Flavored Water Brand Preferences
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Multicultural Analysis
Overview
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OYE! listens to consumers in their own space online and delivers insight on what multicultural consumers have to say about your brand and/or industry. Understanding consumer attitudes towards brands, their products and their marketing efforts provides our clients insights that inform their multicultural marketing strategy.
Actionable Insights
OYE! is a language neutral social listening software that analyzes conversation in all languages to derive meaning from unstructured social conversation among multicultural consumers. OYE!’s natural language processing solution is designed not only to identify African American and Hispanic consumers of all levels of acculturation, but to also derive insights marketers can use in campaign strategy, messaging and targeting.
The Solution
Insights derived from social conversation by OYE! provide key details into multicultural consumers through their own statements about brands. OYE! analyzes that conversation to allow brands to understand better ways to interact with these groups. OYE! also provides insights on how to create campaigns tailored to these multicultural consumers.
The Value
Leveraging insights from OYE! allows clients to produce content for multicultural consumers most influential over purchasing decisions for your brand where they want it, when they want it and how they want it. The result: Better conversion, lift and engagement.
Methodology
This analysis was extrapolated from a data set of 51,346 conversations on Twitter, of which 2,671 were from verified Hispanics and 957 were from verified African Americans. All the data was gathered from 08/21/2019 – 09/19/2019.
Contents
Volume & Language Analysis | Gender Analysis | Location Analysis | Keyword Word Cloud | Top Shared Posts
Volume & Language Analysis
Volume by Ethnicity
- U.S. Hispanics made up 31.8% (2,671) of overall conversations, nearly triple the portion of conversations generated by African Americans at 11.4% (957)
- This indicates that Hispanics are significantly more active online when it comes to flavored water beverages than African Americans
- The brands with the highest percentage of Hispanic conversations were Vitamin Water (34.4%), followed by LaCroix (33.7%), and Sparkling Ice (27.7%)
- The brands with the highest percentage of African American conversations were Bubly (26.7%), followed by LaCroix (12.2%) and Vitamin Water (11%)
- By looking at volume of mentions, LaCroix was the most discussed brand among U.S. Hispanics (1,326) with Sanpellegrino (64) being the least discussed flavored water brand among U.S. Hispanics online
- Similarly, LaCroix (480), was the most discussed brand among African Americans while Sanpellegrino (22) was the least conversed about among African Americans
Hispanic Language Analysis
- Sanpellegrino was the brand with the highest percentage of Spanish tweets (9.8%). The brand with the highest percentage of Bilingual conversations was also Sanpellegrino (26.2%). The two brands with the highest percentage of English tweets were Bubly and LaCroix both at 99.3%.
- Bubbly and Sparkling Ice were the only two brands without any conversation being in pure Spanish
- English dominated the conversation over Spanish and Bilingual across the industry
- An example of a Spanish tweet is this post by Foodieesposos (Felipe & Julie)that describes that they like to drink their wine with Sanpellegrino.
- An example of a bilingual tweet is this tweet by Zander Morales tagging his sparkle bestie in order to try to win a LaCroix giveaway
- Conversations among English speakers were more popular about the flavors of the water brands as shown in these two examples by Melissa and Sarah
Gender Analysis
Hispanic Gender Analysis
- By looking at percentages the majority of conversations came from Hispanic females (55.0%) as opposed to Hispanic males (45.0%).
- The brands with the highest percentage of Hispanic female conversations were Sparkling Ice (88.4%), followed by LaCroix (58.9%) and Vitamin Water (48.7%)
- The brands with the highest percentage of Hispanic male conversations were Bubly (66.2%), followed by Sanpellegrino (57.4%) and Vitamin Water (51.3%)
- An example of a Hispanic male tweet is this tweet by Gabriel expressing his criticism of how LaCroix tastes
- An example of a tweet that was very popular among Hispanic females is this tweet by Kayla about a proposal delivered via a bottle of Vitamin Water
African American Gender Analysis
- The majority of conversations came from African American males (62.8%) as opposed to African American females (37.2%).
- The brands with the highest percentage of African American male conversations were Bubly (95.2%), followed by LaCroix (58.1%) and Vitamin Water (52.1%)
- The brands with the highest percentage of African American female conversations were Sparkling Ice (80.8%), followed by Sanpellegrino (50%) and Vitamin Water (47.9%)
- Bubly had a huge difference in conversations between females and males, where males dominated with 95.2% of all mentions
- Sparkling Ice had a big difference in conversations between females and males, where females controlled the conversation with 80.8% of all posts
- An example of an African American male tweet is this tweet by Fresh Prince (not real name)
- An example of an African American female tweet is this share by Tamara Canty
Location Analysis
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Hispanic Location Analysis
- The location with the largest Hispanic percentage was Los Angeles, CA (14.9%) followed by Miami, FL (10.1%), San Antonio, TX (7.8%), Houston, TX (6.3%), and (New York City, NY (6.1%)
- Popular topics among these top locations were tweets about the popularity of flavored water, the flavors, and giveaways
African American Location Analysis
- The location with the largest African American percentage was Atlanta, GA (12.5%) followed by Chicago, IL (8.1%), Baltimore, MD (7.9%), Detroit, MI (7.9%), and Washington D.C (5.8%)
- A popular topic among these locations is comparing LaCroix to the hard seltzer White Claw as many drinkers of LaCroix have found similarities between both as mentioned in this tweet
- Other popular topics among these top locations range from praise of flavors, criticism of flavors, and innovative ways to use these flavored waters
Word Clouds
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Hispanic Word Cloud
- Based on the popularity of the word 'work' it can be inferred that Hispanics relate flavored water to their everyday work lives, as described in this tweet by Ana Laura
- 'White Claw' is also a popular keyword as many people have been comparing the popular hard seltzer to LaCroix, which has no alcohol
- This tweet was widely spread among Hispanics, and is a humorous insight about how flavored water beverages are greatly enjoyed in the morning
African American Word Cloud
- Comparing 'White Claws' to LaCroix was also very popular among African Americans
- African Americans and Hispanics had many of the same keywords in common such as, 'Drinking', 'Whiteclaws', 'Morning', 'Dad', 'Drive', and 'Work'
- The tweet that was connected to those aforementioned keywords, was the same original tweet that was connected to the Hispanic tweet comparing 'White Claws' to LaCroix.
Top Shared Posts
Top Shared Posts Among Hispanics
- This post was a very popular widespread post among Hispanics as many people found it to be hysterical and highly shareable
- This also led to the conversation of 'White Claws' being compared to LaCroix, as other tweets state the same reasoning as Bunny Meyer posted in this tweet
Top Shared Posts Among African Americans
- This post was very controversial as Vitamin Water was criticized for their latest marketing campaign as people did not agree with the idea of these brands ruining books to promote their products
- This post was very popular among African Americans and resonated with Hispanics as well
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