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Brian Giesen
Director, 360 Degree Digital Influence, Ogilvy
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Brian Giesen ad:tech Brian is one of the founding team members of Ogilvy’s 360 Degree Digital Influence group – Ogilvy PR’s industry-leading social media practice designed to help brands in an era of changing sources of influence.

Brian has ten years’ experience developing and executing digital marketing and social media strategies for clients including Intel, BP, Slim-Fast, Yum!, National Institutes of Health, Thomson Reuters, Select Comfort and more. In addition, Brian developed a suite of social media training programs for clients - including Executive Digital Acceleration, Great Blogging Bootcamp, and Creating a Social Media Strategy - and has trained more than 50% of Ogilvy staff directly in 2008.

Brian has experience managing national social media and digital marketing campaigns across technology, consumer products, and other industries. He managed Screen for Life’s successful partnership with Yahoo! to reach Americans aged 45 years and older with colorectal cancer screening messages. The Yahoo! partnership included a mix of online advertising, integration of CDC materials on Yahoo! Health, and search engine keyword marketing. As part of this effort, over 30 online ad units were served across Yahoo! and adjustments were made in real time to maximize clicks to the CDC Web site.

Most recently, for NHLBI’s The Heart Truth campaign, Brian developed the social media strategy for campaign, leveraging National Wear Red Day and American Heart Month in February 2008 to raise awareness online that heart disease is the number one killer of women. As part of this effort, twenty high-influence fashion, health and women bloggers were invited to The Heart Truth Fashion Show and outreach was conducted to an additional 100 influential bloggers. More than 500 blog posts were generated reaching an estimated 15 million unique monthly visitors. Brian has also managed online marketing online public service banner campaigns for NHLBI’s Stay In Circulation and Star Sleeper campaigns.

Brian is a passionate search expert who developed Ogilvy PR’s Search Relations and Reputation Management Program helping brands leverage social media to increase their share of voice in traditional, multimedia, news and social media search results. By helping create, optimize and strategically link content, Brian has guided brands in increasing their visibility on sites relied upon by 60 million Americans every day – including Google & YouTube but also Technorati, YouTube & Veoh, Flickr, Del.icio.us, DIGG and more.
Previously, as a legislative assistant for Congressman Jay W. Johnson, Brian was responsible for handling healthcare, education and public welfare legislation. Brian tracked relevant legislation, advised the Congressman on key votes, and managed constituent correspondence and meetings.
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How Relevant Is The Concept Of A ‘Big Idea’ In Today’s Interactive Landscape?
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 09:45 AM - 10:30 AM

“It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night.”

David Ogilvy

Digital media has changed the way that we approach branding. Every aspect has been affected, from data & analysis to creative & viral. And what has that meant for the ‘big idea’? Remember when you could just create something super cool, and that was it, job done. What does it all mean in a digital environment?

In this session we’ll be looking at defining the concept of a ‘big idea’ and trying to understand what big ideas are now. In such a rapid paced environment is there a chance to identify a ‘big idea’ before it launches and how can you measure success. With examples and illustrations of ideas that have been successful we’ll also look at whether small ideas can become big. And of course we’ll touch on the issues of cost, management & ownership of the ‘big idea’, and client-agency relationship.

We’re all keen to know how to truly weave creative successfully and meaningfully throughout a digital campaign, the panellists in this session will be providing some of the answers and starting points that can help you.


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