audience building in the age of platforms
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Audience Building in the Age of Platforms
November 2016
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Chartbeat believes meaningful stories matter—wherever they live.
That’s why we provide analytics and content intelligence tools that help media organizations build and grow a loyal audience.
We are the only company focused on the needs of leading media companies—serving over 50,000 sites worldwide in 60+ countries.
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Media Everywhere
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Why are platforms so important?
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75%
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Of the top 5largest referrers,Google drives 40%, Facebook 30%
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Platform traffic has been constant over the last year
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Except top 20, there is a wide variation on Facebook each month
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62%is mobile
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Referred traffic is predominantly mobile
Facebook-referred traffic is nearly all mobile. Google is roughly an even split.
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Each platform has a different role
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Facebook and Google are night and day, literally
Facebook peaks at night. Google is steady throughout the day.
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What we search for is nearly limitless, whereas social sharing is much more narrow
On content: Search is broad, Social is narrow
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During breaking news, search and social both get narrow in terms of the breadth of content consumed, and actually behave with similar profiles
Except around breaking news cycles
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The roles of each platform are distinct
During breaking news, search traffic often reacts even more quickly than social traffic
The role of social is diminished until after the event when it peaks via discussion and sharing
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This was true during the U.S. Election
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The perspectives of what we writeabout, what we search for, and what we share are completely different
• CoverageIssues & News
• SearchFactual Content
• SocialEmotion
The content people consumeis different on each platform
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The perspectives of what we writeabout, what we search for, and what we share are completely different
• CoverageIssues & News
• SearchFactual Content
• SocialEmotion
The content people consumeis different on each platform
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The content people consumeis different on each platform
The perspectives of what we writeabout, what we search for, and what we share are completely different
• CoverageIssues & News
• SearchFactual Content
• SocialEmotion
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The content people consumeis different on each platform
The perspectives of what we writeabout, what we search for, and what we share are completely different
• CoverageIssues & News
• SearchFactual Content
• SocialEmotion
Trump’s Brexit press conference
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And audience loyaltyvaries by platform
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The audience loyalty driven by each platform is also different
On large sites, direct visitors are more than twice as likely to return as Facebook and Google visitors
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The audience loyalty driven by each platform is also different
Even on small sites, direct visitors are more likely to return than Facebook and Google visitors
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■ Larger social audiences are less loyal
■ Non-English sites have much higher loyalty than traditional news and lifestyle sites
Audience loyalty by type
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Key Takeaways
As drivers of ~75% of traffic to major sites, platforms and their roles are important to understand
• Most traffic (62%) driven from platforms is mobile traffic• The content consumers read on each platform is different• Despite the importance of platforms, direct visitors are more
loyal than those referred by platforms• Optimizing your content experience for these different
mindsets to drive engagement is a huge opportunity
Audience building matters more than ever!