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                 Brad Smallwood
                 Head of Measurement and
                 Insights
                 Facebook
Measurement Research 2011Facebook
 The team’s job at Roadmap
•   Data, data, data
•   Running the advertising marketplace
•   Measurement
•   Working with existing companies and standards to
    advance research
Measurement Research 2011 Roadmap
 Market Research
Measurement Research 2011 Roadmap
 Market Research
Measurement Research 2011 Roadmap
 Market Research
                    The Information Age
Measurement Research 2011 Roadmap
 A Global Information Platform

Global scale and speed
• 500M+ people worldwide



Active and authentic audience
• Real name culture and real world sharing

• 1.56B pieces of content shared per day

• 110 million status updates per day



Multiple sources of data
• Attitudinal, chatter, interests
Measurement Research 2011 Roadmap
 Market Research
Measurement Research 2011 Roadmap
 Translation on Facebook
Measurement Research 2011 Roadmap
 How do we make research
 interesting to users?
Measurement Research 2011 Roadmap
 Research Polls
Measurement Research 2011 Roadmap
 Gathering data in this way changes
 the data and the research
Measurement Research 2011 Roadmap
 Types of data on Facebook
 Usage
  o Site usage
  o Mobile usage
  o Memes
 Revealed
  o Interests (Likes)
  o Locations (Places)
  o Chatter (Status updates)
 Solicited
  o Research Polls
  o Facebook Questions
  o Direct Interactions – Page posts
Measurement Research 2011 Roadmap
 This requires a different way of
 thinking about research
Measurement Research 2011 thinking
  A different way of Roadmap              of market research
Data source 1
                      Linking variables




Data source 2
                     Linking variables
                                             Bias-correction   Adjusted
                                                 dataset        dataset

            [...]
Data source n
                     Linking variables
Nielsen’s Online Campaign
Measurement Research 2011 Roadmap   Ratings
Measurement Research 2011Openings
 Looking at Movie Roadmap                                                                            using different data

                                                          Attendance and Weekend Gross
                                      50%                                                                                                 $250
% intending or reporting attendance




                                      40%                                                                                                 $200




                                                                                                                                                 Opening weekend gross (millions)
                                      30%                                                                                                 $150




                                      20%                                                                                                 $100




                                      10%                                                                                                 $50




                                      0%                                                                                                  $0




                                            Did you go to the movies this weekend? - Monday morning; r = .89 with gross   Weekend Gross
Measurement Research 2011 Roadmap

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