“Engagement” is table stakes when it
comes to understanding and leveraging the intelligence that social media offers brands. In order to go deeper, you need sophisticated listening protocols, data and analytics infrastructure and a plan
for democratizing that intelligence so that brand leaders can use it. Those were just some of the key takeaways from one of the highlights of this week’s MediaPost Pharma and Health Insider
Summit. Danny Gardner, GSK’s Analytics Manager, US and NA Social Intelligence Lead brought us inside how GSK cultivated its consumer brand social listening post in house.
The
baseline metric of social media has always been engagement – the “What” people are interacting with, not the “Why.” Understanding sentiment, conversation, the reality of
how people integrate products into their everyday lives, that is the next level marketing insight that is available to brands, but only if they set up the tech and infrastructure and analytics
to ask the right questions. Danny gave us one of the most comprehensive views into how a smart listening post evolves and produces new and unforeseen insights about how consumers really interact with
products and where brands have a shot at adding genuine value to their customers’ lives.
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