Philips Case Study
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Philips implemented targeted status updates on LinkedIn to enhance audience engagement by delivering relevant content to specific groups, resulting in a 106% increase in follower interactions. The initiative aimed to provide more value to their followers by tailoring messages based on professional interests and industry segments. This approach not only improved engagement but also offered insights for developing new products and services.
Philips Case Study
- 1. Marketing Solutions Philips Case Study Building social engagement with LinkedIn Targeted Status Updates “ When we send interesting Targeted Status Updates to narrower audiences, and when they respond to Challenge these updates by sharing or commenting on them, • Present Company Page followers with more relevant we create a more engaging and lively Company news Page for all of our followers. The targeted updates • Target news by company divisions and products helped us more than double the social interaction • Increase social interactions • Gain insights on where and how followers engage on the page, and that increased interaction created with content more value for our followers.” Stephanie Charron Solution Corporate Communications Officer, Philips Healthcare • LinkedIn Targeted Status Updates • Target updates by professional interests • Include employees and media to increase sharing and engagement Tailoring messages for social media audience Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands is a diversified Why LinkedIn? health and well-being company, focused on improving • Precisetargeting helps reach desired audience people’s lives through meaningful innovations. “We are • Relevant status updates increase engagement continually communicating to multiple, varied audiences • Detailed analytics help drive content development about our activities in the healthcare, consumer lifestyle, and lighting sectors,” explains Clive Roach, social media strategist in Amsterdam for Philips Healthcare. “We need Results to reach everyone from the C-suite, to clinicians, to • 106% increase in engagement by followers design professionals. However, we know that not all of • More social activity helps build audience for these groups are necessarily interested in everything we Company Page have to say.” • Insights on social engagement can inform new products and services Roach and his social media colleagues post weekly news-related updates to the Philips LinkedIn Company Page. However, Roach wanted to explore the impact of delivering updates to specific groups.
- 2. “With social media, you want to tailor what your audiences see,” Roach explains. “When someone decides to become a Philips Philips appoints Deborah DiSanzo as new CEO follower of our LinkedIn Company Page, it’s nice if we can of the Healthcare sector and member of its Executive Committee. Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Royal Philips target our messages so as not to take up their time with Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced content that’s not interesting to them.” the appointment of Deborah DiSanzo as Chief Executive Officer of Philips Healthcare and member of its Executive Committee, with effect from May 1, 2012. Mrs. DiSanzo will succeed Steve Rusckowski, who will leave the Targeting yields higher engagement company per April 30, 2012. Roach decided to test LinkedIn Targeted Status Updates, a Like (12) • Comment • Share (2) new feature that delivers relevant content to a more targeted group of LinkedIn followers. Targeted Status Updates allow organizations with LinkedIn Company Pages to deliver status updates to well-defined groups of followers, which can help Targeted Status Updates reach precise audiences increase engagement and improve brand loyalty. Marketers with corporate news can target followers based on company size, industry, function, and geography, among other parameters. Social interaction adds value “We know that targeting can yield better engagement, and In the six-week period in which Philips first launched Targeted we’ve seen how that has worked with LinkedIn tools like Status Updates, the rate of engagement of its followers – Partner Messages, where we can choose who receives the including activities such as clickthroughs and likes – increased messages,” Roach says. “Targeted Status Updates let us by 106%. define our target audience in a similar way.” “When we send interesting Targeted Status Updates to Philips’ targeting needs are varied, so Roach tested audiences narrower audiences, and when they respond to these updates ranging from health care and engineering to creative/design by sharing or commenting on them, we create a more professionals, depending on the subject of the status update. engaging and lively Company Page for all of our followers,” For instance, an update about Philips’ creative director’s says Stephanie Charron, corporate communications officer for views on product design was delivered to Philips Company Philips. “The targeted updates helped us more than double Page followers who indicated that they were in creative, the social interaction on the page, and that increased engineering, or product-related positions. interaction created more value for our followers.” In addition to choosing specific audiences based on an Because she can easily track engagement for each update update’s content, Roach also made sure that every update that she posts – viewing how often the update is shared, liked, reached journalists. “Usually about half the audience is clicked, or commented on – Philips gains valuable insights on made up of specific groups – but we always include the the type of content most likely to drive reaction from press and employees to increase the chance that the followers. “When we can show colleagues the analytics that message will be clicked on or shared,” Roach says. prove an update is successful, we can recommend the creation of similar content,” Charron says. Philips Philips Innovates in Healthcare with Social “LinkedIn allows us to refine who sees updates based on Media - Adopting to Business Strategy and New what we think will be interesting for them,” Charron says. Opportunities Within Care Cycle. A unique social media “That means engagement goes up automatically, and this initiative. Starting on January 10, Mr. Langendonk and his feedback gives us insights on how we can better cardiologist, Dr Lukas Dekker, used Twitter before, during and after a minimally-invasive intervention during which communicate to our customers.” catheters were used to remedy Mr. Langendonk’s heart rhythm disorder. The intervention was successfully performed on January 27, allowing Mr. Langendonk to Visit marketing.linkedin.com to learn how other marketers begin the process of regaining his quality of life. have successfully met their marketing objectives. Like (18) • Comment • Share (3) Philips’ Targeted Status Updates highlight a healthcare procedure and industry news Copyright © 2012 LinkedIn Corporation. LinkedIn, the LinkedIn logo, and InMail are registered trademarks of LinkedIn Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brands and names are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved. 10-LCS-101-G 0812