Digital Audience Ratings: ‘Mad Max’, ‘Minions’ Mayhem, ‘The Intern’ Gets a Promotion

Digital Audience Ratings: ‘Mad Max’, ‘Minions’ Mayhem, ‘The Intern’ Gets a Promotion

Each week Variety publishes ListenFirst Digital Audience Ratings (DAR) – Film, a measurement of fan engagement across all the major digital platforms as it relates to film (see the TV version here). Provided by ListenFirst Media, DAR – Film measures what entertainment content is resonating most across Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia combined. For more on the methodology behind DAR, scroll to the bottom of the article.

Digital Audience Ratings (DAR) – Film

Weekly Top 5

Wednesday May 13, 2015 – Tuesday May 19, 2015

RANK

LAST WEEK

FILM

RATING(000)

1

Mad Max: Fury Road

5,403

2

Minions

4,797

3

3

Pitch Perfect 2

4,258

4

1

Avengers: Age of Ultron

2,684

5

4

Jurassic World

2,327


Key

First time on the chart

Pinnacle Rank


Trending

Wednesday May 13, 2015 – Tuesday May 19, 2015

FILM

RATING(000)

% CHANGE

The Intern

1,291

+27,226%

Steve Jobs

1,357

+17,101%

10 Days in a Madhouse

19

+8,578%

Insights:

  • While “Pitch Perfect 2″ won the box office battle this weekend, “Mad Max” tracked stronger digitally — claiming the #1 spot on the leaderboard. “Mad Max” fans viewed content millions of times on YouTube, tweeted about their moviegoing experiences, and searched for more information on Wikipedia, allowing “Mad Max” to lead all films on all three platforms. “Pitch Perfect 2″ was stronger than “Mad Max” on Facebook, Instagram, and Tumblr, but trailed overall by about 20%.

  • “Minion” madness resumed this week with fans flocking to the third trailer for the July release. Surges in engagement on Facebook and YouTube carried the “Minions” to the #2 spot on the DAR-Film leaderboard, just below the film’s peak ranking in November (#1). Fans are clearly not fatigued and jumped at the opportunity to check out new “Minions” content — both trailer 2 and trailer 3 already track within 20% of each other on Facebook and YouTube.

  • The campaign for Warner’s upcoming Nancy Meyers comedy “The Intern” kicked off this week with an exclusive first look via People.com, followed by a full trailer release. With 1.3M engagements, “The Intern” has largely YouTube viewers to thanks for its ranking at the top of the trending leaderboard this week.

Jason Klein is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of ListenFirst Media, a data and analytics company providing insights for brands. ListenFirst aggregates data streams from a wide range of digital, social, and traditional marketing sources to help brands optimize business performance.

Methodology:

ListenFirst Digital Audience Ratings (DAR) – Film are a raw aggregate of daily engagements based on owned, earned and organic consumer behavior on Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter, Wikipedia and YouTube. These engagements encompass metrics pertaining to audience growth, page/profile views, page-level and post-level interactions, hashtag volume and Wikipedia page views for all film pages (which provides a proxy for organic search volume).

Organic conversation volume is calculated based on the use of official hashtags, as well as those hashtags submitted directly from distributors. Only hashtags where conversation can be isolated to a specific film are included in the rating.

The Variety Weekly Top 5 and Trending leaderboards for film represent the 7-day (Wednesday – Tuesday) sum total of DAR for all US Domestic Films that have been publicly announced and slated for a commercial theatrical release. Films are rated daily from initial public announcement through 4 weeks post home entertainment street date. Festival films and other films not slated for a commercial theatrical release are excluded from this ranking cohort but available to be rated directly by ListenFirst Media.

The Trending leaderboard surfaces the three films that tracked the largest relative growth in DAR (from the previous 7-day measurement period), and are also in the top 25% based on absolute DAR.

ListenFirst monitors the official digital account owned by the film on each aforementioned platform (except for Wikipedia, where the title-specific profile is considered official). Only the U.S. version of a film’s digital presence is monitored; for platforms that support regional profiles like Facebook, the “Global” profile is considered the U.S. profile. Only profiles that can be attributed to the specific film contribute to the rating (i.e. engagements that happen on the profile facebook.com/ArgoMovie are tracked, while engagements that happen on facebook.com/WarnerBrosPictures are not). For YouTube, in addition to any film-specific presence, content related to the film in question that originated on the parent company’s official YouTube channel is considered.

For other questions pertaining to methodology, contact ListenFirst Media.

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