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Digital Storytelling for Asian MultinationalsNew Frontiers in PR
Bob Pickard | President & CEO | Asia-Pacific
Burson-Marsteller‟s Heritage
1950 1960 19801970 1990 2000 2010
1968: Outstanding Performance
in Community Relations
1975: Outstanding Performance
in Community Relations
1982: Extraordinary
Accomplishment in Public
Relations
1985: Excellence in Investor
Relations
1997: Marketing Consumer
Products
2002: Crisis Communications
2007: Internal communications
1953: Burson-
Marsteller
established
1964: First to organize
a formal employee
training program
1978: First major firm
to establish a
Healthcare Practice
1993: First firm to
install global email
linking every office
1961: Established in
Europe
1974: Established in
Asia-Pacific
1968: First firm to
conduct crisis training
1983: First firm to
conduct a satellite
press conference
1999: InfoDesk Knowledge
Management System
accepted into Smithsonian’s
Permanent Collection of
Information Technology
2005: Mark Penn appointed
global CEO – strategic
alliance with research firm
Penn, Schoen and Berland
ʻ̒ ʻ̒Our Philosophy
Our job as public relations professionals is two-fold. It is to help our clients or employers fashion and implement policies and actions that accord with the public interest. And it is to use communications to leverage public opinion and attitudes to motivate target audiences to specific courses of action.
Harold BursonFounder and Chairman
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What We Do
We tell Asia‟s story. Across media. Across channels. Across borders.
We drive tangible business outcomes.
And we embrace digital storytelling.
The Brand in the Story
Product placement is intrusive– breaks the narrative flow
The Brand as the Story
Product placement is unobtrusive –incorporated into the narrative flow
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…so that those people will do and think
what we want them to
do or think
thestory is the most important things
a company needs to tell its target audiences…
"We were not looking to make records or create them and based our order on estimated requirement. The fact that we did just that is an accident of history.”
Aditya GhoshPresident , IndiGo
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The power of stories
Strong stories rely on business realities, not „puffery‟
The breakthrough effect derives from more than just plain facts IndiGo announces
records order of 180 Airbus A320s
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Tapping into the unconscious mind
unconscious
decisionsthoughts, feelings, and desires drive purchasing
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Why this is important…
What impact will the cuts have on your editorial work?
Has your workload increased since the economic crisis
began?
* Source: Burson-Marsteller EMEA Media Survey 2010, among 115 senior journalists from top-tier media organizations in 27 countries.
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The result…
Decreased journalism
QUALITYDecreased journalism
QUANTITYDecreased journalism
CREDIBILTY
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…a disconnect between corporate messages and media coverage
Source: Burson-Marsteller Message Gap Study - http://slidesha.re/epFk5N
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Blogger Gap: 69%
Source: Burson-Marsteller Message Gap Study - http://slidesha.re/epFk5N
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Decreasing control over brand imagery
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Reduced audience density
McKinsey Quarterly “Boosting returns on marketing investment”, May 2005
Which screen commands the most
attention?
Implications for Asia-Pacific
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Asia is a major global force…
34%of the world‟s top 2000 companies are headquartered in Asia
Source: Forbes Global 2000 list (2009)
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…but global sentiment is muted
1%
3%
93%
3%
Online Sentiment Around Asian Corporate Brands
Mixed
Positive
Neutral
Negative
Source: Burson-Marsteller Asia-PacificBased on a review of 492,838 mentions of prominent Asian brands in online forums
The Digital Opportunity for Asia
1960s
1990s
2000s
The rise of Japan
The rise of China
The rise of Korea
2010s The rise of India
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Corporate Use of Social Media in Asia Pacific
40%
of companies in the WSJ Asian 200 are using social media for corporate communications
24%
of companies are using only a single social media channel
55%
of Asian corporate social media channels are inactive
A missed opportunity…?Source: Burson-Marsteller Asia Pacific Social Media Study - http://slidesha.re/fxPKK2
Digital Storytelling
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Persuasion 1.0
Once PR-driven interactions make people feel important („someone is listening to me‟),
then stories are sold as conversations
“Make the other person feel important and do it sincerely.”
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Persuasion 2.0
When people committhemselves in public to something, they have created a
new ‘image template’ of themselves
People will do and say whatever
is necessary to conform with
their new public image
Where PR storytelling is growing
Entertainment media Social media
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The digital consumer
12%26%
43%21%
37%
31%
28%
10%5%
39%26% 22%
Initial consideration
set
Active consideration
Closure
Store/agent/dealer interactions
Consumer-driven marketing
Past experience
Company-driven marketing
•Word of mouth•Online research•Offline and/or print reviews
•Traditional advertising•Direct marketing•Sponsorship•In-store product experience•Salesperson contact
% effectiveness of consumer touchpoints
Source: McKinsey Quarterly“The consumer decision-making journey” 2009 Vol. 3
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Trusted channels
Source: TNS (2010)
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A new integrated communications model
The goal is NOT to channel content to
audiences, but
audiences to content
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Channeling audiences to content
Keyword strategy
Hosted communities
Social communities
Content streams
Multimedia
Cloud content
Location-based
Modern means to build an image
#1 – Listen obsessively
#2 – Be authentic & transparent
#3 – Go peer-to-peer
#4 – Focus on the 1%
#5 – Be human
#6 – Build relationships
#7 – Commit for the long-term
#8 – Use storytelling
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Listen obsessively
Be transparent
“When there exists a connection between the endorser and the seller of the advertised product that materially affect the weight or credibility of the endorsement (i.e., the connection is not reasonably expected by the audience), such connection must be fully disclosed.”
Federal Trade Commission: Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2009/10/091005endorsementguidesfnnotice.pdf
Source: The Customer Collective Bloghttp://www.thecustomercollective.com/Home/36101
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Go peer-to-peer
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Focus on the 1%
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Be human
BURSON-MARSTELLER ASIA-PACIFIC EVIDENCE-BASED COMMUNICATIONS
Build relationships
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Use digital storytelling
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Every company a media company?
Closing Thoughts
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Everything that famously goes wrong is now called a „PR disaster‟
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Be prepared to apologize
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Something to think about
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