer-fun/
http://ipadio.com/phlogs/sylwiapresley/2010/06/06/Wychwood-6
http://www.youtube.com/user/Count0h#p/a/u/2/d9TSFScBDNU
Case studies – Morning gig
http://www.youtube.com/user/Count0h#p/u/17/Tdolg8W9lXA
http://ipadio.com/phlogs/sylwiapresley/Default.asp?page=2
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sylwiapresleyart/4674545492/in/set-72157624207733476/
http://twitter.com/HedgeWatch/statuses/15629864804 hOp://twiOer.com/zerolab/statuses/15545798489
Contact
If you have any comments or would like to discuss this document with us, please contact:
Sylwia Presley E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: 07850 138 178 Twitter: presleysylwia Skype: sylwia.presley