Building a scaled content marketing platform can be challenging. Here are some simple steps for building a content carousel designed to created ongoing engagement with targeted audiences.
Originally presented at Sprinklr's Social@Scale Summit at Lenovo.
Like Godzilla, the need for content at scale has grown to epic proportions. Fresh, relevant content in many formats is needed to drive engagement and own share of voice.
The Walmart Elevenmoms program was designed to foster organic and relevant conversations about saving money. The program continues to this day with the influencers participating in Walmart events such as its annual Shareholders meeting and creating content about its main brand promise of saving money.
Advertising dollars in print are literally off a cliff. The challenge for marketers is that reader attention has fragmented and “ads” perform horribly on digital and social platforms.
Print isn’t dead, just unprofitable, so will be dead.
25% total consumption growth in the past year (all formats)
80% of all adults get at least some news from digital sources
146%growth among 18-24 year olds
For the most part, we all pick our media. We get recipes not from recipes.com but form Pinterest (which is also likely to be recipes.com).
Zach Steward of qz.com reports that NYT homepage traffic has fallen over 50% in one year!!
Social has democratized content production creating an explosion in the overall volume. Consumers are discovering great content and publishers are beginning to scale.
Content is where you find it from the highly produced.
The “side door” euphemistically refers to the fact the like product consumption habits, media consumption is also changing. People come and go when, where and how they want.
Use content analytics tools to evaluate what content is the most relevant by audience, channel and format.
Classically trained marketer – BigCo/Startup
Hanes Brands, PictureVision, Newell Rubbermaid, Implus, Walmart
Content Marketing Platform Builder since 2007
Created Walmart Elevenmoms Program
Founded Collective Bias – Social Shopper Marketing Company
CMO of Ignite Social Media