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RETAIL 2013
Annual Analysis of How Over 800 Retailers Are Using Social Commerce to Improve the Shopping Experience
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Report Highlights
69%
- BUT -
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- & -
AND 38% ARE PRESENT ON
A R E
86%
P L A N N I N G F O R
SOCIAL SHOPPING FUNCTIONALITY
TRAFFIC ONLY AVERAGES
2.16%
IN THEIR 2014 SITE DESIGN UPDATES
FROM
FACEBOOK - & - - & -
(22X MORE THAN PINTEREST) vs Like IT’S NOT JUST FOR PURE PLAYS
27%
RETAILERS IN THIS YEAR’S SCIQ
ARE AMONG THE TOP 50 IN THE
THE FACEBOOK LIKE BUTTON
AND THE TWEET BUTTON
ON THE PRODUCT PAGE
AS FACEBOOK EVOLVED TO A
PAY FOR PLAY 62% HAVE PIN IT BUTTONS
MARKETING PLATFORM 59% HAVE LIKE BUTTONS 2013 TOP 500 GUIDE
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Welcome Letter
Hello,
This is the third year 8thBridge is publishing its Social Commerce IQ (SCIQ) report. In this time, Social
Commerce has rapidly changed from ecommerce transactions on social networks to focus on
empowering people to discover new product ideas from each other while they shop with the brands
they love.
The launching of social discovery and curation solutions this year by some of the world’s largest
retailers, Toys”R”Us, eBay, Walmart, Target, and Amazon, is a strong indication that on-site social
discovery has gone mainstream.
While social network engagement declined and social traffic remained insignificant, on-site social
discovery was proven in 2013 to be the key to cracking the code on monetizing social - lifting revenue
per visit by 10-15% and doubling the time people spend shopping.
We almost doubled the number of brands we analyzed this year, 872 compared to 475 last year, to
include nearly all of the brands from companies in the Internet Retailer 2013 Top 500 Guide and
additional brands Internet Retailer determined were up and coming.
Wade Gerten
Founder & CEO
8thBridge, Inc.
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Executive Summary
SOCIAL COMMERCE IS ABOUT PRODUCT DISCOVERY Two other signs of the changing role of the Facebook brand page are the significant
decrease in shopping application and overall degradation of the Facebook application
This year, Social Commerce accelerates its pace emphasizing product discovery via user experience. Shopping applications (with and without checkout) on Facebook
product centric interest communities. Of the 872 ecommerce sites in this year’s SCIQ, brand pages decreased from 62% last year to 15% having product browsing (no
Pinterest’s Pin It button overtook Facebook’s Like button on the product page with checkout) and 2% having shopping (fully integrated checkout) this year. Although 90%
62% of the companies using the Pin It button versus 59% using the Like button. of all companies have an average of 4 applications on their brand page, 40% of these
Although companies have embraced social discovery via Pinterest, the upstream companies had applications that were either not functioning or out of date.
traffic to their sites from Pinterest is still underwhelming, averaging 0.1% of their total
traffic and twenty two times less than Facebook. SOCIAL COMMERCE IS NO LONGER JUST FOR PURE PLAYS
ECOMMERCE SITE SOCIAL DISCOVERY GOING MAINSTREAM Last year was a transition year; the SCIQ leaderboard was comprised of smaller, more
agile companies with either strong social network strategies or that launched new
This year shows significant adoption of curation & social discovery features on websites with social shopping functionality. This year, no one strategy guaranteed a
ecommerce sites. 86% of retailers planning site redesigns for 2014 are planning to position on the Top 25 and as a result, only 6 companies from last year made the Top
add social shopping features and 10% of the retailers covered in this report already 25 SCIQ scores this year. Another year also allowed larger companies the chance to
support it. Even more significant is that the world’s largest retailers embraced on-site catch up. Eight of the companies in the Top 25 list are among the Top 50 in the
social discovery in 2013, with Walmart, Target, Amazon, and eBay launching social Internet Retailer 2013 Top 500 Guide.
discovery and curation features on their own sites.
SCIQ METHODOLOGY
FACEBOOK CONTINUES TO EVOLVE TO A TRADITIONAL
8thBridge analyzed 872 web retailers from the Internet Retailer 2013 Top 500 Guide
MARKETING PLATFORM
and an additional list of brands Internet Retailer magazine determined were up and
Meanwhile, Facebook continues to evolve to a Marketing Platform versus a social coming for its Social Commerce IQ (SCIQ) Report. The results show that the most
commerce play involving brand pages. Overall, Facebook engagement on Facebook effective social media marketers are not only present on the social networks and
brand pages was down 27% from 4.1% last year as measured by Talking About This/ drive customer engagement, but they also have great website social experiences that
Brand Likes. This decrease in brand engagement is being fueled by an exponential incorporate customer curation (or collections), crowd-sourced discovery and social
increase in shared stories overall and brands have not invested in Facebook rewards.
advertising to compensate for the decrease in brand story distribution. On the bright
In its analysis, 8thBridge measured 52 different social data points for each retailer
side, the most attractive marketing investment on the Facebook platform is
from the major U.S. social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube,
retargeting ecommerce site visitors via Facebook Exchange which is not really social,
Instagram, Google+, and Vine. These data points consisted of upstream traffic from
but a more traditional advertising tool. Facebook Exchange is now dominating the
the social networks, engagement metrics including the number of followers and user
retargeting market.
interactions, and metrics of how extensively a retailer has incorporated social
features onto its own ecommerce site.
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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Overview 9
Social Platforms Analyzed 10
Methodology and Classes 11
Categories 12
Top 25 Companies 13
Top 25 Companies Compared to All Other Companies 14-16
Brand Awareness on Social Networks 17
Social Upstream Traffic 18
Average by Category - Brand Awareness on Social Networks 19-20
Average by Category - Social Upstream Traffic 21-22
Adoption by Category - Website Social Lift 23-24
Findings 25
Adoption 25
Top 10 Facebook 26
Top 10 YouTube 27
Top 10 Twitter 28
Top 10 Pinterest 29
Top 10 Instagram 30
Top 10 Vine 31
Top 10 Klout Scores 32
Top 10 Comparison 33
Upstream Traffic from Social Networks 34
Social Website Integration 35
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Website Social Shopping 36
Applications on Facebook 37-38
Customer Survey Results 39-41
Retailer Survey Results 42-43
Case Studies 44
Free People 44
Walmart/Amazon/Target 45
Toys”R”Us & Babies”R”Us 46
Sur La Table 47
Deb Shops 48
Kipling 49
ModCloth 50
eBay 51
SCIQ Scoring 52
SCIQ by Category 52
Brand List 53-59
Index Classes 60-118
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Overview
8thBridge researched 872 brands beginning in July and ending in November 2013. 8thBridge conducted a survey of 502 customers in July 2013.
The brands researched were determined by the Internet Retailer 2013 Top 500
Guide and an additional list of brands Internet Retailer determined were up and RETAILER SURVEY
coming.
8thBridge conducted a survey of 37 retailers in August 2013.
7 SOCIAL PLATFORMS
Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+, and Vine were analyzed.
4 AREAS
4 areas were taken into account when calculating the SCIQ scores: brand awareness
on social networks, social upstream traffic, website social lift, and Social CRM.
4 CLASSES
Scores were broken down into 4 classes: genius, superior, average, and deficient.
19 CATEGORIES
The 872 brands researched were broken down into 19 categories: apparel/
accessories, automotive, beauty, books/music/videos, children and baby,
computers/electronics, flowers/gifts, food, hardware/home improvement, health,
housewares/home furnishings, jewelry, mass merchant, office supplies, pets,
specialty, sporting apparel, sporting goods, and toys/hobbies.
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Social Platforms Analyzed
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Methodology and Classes
Methodology Classes
Brand Awareness on Social Networks 30% Genius 75+
Genius brands represent the most socially-advanced
Number of Facebook Fans, Facebook Talking About This, Facebook Engagement (Talking About This/Fans),
brands. At a minimum they are category leaders in
Social Applications on Facebook, Number of Twitter Followers, Number of YouTube Subscribers, Number engagement rates and traffic. Leaders in this group
of YouTube Video Views, Number of Pinterest Followers, Number of Pinterest Pins, Number of Pinterest have already integrated advanced social functionality
Boards, Number of Instagram Followers, Number of Instagram Posts, Number of Instagram Brand into their ecommerce sites.
Hashtag Posts, Number of Vine Followers, Number of Vine Videos, and Klout Score.
Superior 45-74.9
Superior brands are generally proficient at
Social Upstream Traffic 30%
maintaining their social network presence and have
basic social network integration into their
Facebook Upstream Traffic, Pinterest Upstream Traffic, Twitter Upstream Traffic, Instagram Upstream
ecommerce sites.
Traffic, and YouTube Upstream Traffic.
Average 20-44.9
Website Social Lift 30%
Average brands are putting some effort into a social
Facebook Like Button on Product Page, Pinterest Pin It Button on Product Page, Twitter Tweet Button on network presence although this is not driving reach,
Product Page, Google+ Button on Product Page, Ratings and Reviews on Product Page, Product engagement, or traffic. They may have done some
social network integration.
Recommendations on Product Page, Facebook Custom Open Graph Actions, and Main Website Social
Shopping Application (Discovery, Curation, Rewards, or Contests).
Deficient 0-19.9
Social CRM (SCRM) Potential 10% Deficient brands have a minimal but ineffective social
network presence and integration with little or no
Social Login, Data Collected Via Social Login, and Data Collected Via Facebook Custom Open Graph
engagement, social traffic, or social data capture.
Actions.
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Top 25 Companies
Brand Awareness
Rank on Social Social Upstream Website Social SCRM Potential SCIQ
Company Traffic Score Lift Score Score
Networks Score
Toys”R”Us includes an average of toysrus.com and babiesrus.com, Sears Holdings includes an average of kmart.com, craftsman.com, and sears.com
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Top 25 Companies Compared to All Other Companies
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Top 25 Companies Compared to All Other Companies
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Top 25 Companies Compared to All Other Companies
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Brand Awareness on Social Networks
Klout Score 55 99 0
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Social Upstream Traffic
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Average by Category - Brand Awareness on Social Networks
Hardware/
Apparel/ Books/Music/ Children and Computers/ Home
Accessories Automotive Beauty Videos Baby Electronics Flowers/Gifts Food Improvement Health
Facebook Fans 1,646,948 210,701 1,029,709 1,150,084 337,994 1,105,096 206,223 1,732,928 310,538 433,018
Facebook Talking
About This 22,286 7,546 24,152 19,192 10,065 21,547 4,926 22,108 7,688 8,403
Facebook
Engagement 2.4% 3.8% 2.0% 4.2% 2.6% 1.9% 2.6% 2.7% 2.3% 3.0%
Applications on
Facebook Page 4 3 5 2 3 3 4 4 3 4
Twitter Followers 140,010 5,001 75,676 132,764 8,191 73,010 6,845 199,301 15,551 52,248
YouTube
Subscribers 16,552 5,720 13,738 43,493 804 42,815 957 1,928 6,838 8,511
YouTube Video
Views 6,611,890 2,261,886 3,124,512 63,028,107 274,112 7,673,292 986,821 1,032,651 60,77,999 2,177,006
Pinterest
Followers 82,770 228 12,031 3,552 7,061 2,110 3,728 8,093 195,065 5,044
Pinterest Boards 28 22 23 23 36 17 36 31 25 23
Pinterest Pins 1,993 448 1,019 865 1,670 389 3,728 849 1,077 1,247
Instagram
Followers 116,222 1,686 49,225 4,923 2,763 17,011 2,248 93,556 5,655 11,591
Vine Followers 4,416 35 1,888 4,037 114 777 50 12,208 1,683 1,413
Vine Videos 12 0 6 6 0 3 3 3 7 23
Klout Score 62 42 62 67 46 51 47 58 41 58
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Average by Category - Brand Awareness on Social Networks
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Housewares/
Home Sporting
Furnishings Jewelry Mass Merchant Office Supplies Pets Specialty Apparel Sporting Goods Toys/Hobbies
Facebook Fans 283,266 490,333 2,398,858 92,453 392,910 933,220 357,242 342,824 729,180
Facebook Talking
About This 8,877 15,194 40,302 4,736 63,854 30,340 5,144 5,772 9,108
Facebook
Engagement 3.0% 2.6% 2.8% 2.8% 17.4% 3.9% 1.9% 3.3% 3.1%
Applications on
Facebook Page 3 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 4
Twitter Followers 35,218 38,091 69,264 18,205 15,449 194,199 50,015 27,991 39,307
YouTube
Subscribers 2,874 1,524 2,215 828 1,234 86,763 181,597 5,374 9,759
YouTube Video
Views 1,877,550 743,047 2,369,856 419,979 969,534 39,661,805 65,968,820 3,189,053 6,549,994
Pinterest
Followers 41,813 6,163 10,387 519 1,267 122,645 165,051 1,489 7,335
Pinterest Boards 43 31 32 19 24 30 27 26 25
Pinterest Pins 1,813 1,325 2,333 772 800 1,549 1,078 740 906
Instagram
Followers 10,978 54,823 21,109 395 2,818 10,239 121,794 11,126 8,312
Instagram Posts 119 189 274 92 159 194 424 178 100
Instagram Brand
Hashtag Posts 18,240 21,006 71,045 1,235 12,028 28,106 157,107 8,246 54,916
Vine Videos 2 2 8 7 2 5 24 11 11
Klout Score 47 51 61 45 45 54 63 51 54
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Average by Category - Social Upstream Traffic
Hardware/
Apparel/ Books/Music/ Children and Computers/ Home
Accessories Automotive Beauty Videos Baby Electronics Flowers/Gifts Food Improvement Health
Facebook
Upstream 2.84% 0.93% 2.76% 1.92% 3.50% 0.86% 3.04% 1.23% 0.60% 2.14%
Traffic
Pinterest
Upstream 0.18% 0% 0.02% 0.09% 0.08% 0% 0.09% 0.14% 0.01% 0.03%
Traffic
Twitter
Upstream 0.03% 0% 0% 0.05% 0% 0.01% 0% 0.01% 0% 0%
Traffic
Instagram
Upstream 0.02% 0% 0% 0.01% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Traffic
YouTube
Upstream 1.02% 0.67% 1.52% 1.17% 0.50% 0.93% 0.28% 0.16% 1.43% 0.60%
Traffic
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Average by Category - Social Upstream Traffic
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Housewares/
Home Sporting
Furnishings Jewelry Mass Merchant Office Supplies Pets Specialty Apparel Sporting Goods Toys/Hobbies
Facebook
Upstream 1.47% 2.28% 2.39% 0.41% 4.07% 2.68% 2.58% 0.74% 1.61%
Traffic
Pinterest
Upstream 0.12% 0.06% 0.18% 0.01% 0% 0.15% 0.01% 0% 0.07%
Traffic
Twitter
Upstream 0% 0% 0.09% 0.01% 0.01% 0.04% 0.10% 0% 0.01%
Traffic
Instagram
Upstream 0% 0% 0.07% 0% 0% 0.01% 0.02% 0% 0%
Traffic
YouTube
Upstream 0.20% 0.71% 0.58% 0.15% 0.66% 0.92% 0.77% 0.56% 1.71%
Traffic
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Adoption by Category - Website Social Lift
Hardware/
Apparel/ Books/Music/ Children and Computers/ Home
Accessories Automotive Beauty Videos Baby Electronics Flowers/Gifts Food Improvement Health
Facebook Like
Button 68% 56% 55% 57% 60% 38% 53% 52% 38% 63%
Pinterest Pin
It Button 74% 19% 74% 32% 77% 34% 72% 65% 50% 44%
Twitter Tweet
Button 66% 25% 63% 61% 60% 49% 69% 48% 58% 63%
Google+
Button 37% 31% 29% 36% 27% 41% 50% 48% 63% 44%
Ratings and
Reviews 64% 69% 97% 79% 60% 75% 63% 78% 88% 81%
Product
Recommendations 85% 56% 95% 79% 93% 79% 72% 87% 96% 74%
Social
Shopping 11% 0% 13% 11% 17% 0% 10% 4% 4% 7%
Application
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Adoption by Category - Website Social Lift
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Housewares/
Home Sporting
Furnishings Jewelry Mass Merchant Office Supplies Pets Specialty Apparel Sporting Goods Toys/Hobbies
Facebook Like
Button 60% 60% 49% 33% 53% 61% 69% 68% 58%
Pinterest Pin It
Button 79% 72% 67% 38% 27% 59% 76% 38% 61%
Twitter Tweet
Button 58% 52% 73% 50% 40% 63% 59% 60% 68%
Google+ Button 55% 40% 41% 38% 40% 42% 41% 55% 55%
Ratings and
Reviews 75% 72% 84% 71% 93% 54% 86% 85% 84%
Product
Recommendations 89% 72% 90% 67% 93% 83% 83% 87% 94%
Social Shopping
Application 14% 12% 29% 4% 0% 12% 7% 6% 6%
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Adoption
PERCENT OF BRANDS ON EACH SOCIAL NETWORK
(OUT OF 872 BRANDS)
FACEBOOK IS STILL THE MOST ADOPTED SOCIAL 99% 98%
PLATFORM BY RETAILERS 89% 89%
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Top 10 Facebook
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Top 10 YouTube
Top 10 YouTube Subscribers
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Top 10 Twitter
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Top 10 Pinterest
Free People is in the Top 10 for the most Pins and highest upstream traffic from Top 10 Brand Pinterest Pins
Pinterest. For this brand, the more the brand pins, the more traffic it gets from the HEELS.COM 33,886
social network. BLOOMINGDALE’S 24,220
FREE PEOPLE 21,908
BRAYOLA 18,677
URBAN OUTFITTERS 14,805
Top 10 Pinterest Upstream Traffic % NASTY GAL 14,604
For companies with over 200,000 monthly unique visitors ZULILY 13,010
GOJANE 11,627
FAB.COM 3.57% ONE KINGS LANE 11,490
ETSY.COM 3.55% BIRCHBOX 10,287
FREEPEOPLE.COM 3.52%
Top 10 Pinterest Boards
KINGARTHURFLOUR.COM 3.04%
WAYFAIR 208
MODCLOTH.COM 2.70% SPORTSMEMORABILIA.COM 186
SHINDIGZ 185
BEAU-COUP.COM 2.22%
FANATICS 171
SCHOLASTIC.COM 2.03% AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS 143
THE BOWL COMPANY 116
ANTHROPOLOGIE.COM 1.98% NOMORERACK 113
HAMMACHER.COM 1.75% JEWELRY WAREHOUSE 111
ONE KINGS LANE 105
BROOKSTONE.COM 1.35% CITRUS LANE 104
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Top 10 Instagram
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Top 10 Vine
Top 10 Vine Followers
MICROSOFT 99
WWE 99
AMAZON.COM 98
PBS 95
HBO 94
NETFLIX 93
ITUNES 93
SONY 93
HP 91
NIKE 91
The Klout Score measures a brand’s overall online influence on a scale of 1 to 100, with 100 being the most influential. Klout’s system
analyzes multiple social networks based on a brand’s engagement. Learn more at Klout.com
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Top 10 Comparison
Even though YouTube was launched just one year after Facebook, its retailer with
the highest following has 1/8th the following Facebook’s retailer with the highest
following has. Pinterest’s most followed retailer has 1/6th the following of
Facebook’s most followed retailer.
YouTube’s retailer with the highest upstream traffic has 2/3rd the upstream traffic of
Facebook’s retailer with the highest upstream traffic. Pinterest’s retailer with the
highest upstream traffic has 1/9th the upstream traffic of Facebook’s retailer with
the highest upstream traffic.
1 1
2 2
3 3
4 4
5 Facebook 5 Facebook
YouTube Pinterest
6 6
Pinterest YouTube
7 Twitter 7 Twitter
8
Instagram 8
Instagram
Vine
9 9
10 10
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Upstream Traffic from Social Networks
Facebook is off the charts for the amount of traffic it is giving retailers compared to
the other social platforms. Although Facebook has the most upstream traffic, much
of it is due to Facebook Exchange and being pay-to-play
0.82%
0.1%
0.02% 0.01%
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Social Website Integration
Even though Pinterest was launched in 2010, it has been placed on more retailers’
sites than the Facebook Like button or Tweet button, which were launched several
years before Pinterest.
62% 61%
59%
42%
When conducting our research, we only recognized a product page having one of the buttons if the
page had a button directly on it. If a Pin It button, Tweet button, Facebook Like button, or Google+
button was buried under an AddThis button or if a customer was required to click on another button
before seeing one of the social buttons it was not counted as having one of the social buttons. We
believe having social buttons buried under another button on the product page requires too much
effort for a customer to share a product. PIN IT BUTTON TWEET BUTTON FACEBOOK LIKE BUTTON GOOGLE+ BUTTON
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Website Social Shopping
Website Social Shopping
84%
SOCIAL SHOPPING ON-SITE IS ABOUT DISCOVERY AND
CURATION 73%
Of the sites that had social shopping functionality, most of them were discovery or
curation. These retailers recognize that when social discovery is integrated directly
into the buying process it is a better experience for their customers.
Rewarding customers with discounts and prizes for rating and/or creating content
seeds awareness of social shopping features and gives retailers access to social
profile data.
The move to Social CRM and Big Data applications is still immature, as companies 17%
are not collecting significant social profile data. The major issue is still that most 10%
companies have not provided significant social features to justify to the customer
that accessing their data is warranted. Brands are still not harnessing the power of
PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS RATINGS AND REVIEWS SOCIAL LOGIN SOCIAL SHOPPING FUNCTIONALITY
social data. Only 27% are collecting customer Likes and they are not benefiting from
the insights and personalization that can be gained from understanding their
Data Collection by Website Applications
customer’s interests. Although 89% of the companies ask for the customer’s Friend
List, it doesn’t provide much value. Requesting access to a customer’s Friend List
(Facebook Authorization)
plus Friend Likes can provide a brand with insights of the hundreds of friends who EMAIL 90%
share similar interests and might be potential customers (more efficient use of ad
dollars). FRIEND LIST 89%
Website Social Shopping Functionality
58% BIRTHDAY 47%
53%
LOCATION 28%
LIKES 27%
33%
EDUCATION 7%
22%
18% NEWS FEED 4%
WORK HISTORY 3%
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Applications on Facebook
Applications on Facebook
(Percent of brands that had at least one app in the category)
APPLICATIONS ON FACEBOOK HAVE SHIFTED AWAY FROM
PRODUCT BROWSING/SHOPPING CONTEST/SWEEPSTAKES 25%
Only 15% of the brands with apps on Facebook had at least one product browsing
app on their Facebook page. Even fewer, 2%, had fully integrated checkout. Last PRODUCT BROWSING (NO CHECKOUT) 15%
year, 62% of the brands with apps on Facebook had product browsing apps and 5%
of those apps included fully integrated checkout. Within the past year, retailers have
recognized that customers do not go to a brand’s Facebook page when they want to ENGAGEMENT 12%
browse for products and they do not want to checkout on Facebook, and have
pulled their product browsing/shopping applications off their pages.
CUSTOMER SUPPORT 6%
CONTESTS/SWEEPSTAKES WORK BEST ON FACEBOOK
Brands have recognized that contests/sweepstakes work on Facebook. 25% of the SHOPPING (FULLY INTEGRATED CHECKOUT) 2%
brands with apps on their Facebook pages had one or more active contests/
sweepstakes.
Applications on Facebook
(Percent of apps in each category)
CONTEST/SWEEPSTAKES 10%
ENGAGEMENT 4%
CUSTOMER SUPPORT 2%
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Applications on Facebook
10%
28% 17%
40%
60%
72%
90% 83%
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Customer Survey Results
How often do you browse for products online?
Customers are not only browsing for products online frequently, most customers
are also purchasing online at least once per month.
NOT VERY OFTEN 7%
MONTHLY 39%
WEEKLY 24%
DAILY 6%
502 Customers Surveyed in July 2013
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Customer Survey Results
How often do you share a product on Twitter?
9% 9%
FACEBOOK IS THE LEADING SOCIAL CHANNEL FOR
SHARING PRODUCTS 6%
Even though the Facebook Like button is less prevalent on the product page than
the Pinterest Pin It button and Tweet button, customers are sharing products more
often on Facebook than on Pinterest or Twitter.
MONTHLY WEEKLY DAILY
MONTHLY INSTAGRAM SHARING HIGHER THAN TWITTER
AND PINTEREST How often do you Pin a product on Pinterest?
11% 11%
Instagram, a newer social platform than Twitter and Pinterest, is inspiring more
people to share products they bought monthly than Twitter and Pinterest.
7%
7%
5%
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Customer Survey Results
Customers rate browsing retailers‘ sites as the most effective method for learning
about new products (1-5 scale). They also say Twitter is the least effective method.
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Retailer Survey Results
Does your company plan on doing a
website redesign in the near future?
RETAILERS PLAN TO REDESIGN THEIR WEBSITES
WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR AND INTEGRATE SOCIAL NO 49%
FEATURES
Retailers have recognized that social features are an important part of their YES, WITHIN THE NEXT 3 MONTHS 30%
websites and are weaving them into future website designs.
Yes No
14%
86%
37 Retailers Surveyed in August 2013
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Retailer Survey Results
Does your company plan to utilize
Social Login within the next year?
MOST RETAILERS THINK FACEBOOK HAS THE MOST
46%
POTENTIAL TO DRIVE SALES 41%
Retailers still think Facebook is the social platform that has the most potential to
drive sales. As mentioned previously in our findings, retailers think Facebook will
drive sales, but these sales will not occur on Facebook, instead, Facebook will drive 13%
sales by referring customers back to the ecommerce site through things like
Facebook Ads.
NO YES MY COMPANY
higher click-through rates and more efficient use of marketing dollars. Does your company buy Facebook ads?
Yes No
22%
78%
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SCIQ:RETAIL2013 Case Studies
Free People
Free People has the highest SCIQ score this year, with high scores in all areas
important to social commerce. As with many of the top rated companies in this
year’s SCIQ, Free People has implemented advanced social curation and discovery
functionality on their website including the ability for customers to upload style
pictures of themselves, create collections of products, “heart” their favorite products,
and follow other users and comment on their content.
All of these social interactions are used to provide social discovery on the product
pages for all visitors. And their “FP Me” social community has created over 30,000
active collections and uploaded over 20,000 style photos, giving all visitors the ability
to truly discover what’s trending. In addition to the seamless social shopping
experience, Free People emails a weekly social update to their community members
with the latest trending pictures and collections, all created by the community.
Advanced Social
Curation & Discovery
FP Me Social
Community
30,000+ active
collections
20,000+ style
photos
Emails Weekly
Social Update
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Walmart, Amazon, Target
Walmart.com utilizes One of the most significant trends this year in social commerce was the launch
crowdsourcing from of social discovery features by the retail giants Walmart, Amazon, Target, and
purchases, ratings, and
eBay (see separate case study).
Pinterest Pins to provide
Pinterest-like visual grid of Walmart.com first launched their beta version of social discovery late in 2012
trending products
and have refined it significantly to today’s version. Walmart’s Trending Now
feature has prominent navigation directly from the home page and utilizes
crowdsourcing from purchases, ratings, and Pinterest Pins to provide a
Pinterest-like visual grid of trending products.
Target’s feature is still it beta, and although briefly linked to the home page, it
is currently only reachable by the URL, awesomeshop.target.com. Target’s
Amazon.com provides awesome shop utilizes crowdsourcing from Pinterest Pins and ratings (4 stars
ability to create or higher) to present its social discovery.
collections and shows
trending products based Amazon implemented a more advanced path to social discovery with their
on these collections Collections feature this year. The Amazon Collections feature provides its
visitors with the ability to create collections of products and this data is used to
show trending products.
The trend to combine social network data (Facebook Likes, Pinterest Pins,
Twitter Tweets, etc) with both sales and user generated content on the
retailer’s website (Reviews and Ratings, wish lists, social expressions such as
Target.com utilizes “Love” or “Want”, and user generated collections) to create social discovery is
crowdsourcing from the beginning of a new era of social shopping functionality directly integrated
Pinterest Pins and ratings to the retailer’s ecommerce and mobile experiences.
to display popular
products
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Toys”R”Us & Babies”R”Us
Toys”R”Us and Babies”R”Us launched the Toy and Baby Boards social shopping
feature right before the Christmas holiday, proving that curation and discovery are
not features reserved for fashion apparel retailers or pure play startups. Social
discovery is available on all product pages in addition to a social shopping page with
feeds for recent activity, trending products and boards, brand boards, and people.
Toys”R”Us social shopping goes two steps further than most of the retailers in this
report by putting social discovery on one of the most trafficked home pages during
the holiday season and by integrating curation and discovery directly into their
mobile optimized sites. The mobile feature is the beginning of a new breed of socially
engaging, mobile enabled, in-store shopping experiences.
Toy and Baby Boards Social Curation and Discovery on Social Discovery on the
Shopping Feature Mobile Optimized Sites Home Page
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Sur La Table
SOCIAL RECOMMENDATIONS
This year Sur La Table launched social shopping features on their ecommerce
website including customer created collections and social recommendations on its
product pages. An interesting distinction which differs from all retailers in this
study was the emphasis of the social recommendations on the product page. The
social discovery is the most dominate feature on the page using a horizontal grid
of large beautiful images which show the collection and with placement above the
traditional personalization recommendations. The social recommendations can
also infinitely scroll to allow social shopping without leaving the product page.
This type of user experience signals the beginning of more immersive integrations
of social shopping with the traditional ecommerce site. Sur La Table also provides
a social shopping page which shows trending products, collections, and people.
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Deb Shops
DEB SHOPS SEES A 16% LIFT IN REVENUE PER VISIT WHEN THE POWER OF SOCIAL DISCOVERY
USING SOCIAL DISCOVERY But even in today’s “share everything world”, 85% of the visitors will still choose to
remain anonymous. This is where Social Discovery brings real ROI to social
Deb Shops partnered with 8thBridge to create a social shopping experience on their
shopping. The socially engaged customers (Deb Shops’ best customers) curate and
ecommerce site that has resulted in 16% more revenue per visit as measured via
share products. This content is discovered on the Deb Shops website via social
extensive A/B testing. The objective of the solution is to create a better experience
product recommendations and trending product and collection feeds. Social
that drives social discovery, engagement, and measurable sales lift. People are
Discovery of new and complementary products by the “Other” 85% of visitors drives
empowered to discover new ideas from each other in an inspiring, Pinterest-like,
significant sales as these visitors discover products they were not originally
shopping experience. David Cost, VP eCommerce & Digital Marketing, launched the
considering. To prove this, Deb Shops ran A/B testing to remove the social discovery
Curation & Discovery solution in 2013 and has been able to cover 85% of his product
features from a control group of visitors.
assortment with crowdsourced product collections called Style Boards. “We knew
our customer would like the new experience, but were skeptical that implementing
Social Discovery features on our website would have a large impact on sales. The
results of our tests blew us away,” said Cost.
The answer was a resounding - Yes! The customers who engage in social shopping
functionality are Deb Shops’ best customers (see The Socially Engaged Customer
Profile).
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Kipling
Although social shopping features such as curation are engaging and fun
experiences for a retailer’s social community, a significant benefit is the social
discovery for all visitors. Kipling understood this when they launched their social
wishlist feature, which allows customers to build and share curated wishlists with
the community. Kipling immediately started building awareness by offering a
reward to their customers for creating a social wishlist. This first campaign resulted
in a 20X lift in engagement. They followed with a sweepstakes for creating social
content and this campaign produced similar results.
The two campaigns demonstrated that rewards and sweepstakes can build
dramatic awareness and spur engagement in the social community, but the effect
on social discovery for all visitors was even more dramatic.
Kipling now has 84% product assortment coverage and 96% of all product pages
viewed have a social recommendation. 20% of all visitors are browsing social
recommendations and spend 30% greater time on site while discovering products
from other people in the community.
20% of All Visitors Are Browsing Other
96% of All Product Customers’ Wishlists
Pages Viewed Have a
Social Recommendation
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ModCloth
ModCloth was ranked #4 in last year’s SCIQ and has been an innovator in social
shopping for many years. In July this year, CEO Eric Kober attributed their success
to social shopping and stated that the “love” button is the most used button on
their site. ModCloth uses this social expression to display a category specific “Most
Loved” feed on their product pages.
Late last year, ModCloth launched their Style Gallery which combines customer
uploaded photos with customer created product collections. After a customer
uploads a photo, they select the products which are represented in that photo.
ModCloth has implemented a unique feature which allows customers to not only
identify ModCloth products used in their photo, but also to select similar ModCloth
products which can be used to create the look. This feature allows more flexibility
for social discovery and harnesses the true power of user generated content. The
style gallery pictures are displayed on the product pages to let customers explore
how other users have worn that product. Finally, ModCloth integrates the social
community trends in all of their emails.
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eBay
Step 1 - Build a Seamless Experience. eBay did this by deeply integrating social
shopping into their site. The home page is now eBay Today - a showcase for
eBay Collections. My Feed is the personalization page with banner callouts to
get started with collections and reminders and status after you start. The Shop
by Navigation has a special trending collections category.
Step 2 - Seed Curated Content. Launching with a mix of expert and customer
collections leads to a better social discovery experience by providing a blend of
expert, long tail, and authentic content. eBay did this by acquiring their own
experts through the acquisition of The Bureau of Trade and by recruiting
celebrity curators such as Solange Knowles, Pharrell Williams, and Kelly
Oxfordwill. Not all retailers will have the resources to take the same route as
eBay, but many retailers have an army of experts to help seed content such as
store associates and product vendors.
Build a Seamless Step 3 - Build Awareness. As with any new feature, you need to build awareness
Experience and educate. In addition to traditional campaigns including email, paid search,
and social media, eBay ran a $25,000 sweepstakes to get customers to share a
Seed Curated collection. This sweepstakes not only spread the word about the new features
Content through social sharing, but it also jumpstarted the crowdsourcing of
collections, which is critical to displaying relevant trending feeds to visitors as
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140.0# 133.0 132.2
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Beauty
Housewares/Home Furnishings
Pets
Specialty
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Jewelry
Health
Mass Merchant
Sporting Goods
Computers/Electronics
Flowers/Gifts
Food
Office Supplies
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What We Do
8thBridge provides a proven path to social monetization for marketing and ecommerce executives that have not been satisfied with their ability to
translate fans and followers into measurable sales lift.
Brands leverage our technology platform called Graphite and our expertise under a framework we call The 3 ‘I’s to monetize social:
INSPIRATION.
We half joke that the first step on your monetization journey with us is to simply get out of the customer’s
way. We help you create a brand-appropriate, visually inspiring, customer experience that encourages people
to engage with each other and discover new ideas and products to buy.
INSIGHT.
People that engage with each other through our technology identify themselves via their Facebook profiles
and share an average of 75K things about themselves and the brand’s marketplace via their social graph
data. We apply data science to this data set and uncover new strategic insights into who your customers truly
are and what they care about - automatically segmenting people into crowds. Our analytics technology also
provides brands with a unique view into competitive trends and market opportunities.
8thBridge’s technology, Graphite, is integrated with most ecommerce platforms, email marketing systems,
advertising tools, and CRM systems. We make it easy for marketers to setup automated marketing
campaigns that run in a lights-out fashion with little-to-no manual intervention.
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How to Contact Us
PHONE
(612) 927-3400
contact@8thBridge.com
Facebook.com/8thBridge
Twitter.com/8thBridge
ADDRESS
Suite 420
Minneapolis, MN 55403
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N overstock.com 57, 76
overstockart.com 57, 86
pfaltzgraff.com 57, 79
pgestore.com 58, 80
northerntool.com 56, 99
overtons.com 59, 93 philips-store.com 55, 98
norton.com 55, 87
ozbo.com 57, 102 pillsburystore.com 57, 96
novica.com 56, 77
pimsleurapproach.com 58, 85
nutrisystem.com 56, 103 P piperlime.com 54, 83
nyandcompany.com 54, 83 pacsun.com 54, 69 planetshoes.com 54, 98
pagoda.com 57, 114
O paintball-online.com 59, 111
plndr.com 13, 54, 60
potterybarn.com 57, 72
oakley.com 54, 71 pajamagram.com 54, 115 potterybarnkids.com 55, 79
officedepot.com 26, 58, 75 panasonic.com 55, 81 powells.com 55, 90
officemax.com 58, 108 pandora.com 55, 65 powerequipmentdirect.com 56, 106
ojon.com 55, 107 paperstyle.com 56, 106 prepsportswear.com 58, 92
oldnavy.com 54, 73 parts-express.com 55, 108 prescriptives.com 55, 72
omahasteaks.com 56, 80 partycity.com 58, 76 printingforless.com 58, 117
onecall.com 55, 114 partylite.com 56, 67 proflowers.com 56, 105
oneida.com 57, 95 patagonia.com 58, 69 promgirl.com 30, 54, 68
onekingslane.com 26, 29, 57, 66 paulfredrick.com 54, 93 propertyroom.com 58, 84
onestepahead.com 55, 101 payless.com 54, 85 psprint.com 58, 117
onestopplus.com 55, 85 pbteen.com 57, 75 puplife.com 58, 95
onlineshoes.com 54, 85 pcconnection.com 55, 116 pureformulas.com 56, 97
oompa.com 59, 105 pcm.com 55, 107 puritan.com 56, 88
opticsplanet.com 59, 84 pcrush.com 55, 111
orangeonions.com 58, 95 peapod.com 56, 91 Q
oreillyauto.com 54, 111 peoplesjewellers.com 57, 108 queensboro.com 54, 110
orientaltrading.com 58, 67 performancebike.com 59, 92 quiksilver.com 29, 54, 73
origins.com 55, 87 personalizationmall.com 56, 81 qvc.com 57, 68
orvis.com 59, 71 peruvianconnection.com 54, 91
oshkoshbgosh.com 55, 84 petco.com 58, 87
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ouidad.com 55, 98 radioshack.com 55, 78
petedge.com 58, 103
outdoorspeakerdepot.com 55, 102 rakuten.com 57, 89
petflow.com 26, 58, 63
overnightprints.com 58, 116 ralphlauren.com 54, 78
petsmart.com 58, 80
rangerup.com 26, 54, 61
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