So you bit the bullet and integrated social features into your brand’s website. Give yourself a pat on the back, because the hard work is done, right? Think again.
If you thought your job ended at launch, you’re headed for the brick wall. You about to embark on a journey that will lead you to engaging fans and potentially monetizing content like never before! Providing your audience with the best possible video viewing experience and reaching them on all of the devices they use is a task that many underestimate before undertaking. This leads to media companies that develop rich media experiences on their own, homegrown platforms often discovering operational challenges they couldn’t plan for, making for a never ending pile of work and significant financial investments to keep the communities they’ve started vibrant.
One great benefit about websites that deliver a social entertainment experience is that they are very dynamic and engage audiences in ways that build long-term loyalty and value (to both the consumer and the business). However, this can also mean being forever relegated to updating content, the website and features as services change or individual technology components are updated. It also means managing a growing community to ensure a good experience is maintained and the brand promise is delivered.
Media companies are great at developing content, and quite frankly, they should focus on their core business of creating the content instead of the technology platform for delivering it. This is exactly why CMSG continuously updates the Cisco Eos software platform – to make the delivery of a premium content experience embedded with social features, easy. With this in mind, let me quickly introduce you to the latest enhancements to Cisco Eos. The full announcement can be found here.
How do our new features make your life easier? Your web and mobile content experiences more engaging?
Today, we are celebrating a significant milestone on the growth of the Cisco Eos social entertainment platform: the 100th live Eos-powered site. Warner Brothers Records artist Iron and Wine ended up winning the centennial race, which looks like an added bonus to how well their new album “Kiss Each Other Clean” is doing on the Billboard album’s chart.
Congratulations, Iron and Wine, and the WBR team! And thank you to everyone at Warner Music Group for the continued partnership. (Apologies to @spinclair and @ericsnowden ; I know you guys were hoping it would be an @atlanticrecords artist site. There’s always #150 or #200.)
We’ve had a busy year getting to this point. Consider the following:
Throughout 2010, there was an average of one new Eos site launched per week.
Eos site traffic in the last quarter averaged more than 3.6 million unique visitors per month and 18 million page views per month. This represents an annual growth rate of more than 50% in unique views and a 79% increase in page views.
This short video states that women are by far the largest global social media consumers, and this simple fact could vastly change the global media landscape to be more female focused. Read More »
One of the benefits media companies enjoy from using an integrated platform like Cisco Eos to deliver their social entertainment experiences is having a singular data view on how audiences are interacting with and around their branded content. This data can be extremely valuable in helping enhance or optimize the value of the content experiences for both the consumer and the business — or, it can be just another distraction.
As an ex-data wonk (and now a marketer trying to leverage a multitude of measurement systems), I know that more data is not always more useful. With the overwhelming amounts of data available from your online channels, the more rare asset is actionable insights that can be derived from all that raw data. Many times insights can come from simply putting individual data points (e.g. a 10% increase in traffic) into context — which helps me understand if a 10% increase is a good outcome relative to what I’m trying to achieve, or some external benchmarks. The ability to provide context around individual metrics gives marketers and website operators a robust platform for testing and evaluating the value each web experience is delivering to its audience.
Introducing the Cisco Eos Brand Value Index (BVI)
We’ve generated a significant amount of data across the 100 Eos-powered web sites, and we recently put on our data spelunking caps to dig into this data to find actionable best practices our customers could use today, as well as to define a framework for contextualizing the broader data landscape generated by Eos interactions.
What I’d like to do now is to introduce you to some early thinking on a contextual analytics framework in Cisco Eos that we’re calling the Brand Value Index (BVI).
Before you ask, a couple of points on the data: Read More »
My name is Steven Shepard, and I’m a writer, speaker, and industry analyst for the telecom, IT and media industries. The nature of my work is such that I visit about 70 countries every year, from wealthy First World countries with the most advanced telecom networks available to Third World countries that in many cases are building networks for the first time.
My plan is to take you on a journey through time and a voyage through space, showing you the best — and the worst — that telecom has to offer. For now, let’s go on a retrospective. Who would have thought that we would reach this point in our technological development?
