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2014 SOCHI WINTER OLYMPIC GAMESMID EVENT IMPACT REPORT
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Projections & TrendsWith the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics now in full swing, world-class athletes are taking centre stage not only at Sochi, but also online.
Sochi 2014 is living up to our digital and mobile expectations ... and surpassing them.
• 71% claim that they are using another device when watching the Olympics on TV.
• Athletes are not only being identified through their sport, but also through social networking, such as “one of the Games' breakout social stars”.
• Broadcasting providers (BBC, NBC, etc.) are breaking boundaries in their coverage and streaming capabilities of live events.
• Trending hashtags – more than 1.7 million mentions of #Sochi2014 worldwide between February 6th and 10th, 2014.
• And, guides on how best to follow the Winter Olympics including Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
As a result, we will enjoy the 2014 Winter Games for its sporting competitions, as well as glimpsing how athletes are actually experiencing the Olympics – through pictures, videos, posts, etc.
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Before the Olympics started, Russia was torn between positive and negative emotions towards the Winter Olympics. On the one hand, negative emotions were inspired by topics such as the unclear and high cost of the Games, several scandals and the fear of terrorist attacks. While, on the other hand, the hope that Sochi would be a global success with Olympic standard construction and Russians winning medals on national soil arousing positive emotions.
The opening ceremony was universally well-received by Russians, and by foreigners alike. A large scale, spectacular and imaginative event, a boost to Russian pride. The opening ceremony included Tchaikovsky, ballet, a performance from taTu and 3,500 fireworks. The ceremony did not go entirely seamlessly, with one very visible event when one of the Olympic rings did not open. The four rings have gone viral – you can even get a memorabilia T-shirt of the event.
Russians feel that the Sochi Olympics are going fairly smoothly with great performances from all Olympic athletes. Of course, there are high hopes that the Russian Team will continue to win medals, climbing up the medal chart. Moreover, the Russians hope that the Games will continue in a positive vein and that the weather conditions remain good as the Games head into the final week of the Winter Olympic Games.
What’s happening in Russia
Julya Lipnitskaya – the pride of the Russian TeamThe youngest Olympic champion is the breakthrough star of Sochi 2014 and a new hero for Russian fans.
Unexpected medals for team RussiaIt is the first time in Russian history that a gold medal has been won by their two-men bobsleigh team and a silver medal achieved in the snowboard cross.
Evgeni Plushenko retires following a warm-up injuryThe 31-year-old skater was forced to pull out of the individual men's event before the finals due to back issues. But he did manage to win his second gold earlier last week as part of the team competition before retiring.
Disallowed goal in Russia – USA hockey matchFans have taken to the social media to show their disapproval for the referee’s call disallowing a Russian goal during the USA-Russia match. Russia went on to lose the game in a penalty shootout.
Weather conditions cause events to be postponed.Many Olympic fans, who came to Sochi for only one or two days, were disappointed when events had to be postponed due to weather conditions.
Maria Komissarova rushed to surgery The ski cross racer sustained a fractured vertebra with a dislocation during practice and was rushed off to undergo an emergency six-and-a-half hour operation.
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ARE INTERESTED IN THE FOLLOWING WINTER SPORTS…Responses based on 7+ from a 1-10 scale.
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Source: PHD Snapshots Fieldwork: January 23 – 31, 2014 (N = 833 across 4 countries, approximately 200 for Germany, Australia, USA, and Canada) Fieldwork: February 7 – 16, 2014 (N = 855 across 4 countries, approximately 200 for Germany, Australia, USA, and Canada)
Who is watching the Games outside of Russia?
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5%During-Games
7%Where people are using
their mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and mobiles) to follow Sochi 2014
Women continue to be more interested in following the Winter Olympics with an increase of 2% once the Games started. The main reason to follow Sochi 2014 is to ‘experience an international event’. People may have slightly over-claimed their use of mobile devices, although mobile devices are being used.
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WHO THEY ARE WATCHING THE OLYMPICS WITH…
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32%
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Support my national team
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Figure skating sees the most drastic decline in pre interest at -10%, where women’s ice hockey sees the only positive increase in interest at 2%.
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WOMEN ARE GENERALLY MORE LIKELY TO USE ANOTHER DEVICE WHEN WATCHING THE OLYMPICS ON TV – WHILE MEN ARE MORE LIKELY TO USE A NUMBER OF DEVICES (64% for males and 35% for females).
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PEOPLE ARE USING THE FOLLOWING DEVICES WHILE WATCHING THE OLYMPICS ON TV:
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41%are using their mobiles
32%are using their tablets
46%are using their laptops
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19%e-readers
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Source: PHD Snapshots Fieldwork: January 23 – 31, 2014 (N = 833 across 4 countries, approximately 200 for Germany, Australia, USA, and Canada) Fieldwork: February 7 – 16, 2014 (N = 855 across 4 countries, approximately 200 for Germany, Australia, USA, and Canada)
Responses based on 7+ on a 1-10 scale.
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Canadian Dufour-Lapointe sisters win Gold and Silver in Women’s mogulsJustine and Chloe join Marieele and Christine Goitschel, French skiers, and Doris and Angelika Neuner, Austrian lugers, as sisters winning Olympic gold and silver in the same event.
Dutch twins both take medals in 500m speed skatingThe Mulder twins won Gold and Bronze. They also took home the title of being the first set of twins to win medals in the same event since 1984.
US Figure Skaters set two new world-recordsMeryl Davis and Charlie White both set a new world-record in short dance (78.89 score) and in the free programme (116.63 score).
Sharing gold at the Winter OlympicsDominique Gisin, from Switzerland, and Tina Maze, from Slovenia, made history in the women's downhill skiing by recording exact ly the same time and becoming the first athletes ever to share a Winter Olympics gold medal.
First Ever Female Ski Jumping ChampionGerman, Carolina Vogt is the first woman to win a championship in women's ski jumping, a sport solely for men for 90 years.
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Martinez ended up19th but still made the world take noteCoining the phrase “triple Axel jump”, the sole Philippines competitor inspired the entire nation to rally behind him and made the world take note of his performance at Sochi 2014.
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For ‘Change in perception’ and ‘Fit’ responses are based on 7+ from a 1-10 scale. Change in perception – Please rate how your perception has changed as a result of their sponsorship of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics?
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100 YEARS OF OLYMPIC MARKETING
SponsorshipTorino 2006’s sponsorship programme represented nearly 1% of the total advertising spend in the Italian market. The programme brought in 6.14% of the total sponsorship spending in the Italian market – 35 times more than Salt Lake 2002.BroadcastingAlmost 1,000 hours of live coverage was made available by the Turin Olympic Broadcast Organisation – the most in the history of the Olympic Winter Games. Coverage on mobile phones and HDTV was provided for the first time.
SponsorshipBeijing 2008’s domestic sponsorship programme was a major contributor in the successful staging of the Olympic Games, generating a vast amount of the required revenue and services. BroadcastingThe Beijing Games were the most watched Games in Olympic history. A record 5,000 hours of HDTV was provided by the Olympic Broadcast Services during the 2008 Games in Beijing. The IOC also aired coverage in over 78 countries via its own digital channel in the Middle East, Asia and Africa.
SponsorshipVancouver OCOG created one of the most comprehensive sponsorship programmes ever for an Olympic Winter Games, with nine worldwide partners and an additional 50 suppliers and sponsors all playing a pivotal role.BroadcastingThe Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver in 2010 broke all records when it came to online and mobile coverage, attracting approximately 1.8 billion viewers worldwide.
SponsorshipLondon 2012 had a global reach of 3.6 billion people – the highest in the history of the Olympic Games – in 220 countries and territories around the world. OBS produced more coverage than ever before and the broadcasters in turn broadcast more coverage than ever before.BroadcastingWith eleven global TOP Partners, seven domestic partners, seven official supporters and 28 official suppliers, the London 2012 marketing programme was very successful, raising funds to support London 2012 and providing help and expertise for specific operational needs during the planning and staging of the Games.
Lessons from Sochi.
Sochi may be the most social Games to date with viewers (including prime ministers and presidents), athletes and brands taking to social networks to participate in the Games. However, with large scale social media comes a more challenging task in monitoring social efforts to ensure optimal performance. Times are evolving and brands are no longer in a one-way conversation, especially in a social setting. People have used the social media to put their opinions on the global stage concerning several political issues raised by the Sochi 2014 Winter Games. Controversies included hashtags and websites involving Olympic sponsorship being shut down. Overall, the main lesson to be taken away is that social media is great at reaching and engaging consumers, and even with the right intentions, sometimes it is the association with an event or concept that still needs to be managed and talked about – or others will instead.
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VisaFrom ‘Go World’ to ‘Everywhere’.
Visa’s Olympic sponsorship has focused on creating a social event of the Olympics, inviting the world to join in and participate.
With Visa’s 2010 ‘Go World’ campaign, the brand invited people to their YouTube channel to participate in the decision as to which Olympics sport should appear in the closing ceremony TV broadcast. Building on its global ‘Go World’ campaign, Visa chose to invite people to ‘cheer on’ athletes for the London 2012 Games with the ‘Global Cheer Engine’, which ran across more than 70 markets, motivating more than 60 Visa-sponsored athletes and lives through Facebook, YouTube and VisaGoWorld.com. Furthermore, Visa created reactive congratulatory videos that were posted on YouTube and viewed by many, especially the congratulations video for Michael Phelps.
A gold in providing interesting content that is worthwhile and easy to share.
For Sochi 2014, Visa decided to take a slightly different approach centring their campaign around a new tagline – ‘Everywhere' you want to be. Visa is focusing slightly less on athlete sponsorship and a little more on their campaign’s social abilities, making Tumblr their Olympic content hub linking their Facebook, Twitter, g+, YouTube, Instagram and vine content in one convenient location. The brand has made it easy for everyone everywhere to share their content across networks. Visa has also developed the Visa 360 cam, an app allowing users to experience the Olympics in a whole new way.
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McDonald’sFocusing their main efforts on London 2012.
McDonald’s shone as a sponsor in the London 2012 Olympics.
In the 2010 Winter Games, McDonald’s chose to take a product-focused approach, offering specialty items during the Games. However the brand changed direction for the London 2012 Games with McDonald’s choosing to campaign around the idea that ‘we all make the Games’. Ads included footage recorded at events featuring fans and volunteers. TV ads, Facebook, print and digital media were all dominant factors in a campaign that was entirely about people. Furthermore, McDonald's asked fans to upload videos onto Facebook or through an app for the brand to use as part of their advertising. As a result, McDonald’s increased their positive perception of the brand.
Winner of the most buzz for a sponsor during the London 2012 Games.
For Sochi, McDonald’s again focused more on products, encouraging the world to ‘Take a Bite’. Their 2014 Sochi campaign features the brand’s sponsored athletes biting into medals while promoting 20 piece chicken Mcnuggets and ‘Sharing the moment ‘. ‘Sharing the moment’ was the central theme connecting their #CheersToSochi social tagline and the website where people can cheer on their favourite athletes. McDonald’s also launched a Spotify account to connect listeners with the Olympians and their favourite songs.
The brand is Incredibly active on Twitter where they frequently post Olympic updates, as well as photos of Olympians visiting the Olympic village restaurant and wearing CheersToSochi bracelets. Although #CheersToSochi was created to support Winter Olympic athletes, the hashtag has been flooded by LGBT activists challenging the Brand’s choice as sponsor for the Games. The hashtag has now been withdrawn.
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Coca Cola
For the Winter Games, Coca Cola has mainly focused on their sponsorship of the Torch Relay, which is the longest journey to date at 123 days and 35,000 miles. The brand has several local activation around their products in numerous countries. Although not directly related to their Olympic sponsorship, the brand also has website in support of their ‘Share a Coke’ campaign that allows users to type a name or message to share on a virtual can – however the word ‘gay’ is banned from the site and has caused people to speak out about their Olympic sponsorship using social media.
From hydrating the athletes to promoting young people to get active.
Coca Cola has been an Olympic sponsor since 1928, and plans to be a sponsor until 2020.
During the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Coca Cola decided to link their overall marketing campaign, ‘Open Happiness’, to their Olympic sponsorship. The brand also sponsors the Olympic Torch Relay, where Coca Cola goes along side the Torch until it reaches the Olympic stadium. Furthermore, Coca Cola focus on their green credentials to support the Vancouver Olympics going green.
Coca Cola chose to go a different route for the London 2012 Summer Games, where the brand focused their efforts on engaging youth and promoting young people to get active. Coca Cola worked with exclusive producer Mark Ronson to create a song for the Summer Games, which featured a documentary about how Ronson travelled around visiting various Olympians to get inspiration for the song. Coca Cola took their engaged youth by linking their campaign to an app, ‘Track the Beat’, allowing young people to connect across the globe through music. The brand also built the ‘Coca Cola Beatbox’, a large pavilion in London where visitors could interact with the building to create music. Again, Coca Cola sponsored the London Torch Relay with 66 free live music events across the UK ending in one final concert at Hyde Park.
Coca Cola won at London 2012 in promoting young people to get active.
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P&G is a winner in terms of their sponsorship's emotional engagement.
Focusing on Mums.
P&G has celebrated the challenges and triumphs that mums face when raising athletes.
2010 was the first year that P&G was an Olympic sponsor aiming to advertise under the P&G brand versus its many product brands. P&G began its ‘Thank you Mum’ campaign during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics with ‘they will be kids’. As a continuation, P&G launched ‘The best job ever’ for the London 2012 Summer Olympics. During the 2012 Olympics, P&G also partnered with Yahoo! to create a series of short films on ‘Raising an Olympian’ – documenting the stories of real mums and their experiences in raising an Olympian. Social media platforms were also leveraged to expand the campaign’s audience by making it easy to share, as well as comment and celebrate their own mums.
For Sochi, P&G continues to celebrate and thank mums with their ‘Pick them back up’ campaign in celebration of a mum’s dedication and role in helping her son or daughter to fulfil his/her ambitions and potential. P&G has also developed a new series of ‘Raising an Olympian’ focusing this time on winter athletes across the globe. To date, 18,096,973 people have viewed the ‘Pick them back up’ YouTube video posted on the P&G channel.
The campaign has been generally well received, although it experienced a backlash because dads and modern families were not included in the commercials.
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Other Sochi 2014 activations
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Google is known for changing their logo to reflect current events. On the first day of the Games, the search engine promoted a rainbow Olympic theme logo sending a powerful message of support to the LGBT community.
Starbucks is a little closer to the Olympics. NBC has made sure that there is a rotating crew of baristas from the Starbucks located all over Russia working onsite to exclusively provide their staff with Starbucks coffee during the Winter Olympics – even though McDonald’s is the official coffee of the Games.
Red Bull is a rival to Coca Cola as it appeals to the youth demographic with its connection to extreme sports. These are becoming more prominent in the Winter Olympics. Red Bull is sponsoring several extreme sport athletes.
Molson Canadian has created a kegerator (beer fridge) that only opens with a scanned Canadian passport. Once opened anyone is welcome to enjoy a free beer. Molson’s wanted to encourage people to find a Canadian friend and to remind far away Canadians of home.
American Apparel in conjunction with the Principle 6 campaign (Olympic rule against discrimination of any kind) is taking a stand against the anti gay sentiment with their new line of merchandise. They stand to make it big through this differentiation as Olympic athletes have even agreed to wear the line during the Games.
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AT&T is taking a public stand against Russia’s anti gay policies winning over thousands of consumers. Unlike the official sponsors AT&T’s real stand for equality improved the public’s opinion of the brand leading people to twitter using the hashtag #ItsOurTime to show support for the brand.
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A hashtag making sure all curling lovers can share their passion about curling. Tweets keep you up-to-date with scores, great moments and an overall love for the game.
#lovecurling
Originally started on February 15th, 2009 - #Sochi, although it is not the official Sochi hashtag, is playing a very similar role. Tweets date back to before the town was chosen to host the Winter Games and are now keeping you up-to-date with stories associated with them.
#Sochi
Launched to give fans an opportunity to get behind their athletes and view updates of the Games. Countries including GB, USA and Canada are all using the hashtag. Tweets focus on athletes making it to or through the Games.
#roadtosochi
The Sochi 2014 Olympics has made sure that you can stay up-to-date using numerous social networking sites, including the official Sochi 2014 hashtag. Tweets provide you with all aspects of the Winter Games keeping you in the know.
@Sochi2014
Created by a 20 year old Toronto college student, this viral hashtag published on February 4th had already accumulated 303,000 followers by February 8th. Tweets focus on collecting the images, stories and random humour that chronicle Sochi 2014.
@SochiProblemsFollowers 337K
~160 mentions an hour
Followers 272K~41 mentions a minute
~5 mentions an hour
~8 mentions a minute
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#1: NORWAY
Total: 21
#2: USA
Total: 25 #3: GERMANY
Total: 16#4: RUSSIA
Total: 23 #5: CANADA
Total: 20#6: NETHERLANDS
Total: 22 #7: SWITZERLAND
Total: 11#8: BELARUS
Total: 6 #9: FRANCE
Total: 15
#10:POLAND
Total: 4
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Sportsmanship is Still AliveTeam Canada’s cross country ski coach rushed to the rescue of fallen Russian skier who broke his ski in the fall. The coach got down on the ground and attached a new ski so Anton Gafarov could finish the race.
British Olympic Athlete quits TwitterAfter her negative experience of competing at the Games, Elise Christie has left Twitter due to ‘threatening’ messages from so-called fans.
It’s Jamaica bobsled time…The bobsled team has inspired a song, ‘The Bobsled Song’. It is said that if you start the song to coincide with the start of the course that it fits perfectly with the run. Go to the video.
75 languages in which to translate your tweetsAn account has been established to let users translate their tweets in 75 languages for free. The One Hour Translation company from Israel is providing the service free during the Winter Games.
Gus Kenworthy plans to leave Sochi with a medal and four puppiesActivists, including a Russian billionaire and Gus Kenworthy have been on the hunt for strays to rescue from the Russian pest control . Many Russians have united over efforts to save the dogs.
Tinder is at the Olympic Village. Quoting Jamie Anderson, an American athlete, “tinder in the Olympic village is next level. It’s all athletes! In the mountain village it’s all athletes. It’s hilarious. There are some cuties on there”.
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