30
Audio Content: Marketing like you’ve never seen before! Abdelrahman Wahba Iqraaly Co-Founder & General Manager

Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Embed Size (px)

DESCRIPTION

This is the presentatio I held in the "Inbound Age 2014" describing marketing using audio content and audio ads. I've used iqraaly - the mobile application for narrated Arabic audio content that I've Co-Founded to explain the traction audio content currently has in the Egyptian market. I've also included interesting data and insights about our work and the clients we have worked with.

Citation preview

Page 1: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Audio Content: Marketing like you’ve never seen

before!

Abdelrahman Wahba

Iqraaly

Co-Founder & General Manager

Page 2: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Contents

• Why audio content?

• Case: iqraaly

• Audio content marketing

– Effect of audio vs image/text

– Audio content marketing case studies

• Souq.com

• Building blocks and ideas

Page 3: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

The idea & vision

Iqraaly || اقرأ لي

THE Digital Mobile Audio content platform in

MENA for people

On-the-go Click here to see the introductory video of iqraaly on youtube

Page 4: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Why Audio content?

Page 5: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Why Audio Content?

• Time spent in traffic and waiting areas

2-3 hrs daily* = 1,100 hrs/year+

= 1 year in University!

• FM Radio shortcomings

– Highly regulated, hence no content variety

– Content is broadcasted without personalization

© Iqraaly.com 6 *survey www.gulftalent.com 2007

Page 6: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Case: iqraaly

the mobile app for Narrated Arabic Audio Content

Page 7: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

• A Mobile app (& mobile website) with daily narrated audio content

• Books, News, lifestyle, tech, sports, book reviews, others

http://get.iqraaly.com

© iqraaly.com 8

Iqraaly is:

Page 8: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Performance to date • App downloads

Total: 150,000+

• Monthly listened minutes

1,500,000+ minutes • Monthly Traffic

230,000+ listens • Produced audio

30,000+ pieces total

~1,000 pieces monthly

• Secured Partnerships

Page 9: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

The main idea: People want to listen to intelligently personalized audio content on the go

Provide a premium quality & on-demand alternative to FM

radio, where the user can choose what to listen to from

a wide variety of content

Page 10: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Iqraaly in the media

11/11/11 © Menassah.com 11

Top 20 finalist in

Page 11: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Iqraaly Cinemobilefilm award

Page 12: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Iqraaly’s audio content is now on Shorouknews!

Page 13: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Audio: the road companion

Proof by numbers

Page 14: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Traffic & user engagement

Jan ‘13 Jul ‘13 Jan ‘14 Jul ‘14 Sep ‘14 Aug ‘15

D: Downloads L: Listens M: Listened Minutes

D: 3,400+ L: 61,000+ M: 144,000+

D: 64,000+ L: 101,000+ M: 107,000+

D: 101,000+ L: 115,000+ M: 351,000+

D: 135,000+ L: 224,000+ M: 969,000+

D: 150,000+ L: 233,000+ M: 1,600,000+

D: 500,000+ L: 1,000,000+ M: 6,000,000+

Page 15: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Traffic distribution

Traffic Distribution*

Web users 20%

Smartphone users 80%

Drivers vs. Passengers**

Drivers 67%

Passengers 33%

*Identified automatically via our analytics **Identified via market research with our users

Page 16: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Peak Usage hours

0:00 4:48 9:36 14:24 19:12 0:00 4:48

Number of listens vs. hours of the day

Morning Rush hour

AfternoonRush hour

Page 17: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Demographics: Cultured Premium Users

• Age: – 20-45 years

– 70% @ 25-35 years

• Gender

• Mobile Phones – High-to-mid-end

smartphones

– Decent mobile internet package

• Education – Higher education, 90%

University Degree

– Culturally aware with relative sophistication

Males 60%

Females 40%

Page 18: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Audio Content Map

Page 19: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Top Performing Content

-

10,000

20,000

30,000

40,000

50,000

60,000

70,000

May '14 Jun '14 Jul '14 Aug '14 Sep '14

ثقافة وكتب

سياسة

أخبار

تنمية ذاتية

ترفيه

دين

رياضة

تكنولوجيا

Page 23: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Audio Content: Foundation for Engagement

• Top listener loyalty program

Page 24: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Audio Content: Foundation for Engagement

• Puzzles about the content

Page 25: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Case Study: Souq.com

Page 26: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Iqraaly &

• Iqraaly’s offering

– Branded Content • Link to Souq’s channel on

iqraaly

– Audio ad campaign

• Branded Content

– Product reviews, product comparisons, shopping tips

• Performance

– 14 Produced episodes

– 12,405 listens

– 45,880 listened minutes

– 2 months & ongoing

– Top performing content:

• مقارنة بين سامسونج جاالكسي

نوت 3 و سامسونج جاالكسي نوت نيو

Page 27: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Building Blocks

Page 28: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Building Blocks

• Building Blocks: – Identify the brand voice

– Define the key messages

– Add value to the listeners, then the brand • Knowledge

• Entertainment

• Motivation/Inspiration

– Compliment the Brand value proposition

– Make use of the emotional twist of the medium and engage the listeners

Page 29: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Special Announcement

Iqraaly 2.0

http://bit.ly/iqraaly_beta

Page 30: Iqraaly at Inbound Age 2014: Audio Content: Marketing like you've never seen before

Confidential © Innovolve LLC

Thank you,

For more information please contact

Abdelrahman Wahba

[email protected]