video commerce - selling online with video
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This presentation is from a panel delivered on September 25, 2008 at the StreamingMedia West conference. I moderated the panel on behalf of the Video Commerce Consortium along with Alison Jeske, Director of Product Management at drugstore.com, Jon Nordmark, Founder of Ebags, and Xavier Casanova, CEO of Liveclicker. The purpose of the panel was to explore video commerce case studies and hear some real 'in the trenches' stories of online retailers deploying online video in an e-commerce environment. There are some good ROI examples in here as well as examples of approach. StreamingMedia.com also has the presentation available for download. Many thanks to Dan Rayburn from StreamingMedia.com for making this conference a reality and inviting us to be a part of it.TRANSCRIPT

Justin Foster, Founder, Video Commerce Consortium
Alison Jeske, Director Product Management, drugstore.com
Jon Nordmark, Founder & CEO, Ebags.comXavier Casanova, Founder & CEO, Liveclicker

“Will It Blend” over ~100MM views and counting

1994
first visitor
eCom sales 1% of total retail
2000 2004 20081996 2002 2006
eCom sales 4.2% of retail
$1M web salesfirst profit founded
IPO
bankruptopen to all
Will It Blend video viewed 100M times
Search Engine Marketing - CPC
Overture first $100M revenue
Email Marketing - CPM
Digital Impact first email
Affiliate marketing - CPA
Commission Junction formed
Banner advertising - CPM
DoubleClick - first banner
Video Commerce
ShopNBC.tv launches
Social Marketing
Friendster founded

Self-Produced Videos: build credibility, add value, humanize the experience

Acquire content from customers Build a trust relationship

Q: What is preventing you from starting out with video commerce or expanding your current video commerce initiatives?
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
Goes against the culture or brand
High production costs
Poor ROI
Lack of interest
None of the above
No executive buy-in
Lack of industry case studies
Lack of resources
Unproven ROI
Lack of knowledge
Don't know where to start
Source: Video Commerce Consortium Survey. July 7, 2008


Past : Launch of new Beauty.com site in November 2007 – included video
▪ Video library (self-produced and vendor videos)▪ Brand boutique videos (e.g. Jonathan)▪ Objectives:
Increase basket size Increase time on site Provide enhanced shopping experience for prestige
beauty customers▪ What did we achieve?
Basket size and time on site difficult to directly correlate to video viewing (new features also launched w/ new site)
Positive feedback from customers
8

Pop up window displays video

Present: New tools and expansion of video into drugstore.com
▪ Partnered with Liveclicker to provide rich tools for driving that intersection of video and commerce
▪ Launched Beauty.com w/ Liveclicker in July ▪ Launched drugstore.com in September▪ Monitoring SEO benefits▪ Building out a video library ▪ Securing content from vendors▪ Adding video into our product setup procedures▪ Measure, measure, measure – analyze!

What does video commerce look like to drugstore.com?
’Buy’ just one click away Product links in video Sharing Rating of videos Comments Access to related videos/whole library SEO benefits Push to YouTube, Twitter, Google Video

Over 30 videos on Beauty.com
Still early to determine the basket (order value) impacts

Other exciting metrics – newest video with a 94% continue to watch past 10 sec mark;42.5% watch whole video


Future: Broaden access to video throughout the
site (product details pages; tutorials on new site features)
Develop in-house videos (videos for our “brand”)
Facility for customers to upload video Continue to monitor and analyze results
(orders!)


Jon Nordmark, Founder, eBags.com >$100MM 2007 revenues Growing 25%+ annually Launched video in early 2008
Initial pilot on video site Later rollout to brand and product pages on
eBags.com

QVC engagement Experiments within
photo studio Put existing assets to
use Not sure how to
institutionalize it with existing resources
Richer customer experience, SEO dominance

Leverage supplier content (while thrilling them) Access professional quality assets; very low
cost

Group A – No Video
Group B – With Video
# Product pages served
25,000 25,000
Conversion rate (clicked play button)
6.63% 10.00%
Conversion rate
(watched entire video)
6.63% 15.84%
Conversion rate increase (clicked play
button)
N/A50.1%
Conversion rate increase
(watched entire video)
N/A 138.9%

Launched in 2008Prominent SEO placement
“ Conversion rates increased. Plus, we quickly validated the SEO pilot.” - Jon Nordmark, Founder, eBags.com

Future: Good site experience = better conversion
rates▪ Continue producing video assets▪ More experimentation
▪ Testing “demonstration” vs. “promotional”▪ Placement on site pages▪ Integration into marketing streams
Lean on suppliers for more video content Introduce customer-generated video
content


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Justin Foster, Founder, Video Commerce Consortium
Alison Jeske, Director Product Marketing, drugstore.com
Jon Nordmark, Founder & CEO, Ebags.comXavier Casanova, Founder & CEO,
Liveclicker