American Fashion Retail Brands Make it Big on Social Media

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Social Media Analysis of Top 20 Fashion Retailers in US March-April 2015 Source: http://styleblog.ca/2013/08/02/zara-woman-fall-2013-ad-campaign/

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Social Media Analysis of Top 20 Fashion Retailers in USMarch-April 2015

Source: http://styleblog.ca/2013/08/02/zara-woman-fall-2013-ad-campaign/

One of the highest percentage

of Customer engagement is

maintained by Lululemon

Athletica on Facebook

Highlights of the top fashion retailers in US

Victoria’s Secret, one of the

most socially active fashion

retail brand in US has a very

wide fan base on YouTube

Highest percentage of

followers for Victoria’s Secret

is on Twitter

15% of the Facebook users are

Walmart fans and make it the

highest share holders of

Facebook fans among top 20

fashion retailers in US

Walmart has the highest

number of videos added in

the last month which shows

that Walmart is really serious

about maintaining

communications through

their YouTube channel

Shoptiques a new online

retailer has a considerably

high customer engagement

on social media in spite of

having very few followers of

Facebook and Twitter

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Number of Fans in million on Facebook

Engagement by each Fashion Retailer on Facebook

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Michael Kors

JC Penney

Sephora

Hollister Co

Macy's

Nordstrom

Urban outfitters

GUESS

Lululemon Athletica

Net-a-Porter.com

Victoria's Secret

Kohl'sH&M

Shoptiques

TargetZara

J Crew

Forever 21Bloomingdale's

Bubble size indicates

the % of engagement in

Facebook

Nordstrom has the highest percentage of engagement on

Facebook among top 20 Fashion Retailers in US

Michael Kors ranks

highest in the

number of

customer talking

about it

Shoptiques a start-

up, online Fashion

retailer has higher

percentage of

customer

engagement

compared to bigger

retailers such as

Zara, Guess and

Forever 21

Share of fans on Facebook

lululemon athletica

1%

Sephora3%

JCPenney2%

NET-A-PORTER.COM

1%

Walmart15%

Michael Kors8%

GUESS3%

Bloomingdale's0%

Hollister Co.5%

Shoptiques0%

ZARA10%Target

10%

H&M10%

Kohl's5%

Victoria's Secret12%

Forever 215%

J.Crew1%

Nordstrom1%

Urban Outfitters1%

Macy's6%

• Nordstrom being one of the biggest Fashion

retailer in terms of revenue has only 1%

engagement on Facebook

• Shoptiques has a good percentage of customer

engagement , but has a long way to go in terms

of total fan following

Rank Fashion Retailers Number of fans on Facebook

1 Walmart 32815947

2 Victoria's Secret 25556925

3 Target 22549831

4 ZARA 22532874

5 H&M 21711467

6 Michael Kors 16220859

7 Macy's 13955977

8 Hollister Co. 11751472

9 Forever 21 10836410

10 Kohl's 10798283

11 GUESS 6185480

12 Sephora 6004239

13 JCPenney 4755285

14 Nordstrom 3030472

15 Urban Outfitters 2016651

16 J.Crew 1356411

17NET-A-

PORTER.COM1277691

18 lululemon athletica 1123022

19 Bloomingdale's 367962

20 Shoptiques 32055

Percentage of Facebook fans

*The list contains the facebook fans count for both fashion centric

brands and retailer brands selling fashion products

Nordstrom has high customer support and number of

customer likes on every post they make

High number of people like

Nordstrom because of

continuous engagement of

Nordstrom with customer

Nordstrom immediately

replies to customer requests

and queries thus ensuring

that customer is never left in

any doubt – main reasons for

Nordstrom’s popularity

Michael Kors has high customer engagement ,though

not so many likes

High number of customer

engagement as the customers

engage in conversations over

the new collections by Michael

Kors

Sephora has very low customer engagement and

likes on their Facebook Page

Very few number of people

actually participate in the

conversations and there is

almost negligible response

form Sephora to the Customer

queries

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Mentions

Followers

Engagement by Fashion Retailers on Twitter

Macy’s

Victoria’s Secret

H&M

Walmart

Target

Michael Kors

Forever 21

Sephora

GUESS

Urban Outfitters

Shoptiques

Kohl’s

Nordstrom

Net-a-porter.com

Zara

Lululemon Athletica

Hollister Co

J. Crew

Bloomingdale’s

GUESS has the highest percentage of customer

engagement on Twitter

• Zara being one of

the well known

fashion brands,

does not have a

good number of

followers on twitter

• Although Macy’s

has very few

followers on Twitter,

people talk about it

a lot.

Bubble size indicates

the % of engagement on

Facebook

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25,732

52,091

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Kohl's

Nordstorm

Urban Outfitters

Target

Walmart

Victoris's secret

Sephora

Shoptiques.com

Michael Kors

Net-A-Porter

Forever 21

Lululemon

Macy's

H&M

Guess

J. Crew

Hollister Co

JC Penny

Buzz Score(tweets/day)

Buzz Score(tweets/day)*

Total Tweets/day in last one month(2 Mar 15 to 1 April 15)

What are people saying on Twitter – about

Macy’s

Customer Engagement –

going out of Scope

Macy’s engages customers by

not only providing good quality

products but also by sponsoring

different causes dear to

customers

Such as

Macy’s Rising iHeart Star

campaign to promote the new

music enthusiasts

Building Conversations

over Twitter

Victoria’s Secret increases

customer engagement

through discussions on

Victoria’s Angels which

receives lots of retweets and

people tagging the posts as

favourite

What are people saying on Twitter –

about Victoria’s Secret

Big Brand but Low Twitter

Presence

It has very low customer

engagement and very few

retweets.

They are not consistent in

replying to the customers;

this shows very less

presence of Guess on Twitter

What are people saying on Twitter – about Guess

• Victoria’s Secrets

engages customers by

specially promoting

their lingerie. It has

created the concept of

Victoria’s angels which

includes few of the top

super models from US.

• It beautifully showcases

each and every

collection as a piece of

art which attracts huge

traffic on YouTube.

• Net-a-porter also

engages customers on

YouTube by uploading

videos about the latest

trends and what the top

models/actors in US

think about latest

fashion.

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Comparison of YouTube likes and Subscription of Retail Channels

Likes Subscribers

• Victoria’s Secrets is highly appreciated on YouTube with the

maximum likes and subscription

• Bloomingdale’s has almost no presence on YouTube in-spite of

being one of the sought after merchandise brand from New York

YouTube presence of top 20 Fashion Retailers in US

• https://www.facebook.com

• https://www.youtube.com

• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.katana

• http://socialmedia.lk/blog/social-media-analysis-recent-developments-in-social-media/

• http://www.clker.com/clipart-thumbtack-pushpin-2.html

• http://www.cannes-i-get.com/en/guess-accessoires-cannes-c215.html

• http://soshable.com/the-twitter-ten/twitter-birds/

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