Google+ Insights, how Brands can use Google +, facebook vs google+
- 2. • Google+ exploits the basic social media functions
of sharing thoughts, pictures, links etc.
• A key feature is the instant video chat
functionality supporting up to 9 users at once
• Google+ uses the ‘circles’ function as a USP. It
helps you segregate people into various sects like
friends, family, colleagues etc. These can then be
further segregated into concentrated circles.
• Google+ currently boasts of 40 million users
• To stumble onto an official brand page, users
have to insert a ‘+’ before the name on search.
- 3. Customizable
Share Options
Profile Picture
Posts Are
Customizable Viewable To
Tabs All Users
User Count
- 4. Customizable Stationary
Profile Picture Customizable
Grid
Share
Options
Users Can Be Classified Content Sharing Can Be
Into Circles Limited To Circles
- 5. Google Circles Facebook Friends
• Enables a page to segregate • A user cannot be split into
followers groups
• Content shared can be limited to • Content shared is visible to all
desired circles viewers
• The follower must add the brand • Privacy settings restrict the
page for the brand to reciprocate brand in interacting with
• Creating circles and users
communicating is simple
- 6. Google+ Hangouts Facebook Video Chat
• Enables up to 10 users to • A brand page cannot conduct a
video chat simultaneously video chat with followers
• For a brand to conduct a video • From an email id, simultaneous
chat, the followers need to have chats are not permitted
the brand in the circle and vice
versa
• Group discussions can be
carried out
Facebook Chats
Permits chat only on website. Mobile devices not
supported. Group chats permitted on creating of groups.
Google+ Huddles
Permits android based devices to conduct group
chats on the go
- 9. Followers need to add a brand to their circle
before the brand can add them to theirs
- 10. Target Content
Male- 69% Female- 31%
Search shows users are aged between 18-34 years
32+ users have income > $100k*
*Stat from ComScore
- 12. Exploit +1
Helps followers give their stamp of approval to posts
Friends of followers can find content with a +1 given by the
user
- 13. Exploit +1
Google+ pages with a +1 from a follower rank in accordance to the number
of +1 on the search engine
When a brand name is googled, the search engine displays the number of
+1s it has earned
- 14. Exploit +1
Google+ boasts of a tab on a users profile which capsulates content
When a friend of the user clicks on the tab, he can view content +1d. This
helps viral content from a brand page