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According to new research from Domo and CEO.com, more business leaders than ever before are jumping into social media but they aren’t necessarily taking full advantage of these tools.

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2014 SOCIAL CEO REPORT Our annual look at trends in engagement of Fortune 500 CEOs across the major social media networks. SEPTEMBER 2014 #socialceo
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Inside Now in its third year, the Domo + CEO.com Annual Social CEO Report explores adoption, activity and attitudes around social media among elite business leaders. • A whopping 68% of Fortune 500 CEOs have no social media presence at all. • Of those who do, 2/3 of them engage on only one platform. • 74% of CEOs who only participate in a single network MRLQ/LQNHGΖQȴUVW. • 42 F500 CEOs currently have Twitter accounts. 69% of them are active, having posted within the last 100 days. • Ready to be shocked? More top CEOs are now on Instagram than Google+. MAJOR FINDINGS 5 TWITTER 14 FACEBOOK 18 LINKEDIN 21 GOOGLE+ 26 INSTAGRAM 30 ABOUT THE RESEARCH 33
INTRODUCTION It’s 2014 and the Fortune 500 CEOs are starting to get the message: sociability PDWWHUV:KLOHQRWHYHU(2LVWZHHWLQJIURPWKHFRUQHURɝFHDVLJQLȴFDQWQXPEHU of the world’s business leaders are using social media to boost their companies’ brands. According to new research from Domo and CEO.com, more business leaders than ever before are jumping into social media but they aren’t necessarily taking full advantage of these tools. Even though CEOs are getting the big picture when it comes to social media, VRFLDOSURȴFLHQFVWLOOWDNHVWLPH. So how are today’s CEOs engaging with the public online? Which social media platforms are getting the most attention? Have social habits changed over the past year or have they stayed pretty much the same? This report answers some of those questions.
HOW WE DID IT :HVHDUFKHGIRUDQGLGHQWLȴHGWKHVRFLDOSURȴOHVRIevery single CEO on the Fortune 500 list RQȴYHSRSXODUVRFLDOQHWZRUNV7ZLWWHU)DFHERRN/LQNHGΖQ Google Plus and Instagram. We weighed the legitimacy of these social SURȴOHVDJDLQVWDVWULFWVHWRIFULWHULDWRHQVXUHWKDWRXUGDWDLVDFFXUDWH You can read more about our methodology at the end of the report.
MAJOR FINDINGS #socialceo
A whopping 68% of CEOs have no social presence on any major network (Twitter, Facebook, /LQNHGΖQ*RRJOHRUΖQVWDJUDP
2014 Social CEO Report by CEO.com
Most of the networks we track showed VLJQLȴFDQWyear-over-year gains. Our research showed an uptick in CEOs who had Twitter and Facebook accounts. LinkedIn, on the other hand, didn’t get much love this year. In keeping with last year, Google+ remains a desolate wasteland. 150 120 90 60 30 0 (no data) 2014 2013 2012 N/A +46% +23% -8% +60%
OF THOSE CEOs WHO USE SOCIAL MEDIA, OVER 2/3 OF THEM ARE ONLY ON ONE PLATFORM. 1 Network # of CEOs on... 2 Networks 3 Networks 4 Networks 5 Networks Mark Zuckerberg is the only F500 CEO on all 5 major networks.
Think Twitter belongs to Millennials? Think again. On average, CEOs on Twitter are nearly 5 years older than CEOs who are on Google+. Age of F500 CEOs on Social Media Networks: OVERALL AVERAGE AGE 56.8 56.7 57.9 What’s bringing down these averages? Younger CEOs are on more social networks than their older peers. 52.6 42.1 CEOs on Network CEOs on Networks CEOs on Networks 55.5 56.2 51.9 52.4 1 2 4+ Rupert Murdoch is our favorite octogenarian tweeter.
TWITTER #socialceo
HERE’S THE GOOD NEWS: CEOs ARE STARTING TO REALIZE THE VALUE OF TWITTER. There are currently 42 F500 CEOs on Twitter, up from last year’s 28. Jonas Prising has been on Twitter the longest, at nearly six years. 8.3% Twitter At Least 1 Network No Social Media Presence TWITTER
TWITTER F500 CEOs on Twitter have a combined follower total of 3,696,637 34% It seems unlikely that CEOs are padding their follower count by purchasing fake followers. Instead, CEOs are probably being targeted by spam accounts EHFDXVH RI WKHLU KLJKSURȴOH VWDWXV Either way, one thing is clear: Quality outweighs quantity when it comes to Twitter engagement. TOP FAKERS MARK ZUCKERBERG Facebook 25% RUPERT MURDOCH News Corporation 20% WARREN BUFFETT Berkshire-Hathaway By contrast top celebrities on Twitter (Ellen DeGeneres, Lady Gaga, Oprah, Rihanna and the like) have an average of 30.4% fake followers. Average % of fake Twitter followers: ...of those 3.6M, 11.5% are fake
Almost half of the active* CEOs on Twitter tweet once a month or less. /HVVWKDQDTXDUWHUWZHHWGDLO :HGHȴQHGȊDFWLYHȋDVKDYLQJWZHHWHGZLWKLQWKHODVWGDV TWITTER
Overall, 69% of Twitter CEOs are active on the platform KDYLQJWZHHWHGLQWKHODVWGDV
69% Active CEOs tweet about every other Exactly half of CEOs on Twitter have fewer than 100 total tweets. The most active F500 CEO tweeter sends an average of 4.82 tweets/day. 50% day (0.48 tweets/day, little changed from last year’s 0.49/day) 5 CEOs on Twitter have never tweeted That’s 10x the overall average of .48 tweets per day. TWITTER JACK SALZWEDEL American Family
TWITTER 74% OF CEOs ON TWITTER HAVE ENGAGEMENT SCORES OF LESS THAN 10/100. The average CEO on Twitter tweets 20% links, 11% replies and had their top tweet RT’d 1340 times. 26% of CEOs used @mentions in 1 in 5 tweets or more. F500 AVERAGE MARK BERTOLINI RALPH LAUREN MICHAEL RAPINO Links Replies Other
TWITTER So, where did the growth come from? SATYA NADELLA Microsoft DAVID ZASLAV Discovery Communications CURRENT F500 CEOs JOINING TWITTER NEW F500 CEOs ON TWITTER ALREADY COMPANIES NEW TO F500 w/CEOs ON TWITTER TIM COOK Apple As the new face of Microsoft, Satya Nadella is responsible for revamping the company’s image. After four years of radio silence on Twitter, Nadella started tweeting again:
Twitter All-Stars of the Fortune 500... MOST FOLLOWERS -3158 844,731 -3110 FASTEST-GROWING FOLLOWING BIGGEST FOLLOWER LOSSES MEG WHITMAN Hewlett-Packard JONAS PRISING Manpower WARREN BUFFETT Berkshire-Hathaway HIKMET ERSEK Western Union Almost 10x the CEO average of 87,827! +4,529% Average follower #s went up by about 27% TWITTER
FACEBOOK #socialceo
ONCE AN EXCLUSIVE SPACE FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS, FACEBOOK IS NOW A HUB FOR BUSINESSES AND BRANDS. 8.3% of CEOs have Facebook accounts, up from 7% last year. Meg Whitman is the only F500 CEO with a fan page that hasn’t been updated for more than 100 days. Twitter At Least 1 Network No Social Media Presence FACEBOOK
Of the CEOs on Facebook, 6 maintain RɝFLDOIDQSDJHV, 21 have semi-private accounts, and 14 use private accounts. FACEBOOK FAN PRIVATE SEMI-PRIVATE *non-fan pages with publicly-viewable content MEG WHITMAN Hewlett-Packard 210,382 followers ALAN MULLALY Ford Motor Company 10,560 followers MARK ZUCKERBERG Facebook 29,001,188 followers MICHAEL JACKSON AutoNation 305 followers SATYA NADELLA Microsoft 49,906 followers JOHN CHAMBERS Cisco Systems 10,268 followers )(2VZLWKRɝFLDO)DFHERRNIDQSDJHV
LINKEDIN #socialceo
THE PERCENTAGE OF CEOs ON LINKEDIN THIS YEAR IS SMALLER, BUT THEY SEEM TO BE MORE ACTIVE. 25.4% of CEOs have /LQNHGΖQDFFRXQWV /DVWHDULWZDV 2IWKH(2VRQ/LQNHGΖQDUH ȊΖQȵXHQFHUVȋ/LQNHGΖQȇVRɝFLDOOLVWRI
RIWKRVHLQȵXHQFHUVMRLQHGWKHQHWZRUN in the past year. Twitter At Least 1 Network No Social Media Presence LINKEDIN
JAMIE DIMON JP Morgan GARY KELLY Southwest Airlines MILES WHITE Abbott Laboratories KLAUS KLEINFELD Alcoa IAN READ 3ȴ]HU ANDREW LIVERIS Dow Chemical TIMOTHY MAYOLOULOS Fannie Mae ARNE SORENSON Marriott International LAURENCE FINK BlackRock DENISE MORRISON Campbell Soup WALTER BETTINGER Charles Schwab JOHN DONAHOE eBay JEFFREY IMMELT General Electric ALEX MOLINAROLI Johnson Controls AJAYPAL BANGA MasterCard BRUCE BROUSSARD Humana MEG WHITMAN Hewlett-Packard MARILLYN HEWSON Lockheed Martin MUHTAR KENT Coca-Cola 100,000+ FOLLOWERS: 10,000-100,000 Followers: Ζ1)/8(1(56 5,000-10,000 Followers: 8QGHU)ROORZHUV 1HZΖQȵXHQFHU this year LINKEDIN
Of the CEOs who are not ΖQȵXHQFHUV34% have 500+ connections./DVWHDURQO 18% had that many. LINKEDIN
/LQNHGΖQ(2VDSSHDUWREHXVLQJWKHSODWIRUPWR actively connect with stakeholders. 100 24% 100-249 15% 250-500 16% 500+ 30% ΖQȵXHQFHUV 15% LINKEDIN (2VRQ/LQNHGΖQERIRQQHFWLRQV
But CEOs aren’t always investing the time it takes to get the most from the platform. Name Company + Title Photo 1 Add’l Section Chicken or egg? (2VZLWKPRUHFRPSOHWHSURȴOHVDOVR tend to have more connections. 100 Connections 100-249 Connections 250-500 Connections 500+ Connections ΖQȵXHQFHUV 40 30 20 10 COMPLETE INCOMPLETE PROFILES PROFILES OUT-OF-DATE INFO Still lists previous title at company LINKEDIN RPSOHWH3URȴOHV ΖQFRPSOHWH3URȴOHV Wrong Information
LINKEDIN DOMINATES AS THE “ENTRY NETWORK” OF CHOICE AMONG CEOs. Of CEOs with only 1 network, 73% chose /LQNHGΖQ. Nearly half of all social CEOs are only on LinkedIn—presumably because of the unmistakable EXVLQHVVEHQHȴWV LINKEDIN
GOOGLE PLUS #socialceo
GOOGLE+ IS LIKELY THE MOST UNDERUTILIZED SOCIAL PLATFORM. ONLY 8 CEOs USE IT. That 1.6% is still up from last year’s 1%, however. As the co-founder of Google Larry Page has an 8,361,461 follower count. Twitter At Least 1 Network No Social Media Presence GOOGLE+
Less than 15% of CEOs GOOGLE+ found Google+ useful for their work according to our CEO Information Consumption Report.
INSTAGRAM #socialceo
READY TO BE SHOCKED? MORE CEOs ARE ON INSTAGRAM THAN GOOGLE+. 2.6% of F500 CEOs have Instagram accounts. Most CEOs use Instagram to post personal pictures: family members, vacations and VRPHWLPHVHYHQWKHLUSHWV=XFNHUEHUJ
Twitter At Least 1 Network No Social Media Presence INSTAGRAM
As the only F500 CEO who has even begun leveraging the platform to promote his company, Michael Rapino is the clear king of Instagram. In one example, this uber social-savvy CEO posted a captioned picture of himself speaking at an event. MICHAEL RAPINO LiveNation INSTAGRAM
CONCLUSION #socialceo
A recent survey from Weber Shandwick reveals that CEOs believe using social media shows innovation. TWITTER
:KHQLWFRPHVWRVRFLDOPHGLDVRPHRIWKH)RUWXQH(2VDUHȴQDOO getting the message but others still have yet to prioritize sociability. More CEOs than ever are on Twitter and Facebook and they’ve even begun embracing newer social media platforms like Instagram. Through social tools, CEOs have the opportunity to: Shape the company’s image Build relationships with employees and media Give a human face to the company
At the same time, 68.0% of these CEOs still have absolutely no social media presence. Furthermore, the CEOs who are online still have a lot to learn about how to leverage their social accounts. So why aren’t more CEOs social? We can make some educated guesses, but a recent survey from Weber Shandwick suggests that some CEOs are opting to just communicate internally rather than take a public-facing communication approach. Evidence suggests that CEOs who are on social media, however, are viewed as more innovative.

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  • 1. 2014 SOCIAL CEO REPORT Our annual look at trends in engagement of Fortune 500 CEOs across the major social media networks. SEPTEMBER 2014 #socialceo
  • 2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Inside Now in its third year, the Domo + CEO.com Annual Social CEO Report explores adoption, activity and attitudes around social media among elite business leaders. • A whopping 68% of Fortune 500 CEOs have no social media presence at all. • Of those who do, 2/3 of them engage on only one platform. • 74% of CEOs who only participate in a single network MRLQ/LQNHGΖQȴUVW. • 42 F500 CEOs currently have Twitter accounts. 69% of them are active, having posted within the last 100 days. • Ready to be shocked? More top CEOs are now on Instagram than Google+. MAJOR FINDINGS 5 TWITTER 14 FACEBOOK 18 LINKEDIN 21 GOOGLE+ 26 INSTAGRAM 30 ABOUT THE RESEARCH 33
  • 3. INTRODUCTION It’s 2014 and the Fortune 500 CEOs are starting to get the message: sociability PDWWHUV:KLOHQRWHYHU(2LVWZHHWLQJIURPWKHFRUQHURɝFHDVLJQLȴFDQWQXPEHU of the world’s business leaders are using social media to boost their companies’ brands. According to new research from Domo and CEO.com, more business leaders than ever before are jumping into social media but they aren’t necessarily taking full advantage of these tools. Even though CEOs are getting the big picture when it comes to social media, VRFLDOSURȴFLHQFVWLOOWDNHVWLPH. So how are today’s CEOs engaging with the public online? Which social media platforms are getting the most attention? Have social habits changed over the past year or have they stayed pretty much the same? This report answers some of those questions.
  • 4. HOW WE DID IT :HVHDUFKHGIRUDQGLGHQWLȴHGWKHVRFLDOSURȴOHVRIevery single CEO on the Fortune 500 list RQȴYHSRSXODUVRFLDOQHWZRUNV7ZLWWHU)DFHERRN/LQNHGΖQ Google Plus and Instagram. We weighed the legitimacy of these social SURȴOHVDJDLQVWDVWULFWVHWRIFULWHULDWRHQVXUHWKDWRXUGDWDLVDFFXUDWH You can read more about our methodology at the end of the report.
  • 6. A whopping 68% of CEOs have no social presence on any major network (Twitter, Facebook, /LQNHGΖQ*RRJOHRUΖQVWDJUDP
  • 8. Most of the networks we track showed VLJQLȴFDQWyear-over-year gains. Our research showed an uptick in CEOs who had Twitter and Facebook accounts. LinkedIn, on the other hand, didn’t get much love this year. In keeping with last year, Google+ remains a desolate wasteland. 150 120 90 60 30 0 (no data) 2014 2013 2012 N/A +46% +23% -8% +60%
  • 9. OF THOSE CEOs WHO USE SOCIAL MEDIA, OVER 2/3 OF THEM ARE ONLY ON ONE PLATFORM. 1 Network # of CEOs on... 2 Networks 3 Networks 4 Networks 5 Networks Mark Zuckerberg is the only F500 CEO on all 5 major networks.
  • 10. Think Twitter belongs to Millennials? Think again. On average, CEOs on Twitter are nearly 5 years older than CEOs who are on Google+. Age of F500 CEOs on Social Media Networks: OVERALL AVERAGE AGE 56.8 56.7 57.9 What’s bringing down these averages? Younger CEOs are on more social networks than their older peers. 52.6 42.1 CEOs on Network CEOs on Networks CEOs on Networks 55.5 56.2 51.9 52.4 1 2 4+ Rupert Murdoch is our favorite octogenarian tweeter.
  • 12. HERE’S THE GOOD NEWS: CEOs ARE STARTING TO REALIZE THE VALUE OF TWITTER. There are currently 42 F500 CEOs on Twitter, up from last year’s 28. Jonas Prising has been on Twitter the longest, at nearly six years. 8.3% Twitter At Least 1 Network No Social Media Presence TWITTER
  • 13. TWITTER F500 CEOs on Twitter have a combined follower total of 3,696,637 34% It seems unlikely that CEOs are padding their follower count by purchasing fake followers. Instead, CEOs are probably being targeted by spam accounts EHFDXVH RI WKHLU KLJKSURȴOH VWDWXV Either way, one thing is clear: Quality outweighs quantity when it comes to Twitter engagement. TOP FAKERS MARK ZUCKERBERG Facebook 25% RUPERT MURDOCH News Corporation 20% WARREN BUFFETT Berkshire-Hathaway By contrast top celebrities on Twitter (Ellen DeGeneres, Lady Gaga, Oprah, Rihanna and the like) have an average of 30.4% fake followers. Average % of fake Twitter followers: ...of those 3.6M, 11.5% are fake
  • 14. Almost half of the active* CEOs on Twitter tweet once a month or less. /HVVWKDQDTXDUWHUWZHHWGDLO :HGHȴQHGȊDFWLYHȋDVKDYLQJWZHHWHGZLWKLQWKHODVWGDV TWITTER
  • 15. Overall, 69% of Twitter CEOs are active on the platform KDYLQJWZHHWHGLQWKHODVWGDV
  • 16. 69% Active CEOs tweet about every other Exactly half of CEOs on Twitter have fewer than 100 total tweets. The most active F500 CEO tweeter sends an average of 4.82 tweets/day. 50% day (0.48 tweets/day, little changed from last year’s 0.49/day) 5 CEOs on Twitter have never tweeted That’s 10x the overall average of .48 tweets per day. TWITTER JACK SALZWEDEL American Family
  • 17. TWITTER 74% OF CEOs ON TWITTER HAVE ENGAGEMENT SCORES OF LESS THAN 10/100. The average CEO on Twitter tweets 20% links, 11% replies and had their top tweet RT’d 1340 times. 26% of CEOs used @mentions in 1 in 5 tweets or more. F500 AVERAGE MARK BERTOLINI RALPH LAUREN MICHAEL RAPINO Links Replies Other
  • 18. TWITTER So, where did the growth come from? SATYA NADELLA Microsoft DAVID ZASLAV Discovery Communications CURRENT F500 CEOs JOINING TWITTER NEW F500 CEOs ON TWITTER ALREADY COMPANIES NEW TO F500 w/CEOs ON TWITTER TIM COOK Apple As the new face of Microsoft, Satya Nadella is responsible for revamping the company’s image. After four years of radio silence on Twitter, Nadella started tweeting again:
  • 19. Twitter All-Stars of the Fortune 500... MOST FOLLOWERS -3158 844,731 -3110 FASTEST-GROWING FOLLOWING BIGGEST FOLLOWER LOSSES MEG WHITMAN Hewlett-Packard JONAS PRISING Manpower WARREN BUFFETT Berkshire-Hathaway HIKMET ERSEK Western Union Almost 10x the CEO average of 87,827! +4,529% Average follower #s went up by about 27% TWITTER
  • 21. ONCE AN EXCLUSIVE SPACE FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS, FACEBOOK IS NOW A HUB FOR BUSINESSES AND BRANDS. 8.3% of CEOs have Facebook accounts, up from 7% last year. Meg Whitman is the only F500 CEO with a fan page that hasn’t been updated for more than 100 days. Twitter At Least 1 Network No Social Media Presence FACEBOOK
  • 22. Of the CEOs on Facebook, 6 maintain RɝFLDOIDQSDJHV, 21 have semi-private accounts, and 14 use private accounts. FACEBOOK FAN PRIVATE SEMI-PRIVATE *non-fan pages with publicly-viewable content MEG WHITMAN Hewlett-Packard 210,382 followers ALAN MULLALY Ford Motor Company 10,560 followers MARK ZUCKERBERG Facebook 29,001,188 followers MICHAEL JACKSON AutoNation 305 followers SATYA NADELLA Microsoft 49,906 followers JOHN CHAMBERS Cisco Systems 10,268 followers )(2VZLWKRɝFLDO)DFHERRNIDQSDJHV
  • 24. THE PERCENTAGE OF CEOs ON LINKEDIN THIS YEAR IS SMALLER, BUT THEY SEEM TO BE MORE ACTIVE. 25.4% of CEOs have /LQNHGΖQDFFRXQWV /DVWHDULWZDV 2IWKH(2VRQ/LQNHGΖQDUH ȊΖQȵXHQFHUVȋ/LQNHGΖQȇVRɝFLDOOLVWRI
  • 25. RIWKRVHLQȵXHQFHUVMRLQHGWKHQHWZRUN in the past year. Twitter At Least 1 Network No Social Media Presence LINKEDIN
  • 26. JAMIE DIMON JP Morgan GARY KELLY Southwest Airlines MILES WHITE Abbott Laboratories KLAUS KLEINFELD Alcoa IAN READ 3ȴ]HU ANDREW LIVERIS Dow Chemical TIMOTHY MAYOLOULOS Fannie Mae ARNE SORENSON Marriott International LAURENCE FINK BlackRock DENISE MORRISON Campbell Soup WALTER BETTINGER Charles Schwab JOHN DONAHOE eBay JEFFREY IMMELT General Electric ALEX MOLINAROLI Johnson Controls AJAYPAL BANGA MasterCard BRUCE BROUSSARD Humana MEG WHITMAN Hewlett-Packard MARILLYN HEWSON Lockheed Martin MUHTAR KENT Coca-Cola 100,000+ FOLLOWERS: 10,000-100,000 Followers: Ζ1)/8(1(56 5,000-10,000 Followers: 8QGHU)ROORZHUV 1HZΖQȵXHQFHU this year LINKEDIN
  • 27. Of the CEOs who are not ΖQȵXHQFHUV34% have 500+ connections./DVWHDURQO 18% had that many. LINKEDIN
  • 28. /LQNHGΖQ(2VDSSHDUWREHXVLQJWKHSODWIRUPWR actively connect with stakeholders. 100 24% 100-249 15% 250-500 16% 500+ 30% ΖQȵXHQFHUV 15% LINKEDIN (2VRQ/LQNHGΖQERIRQQHFWLRQV
  • 29. But CEOs aren’t always investing the time it takes to get the most from the platform. Name Company + Title Photo 1 Add’l Section Chicken or egg? (2VZLWKPRUHFRPSOHWHSURȴOHVDOVR tend to have more connections. 100 Connections 100-249 Connections 250-500 Connections 500+ Connections ΖQȵXHQFHUV 40 30 20 10 COMPLETE INCOMPLETE PROFILES PROFILES OUT-OF-DATE INFO Still lists previous title at company LINKEDIN RPSOHWH3URȴOHV ΖQFRPSOHWH3URȴOHV Wrong Information
  • 30. LINKEDIN DOMINATES AS THE “ENTRY NETWORK” OF CHOICE AMONG CEOs. Of CEOs with only 1 network, 73% chose /LQNHGΖQ. Nearly half of all social CEOs are only on LinkedIn—presumably because of the unmistakable EXVLQHVVEHQHȴWV LINKEDIN
  • 32. GOOGLE+ IS LIKELY THE MOST UNDERUTILIZED SOCIAL PLATFORM. ONLY 8 CEOs USE IT. That 1.6% is still up from last year’s 1%, however. As the co-founder of Google Larry Page has an 8,361,461 follower count. Twitter At Least 1 Network No Social Media Presence GOOGLE+
  • 33. Less than 15% of CEOs GOOGLE+ found Google+ useful for their work according to our CEO Information Consumption Report.
  • 35. READY TO BE SHOCKED? MORE CEOs ARE ON INSTAGRAM THAN GOOGLE+. 2.6% of F500 CEOs have Instagram accounts. Most CEOs use Instagram to post personal pictures: family members, vacations and VRPHWLPHVHYHQWKHLUSHWV=XFNHUEHUJ
  • 36. Twitter At Least 1 Network No Social Media Presence INSTAGRAM
  • 37. As the only F500 CEO who has even begun leveraging the platform to promote his company, Michael Rapino is the clear king of Instagram. In one example, this uber social-savvy CEO posted a captioned picture of himself speaking at an event. MICHAEL RAPINO LiveNation INSTAGRAM
  • 39. A recent survey from Weber Shandwick reveals that CEOs believe using social media shows innovation. TWITTER
  • 40. :KHQLWFRPHVWRVRFLDOPHGLDVRPHRIWKH)RUWXQH(2VDUHȴQDOO getting the message but others still have yet to prioritize sociability. More CEOs than ever are on Twitter and Facebook and they’ve even begun embracing newer social media platforms like Instagram. Through social tools, CEOs have the opportunity to: Shape the company’s image Build relationships with employees and media Give a human face to the company
  • 41. At the same time, 68.0% of these CEOs still have absolutely no social media presence. Furthermore, the CEOs who are online still have a lot to learn about how to leverage their social accounts. So why aren’t more CEOs social? We can make some educated guesses, but a recent survey from Weber Shandwick suggests that some CEOs are opting to just communicate internally rather than take a public-facing communication approach. Evidence suggests that CEOs who are on social media, however, are viewed as more innovative.
  • 42. Here’s the bottom line: CEOs who are not using social media are doing their companies a massive disservice.
  • 44. Full Methodology 7RȴQGRXWKRZPDQ(2VZHUHDFWXDOOXVLQJVRFLDOPHGLDDQGZKDWNLQGRILQȵXHQFHWKH had, we turned to the )25781(pOLVW. On June 26, 2014, we searched for every CEO on each of the four major social networks. 7KLVHDUZHWRRNH[WUDFDUHWRFUDFNGRZQRQIDNHDFFRXQWV*HQHUDOORXUYHULȴFDWLRQ SURFHVVȃWKRXJKXQDYRLGDEOVXEMHFWLYHȃUHTXLUHGWKDW ȏ3URȴOHGHVFULSWLRQVZHUHaccurate • Content of posts was relevant and believable • Number and quality of followers were considered • Account was maintained by or on behalf of the actual CEO A NOTE ON PUBLIC FIGURE PAGES: • According to Facebook’s Pages TermsODVWUHYLVHG-XO
  • 45. ȊRQODXWKRUL]HGUHSUHVHQWDWLYHVȋPD DGPLQLVWHUD)DFHERRNSDJHIRUDSXEOLFȴJXUH7KHUHIRUH3XEOLF)LJXUHSDJHVZLWKSRVWVLQWKHȴUVWSHUVRQRU with other activity that otherwise inferred permission to post on behalf of a CEO were counted. • Public Figure or fan pages that expressed support or interest in a CEO but not administered by a representative of that CEO were not counted in the study. IMPORTANT: There were actually 502 CEOs on this year’s Fortune 500 list, since both KKR and Whole Foods have co-CEOs. 7KHUHIRUHDOORXUFDOFXODWLRQVZHUHEDVHGRQLQVWHDGRI3HUFHQWDJHVLQWKHȴQGLQJVZHUHURXQGHGWR the nearest tenth.
  • 46. TWITTER ȏ7ZLWWHUYHULȴHG OR • Followed by their FRPSDQȇVRɝFLDO handle or mentioned by a reputable Twitter source. FACEBOOK ȏ)DFHERRNYHULȴHG OR • Company listed in their Facebook SURȴOH$1' • Friends with family members of the CEO or high-ranking employees of the company LINKEDIN • Have a LinkedIn Premium account OR • Part of the ΖQȵXHQFHUSURJUDP OR • Legitimate-looking connections, given recommendations or engaged in any other activity that made the account appear legitimate. GOOGLE+ ȏ*RRJOHYHULȴHG OR • Has relevant, believable posts or family members in their circles. INSTAGRAM • Has relevant, believable posts or family members as followers. HERE IS A MORE CONCRETE BREAKDOWN FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL PLATFORM: