How do you advertise for a study programme at a university that has banned the use of the TikTok app on all work phones?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The two guys in the video are Malthe Steffen and Jeppe Jaguar. They are influencers with a combined social media following of just over 56,000. They don’t study nanoscience, or any other study programme at the University of Copenhagen. But they perform as promoters of the study programme on TikTok, where the purpose is to attract new students.<\/p>\n
The strategy of getting young people with a large social media following to advertise has been effective. The study programme got 15 applications in 2022. In 2023 there were 32 applicants for a bachelor’s degree in nanoscience.<\/p>\n
You have to accept that the media landscape is different nowadays. We have benefited greatly from using social media. It is about drawing attention to what science is. And in a language that young people react to,\u00ab says Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen, Professor at the Department of Chemistry.<\/p>\n
Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen has \u2013 by his own admission \u2013 a sinister past at the analysis institute Research International. In his student job there, he learned about focus groups as a tool to identify target groups’ immediate reactions. This benefited him 20 years later, when he decided to set up focus groups in the spring of 2023. As the organiser of an information campaign, he wanted to catch the attention of young people:<\/p>\n
\u00bbThe dumbest thing you can do is let a man in his 40s speculate on what young people want. So we set up focus groups with a handful of people from the target group and discovered that TikTok is clearly many young people’s preferred social media,\u00ab says Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen.<\/p>\n
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Got a total of two million views on TikTok<\/p>\n
Included 11 TikTok posts from 11 different content creators<\/p>\n
Generated 191,400 likes<\/p>\n
Got a total of 17,375 comments<\/p>\n
At least 42 per cent of the total viewers were from Copenhagen<\/p>\n
At least 41 per cent of viewers were in the 18-24 age group.<\/p>\n
Source: Micky Creatives<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\nBut how do you advertise for a study programme at a university that has banned the use of the TikTok app on all work phones?<\/p>\n
If you can afford it, you hire a marketing agency to take care of the creative part of it. And that’s exactly what Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen did. He teamed up with Make Influence, who reached out to Micky Creatives that specialize in making TikTok content.<\/p>\n
\u00bbIt was about breaking out of the normal setting. And in order to be able to communicate freely to young people, it had to be from outside the university. So we set up Nanoscience.dk as a national platform. In this way, the University of Copenhagen is not the author of it. We already had our own channel on TikTok, which was already popular, but we wanted to test whether we could get young people who were interested in science to apply. So we really needed to go flat out. We needed influencers,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n
Got external funding<\/h3>\n
Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen got funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, which wants to increase the general public\u2019s skills in, and knowledge of, the natural sciences. The foundation has donated approximately DKK 4 million to a two-year project that Nanoscience at UCPH is sharing with colleagues at Aarhus University.<\/p>\n
The only thing I can say is that it works.<\/p>\n
Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u00bbIf you’re going to reach out to young people, you have to be in their place. And it is on social media Back when I started studying, the university would buy TV commercials. You don’t do that nowadays,\u00ab says Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen.<\/p>\n
The total price for the campaign was DKK 300,000 and included an entire day of recording at North Campus including editing and salaries for the influencers, which included Sigmund Trondheim and Silke Linea Christensen.<\/p>\n
Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen has personally no idea who the influencers even are. Nor does he even want to assess the actual content of the videos, which are both on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram.<\/p>\n
\u00bbThe only thing I can say is that it works. And even though we ourselves can make just as interesting content as the influencers, we may well use them again\u00ab.<\/p>\n
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They don’t study nanoscience, or any other study programme at the University of Copenhagen. But they perform as promoters of the study programme on TikTok, where the purpose is to attract new students.<\/p>\n<p>The strategy of getting young people with a large social media following to advertise has been effective. The study programme got 15 applications in 2022. In 2023 there were 32 applicants for a bachelor’s degree in nanoscience.<\/p>\n<p>You have to accept that the media landscape is different nowadays. We have benefited greatly from using social media. It is about drawing attention to what science is. And in a language that young people react to,\u00ab says Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen, Professor at the Department of Chemistry.<\/p>\n<h3>Marketing is many things<\/h3>\n<p>Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen has \u2013 by his own admission \u2013 a sinister past at the analysis institute Research International. In his student job there, he learned about focus groups as a tool to identify target groups’ immediate reactions. This benefited him 20 years later, when he decided to set up focus groups in the spring of 2023. As the organiser of an information campaign, he wanted to catch the attention of young people:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe dumbest thing you can do is let a man in his 40s speculate on what young people want. So we set up focus groups with a handful of people from the target group and discovered that TikTok is clearly many young people’s preferred social media,\u00ab says Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\">\n<p class=\"factbox-header feature-color\">The campaign<\/p>\n<p>Got a total of two million views on TikTok<\/p>\n<p>Included 11 TikTok posts from 11 different content creators<\/p>\n<p>Generated 191,400 likes<\/p>\n<p>Got a total of 17,375 comments<\/p>\n<p>At least 42 per cent of the total viewers were from Copenhagen<\/p>\n<p>At least 41 per cent of viewers were in the 18-24 age group.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Micky Creatives<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>But how do you advertise for a study programme at a university that has banned the use of the TikTok app on all work phones?<\/p>\n<p>If you can afford it, you hire a marketing agency to take care of the creative part of it. And that’s exactly what Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen did. He teamed up with Make Influence, who reached out to Micky Creatives that specialize in making TikTok content.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbIt was about breaking out of the normal setting. And in order to be able to communicate freely to young people, it had to be from outside the university. So we set up Nanoscience.dk as a national platform. In this way, the University of Copenhagen is not the author of it. We already had our own channel on TikTok, which was already popular, but we wanted to test whether we could get young people who were interested in science to apply. So we really needed to go flat out. We needed influencers,\u00ab he says.<\/p>\n<h3>Got external funding<\/h3>\n<p>Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen got funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, which wants to increase the general public\u2019s skills in, and knowledge of, the natural sciences. The foundation has donated approximately DKK 4 million to a two-year project that Nanoscience at UCPH is sharing with colleagues at Aarhus University.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The only thing I can say is that it works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"quotee\">Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00bbIf you’re going to reach out to young people, you have to be in their place. And it is on social media Back when I started studying, the university would buy TV commercials. You don’t do that nowadays,\u00ab says Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen.<\/p>\n<p>The total price for the campaign was DKK 300,000 and included an entire day of recording at North Campus including editing and salaries for the influencers, which included Sigmund Trondheim and Silke Linea Christensen.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Just S\u00f8rensen has personally no idea who the influencers even are. Nor does he even want to assess the actual content of the videos, which are both on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbThe only thing I can say is that it works. And even though we ourselves can make just as interesting content as the influencers, we may well use them again\u00ab.<\/p>\n<p><em>To see the video, click on the image below.<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Image","image":{"ID":158135,"id":158135,"title":"Tik Tok","filename":"tiktok.png","filesize":569119,"url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tiktok.png","link":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/alternativ-markedsfoering-nanoscience-reklamerede-paa-tiktok-og-boostede-ansoegertallet-med-over-hundrede-procent\/tik-tok\/","alt":"","author":"105","description":"","caption":"","name":"tik-tok","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":158138,"date":"2023-12-07 09:04:33","modified":"2023-12-07 09:21:19","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":952,"height":850,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tiktok-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tiktok-480x429.png","medium-width":480,"medium-height":429,"medium_large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tiktok-768x686.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":686,"large":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tiktok.png","large-width":952,"large-height":850,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tiktok.png","1536x1536-width":952,"1536x1536-height":850,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tiktok.png","2048x2048-width":952,"2048x2048-height":850,"featured-soft":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tiktok-290x259.png","featured-soft-width":290,"featured-soft-height":259,"featured-hard":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tiktok-290x180.png","featured-hard-width":290,"featured-hard-height":180,"narrow":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tiktok-700x625.png","narrow-width":700,"narrow-height":625,"extended":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/tiktok.png","extended-width":952,"extended-height":850}},"style":"extended","text_placement":"metadata-below","image_link_url":"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nanoscience.dk\/video\/7251492855217179930?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7306874007730718241","image_link_title":"","caption_prefix":"","enable_alternative_caption":true,"alternative_caption":"Click on image above to see video"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"Newsletter","lang_select":"en","identifier":"Newsletter","headline":"Get an email with our top stories","button_text":"Sign up here","class":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":42,"name":"Education","slug":"education","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":42,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":661,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11488,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[{"term_id":5468,"name":"Optional","slug":"optional-en","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":5468,"taxonomy":"translation_priority","description":"","parent":0,"count":672,"filter":"raw"}]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/featured.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158309"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158535,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158309\/revisions\/158535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}