2. What is Sharethrough?
We make tools for viral media marketing.
Customers include top brands and agencies like
Sony, Fox, Paramount, AT&T, McCann Erickson.
Early Facebook platform adopters.
4. Virality increases Acquisition, Retention, Referral
* AARRR concept courtesy of Dave Mclure’s ‘Startup Metrics for Pirates’ (http://500hats.typepad.com/)
5. How do you get Virality?
A metric-based focused allows you to tweak and engineer
virality (viral loop)
Different “Calls to Action” can increase people’s likelihood to
engage/click
Optimizing on the right viral channel can make or break viral
spread
There is a science to virality.
6. The Viral Loop
Rate of People Spreading
(Inviting)
Rate of Recipients Amount of Spread
Accepting Invite (People Invited)
7. Calls to Action
Optimize Text, Images,
Videos
Goal is to increase people’s
likelihood to click button
8. Optimizing for the Right Viral Channels
Newsfeeds Chat
Stream Comments
Immediate Photos
Notifications Email
Invitations Friend Linking
Messages
There are lots of viral channels. Try them all out and find out
which ones actually work.
11. Hands-on with Facebook
Developers wiki Best Practices for
New widgets concept Notifications
Developer tools Using FBJS and server side
Connect setup/registration
Single sign on
Friend linking
Widgets
Feeds
Familiar with HTML?
Familiar with Web Scripting like PHP?
Who here currently has built a FB app or FB connected site?
Who has the ability or intentions to build an FB app or FB connected site?
Viral Videos (Screen shots of this)
Concept also works in Web Properties
Cheap and Effective Marketing for any Web Property
-Small investment could yield large return
-Marketing message is personally endorsed
-Spreads by digital “Word of Mouth”
Dave Mclure 500hats.com, SV blogger, angel investor
New age of digital identity, FB is a large part of that - showing off media a part that identity
The right demographic and mentality of users
Easy to access and “in-your-face” viral channels
Many viral channels to play around with