Tuesday, August 25, 2009

CityVoter's trendy, healthy, newly married audience

Yesterday, I blogged about our promotion with Nature's Cure. It's an opportunity to let people who have voted on CityVoter and have a strong interest in beauty, fashion, and health to get involved in a fun campaign their running to find the next face of Nature's Cure.

It's a meaningful kind of relationship for us because our audience is made up largely of these kinds of consumers. To put a little more data behind that assertion, I threw together a graphic (above/left) that shows the composition of the more than 3 million votes we've received.

It's an engaged group. They've written more than 1 million recommendations on health, food, fashion, and beauty. We'd be thrilled if one of our voters won the Nature's Cure competition. So if you haven't entered...do so now.

Good luck.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How is Cityvoter determining if someone is a "fashionista" or "foodie" etc? Simply based on what one votes on? Seems arbitrary. Just because someone votes for a restaurant they are labeled a "foodie?"

Josh Walker said...

This is a good question, so I'd love to discuss with you directly if you want to email me at jwalker(at)cityvoter.com.

For everyone else, I'll answer this quickly: CityVoter's audience doesn't simply vote. They vote multiple times and more than 50% will leave a recommendation when they vote. These are people passionate enough to take time to debate a topic that is important to them. I think it would be arbitrary to assume if you were simply looking at our restaurant content then you must be a foodie, but if you are engaged enough to vote multiple times, leave your name, and your personal food recommendation, we don't believe it is a stretch to call you a foodie (fashionista, etc.). Most importantly, advertisers and agencies who really care about audience segmentation agree.