Hürriyet leads thanks to Big Data, says Chairwoman Vuslat Do?an Sabanc?

Hürriyet Dünyas? (Hürriyet World), Turkey?s largest media ecosystem, is the leader of its sector thanks to its investments in Big Data, which improved satisfaction of both its users and advertisers, said Vuslat Do?an Sabanc?, chairwoman of the Hürriyet newspaper, during the ?Smartcon 2015? conference in Istanbul May 26.

?Hürriyet World opened its doors to Big Data one and a half years ago to plan our promotion campaigns more efficiently. After two to three months of work, we managed to decrease our costs 40 percent without any drop in sales,? Sabanc? said in her speech, stressing that the newspaper was ?fortunate to see the material effects of Big Data quickly? and was starting to invest more.

Providing better content for the right reader has become the first pillar of Hürriyet?s Big Data strategy, Sabanc? added, before noting that the second pillar is presenting a more efficiently targeted consumer base to the advertiser.

Hürriyet?s website, which now produces one billion page views each month, managed to decrease its bounce rate by 10 percent by presenting ?the right content to the right person,? thanks to usage analysis based on Big Data, according to Sabanc?. Similarly, a recent advertisement campaign for an automobile brand reached 20 percent more of its target audience on Hürriyet?s website.

?I think that Big Data is currently at the start of its voyage. There is still a long way to go,? Sabanc? also said, arguing that journalistic ?instincts? still have role in the game despite the rise of the numbers.

Hürriyet Dünyas?, a media ecosystem that includes Hürriyet, Radikal and the Hürriyet Daily News, reaches 70 percent of Turkey?s Internet users with its newspapers, supplements, and websites and through mobile phones,...