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    perspective markathon|november 2012

    BAD PIGGIES AINT SO BADSARTH RASTOGI | IIFT DELHI

    When it comes to marketing analysis of any

    product/brand, almost instantaneously we, the aspiring

    Brand Managers think on the lines whether P&G

    came out with a different Ariel this time for Bottom -

    Loading washing machines, did Colgate add pickle in

    their toothpaste or did Dhoni launch a dye to color his

    graying beard.

    But there exists a category other than FMCG and

    Consumer Goods where Piglets are really

    angry for you spread the gossip that they are

    at war with the human race by spreading swine flu and

    when that was not enough, projected them as the

    Mogamboof the gaming world. And yes, they are now

    back to take back revenge, challenging the avian lovers-

    If you smell what The Rock is cooking!!

    Finlands Rovio Entertainment, the company

    that gave us Angry Birds has released yet

    another masterpiece, a multi-platform

    puzzle game- Bad Piggies. The game had a

    big challenge to overcome the sophomore

    slump/jinx a concept which seems almost

    inevitable because of the Statistical

    Phenomenon regression towards the

    mean (excellently explained in an online

    article titled as Why Movie Sequels and

    Remakes Almost Always Fail by Satoshi Kanazawa,

    London School of Economics and Political Science). In a

    nutshell, sophomore slump/jinx refers to an event when

    a second attempt to re-enact an overwhelming success

    of first attempt doesnt live up to the expectations.

    Spin-off versions of megahit game Tetris like Hatris,

    Super Tetris etc. never really recreated the same magic.

    The world is full of such examples that substantiate this

    theory.

    The game launched off with high fanfare and

    gripped the attention of users who are

    probably now busy helping piglets in

    collecting egg shells. So much so was the

    thrill and excitement level in the gaming

    community that within just three hours of its

    launch it soared to the top of paid iTunes App

    Store charts.

    Here is the analysis purely from the marketing

    point of view of what helped the game to script

    another success story- Many people

    suspected that the new product would be a

    different version of the main product Angry

    Birds as were many of those which were

    launched previously. Simple reason was

    that analysts and reviewers held the view

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    perspective markathon|november 2012

    that Rovio wont let go off the mega success and the

    theme that was clearly a proven winner. Though the

    game is a spin-off of Angry Birds, Rovio successfully

    changed the rules of the game. The perspective was

    different. This ensured that there was no imitation interms of storyline, but at the same time they were able

    to leverage the previous successes. Where have you

    witnessed this earlier? A glimpse of the James Bond

    movie series is enough to corroborate that this is an

    important factor. It is a very difficult line to tread but

    successive James Bond movies have been repetitively

    hit since each time people are taken to a different world

    through a different plot theme.

    Marketing works wonders when targeted at an

    appropriate time. Black Friday is popular in US just notbecause users get brilliant discounts on the products

    but also because it sort of unofficially marks the start of

    the Christmas festive season. The popularity of Angry

    Birds had given Rovio a huge leeway and there were no

    major developments done by them during the three

    years in between. Too much of Angry Birds merchandise

    and advertisements had caused a fatigue in the minds

    of customers. The timing of the launchcould not havebeen better since Angry Birds hangover was about to

    get over.

    The success of any game or for that matter sequel of

    any product can be bolstered well if the product is able

    to capture more audience than what it originally did.

    This game goes a notch above Angry Birds in terms of its

    ability to allow users to utilize their intellect to solve the

    puzzles. The good thing is that people just dont look at

    it as a game but also as implementation of the rules

    studied in Physics. The game play is more sophisticated

    and people love the fact that Newtonian principles are

    required to solve these. This has attracted those people

    as well who thought Angry Birds was too childish to

    play. In fact, one of the top rated reviews on Google

    Play was- Not my style of game, but well done. People

    will enjoy this game a lot. This shows that the target

    segment that Angry Birds catered to has widened forBad Piggies and is something to cheer about.

    Which marketer/retailer/manufacturer doesnt want

    repeat business? It is a brand managers dream to

    receive repeat business. With the scoring system in

    place, Bad Piggies ensures that people try to improvise

    on their solved levels so that they can move on to the

    next levels. How it helps Rovio is that even when there

    are X number of stages in any version of Bad Piggies,

    these translate into many more stages since peoplestrive for more stars. The replayability though maysound as a very small factor but when looked from the

    Rovios perspective, it gives the developers more time

    to understand what people miss in the current version

    and hence can incorporate them in subsequent

    versions.

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    A sustainable revenue modelis a must for any companybut at the same time, a software product cant be

    released fully in the paid version. They ought to give

    users a try so that they can do a hands-on trial of the

    game and then

    make a decision.

    This is what

    most companies

    do when they

    launch a new

    product in

    FMCG sectors as

    well. To

    popularize Zinga

    (energy

    beverage fromHector Beverages), they had extensive

    promotional campaigns in Bangalore so that people can

    try it out. This created a demand for the product.

    Similarly, if one looks at Bad Piggies, there were some

    free versions launched initially with limited stages so

    that people can try it out. Later, once users get

    accustomed to it and feel the urge for playing more

    stages, they can buy the paid versions from App Stores.

    In a nutshell, the pricing modelis very effective both increating demand and also in keeping the companygoing.

    In the clutter of noise that many promotions and

    advertisements create, how can one differentiate itself?

    You engage subtly with customers. Create incentives for

    them to participate in the interaction with the brand.

    With the advent of social networking and related

    promotional platforms this can be done very

    effectively. Rovio tapped this brilliantly and

    this is corroborated by their strong

    presence on Facebook. The level of

    enthusiasm is pretty evident by the high

    involvement of people.

    Such creative contributions by the followers

    bolster the creation of brand equity. Finally, the

    spectacular launch of the game made sure that thepeople were aware of the new game launch. One can

    just imagine the kind of publicity a product would get

    when the Taipei 101 Tower, one of the tallest buildings

    of the world (second only to Burj Khalifa) and a

    landmark skyscraper of Taiwan was painted green to

    welcome the game. In Shanghai, the Citigroup Towerwas glowed with green light. In London, where the

    game was launched at the top slot, Battersea Power

    Station (a huge landmark) was taken over by the Piglets.

    All of these efforts made sure that the game was a

    success from its very launch. This gave immense brand

    visibilityand a great brand recall.

    All these successful efforts show that Rovio hasleft no stones unturned to gain favourable

    presence and will surely help in its case to

    achieve a valuation of more than $6

    billion that it is aiming through its IPO.

    Followers feel that the way things are

    going, it may even achieve a valuation of

    around $9 billion. If that happens, it will surpass

    the ailing Nokia!!!

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    Patrick Barwise is the Emeritus Professor of Management and Marketing at

    London Business School, and chairman of Which?, the UKs leading consumer

    organization. After having a successful career at IBM, he joined the School in

    1976. He has been widely recognized for his publications on management,

    marketing and media. His book Simply Better, won the American Marketing

    Associations 2005 Berry-AMA Prize and has been translated into seven

    languages. His second book, Beyond the Familiar, was published in 2011. Healso works as a consultant, applied researcher, and expert witness and has

    been involved in two successful start-up businesses. In this exclusive interview

    with Markathon, he shares with us his experiences from the industry and

    academia and throws light on some radical trends that will shape the future

    including neuro-marketing and video ethnography.

    An Interview with Prof. Patrick Barwise

    Emeritus Professor of Management and Marketing in London School of Business

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    Focus on what really matters to

    customers. In reality, customers rarely

    buy a product or service because it

    offers something unique. Instead,

    they usually buy the brand that they

    expect to meet their basic needs from

    the categorysmartphones or

    mortgages or electricitya bit better

    or more reliably and conveniently

    than the competition.

    Markathon:From a Systems Engineer to a Marketing

    Director, what were the turning points in your

    inspirational professional journey? And what

    motivated you to come back to academia?

    Patrick:As an IBM Systems Engineer, I worked in the

    team providing sales and service to Barclays Bank, a

    key account. I was never a real techie. My interest was

    in helping the bank increase the performance of its

    IBM systems through better operations management

    as well as faster, better-tuned hardware. I was always

    more interested in people than technology. Then at

    business school, my best subject was finance but I

    chose to work in marketing because it too is about

    people. Rationally, no-one with the choice would

    work in marketing rather than finance because its

    less well paid, more difficult and riskier. But Im glad Ichose marketing because its about people; people

    are infinitely interesting, and one never stops

    learning. As for becoming an academic, I fell in love

    with London Business School as an MBA student and I

    place a lot of value on personal freedom i.e. the

    freedom to work on what I want, and academia offers

    you that. It was the right choice for me.

    Markathon: As an expert in the field of media and

    broadcasting, in your opinion how will the role oftelevision change in the times to come? What will be

    the key to making it a relevant and effective medium

    going forward?

    Patrick: There are a lot of myths about the digital

    revolution in television. In reality, unlike print media,

    television is in extremely good health. What is

    changing, more slowly than

    most people believe, is the

    distribution of TV content. Butthe content itself, what

    people watch as well as how

    much, when, where, why,

    with whom, and even how

    they watch, has changed

    very little in the last fifty

    years in markets like the

    USA and UK. The two

    main changes have

    been the huge

    increase in the

    number of channels

    (so viewing is now spread over more channels,

    although very unevenly) and the improvement in

    time-shift technology with the advent of digital video

    recorders. However, even in homes with DVRs and

    broadband, over 80% of viewing is still live and most

    of the rest are the same programs time-shifted using

    the DVR or a catch-up service such as the BBCs i-Player. Total viewing has actually increased in the last

    five years, mostly on the main set in the living room.

    Similarly, TV advertising has maintained its share of

    display advertising despite the huge growth of online

    advertising. Of course, on-demand and mobile

    viewing are growing and there are lots of interesting

    developments, but the big picture is very robust.

    Markathon:Your book Simply Better: Winning and

    Keeping Customers by Delivering What MattersMost has been highly recognized and widely read.

    Can you share some highlights of the book with us?

    Patrick: Simply Better has won the American

    Marketing Associations annual book prize for the best

    book in marketing. It has sold well in English and has

    been translated into seven other languages. The core

    message is simple and obvious: focus on what really

    matters to customers. In reality, customers rarely buy

    a product or service because it offers somethingunique. Instead, they usually buy the brand that they

    expect to meet their basic needs from the category

    smartphones or mortgages or electricity a bit better

    or more reliably and conveniently than the

    competition. The practical implication is that, if you

    have to choose between (a) doing what Peter Drucker

    said in 1954 meeting customer needs and (b)

    differentiating your offer from the

    competition, you should always

    choose (a). That simple message

    goes against marketers

    obsession with differentiation

    but the evidence to support it

    is overwhelming and a lot of

    firms have now taken it on

    board. The twist is that

    when it comes to branding

    and advertising that is,

    communications aboutyour offer, as opposed

    to the offer itself it

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    really is important to be distinctive in order to cut

    through all the noise from the other brands. The

    sweet spot is found when your offer meets

    customers basic needs better than the competition

    and you also have some nice unique features or

    benefits and distinctive branding and advertising.

    However, the most important part of this is an offerthat meets customers basic category needs better

    than anyone elses offer.

    Markathon:Your paper The one thing you must get

    right when building a brand deals with the most

    dynamically changing channel of branding. Do you

    think big data analytics can play an important part in

    social media marketing?

    Patrick: We made two points in that article. First,

    marketers have overstated the role of social media in

    advertising but understated its role as a source of

    customer insight and as a way of improving customer

    service. Even in the US, 90% of consumers

    conversations about brands are offline, mostly face to

    face. Even online, consumers dont like companies

    invading their private space. There are some branding

    and advertising opportunities, but theyre fairly

    limited. The second thing we said is that all this has to

    be embedded in your overall management of thebrand, which we illustrated using the framework of

    our more recent book Beyond the Familiar: Long-

    Term Growth through Customer Focus and

    Innovation. This builds on Simply Better, putting

    the conclusions into a practical management context,

    with a strong emphasis on having an open

    organization in which market insights including

    things youd prefer not to hear flow freely through

    the organization, reach the decision-makers and are

    acted upon. Big data analytics will have a growing role

    within this, not just for social media data.

    Markathon:What are the key measures to making a

    campaign go viral in the world of social media?

    Patrick: Its difficult. The main principle is that you

    need an idea that is so compelling that people will

    pass it on. It should also be relevant to your brand

    positioning and appropriate. An established brand

    shouldnt do a stunt that goes viral but damages its

    brand equity. As always, you need good execution.

    And usually, you need a publicity campaign, typically

    using traditional media and PR, to publicize it. Most of

    the successful examples use humour. The best ones I

    know are Blendtecs Will it blend? and TNTs Daily

    dose of drama.

    Markathon: What role can video ethnography play

    in efficient design and implementation of marketing

    strategies?

    Patrick:The main benefit of video ethnography is that

    it unobtrusively records what people do in their

    natural environment, say at home or in-store. Thats

    especially important if their actual behaviour differs

    from their claimed or self-perceived behaviour. For

    instance, most DVR owners think they watch far more

    time-shifted programmes than they actually do and

    rarely watch commercials. The reality is very different.

    Video ethnography can also help explain behavior, for

    instance, by showing viewing within the context of

    other family members, perhaps with differing

    programme preferences. Another advantage is that

    the video clips are great for illustrating these

    behaviours to a management audience. The main

    downside is that analyzing the data properly is very

    time-consuming so sample sizes have to be small.

    Relatedly, I recommend that all managers, not justthose in sales, service and marketing, should have

    direct customer contact in order to bridge the

    empathy gap between managers and customers,

    especially in some markets. This encourages customer

    understanding and customer focus throughout the

    organization, not just for marketing.

    Markathon: How do you think neuromarketing can

    redefine the process of getting customer insights?

    Patrick: Neuromarketing, behavioural economics, big

    data, online brand communities, metaphor elicitation

    and all the other new ways of developing customer

    Other new ways of developing customer

    insights should mostly be seen as ways of

    supplementing, not supplanting, traditional

    market research.

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    Be infinitely curious, always on thelookout for new ideas and

    opportunities, but dont assume that

    the latest thing is as powerful as its

    proponents claim. Spend time with

    customers as well as looking at data.

    insights should mostly be seen as ways of

    supplementing, not supplanting, traditional market

    research. In a few cases, new methods do largely

    replace old ones. For instance, online surveys and

    brand communities are usually better, cheaper and

    much faster than telephone or face-to-face surveys

    and focus groups. But neuromarketing isnt yet at astage where it can really replace traditional research

    methods in new product development, website

    improvement or advertising evaluation. Instead, it can

    provide additional insights and questions for further

    testing. The main neuro methods at this point are eye

    tracking, various biometrics such as heart beat and

    skin conductivity, and EEG. Their main advantage is

    that they provide continuous data and tap into fast,

    automatic, subconscious processes. The limitation is

    that the results are hard to interpret, although that

    hasnt stopped some vendors from making some

    strong claims that should, in my view, be treated with

    caution. The dirty secret of traditional market

    research is that it asks people to provide conscious

    responses about behavior that involves a lot of fast,

    subconscious, automatic processes, both cognitive

    and emotional. For instance, from the time someone

    sees a house or car to the time when they know if

    theyd like to buy it is maybe ten seconds. Thats hardto research, but neuromarketing and other new

    methods will increasingly help us do so.

    Markathon:What are you working on now?

    Patrick: I do corporate and conference presentations

    and workshops on the messages in Simply Better

    and Beyond the Familiar, to help companies

    improve their ability to

    do customer-focused

    innovation. Im the

    Chairman of Which?,

    the UKs leading

    consumer

    organization. One of

    its most exciting

    projects is Right

    Choice, the Indian

    equivalent of

    Consumer Reportsin the US and

    Which? and Which? Online in the UK. I have a

    visiting fellowship at Oxford University to work on the

    future of public service broadcasting, especially the

    BBC, in a digital world. Im involved in a number of

    policy areas, especially the investment case for getting

    people online, partly so that theyll be able to use

    online public services. I work as a consultant and as an

    expert witness in legal cases such as the current

    dispute between Apple and Amazon about whether,as Apple claims, the term app store is a brand name

    rather than a generic term. In addition to Which?, I

    also do a number of other pro bono activities

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    Mozambique) to encourage Africans to switch from

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    fuel. If that succeeds, the health, environmental and

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    saying? Be infinitely curious, always on the lookout

    for new ideas and opportunities, but dont assume

    that the latest thing is as powerful as its proponents

    claim. Spend time with customers as well as looking at

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