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Gaining Competitive Edge with AI-Powered Social Listening
Kerri-Lee Kramer and Ahna Boley
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Insurance: Establishing Long-term Community
Discover how a private online community helped an insurance leader cut research costs, engage customers deeply, and make smarter marketing decisions fast.
Kerri Godfrey and Slavica Dummer

Facing rising costs and shifting consumer needs, an insurance leader turned to a private online community to unlock real-time insights and drive smarter growth.

Challenges:

A leading insurance company was faced with the challenge of creating educational material that addressed the concerns, whilst guiding the right consumers towards selecting the right type of insurance. The company needed a solution that was both quick and cost-effective to discover insights about the insurance industry and achieve effective communication with customers.

Solutions:

To address these challenges, listening247 introduced an innovative solution: a private online community platform designed for the insurance company to gain a better understanding of customer perspective when it comes to its products and services. This platform facilitated real-time interactions and allowed the company’s necessary departments such as the marketing and research team to conduct various activities such as bulletin board discussions, surveys within the community and video diaries.

Benefits for the Client:

1. Efficient Decision-Making: The customer quickly gathered initial input from consumers, which guided crucial marketing choices, ensuring they maintained a competitive edge in the market.

2. Enhancement of Economic Strategy: The online community platform minimised total market research expenses by delivering valuable insights, thereby optimizing the return on investment for marketing expenditure.

3. Enhanced Consumer Engagement: Consistent interaction with the consumer base via the platform bolstered brand loyalty and offered more profound insights into the consumer experience, leading to enhancements in marketing strategies and product offerings.

December 17, 2024
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From Consumer Insight to Market Strategy: A Cost-Effective Journey
Discover how a global brand used AI-powered social listening and an innovative online community to transform consumer insights across six countries, efficiently.
Kerri Godfrey and Slavica Dummer

A global leader used AI-powered social listening and a dynamic online community to capture nuanced consumer insights across six countries—accelerating decisions and cutting costs.

Challenges:

A global company faced the dual challenge of improving product perception and performance without increasing expenditure. Tasked by the CEO to deliver actionable insights, the Marketing Director needed a solution that was both quick and cost-effective, as traditional market research methods were proving too slow and expensive for the dynamic market landscape.

Solutions:

To address these challenges, listening247 introduced an innovative solution: a private online community platform designed to serve as an advisory board comprising consumers. This platform facilitated realtime interactions and allowed the marketing team to conduct various activities like polls, asynchronous discussions, and video diary sessions.

Benefits for the Client:

1. Accelerated Decision-Making: The client rapidly acquired preliminary consumer feedback that informed critical marketing decisions, keeping them ahead in a competitive market.

2. Economic Strategy Refinement: The online community platform reduced overall market research costs while providing valuable insights, maximising ROI on marketing spend.

3. Deeper Consumer Connection: Continuous engagement with the consumer base through the platform enhanced brand loyalty and provided deeper insights into the consumer experience, improving marketing strategies and product offerings.

November 7, 2024
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Global Perspectives: Unveiling Consumer Sentiments in Personal Care Across Six
To win in the personal care market, a global giant turned to AI-driven insights, uncovering real-time consumer sentiment across six diverse countries.
Kerri Godfrey and Slavica Dummer

To stay ahead in the competitive personal care market, a global blue-chip organisation sought to deeply understand consumer perceptions across six diverse countries. Facing the challenge of capturing nuanced attitudes in multiple languages, they partnered with listening247™. Leveraging advanced AI-driven social intelligence, the initiative uncovered real-time, high-accuracy insights that informed strategy, enhanced campaign effectiveness, and aligned offerings more closely with consumer expectations.

Challenges:

A global blue chip organisation need to explore the landscape around a personal care category in 6 different countries to discover consumer perception and attitude towards their product. They goal was to thoroughly investigate consumer perceptions and attitudes around the personal care category to better inform future marketing campaigns.

Solutions:

To tackle these obstacles, listening247 adopted an all-encompassing social intelligence strategy employing sophisticated AI models.  This method entailed gathering data from various digital platforms that covered user posts on public websites in 6 different languages including German where the sentiment accuracy at sentence level was 91%. The data was then carefully harvested, followed by the process of noise elimination to remove irrelevant posts. This data underwent meticulous annotation, detailing information on brands sentiments and topics.

Benefits for the Client:

1. Dynamic Market Reactivity: Utilising the listening247™ platform enabled the client to monitor shifts and adjust promptly, thereby sustaining a competitive advantage.

2. Enhanced Marketing Strategy: The results were leveraged by the client's advertising agency to craft upcoming campaigns.

3. Better Market Alignment: The provided insights enabled the client to synchronise their offerings with consumer preferences, thus improving customer engagement.

May 19, 2024
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Young Appetites: Tailoring Quick Service Menus for Millennial Trends
Discover how a top Saudi quick-service chain used AI-driven insights to tailor menus that capture millennial tastes and boost engagement among under-35s.
Kerri Godfrey and Slavica Dummer

A leading Saudi quick-service chain faced the challenge of decoding under-35 consumer trends from vast multilingual data. Using advanced AI and three months of digital insights, listening247 helped tailor menus that boosted relevance, engagement, and informed decisions.

Challenges:

A leading quick service restaurant chain in Saudi Arabia needed to grasp the consumer trends among the under-35 demographic. The challenge was to sift through extensive multilingual digital content from various platforms to extract precise, relevant data.

Solutions:

To address these challenges, listening247 implemented a robust methodology involving the collection of three months' worth of historical data across key digital platforms, using generic keywords to capture a broad spectrum of consumer behaviour and preferences. Advanced AI models were employed to annotate the data with sentiment and relevant topics.

Benefits for the Client:

1. Informed Decision-Making: The insights allowed for data-driven adjustments to the restaurant's menu. 

2. Enhanced Market Relevance: Understanding young consumers' preferences enabled the restaurant to better align its offerings.

3. Improved Customer Engagement: The strategic updates led to higher engagement and satisfaction from the crucial under-35 market.

February 15, 2024
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Luxury Watches and Digital Insights: Crafting a Niche Brand’s Success Story
How one luxury watch brand turned limited social data into powerful consumer insights by unlocking value, elegance, and engagement through smart tech.
Kerri Godfrey and Slavica Dummer

A leading luxury watch manufacturer sought to deepen their understanding of market dynamics and consumer perceptions but faced challenges with a limited volume of social media interactions. listening247® technology was deployed to analyse over 41,794 posts, refining the data to 4,423 relevant commercial interactions, which provided actionable insights and enhanced brand perception and engagement.

Challenges:

A leading luxury watch manufacturer needed to enhance their understanding of market dynamics and consumer perceptions. The challenge was to derive actionable insights from a limited volume of social media interactions using methods beyond traditional analytics.

Solutions:

listening247 implemented their proprietary technology to meticulously analyse social media data associated with the luxury watch market. The approach was comprehensive: beginning with the harvesting of over 41,794 posts and undergoing multiple rounds of noise elimination to refine the data to the most relevant 4,423 commercial posts.

Benefits for the Client:

1. Enhanced Brand Perception:  Insights revealed the brand as 'elegant' and 'good value for money', crucial for refining marketing strategies and consumer communication.

2. Direct Consumer Engagement:  The identification of leads facilitated direct interactions with potential buyers, boosting conversion opportunities and enhancing customer relationship management. Identifying key influencers and approximately 513,000 potential customer leads, listening247 enabled the brand to strategically connect with both market movers and potential buyers.

April 12, 2025
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Cutting Through the Noise: Carlsberg’s Precision in Campaign Evaluation
Drowning in 22,448 noisy posts, Carlsberg turned to listening247 to clean the data and unlock sharp insights that transformed their YouTube campaign.
Kerri Godfrey and Slavica Dummer

Carlsberg’s YouTube campaign faced challenges with a noisy dataset of 22,448 posts, plagued by duplicates and irrelevant content. listening247 employed a three-step noise elimination strategy, refining the data to 177 relevant posts, leading to more accurate insights, cost efficiency, and improved campaign performance.

Challenges:

Carlsberg’s “Standing up for a friend” YouTube campaign initially struggled with a noisy dataset of 22,448 posts, predominantly filled with duplicates and irrelevant content. Traditional tools inaccurately processed this noise, risking flawed campaign evaluations.

Solutions:

listening247 approached the problem with a structured three-step noise elimination strategy, utilising their proprietary solution, listening247. The first step involved the removal of 3,354 duplicate posts, instantly refining the dataset. Subsequently, a taxonomy of noise terms was created with the assistance of specially trained human curators, which facilitated the identification and removal of 18,890 irrelevant posts. By the end of the process, the dataset was distilled to 177 relevant posts, ensuring a high level of data purity.

Using engaging247, the brand enhanced its social media management with features like the smart compose for scheduling posts, a unified inbox for tracking and responding to comments, and easy access to comprehensive reports. The seamless integration between listening247 and engaging247 allowed the brand to target the right audiences with the content and offers that they were expecting.

Benefits for the Client:

1. Informed Decision-Making: With purified data, Carlsberg gained accurate insights into audience engagement, enhancing decision-making and strategic planning.

2. Cost and Time Efficiency: The precise analytics saved significant time and resources otherwise wasted on sifting through irrelevant data, boosting operational efficiency.

3. Enhanced Campaign Performance: The insights derived from high-quality data enabled Carlsberg to optimise its marketing efforts, leading to improved campaign efficacy and a stronger market presence.

4. Precision Analytics: listening247's proprietary solution, was pivotal, filtering out 99% of the noise and isolating 177 pertinent posts, starkly contrasting with the results from other tools and solutions.

March 22, 2025
Case Studies
Discovering New Trends in Dynamic FMCG Market with listening247
Unlock how a global FMCG brand tapped AI-powered insights from listening247 to track emerging trends in Vietnam’s fast-moving digital market.
Kerri Godfrey and Slavica Dummer

A global FMCG company sought to identify emerging trends in Vietnam's market using digital data. listening247 provided a solution by applying advanced AI models to analyse extensive online content, enabling the client to enhance marketing strategies, adapt swiftly to market changes, and make informed decisions through detailed insights and interactive reporting tools.

Challenges:

A global FMCG company needed to uncover emerging consumer trends in Vietnam’s dynamic market. They required a solution to interpret vast digital data—from blogs to social media—without direct consumer interaction.

Solutions:

To address these challenges, listening247 implemented a comprehensive social intelligence strategy using advanced AI models. The approach involved collecting data from a wide range of digital platforms using 60 generic keywords categorised into areas such as 'lifestyle', 'appearance', and 'career'. This data was meticulously annotated with information about brands, sentiments, and topical discussions.

Benefits for the Client:

1. Enhanced Marketing Strategy: The insights gained enabled the FMCG company to refine their marketing strategies, ensuring alignment with real-time consumer trends.

2. Agile Market Response: Access to the listening247 platform allowed the client to monitor changes and adapt quickly, maintaining a competitive edge.

3. Informed Decision-Making: The strategic insights led to better decision-making, driving effective consumer engagement and increasing market penetration in Vietnam.

4. Interactive Reporting Tools: listening247 provided an intuitive dashboard and detailed reports via a partner agency, facilitating seamless insight dissemination to the client.

November 19, 2024
Case Studies
Success Story in Harnessing Social Media for Consumer Insight
Discover how listening247 transformed 620,000+ social posts into powerful consumer insights, blending social data with surveys to boost telecom’s market edge.
Kerri Godfrey and Slavica Dummer

In a collaborative project with a telecom client, listening247 faced the challenge of integrating social listening analytics with existing consumer surveys amidst managing over 620,000 social media posts and aligning diverse Net Promoter Scores (NPS™) and Net Satisfaction Scores (NSS™). The project demanded advanced analytical techniques to sift through noise, categorise data effectively, and correlate consumer sentiment with market events.

Challenges:

The collaborative project between listening247 and a Telecom client sought to integrate social listening analytics with existing consumer surveys. A significant challenge was managing over 620,605 social media posts, with about two-thirds rendered irrelevant due to noise issues. Aligning the monthly NPS™ with variable NSS™ scores also presented complexities, necessitating an advanced analytical approach to synthesise these diverse data streams.

Solutions:

listening247 addressed these challenges by involving extensive social media listening over a six-month period and the deployment of sophisticated data curation techniques. This included the creation of a detailed hierarchical taxonomy to categorise the data effectively and the use of refined search term combinations to improve the relevance of the data collected. listening247's solution also involved superimposing NPS™ and NSS™ data over a calendar of market events thereby providing a dynamic analysis that captures the pulse of consumer sentiment and its impact on brand perception.

Benefits for the Client:

1. Enhanced Strategic Decision-Making: The integration of NPS™ and NSS™ allowed telecom client to gain a dual perspective on customer loyalty and social sentiment, offering a holistic view of brand health and consumer satisfaction.

2. Improved Customer Insights: The project uncovered specific consumer sentiments not captured in traditional surveys, enabling telecom client to tailor their customer engagement and service strategies more effectively

3. Informed Operational Adjustments: The insights provided led to better-informed operational decisions, enhancing brand’s responsiveness to market changes and customer needs, ultimately strengthening their market position.

4. Dynamic Data Analysis: By overlaying NPS™ and NSS™ data with a calendar of market events, listening247 provided a nuanced analysis that captured real-time consumer sentiment fluctuations and their impacts on brand perception.

February 5, 2025
Case Studies
Leveraging Text and Image Analytics for Enhanced Consumer Insight
Unlock the power of image and text analytics as a top South African fashion brand reveals how deep learning uncovers true consumer sentiment online.
Kerri Godfrey and Slavica Dummer

A leading fashion brand in South Africa faced the challenge of understanding true consumer sentiment despite widespread online mentions. Traditional analytics fell short, prompting the brand to partner with listening247, which used advanced image analytics and deep learning to decode the visual narrative of the brand’s online presence.

Challenges:

A leading fashion brand in South Africa found itself facing a perplexing conundrum. Despite being mentioned across various online platforms, deciphering the true sentiment and perception surrounding its brand proved to be an uphill battle. Traditional text analytics fell short in capturing the richness and depth of consumer engagement, leaving the brand grappling with a fragmented understanding of its online presence.

Solutions:

Recognising the imperative to adapt to the evolving landscape of social media, the fashion brand turned to listening247 for a transformative solution. Leveraging listening247's cutting-edge image analytics capabilities, the brand embarked on a journey to unravel the visual narrative surrounding its products and brand identity. Through the deployment of advanced deep learning machine technology, listening247 provided the brand with the tools to decode the complexities of consumer-generated content, including images, videos, and other unstructured data.

Benefits for the Client:

1. Holistic Brand Perception: By harnessing image analytics, the fashion brand gained unparalleled insights into how consumers perceive and interact with its products online. From identifying key brand elements within visual content to discerning emerging trends, the brand now possesses a comprehensive understanding of its online image.

2. Strategic Agility: Armed with a newfound understanding of consumer sentiment, the fashion brand seamlessly integrated image analytics into its strategies. This strategic pivot not only unlocked new revenue streams but also positioned the brand at the forefront of innovation within the fashion industry.

3. Rapid Insights Generation: With listening247's image analytics solution, the fashion brand can now decode vast amounts of unstructured data in mere minutes. Whether it's analysing video clips, social media posts, or online community chatter, the brand gains actionable insights at an unprecedented speed, enabling agile decision-making and strategic planning.

4. Emotion Intelligence: listening247's proprietary AI models go beyond surface-level analysis, delving deep into the intricacies of consumer emotions. By dissecting both positive and negative sentiments expressed in visual content, the fashion brand gains a nuanced understanding of consumer sentiment, driving enhanced engagement and brand loyalty.

5. Intelligent Consumer Insights: With listening247's advanced machine learning models, the fashion brand gained unparalleled access to consumer behaviours, requirements, and preferences. Armed with this knowledge, the brand can tailor its marketing strategies and product offerings to resonate more deeply with its target audience.

September 22, 2024
Case Studies
Leveraging Consumer Insights for Beverage Marketing Success
Unlocking consumer voices across languages, this beverage leader taps deep insights on Moroccan dining to boost market strategy and outpace competitors.
Kerri Godfrey and Slavica Dummer

A leading beverage manufacturer faced the challenge of analyzing consumer discussions about dining out in Morocco amidst multiple languages and diverse data sources. Their objective was to uncover trends to strengthen their market presence.

Challenges:

A leading beverage manufacturer needed to decode consumer discussions about dining out in Morocco, navigating the dual challenges of multiple languages and varied data sources. Their goal was to understand trends that could enhance their market presence.

Solutions:

listening247’s strategy ensured a comprehensive capture and interpretation of consumer behaviour and preferences across different platforms. This annotated data was systematically organised into Excel tables, facilitating a seamless transfer of processed information to the client’s market research agency.

Benefits for the Client:

1. Strategic Insights: The client received a PowerPoint report filled with actionable insights, enabling them to tailor their strategy effectively.

2. Market Alignment: The insights provided allowed the client to align their offerings with consumer preferences, enhancing customer engagement.

3. Competitive Advantage: Armed with deep market understanding, the client could better position themselves in Morocco’s competitive dining sector, potentially increasing their market share.

4. Effective Collaboration: By collaborating closely with the client’s market research partner, listening247 ensured the insights were precisely aligned with the client’s strategic needs.

June 21, 2024
Case Studies
GameStop Buzz Analysis: Insights and Impact
GameStop’s stock saga sparked 3M+ social posts. Discover how advanced analytics decoded the fierce online battle shaping market moves and investor sentiment.
Kerri Godfrey and Slavica Dummer

The project "The Battle of Main Street vs. Wall Street" presented listening247 with a formidable challenge due to the immense volume of online conversation triggered by the GameStop stock saga. With over 3 million posts across various platforms, traditional data processing methods fell short of capturing the rapidly evolving narratives and sentiments.

Challenges:

The project "The Battle of Main Street vs. Wall Street" presented a unique challenge to listening247. With the emergence of a populist investment movement where GameStop shares became a battleground between retail investors and institutional short sellers, there was a phenomenal volume of online conversation to analyse. The challenge lay in the sheer volume of data—over 3 million posts spanning X (formerly Twitter), Reddit, forums, and other platforms within just two months. Traditional methods of data processing were inadequate to handle the scale and complexity of the social media discourse, which was rife with rapidly evolving narratives and sentiments.

Solutions:

listening247 leveraged its proprietary social intelligence solution to tackle the data deluge. By integrating advanced analytics, machine learning, and econometrics, the firm could efficiently process and analyse vast datasets. listening247's approach enabled them to annotate large volumes of social media posts with sentiment and thematic insights quickly. Their ability to distil actionable intelligence from millions of online mentions helped in identifying underlying sentiments and trends that were not immediately apparent in mainstream news coverage.

Benefits for the Client:

The insights provided by listening247 were invaluable for their clients, especially those interested in understanding market sentiments and potential shifts in stock movements. By decoding the complex web of social media interactions, listening247 provided a granular view of the public sentiment and its impact on the stock prices of GameStop and other related stocks. Clients benefitted from a real-time understanding of investor behaviour, which is crucial in dynamic and volatile markets. This capability enhanced strategic decision-making and offered a competitive edge in predicting market trends based on consumer sentiment, thus identifying new investment and risk management opportunities.

May 17, 2024
Case Studies
Enhancing Social Media Strategy with engaging247 and listening247
Discover how a leading knitwear brand boosted its social media impact using engaging247 and listening247 to turn data into engagement and growth.
Kerri Godfrey and Slavica Dummer

A leading knitwear brand struggled with a low share of voice and ineffective social media strategies, despite having a positive brand sentiment. Challenges included identifying key influencers, managing sentiment, and distinguishing itself in a competitive market.

Challenges:

A leading knitwear clothing brand faced significant challenges in maintaining its competitive edge in the crowded knitwear market. Despite having a positive brand sentiment, the brand's share of voice was notably low, commanding only 4% of the industry's conversation. The company also struggled to identify key influencers, manage sentiment across various platforms, and differentiate itself from competitors. Furthermore, there were gaps in their social media strategy, particularly in content creation and resource allocation.

Solutions:

To address these challenges, the knitwear brand began with listening247 for brand health tracking and competitor benchmarking. This provided them with valuable insights into the social media landscape, identifying conversation drivers and gaps in the brand's strategies. The integration of DataVinci 3.0, a generative AI, offered deeper analysis and actionable suggestions, such as identifying key influencers and pinpointing negative conversation drivers of competitors that the brand could capitalise on.

Using engaging247, the brand enhanced its social media management with features like the smart compose for scheduling posts, a unified inbox for tracking and responding to comments, and easy access to comprehensive reports. The seamless integration between listening247 and engaging247 allowed the brand to target the right audiences with the content and offers that they were expecting.

Benefits for the Client:

The implementation of listening247 and engaging247 yielded significant benefits for the knitwear brand. The insights provided by listening247 enabled the brand to refine its social media strategy by focusing on the most impactful conversation drivers such as materials, sustainability, and size. The company identified key influencers to collaborate with, which amplified their reach and engagement on platforms like Instagram, their most active channel.

engaging247's unified inbox streamlined the brand's social media management, allowing for efficient tracking and response to follower interactions. The smart compose tool simplified content creation and ensured optimal post sizes across all channels, saving time and resources. Furthermore, the easy-to-access reports facilitated informed decision-making and strategy adjustments by the social media team.

Overall, the integration of these solutions helped the knitwear brand increase its visibility and engagement, resulting in improved competitive positioning and a stronger social media presence. The brand's ability to differentiate itself in the knitwear market was significantly enhanced, leveraging data-driven insights to drive strategic social media initiatives.

By utilising engaging247 and listening247, the knitwear brand transformed its social media strategy, achieving a comprehensive understanding of its brand health and competitive landscape, which ultimately led to increased brand loyalty and market share.

May 20, 2024

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