Digital Audience Ratings: ‘Inside Out’ Slows Down, ‘Minions’ Move to Top

Digital Audience Ratings: ‘Inside Out’ Slows Down, ‘Minions’ Move to Top

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 Jun 24, 2015 – Tuesday Jun 30, 2015

RANK

LAST WEEK

FILM

RATING(000)

1

5

Minions

5,118

2

1

Inside Out

4,737

3

4

Jurassic World

3,879

4

Masterminds

3,787

5

Southpaw

3,368


Key

First time on the chart

Pinnacle Rank


Trending

Wednesday Jun 24, 2015 – Tuesday Jun 30, 2015

FILM

RATING(000)

% CHANGE

No Escape

443

+18,438%

Sleeping with Other People

533

+16,922%

Secret in Their Eyes

59

+8,791%

Insights:

  • “Inside Out” saw a slowdown in activity at both the box office and online this week, falling from first to second. While “Inside Out” engagement dipped by 70%, “Minions” jumped from fifth to first with a 30% build in activity over the week. “Minions” engagement peaked the month on June 27, when a new silly clip of Stuart & Dave captured the attention of over 1 million across Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

  • Relativity’s upcoming American heist comedy “Masterminds” stole the No. 4 spot on the DAR-Film leaderboard this week, about seven weeks out from its August release. After many sharable and silly videos featuring Galifianakis and Wiig drummed up excitement throughout the week prior, the film’s second trailer was released on June 24, driving nearly all of this week’s engagements.

  • Where’s “Terminator”? With opening day quickly approaching (July 1), both Schwarzenegger and Paramount hit the ground running this week, but the film was unable to crack the top five. The combination of a Hollywood Premiere, social countdown videos, Bitmoji pack release, Fallon Instagram Takeover and many other activations allowed “Terminator” to double engagement on Instagram, Wikipedia, YouTube and Tumblr, but the film closed the week ranking sixth, just below “Southpaw.”

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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