WOM Sells More Movie Tickets Than Social Media

Social media isn’t helping movie theater ticket sales all that much. That surprising nugget came from Vincent Bruzzese, present of  Ipsos MediaCT’s Motion Picture Group.

Data from a new Ipsos survey shows that the biggest influencer (69%), when it comes to buying a movie ticket, is a personal word-of-mouth recommendation.

39% of movie goers were motivated by the amount of posts they saw about a specific movie and 37% were swayed by a large number of positive comments online.

But according to Bruzzese, digital buzz isn’t helping the overall lifespan of a

Read more of this social media article at: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2012/10/wom-sells-more-movie-tickets-than-social-media.html

This entry was posted in Social Media Optimisation. Bookmark the permalink.

Comments are closed.