The Need to Re-Invent Tune-In

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The networks used to get 75% awareness for each new program launch. Today despite going outside to pay for tune-in on top of 20% of one's own saleable airtime, awareness has gone down. Our own estimate of the current average awareness gained for new network (and comparable) product was 45% at launch across the 451 new shows that premiered last year for example. That's based on conversations with numerous network executives whose charge includes tune-in.

The changes taking place in the world require a complete zero-based reinvention of tune-in. Today the typical media mix for the paid tune-in is 80% TV and the other 20% testing digital video alternatives per my earlier post -- really a very conventional and cautious approach. And yet completely new forms are available, all of which will produce the same results as conventional tune-in. All of them (in conjunction with conventional tune-in) deserve rigorous AB testing:

  • Personalized recommender on network site and apps
  • More effort on cooperating with TV bloggers/reviewers
  • Fan club social media
  • College social media
  • Tweeting links to videos that people can re-send
  • Versioning of creative
  • Interactive creative
  • The list goes on and on

Why would one suspect that there is a pot of gold in testing such approaches? Is it not obvious how the culture is shifting Internet-ward? Has the Internet proven to be a land where such wild experimentation has won landslides again and again? "Not having the bandwidth" or "it's on our roadmap" are silly responses to this opportunity.

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