Shine unveils the ‘People’s Oscars’
By Don Ferguson on Saturday, February 21, 2015
In a lovely bit of agency self-promotion, the clever folk at Shine conducted something of a social experiment in the run up to The Oscars – testing whether The Academy’s views reflected that of the movie going public.
By carrying out a touch of ‘social listening’ the extensive monitoring of online chatter looked at discussions around nominees post publication of the shortlist, exhaustively analysing around 460,000 posts and sieving out any negative sentiment – leaving only the good stuff.
From this, they were able to define a hierarchy of the ‘People’s Winners’, which are…
The nominees for Best Supporting Actress are:
Patricia Arquette
Emma Stone
Laura Dern
Meryl Streep
Keira Knightley
…and The Oscar goes to: Meryl Streep
The nominees for Best Supporting Actor are:
Robert Duvall
Mark Ruffalo
Ethan Hawke
J.K.Simmons
Edward Norton
…and The Oscar goes to: Robert Duvall
The nominees for Best Actor are:
Steve Carell
Michael Keaton
Bradley Cooper
Eddie Redmayne
Benedict Cumberbatch
…and The Oscar goes to: Eddie Redmayne
The nominees for Best Actress are:
Marion Cotillard
Rosamund Pike
Felicity Jones
Reese Witherspoon
Julianne Moore
…and The Oscar goes to: Julianne Moore
The nominees for Best Picture are:
American Sniper
The Imitation Game
Birdman
Selma
Boyhood
The Theory of Everything
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Whiplash
…and The Oscars goes to: Birdman
Speaking to PR Week on Friday, Shine Communications director David Wiles said that using sentiment analysis in this way has become one of the agency’s key resources… analysing social media enables us to close the loop on our campaigns. It’s not simply a way of amplifying a message, it’s a way to deliver insight and inform what we do next.”
Very cute piece of publicity on the part of Shine, that’s beautifully bookended on the agency’s blog by @JoelZietcer and @CaolanMahon, saying “Shine can’t be held responsible for any of the results being correct. Unless they turn out to be correct, then we can be held fully responsible.” (Especially as everyone knows The Academy always balls it up).
