Sprout's New Flex-based Widget Tracked by Google Analytics

By Eric Brown Nov 17, 2008 Comments

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Sprout and Google Announce

Sprout, creators of Sproutbuilder.com, and Google have teamed up at this year’s Adobe Max 2008 conference in North America to make a couple of big announcements.

Sprout, a fairly new company is announced a new interactive flex-based service along side Google…who has announced that Google Analytics can now track Flash Media.

Together, the two have worked in conjunction to make the future of Flash-based social media happen today.

If you’re not familiar with Sproutbuilder.com, it is a service that allows one to easily and quickly create Flash based, media rich, viral widgets that are multi-layered and multi-paged…and it’s free. Today they announced their new service that is already in use by pop music artist Pink

Sprout and Google’s Big Announcement

The first announcement comes from Sprout…and their new service Sproutmixer.

The second big announcement comes from Google…they have now made Flash media trackable on Google Analytics. That’s right, you can now track Flash media with Google Analytics.

Sproutmixer Overview

Sproutmixer…a new Flex-based service from Sprout, is the epitome of viral, social media. Before, with Sproutbuilder, you could create an account and build a multi-paged, interactive, viral media campaign within no time. And you could have that media online just seconds after completing it. Now you can go even further.

With Sproutmixer you can create a set of templates for a widget in which the public can then modify, add to and redistribute across the web. This doesn’t sound like much, just neat interactivity, until you delve into the possibilities of being able to track it all with a built in Google Analytics Flash media tracking system.

For example, this system is already in use by pop artist Pink. If Pink wants to know what videos are popular on college campuses around the nation and break it down by region, her marketing team can release a widget targeted at college students…then track the modifications made to the widget as it spreads virally across the web.

If students in the upper mid-west region of the U.S. are adding one particular video more than others, they will know that that is the popular video for that region…not necessarily for the U.S. overall and thereby begin providing that region with music more geared to that particular video when doing radio releases in the future.

What this means is that businesses can start to determine what their demographic wants and begin providing them with it…instead of traditional marketing where businesses simply told their demographic why they needed their product or service.

It is helping to change the way business interact with their customers and how they attempt to meet their needs.

Sproutmixer and Google Analytics at a Glance

Google’s big announcement about making flash media trackable is what makes Sproutmixer such a unique service. Without the ability to track it and cross-examine the data presented, Sproutmixer would just be a fun, interactive widget service. But in just a few easy steps, one can begin to see how useful this service is.

Step One
Create and publish your media rich, viral widget.