This document discusses how digital asset management is key to effective content marketing in today's media landscape. It argues that digital asset management can provide three "tickets" to successful content marketing: integration, optimization, and accessibility. Integration refers to bringing together internal teams and external partners to collaborate on asset production. Optimization means streamlining workflows and facilitating connections between dispersed teams. Accessibility is about making assets easily searchable and usable for all relevant parties. The document advocates for digital asset management systems that provide these three features to help brands keep up with increasing demands for real-time, multi-channel content marketing.
B2B Content Marketing: 2013 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North AmericaMarketingProfs
B2B marketers are spending more, using more tactics, and distributing their content on more social networks than they have in years past, according to the latest findings of a study from MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute.
There is also more uncertainty, however, the study found: B2B marketers are more uncertain whether they are using various content marketing tactics effectively.
Digital marketing has the potential to achieve the dreams marketers have held for generations: the ability to directly reach potential customers at the right time, with the right message, every time. This dream consists of the extraordinary ability to track marketing efforts and consumer behavior in order to optimize budget and understand the audience and what is most effective, as well as the innovation and technology to manage all of this efficiently and easily.
Overview: The State of B2C Content Marketing IN NORTH AMERICA
Greetings Consumer Marketers,
In many ways, it’s a good year for B2C content marketers. Adoption rates of content marketing are on the rise and confidence has grown:
90% of B2C marketers are using content marketing, compared with 86% last year.
34% of B2C marketers consider themselves effective at content marketing—up from 32% last year.
B2C marketers have rated many tactics higher in effectiveness this year; in-person events and eNewsletters top the list of effective tactics.
B2C marketers are using all social platforms more often, with LinkedIn use registering the biggest jump (from 51% to 71%).
This confidence in content marketing also shows in terms of investment: 60% of B2C marketers plan to increase the amount they allocate to content marketing. Perhaps surprisingly, the least effective B2C marketers plan to increase their content marketing budgets more than the most effective ones (69% vs. 55%): another indication that marketers believe in the principles of content marketing, even if they have not quite figured out how to best execute.
Read on to discover not only how the B2C content marketing landscape has changed over the last year, but also to learn what the most effective B2C marketers are doing differently than their peers.
On with the content marketing revolution!
This was my keynote presentation at this year's ContentTech virtual event. It talks through the layered approach to technology strategy to help de-silo content, marketing and the digital technology teams. It ends with a selection process.
Connected, interactive content experiences deliver more trusted data, and more measurable results. Original research illuminates how marketersare making big, beautiful music.
Welcome to our annual Technology Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report, based on our latest annual content marketing survey conducted in July 2020.
The study showed that technology marketers, in the throes of adjusting to business changes presented by a global pandemic, put more emphasis on using content marketing to generate demand and leads than they had the previous year. They also were looking more closely at conversion and marketing qualified lead (MQL) metrics to track the performance of their content.
These insights suggest that tech marketers were increasingly called upon to use content marketing for demand and lead generation. It makes sense, then, that their use of virtual events (83%) increased by nine percentage points over the previous year, as virtual relationship-building and selling took a front seat. In addition, livestreaming video finally took off (one-third of all tech respondents—and 53% of those working in large companies—reported using it).
It’s too soon to tell if these will be lasting shifts. Priorities are likely to change again as restrictions caused by the pandemic ease up. We look forward to exploring these topics in our next round of annual content marketing research.
Dallas retail Summit - Succeeding in the Infinite Marketing Future Mathew Sweezey
This is a variation of the Infinite marketer series specifically tailored to retail marketers, and presented at the Texas A&M Retail Summit 2015. This is a forward to the upcoming book Infinite Marketer to be published in 2016
B2B Content Marketing: 2013 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North AmericaMarketingProfs
B2B marketers are spending more, using more tactics, and distributing their content on more social networks than they have in years past, according to the latest findings of a study from MarketingProfs and the Content Marketing Institute.
There is also more uncertainty, however, the study found: B2B marketers are more uncertain whether they are using various content marketing tactics effectively.
Digital marketing has the potential to achieve the dreams marketers have held for generations: the ability to directly reach potential customers at the right time, with the right message, every time. This dream consists of the extraordinary ability to track marketing efforts and consumer behavior in order to optimize budget and understand the audience and what is most effective, as well as the innovation and technology to manage all of this efficiently and easily.
Overview: The State of B2C Content Marketing IN NORTH AMERICA
Greetings Consumer Marketers,
In many ways, it’s a good year for B2C content marketers. Adoption rates of content marketing are on the rise and confidence has grown:
90% of B2C marketers are using content marketing, compared with 86% last year.
34% of B2C marketers consider themselves effective at content marketing—up from 32% last year.
B2C marketers have rated many tactics higher in effectiveness this year; in-person events and eNewsletters top the list of effective tactics.
B2C marketers are using all social platforms more often, with LinkedIn use registering the biggest jump (from 51% to 71%).
This confidence in content marketing also shows in terms of investment: 60% of B2C marketers plan to increase the amount they allocate to content marketing. Perhaps surprisingly, the least effective B2C marketers plan to increase their content marketing budgets more than the most effective ones (69% vs. 55%): another indication that marketers believe in the principles of content marketing, even if they have not quite figured out how to best execute.
Read on to discover not only how the B2C content marketing landscape has changed over the last year, but also to learn what the most effective B2C marketers are doing differently than their peers.
On with the content marketing revolution!
This was my keynote presentation at this year's ContentTech virtual event. It talks through the layered approach to technology strategy to help de-silo content, marketing and the digital technology teams. It ends with a selection process.
Connected, interactive content experiences deliver more trusted data, and more measurable results. Original research illuminates how marketersare making big, beautiful music.
Welcome to our annual Technology Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report, based on our latest annual content marketing survey conducted in July 2020.
The study showed that technology marketers, in the throes of adjusting to business changes presented by a global pandemic, put more emphasis on using content marketing to generate demand and leads than they had the previous year. They also were looking more closely at conversion and marketing qualified lead (MQL) metrics to track the performance of their content.
These insights suggest that tech marketers were increasingly called upon to use content marketing for demand and lead generation. It makes sense, then, that their use of virtual events (83%) increased by nine percentage points over the previous year, as virtual relationship-building and selling took a front seat. In addition, livestreaming video finally took off (one-third of all tech respondents—and 53% of those working in large companies—reported using it).
It’s too soon to tell if these will be lasting shifts. Priorities are likely to change again as restrictions caused by the pandemic ease up. We look forward to exploring these topics in our next round of annual content marketing research.
Dallas retail Summit - Succeeding in the Infinite Marketing Future Mathew Sweezey
This is a variation of the Infinite marketer series specifically tailored to retail marketers, and presented at the Texas A&M Retail Summit 2015. This is a forward to the upcoming book Infinite Marketer to be published in 2016
50 Must Know Statistics for B2B Lead GenerationPierre de Braux
If you want to improve your lead generation capabilities, it's important that you know the facts.
Learn more about lead generation at: http://pureb2b.com/blog
For three years we’ve looked at B2B content marketing trends, and this year, we are excited to bring you these compelling B2C findings.
According to our research, both B2B and B2C marketers are still struggling with the effectiveness of their content marketing. So while we are happy that more marketers are engaging in content marketing to attract and retain customers, we also realize we have a ways to go.
B2C Content Marketing: 2013 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North AmericaMarketingProfs
MarketingProfs produced B2C Content Marketing: 2013 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends (North America) in partnership with the Content Marketing Institute. Our goal was to give you a clear view of the State of B2C Content Marketing. Among the questions this report answers: What's really happening? What are your biggest content marketing challenges? What slice of the budget will be dedicated to content next year, and what social channels are most relevant?
Content marketing requires a shift in company culture, resources, budgets, partners and strategy. Rebalancing is critical to achieve these goals. The choice is whether to rebalance now, or later when the battle for attention may become even more difficult than it currently is. This report from Altimeter Group introduces a five-step content maturity model, complete with real-world case examples, to guide organizations from “standing” to “running” with their content strategy. A self-audit tool, content channel review, and actionable recommendations are also included.
Thought Leadership Disrupted: New Rules for the Content AgeHeather Taylor
Four rules that help brands and publishers think about their audience and how to reach them. Based on research from The Economist: http://www.missingthemark.ads.economist.com/ & http://tldisrupted.com/
From Web Traffic to Foot Traffic: How Brands & Retailers Can Leverage Digital...Rebecca Lieb
My latest research report highlights how brands can harness the power of digital content and media to reach consumers and influence their in-store buying decisions. We surveyed 500 brand and agency marketers, including interviews with marketing leaders from PepsiCo, McDonalds, The Home Depot and Staples,
Welcome to the Enterprise Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Insights for 2022 report. This report looks back on the last 12 months and includes expectations for 2022.
The research suggested that, due to lockdowns and work-from-home mandates, content marketing piqued the interest of many who were previously unaware of its power. With more people than ever spending time online, content marketing presented a prime opportunity to get and stay in front of audiences.
As in the previous year, nearly one in three enterprise marketers said their organization was extremely or very successful with content marketing. These marketers, our “top performers,” have certain characteristics that set them apart from their peers (see page 4). A few of the biggest things they do are to differentiate their content and use content collaboration/calendaring/workflow tools.
No matter how successful they are at content marketing, most respondents plan to invest in video in 2022: 72% of all enterprise respondents forecast investment in this area followed by investment in events (62%), paid media (59%), and owned-media assets (55%).
And, yes, challenges remain. The top challenge, which is the same as it was two years ago, is internal communication between teams/silos (57%). It indicates a pressing need to formalize content operations in enterprises that have not yet done so.
Despite the debates around privacy, disinformation and influencer authenticity; social media continues to fuel our digital lives. The biggest change is how. With ever evolving platforms, trends, and even content types, social is growing increasingly complex and discerning fact from fiction is becoming progressively more difficult. What will be the biggest trends for marketers in 2020? Chris Walts, Social Strategy Lead at Ogilvy UK, and Kanika Bali, Social Strategist at Ogilvy Hong Kong share their insights.
Back to the Future: Four Marketing Tactics Essential to Your Success in 2013MarketingProfs
Want to boost your marketing efforts in 2013? To help you, MarketingProfs put together four info-packed articles highlighting essential marketing tactics.
It’s no secret that compared to other marketing channels, social media marketing offers companies the opportunity to attract a lot of attention at a relatively low cost. So why do marketers and business leaders struggle to capitalize on the opportunity? For many, it comes down to this: it’s very hard to quantify the ROI of social media.
According to media mogul, Gary Vaynerchuk — who recently spoke at the 2019 ANA B2B Conference — in order to succeed in social media marketing, companies need to "stop thinking like advertisers and start thinking like a media companies." But what does that mean for your business, and how do you actually do it? In this session, we will demystify the social media marketing opportunity, and show you how to create a strategic social media content framework that accelerates your target audience through the sales funnel. This session will also enable you to translate your existing assets into compelling content to drive real, meaningful business impact through social media marketing. You will walk away with a firm understanding of this practical social media content framework and how to leverage it to identify — and execute — your brand’s purpose on social media.
Change Management for Demand Geneation eBook Mathew Sweezey
Change Management is not an easy road to head down...
However, in this crazy, sophisticated world of B2B marketing, you must address Change Management as a critical component of Demand Generation if you want to drive real success, real revenue.
This eBook shows you how to Stay Relevant, Productive and Sane and manage the Changing Landscape of Demand Generation written by Mathew Sweezey and Carlos Hidalgo.
This eBook will help you identify and implement effective Change Management principals to help effectively drive Demand Generation success for your organization.
Why the status quo no longer works- Change Management is the missing link
How to identify the barriers to Change
Strategic steps to take to implement Change Management
The realities of Change
It’s no surprise that B2B and B2C marketers have different goals and strategies. In January, we released new research on the overall state of marketing — including businesses of all sizes and types, based on the responses of 5,000+ global marketers.
Now we’re separating B2B from B2C marketers. Today, we present you with data about B2B trends, goals, and obstacles in 2015 with the 2015 State of B2B Marketing.
Using survey responses from 2,100+ B2B marketers, this report takes a look at what B2B marketers are really thinking and dealing with this year.
Great report by Accenture consolidating research insights and high-level tactics for B2B organizations and leaders to transform their B2B go to market in a post-Covid era.
An increased number of consumers are using the mobile web and native apps on their smartphones to research products and make purchases, however many mobile marketing efforts miss key opportunities to maximize their app ROI.
By focusing on a consumer-friendly app strategies, companies can increase their ROI, gain insight into consumers’ mobile behavior, and enhance their consumer appeal.
Download our white paper to learn more about how Gold Mobile can accelerate customer engagement, drive transactions, and reward your most loyal customers with our unique platform. Included are examples of how our platform has been utilized by other companies to help combat precise challenges and achieve specific goals.
Throughout 2012, video marketing for B2B marketers undoubtedly showed an upward trend in both effectiveness and popularity, and most industry observers expect this to continue into 2013 and beyond.
Greetings Content Marketers,
Welcome to this year's report on the content marketing practices of business-to-business technology marketers in North America.
In this report we highlight key areas of difference between the most effective technology marketers and their less-effective peers. We also show some differences between those who have a documented content strategy and those who do not.
Technology marketers use a good mix of tactics and continue to invest in content marketing, with 58% planning to increase spend over the next 12 months. We look forward to seeing how this continued investment pays off over the next year.
The production and management of large volumes of content is fast becoming an expected part of a marketers role. This paper highlights the importance of having the right foundations in place, like a digital asset management solution, to ensure your content marketing succeeds.
Visual content assets can be a significant contributor to the content marketing process and customer experience. Learn how four Cs — collaborate, customize, communicate, and connect — can help the community of the business manage digital assets.
50 Must Know Statistics for B2B Lead GenerationPierre de Braux
If you want to improve your lead generation capabilities, it's important that you know the facts.
Learn more about lead generation at: http://pureb2b.com/blog
For three years we’ve looked at B2B content marketing trends, and this year, we are excited to bring you these compelling B2C findings.
According to our research, both B2B and B2C marketers are still struggling with the effectiveness of their content marketing. So while we are happy that more marketers are engaging in content marketing to attract and retain customers, we also realize we have a ways to go.
B2C Content Marketing: 2013 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North AmericaMarketingProfs
MarketingProfs produced B2C Content Marketing: 2013 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends (North America) in partnership with the Content Marketing Institute. Our goal was to give you a clear view of the State of B2C Content Marketing. Among the questions this report answers: What's really happening? What are your biggest content marketing challenges? What slice of the budget will be dedicated to content next year, and what social channels are most relevant?
Content marketing requires a shift in company culture, resources, budgets, partners and strategy. Rebalancing is critical to achieve these goals. The choice is whether to rebalance now, or later when the battle for attention may become even more difficult than it currently is. This report from Altimeter Group introduces a five-step content maturity model, complete with real-world case examples, to guide organizations from “standing” to “running” with their content strategy. A self-audit tool, content channel review, and actionable recommendations are also included.
Thought Leadership Disrupted: New Rules for the Content AgeHeather Taylor
Four rules that help brands and publishers think about their audience and how to reach them. Based on research from The Economist: http://www.missingthemark.ads.economist.com/ & http://tldisrupted.com/
From Web Traffic to Foot Traffic: How Brands & Retailers Can Leverage Digital...Rebecca Lieb
My latest research report highlights how brands can harness the power of digital content and media to reach consumers and influence their in-store buying decisions. We surveyed 500 brand and agency marketers, including interviews with marketing leaders from PepsiCo, McDonalds, The Home Depot and Staples,
Welcome to the Enterprise Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Insights for 2022 report. This report looks back on the last 12 months and includes expectations for 2022.
The research suggested that, due to lockdowns and work-from-home mandates, content marketing piqued the interest of many who were previously unaware of its power. With more people than ever spending time online, content marketing presented a prime opportunity to get and stay in front of audiences.
As in the previous year, nearly one in three enterprise marketers said their organization was extremely or very successful with content marketing. These marketers, our “top performers,” have certain characteristics that set them apart from their peers (see page 4). A few of the biggest things they do are to differentiate their content and use content collaboration/calendaring/workflow tools.
No matter how successful they are at content marketing, most respondents plan to invest in video in 2022: 72% of all enterprise respondents forecast investment in this area followed by investment in events (62%), paid media (59%), and owned-media assets (55%).
And, yes, challenges remain. The top challenge, which is the same as it was two years ago, is internal communication between teams/silos (57%). It indicates a pressing need to formalize content operations in enterprises that have not yet done so.
Despite the debates around privacy, disinformation and influencer authenticity; social media continues to fuel our digital lives. The biggest change is how. With ever evolving platforms, trends, and even content types, social is growing increasingly complex and discerning fact from fiction is becoming progressively more difficult. What will be the biggest trends for marketers in 2020? Chris Walts, Social Strategy Lead at Ogilvy UK, and Kanika Bali, Social Strategist at Ogilvy Hong Kong share their insights.
Back to the Future: Four Marketing Tactics Essential to Your Success in 2013MarketingProfs
Want to boost your marketing efforts in 2013? To help you, MarketingProfs put together four info-packed articles highlighting essential marketing tactics.
It’s no secret that compared to other marketing channels, social media marketing offers companies the opportunity to attract a lot of attention at a relatively low cost. So why do marketers and business leaders struggle to capitalize on the opportunity? For many, it comes down to this: it’s very hard to quantify the ROI of social media.
According to media mogul, Gary Vaynerchuk — who recently spoke at the 2019 ANA B2B Conference — in order to succeed in social media marketing, companies need to "stop thinking like advertisers and start thinking like a media companies." But what does that mean for your business, and how do you actually do it? In this session, we will demystify the social media marketing opportunity, and show you how to create a strategic social media content framework that accelerates your target audience through the sales funnel. This session will also enable you to translate your existing assets into compelling content to drive real, meaningful business impact through social media marketing. You will walk away with a firm understanding of this practical social media content framework and how to leverage it to identify — and execute — your brand’s purpose on social media.
Change Management for Demand Geneation eBook Mathew Sweezey
Change Management is not an easy road to head down...
However, in this crazy, sophisticated world of B2B marketing, you must address Change Management as a critical component of Demand Generation if you want to drive real success, real revenue.
This eBook shows you how to Stay Relevant, Productive and Sane and manage the Changing Landscape of Demand Generation written by Mathew Sweezey and Carlos Hidalgo.
This eBook will help you identify and implement effective Change Management principals to help effectively drive Demand Generation success for your organization.
Why the status quo no longer works- Change Management is the missing link
How to identify the barriers to Change
Strategic steps to take to implement Change Management
The realities of Change
It’s no surprise that B2B and B2C marketers have different goals and strategies. In January, we released new research on the overall state of marketing — including businesses of all sizes and types, based on the responses of 5,000+ global marketers.
Now we’re separating B2B from B2C marketers. Today, we present you with data about B2B trends, goals, and obstacles in 2015 with the 2015 State of B2B Marketing.
Using survey responses from 2,100+ B2B marketers, this report takes a look at what B2B marketers are really thinking and dealing with this year.
Great report by Accenture consolidating research insights and high-level tactics for B2B organizations and leaders to transform their B2B go to market in a post-Covid era.
An increased number of consumers are using the mobile web and native apps on their smartphones to research products and make purchases, however many mobile marketing efforts miss key opportunities to maximize their app ROI.
By focusing on a consumer-friendly app strategies, companies can increase their ROI, gain insight into consumers’ mobile behavior, and enhance their consumer appeal.
Download our white paper to learn more about how Gold Mobile can accelerate customer engagement, drive transactions, and reward your most loyal customers with our unique platform. Included are examples of how our platform has been utilized by other companies to help combat precise challenges and achieve specific goals.
Throughout 2012, video marketing for B2B marketers undoubtedly showed an upward trend in both effectiveness and popularity, and most industry observers expect this to continue into 2013 and beyond.
Greetings Content Marketers,
Welcome to this year's report on the content marketing practices of business-to-business technology marketers in North America.
In this report we highlight key areas of difference between the most effective technology marketers and their less-effective peers. We also show some differences between those who have a documented content strategy and those who do not.
Technology marketers use a good mix of tactics and continue to invest in content marketing, with 58% planning to increase spend over the next 12 months. We look forward to seeing how this continued investment pays off over the next year.
The production and management of large volumes of content is fast becoming an expected part of a marketers role. This paper highlights the importance of having the right foundations in place, like a digital asset management solution, to ensure your content marketing succeeds.
Visual content assets can be a significant contributor to the content marketing process and customer experience. Learn how four Cs — collaborate, customize, communicate, and connect — can help the community of the business manage digital assets.
Marketers need digital asset creation to be collaborative so that assets can be reused and repurposed efficiently across multiple channels. That collaboration is only possible with a process that is powered by the marketers themselves. This new, agile process must be focused on the creation, publishing, re-use, and measurement of rich media, as opposed to finding, limiting, governing, and archiving assets. Discover how agile teams, assets, and processes can create collaborative content, better brands, and faster content marketing.
Building the Perfect Content Marketing Mix - Part II - Execution Tactics
Feel like it's time to mix up your marketing playlist? While there’s a lot you could be doing, sometimes it’s hard to know which tracks to start, stop, or pause. To help you find the right mix to meet your marketing goals, we consolidated responses from the 2015 Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends research report section — “Which content marketing initiatives are you working on now, and in the next 12 months?” We broke out the results as follows:
• By priority
• By business type (B2B, B2C and nonprofit)
• By geography (North America, Australia, United Kingdom)
Part I covered two “playlists”: Internal Processes and Content Marketing Strategy Tactics (find that here on SlideShare as well). From channels to platforms to audience segmentation, we discussed how you can best establish your content marketing strategy and structure your team internally for more efficient processes.
Part II: Playlist 3 is where we show you how to mix things up a bit with different Execution Tactics. See how to create and deliver the best content to meet your business objectives. While some geographies and business types have similar priorities, others are finding their own unique beats — and the differences may surprise you.
We hope you find the following findings insightful and inspirational as you make your plans for the year ahead.
Enjoy!
Joe Pulizzi
Research shows that marketers are finding new ways to use webinars to drive customer engagement at numerous phases of the buyer’s journey. Webinars present myriad opportunities for marketers to change and interact in experimental ways. You just have to think beyond the traditional uses and find new ways to use webinars to build and engage audiences to ultimately drive marketing success.
Promoting Your Content Marketing: Time to Orchestrate THE Concert of Paid Media
Content Marketing Institute research shows that new, creative approaches to paid content promotion are paying dividends to content marketers.
By Robert Rose, Chief Strategy Officer, Content Marketing Institute
DTEK50 secure smartphone powered by Android combines BlackBerry’s unique security, privacy, and productivity with device design, specs, and an accessible price point for professionals and ideal for enterprise deployments. This Buyer’s Guide describes DTEK50’s slim, sleek design, robust specs, and key features, such as: BlackBerry Intelligent Keyboard, the 5.2” display, BlackBerry Hub, Convenience Key, Stunning Camera, DTEK, and other great, best-in-class security features, plus access to the world’s largest app ecosystem.
A value-added service (VAS) is a popular telecommunications industry term for non-core services, or in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. However, it can be used in any service industry, for services available at little or no cost, to promote their primary business. In the telecommunications industry, on a conceptual level, value-added services add value to the standard service offering, spurring the subscriber to use their phone more and allowing the operator to drive up their ARPU. For mobile phones, technologies like SMS, MMS and data access were historically usually considered value-added services, but in recent years SMS, MMS and data access have more and more become core services, and VAS therefore has begun to exclude those services. Mobile VAS services can be categorized into:
1. Consumer behavior VAS
2. Network VAS
3. Enterprise VAS
Getting Started - Creating products and services that make life betterSagar Arlekar
Foodlets Team at SVS College of Management Studies, Goa.
An interactive session where we shared the Foodlets story and engaged with the students on different aspects of Entrepreneurship and how to look for opportunities around.
The ultimate guide to the new buyers journeyMarketBridge
At MarketBridge we have the privilege of working with hundreds of marketing and sales leaders every month. In those discussions one thing is abundantly clear: the customer buying journey is rapidly changing and organizations are struggling to keep up.
These dramatic shifts in buying behavior are well documented; independent research by Gartner and Forrester suggests that by 2020,
Electronics social marketing_digital strategyMarcel Baron
Two-thirds of electronics companies either have a
limited strategy, or no strategy at all, for integrating
digital in their businesses – despite the fact that the
number of social network users around the world is
now rapidly approaching the two billion mark.1
To make the most of the digital opportunity,
marketing organisations urgently need to embrace
new approaches, new processes, new skills, new
technologies and agile organisation structures.
Is your business ready to engage?
SEO is the most effective tool to generate leads and increase your brand awareness on search engines. Hiring an SEO specialist is good if you want more individuals to see your website. For SMEs, SEO is a very affordable digital marketing tool that has been shown to boost leads and sales.
True real time marketing = programmatic ad buying + real time marketing. OgilvyOne Worldwide
True Real Time marketing combines the
actionable insights the Real Time Analytics provide
about an identified customer or consumer
(behavior), matches these with pre-planned
marketing actions to respond to his/her
needs/wants through mostly Web Instant
Is this the new way for the future and is Cognitive able to help marketers?
What if you had a system that could...
discover and target audiences within minutes?
activate the right message and deliver to the right individuals at the right time through real-time personalisation rules?
engage digitally with customers in a more human way to personalise service and increase conversion throughout their relationship?
predict whether a campaign is likely to fall short of its goal, so the marketing team can course-correct in ight and deliver for the business?
analyse all of your content, and that of your key competitors, and then assess your “tone” and theirs and guide your team to create better content?
Find and and select images and other content to use in your next marketing campaign based on alignment with your message?
2017 Landscape Industry Digital Marketing ReportJeff Korhan
Jeff Korhan and Landscape Management magazine partnered to benchmark the digital marketing practices of the landscaping and lawn care industry. This digital marketing report is the result of that original research and expert analysis.
Skyword Digital Agency of the Future Full ReportSkyword Inc.
The Agency of the Future Report is based on interviews with leading digital agencies. Download the report for access to insights from 15 top digital agencies, and get access to information about the tremendous service delivery and business innovation taking place.
We asked interviewees for their take on the disruptive forces affecting digital marketers today. They told us in their own words about the specific challenges they face. Above all, they told us how these challenges are being addressed and overcome.
A Framework for Digital Business TransformationCognizant
By embracing Code Halo thinking and a programmatic approach to business process change, organizations can better engage with customers and deliver mass-customized products and services that drive differentiation and outperformance.
Stepping Up to the Challenges of Digital MarketingCognizant
"The advent of digital has dramatically impacted how CMOs run their marketing operations. By identifying and employing the processes, business models and technologies required in today's digitally intensive business environment, companies can strengthen their brand, enrich their relationships with customers, and manage an increasingly complex mix of partners, processes, and technologies.
What to Expect From Programmatic in 2015Extreme Reach
"Predictions for programmatic are plentiful. 11 experts forecast which are most likely to come to fruition, and how marketers should prepare."
Our Chief Digital Officer, Avi Brown, weighs in on the future of programmatic advertising and the importance of automating the direct buy.
iProspect's Future Focus 2018: The New Machine RulesiProspect
It's time to Focus on the Future. Based on interviews with over 250 global advertisers, we address the biggest trends you need to master in order to be prepared for The New Machine Rules. Download your copy now: http://bit.ly/2AirbwR
Similar to Digital Asset Management: Three Tickets To The Blockbuster Content Marketing Show (20)
There’s one question on every marketer’s mind: “How do I connect?”
We’ve all been seeking connection since the pandemic struck. Stuck at home, working from kitchen tables and converted closets, marketers have been fighting to create and maintain connections with their audiences.
Despite all the upheaval, content remains a tried-and-true way to generate demand. After all, it’s content-driven experiences that build those precious connections, no matter what’s going on in the world outside.
Connection is more important than ever. And as you’ll find out in this report, successful marketers are beginning to make it easier for prospects to purchase at any stage of the buyer’s journey — messages are shifting from why to buy to how to buy.
This has been another tough year. One negative headline after another has drained audiences’ emotional reserves. They need an escape. Marketing content can offer that empathetic, emotionally stirring olive branch they’re searching for.
As you read on, you’ll discover that blogs, podcasts, and videos are the content types that are most effective at the early stages of the buyer’s journey, where brands are fighting to establish customer awareness and audience interest.
The reason is simple: These content types foster connection. They tell a story, they evoke emotion, and they present a face that the audience can relate to. And the strength of the connections that these content types create helps carry buyers through the rest of their journey on a wave of engagement and investment.
In conclusion: Connection lies in content. The last Content Marketing for Demand Generation survey report (2020) talked about creating desire and holding attention. This year, we talk about making it easier for customers to purchase across all stages of the buyer’s journey.
By providing audiences with earnest and engaging content, you can build lasting connections in 2022 and beyond that drive demand to new heights.
Welcome to the Technology Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Insights for 2022 report. This report looks back on the last 12 months and includes expectations for 2022.
The research suggested that due to lockdowns and work-from-home mandates, content marketing piqued the interest of many who were previously unaware of its power. With more people than ever spending time online, content marketing presented a prime opportunity to get and stay in front of audiences.
As in the previous year, nearly one in three technology marketers said their organization was extremely or very successful with content marketing. These marketers, our “top performers,” have certain characteristics that set them apart from their peers (see page 4). Some of the biggest things they do differently than their peers:
◾ Document their content marketing strategy
◾ Do an excellent/very good job demonstrating the ROI of their content marketing initiatives
◾ Prioritize their audience’s informational needs over their organization’s sales message
◾ Differentiate their content from the competition
◾ Nurture subscribers/audiences/leads
No matter how successful they are at content marketing, most respondents plan to invest in video in 2022: 72% of all technology respondents forecast investment in this area followed by investment in events (69%), paid media (65%), and owned-media assets (63%).
And, yes, challenges remain. The top challenges are:
◾ Creating content that appeals to multi-level roles within the target audience
◾ Accessing subject matter experts to create content
◾ Internal communication among teams/silos
These internal challenges point to a greater need for technology marketers to formalize content operations within their organizations.
Welcome to the B2C Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Insights for 2022 report. This report looks back on the last 12 months and includes expectations for 2022.
Our research suggested that, due to work-from-home requirements, content marketing piqued the interest of many who were previously unaware of its power. With more people than ever spending time online, content marketing presented a prime opportunity for businesses to get and stay in front of audiences. Some B2C marketers discovered new audiences altogether.
Short articles and videos were big over the last 12 months with the B2C marketers we surveyed. In addition, expect a lot of B2C investment in video in 2022: 72% forecast investment in this area. Paid media came in a distant second.
Although most B2C marketers reported success with content marketing in the last 12 months, there are still challenges. Respondents said their top two content marketing challenges were creating content that appeals to multi-level roles within the target audience (42%) and internal communication between teams/silos (41%).
If B2C marketers can overcome these challenges, they’ll improve their odds of achieving greater content marketing success in 2022.
Welcome to the Manufacturing Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends with Insights for 2022 report. This report looks back on the last 12 months and includes expectations for 2022.
This year’s research suggested that the pandemic awoke a sleeping giant – content marketing, that is. Without in-person events and face-to-face selling, many who had previously paid little attention to content marketing suddenly became aware of its power. More content marketers got a seat at the table and helped keep many businesses on their audiences’ radar. Some discovered new audiences altogether.
Videos and virtual events/webinars were big over the last 12 months with the manufacturing marketers we surveyed. In addition, 85% expect continued investment in video in 2022, making it the top area of predicted investment.
Yet manufacturing marketers continue to face content marketing challenges within their organizations: 51% said they are challenged with creating valuable content instead of sales-oriented content as well as with overcoming the traditional marketing and sales mindset. Fifty percent said they are challenged with accessing subject matter experts to create content. If manufacturing marketers can overcome these challenges, they’ll improve their odds of achieving greater content marketing success in the coming year.
Welcome to Content Marketing Institute’s first Video & Visual Storytelling Survey. In this report, you’ll learn how content marketers are using videos, how they’re getting them produced, where they’re seeing results, and more.
Are you using video strategically? Are you paying as much attention to your video distribution plan as you are to video creation? Are you measuring results to see what works? All are important to overall video marketing success. Here’s to yours!
Welcome to the 12th Annual Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Insights for 2022 report. What a year it has been.
This edition of our report looks back on the last 12 months and includes expectations for 2022. Throughout, you will see quotes from the many rich, qualitative responses we received to the question, “What did the pandemic change most about your organization’s content marketing strategy/approach?” In all, 75% of respondents took the time to answer this question and we are ever so grateful. What amazing insights it yielded!
The key theme that emerged was this: The pandemic awoke a sleeping giant – content marketing, that is. Without in-person events and face-to-face selling, many who had previously paid little attention to content marketing suddenly became aware of its power. More content marketers got a seat at the table and helped keep many businesses on their audiences’ radar. Some discovered new audiences altogether.
The research also confirmed what many of us already knew: Content marketers are some of the fiercest business pros around. In the most difficult of times, they get the job done – and many come through more creative and stronger than before.
Congratulations, content marketers, for a job well done in the most difficult of times. Our entire team salutes you!
By day, you’re in the office, cooking up content. By night, you’re in the kitchen, preparing a satisfying meal. But what if we combined the two?
Developing a content marketing strategy is like creating a dinner menu. You start with the basic ingredients and build upon them. You perfect your technique, exercising balance while adding a dash of flavor. And don’t forget, presentation is key. You must distribute and plate your meal beautifully.
So, what are people making and how are they making it? We asked the Content Marketing Institute team to share their favorite content-inspired dishes. Whether you are a first-time cook or a seasoned chef, these recipes will give you new perspective on processes, measurement and ROI, technology, and more. They are definitely ones you want in your repertoire.
We’ve put together the ultimate cookbook for content marketers, filled with tasty (and mildly entertaining) recipes. We hope you enjoy it. Bon appétit!
The 2021 Content Management & Strategy survey gives a snapshot of how marketers use tech to help create, manage, deliver, and scale enterprise content and marketing.
Welcome to our annual Enterprise Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report. Here we present the findings from enterprise marketers (those who work in organizations with 1,000+ employees) who replied to our 11th Annual Content Marketing Survey.
At the time of the survey, content marketers had just made it through the first half of 2020. Most reported that their organization made quick changes when the pandemic hit, most notably by changing their targeting/messaging strategy, adjusting their editorial calendar, and changing their content distribution/promotion strategy. The majority (57%) expected to spend about the same on content marketing during the second half of 2020 as they spent in the first half (17% expected a decrease).
Team size hadn’t changed drastically compared with the previous year (48% said it stayed the same); yet, another 35% reported an increase.
Overall, one-third of the enterprise respondents reported high levels of content marketing success. These top performers said the top two factors contributing to that success in the last 12 months were “the value our content provides” (79%) and “website changes” (62%).
Looking forward, 74% of respondents felt the pandemic would have a major or moderate long- term impact on their organization’s overall content marketing success. It will be interesting to see how enterprise marketers rise to the challenges in 2021.
Welcome to our annual B2C Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report. Here we present the results from B2C marketers who replied to our 11th Annual Content Marketing Survey. The events of 2020 have certainly reshaped how organizations conduct their marketing. At the time of this survey, content marketers were still reeling from the events that took place during the first half of 2020. As we usher in 2021, we are still facing constant change and uncertainty.
Many B2C marketers reported adjusting quickly when the pandemic hit; perhaps their companies were doubling down on digital, heavily engaging in virtual events, or trying to keep on top of rapidly changing analytics resulting from more people being at home and online. All these scenarios created the need for new content, formats, and strategies.
As we move into 2021 in a world where most gatherings are still limited, direct-to-consumer will continue to drive B2C. Successful B2C marketers will focus on creating content experiences and building relationships in the digital world.
What makes CMWorld special? The people. Our speakers, attendees, and sponsors are smart, witty, and fun to be around. Networking is something we all are wanting right now, and CMWorld Bingo gives you a way to have those conversations that make CMWorld great.
Welcome to the 11th Annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends report. You may notice this year’s report feels different than past years and that’s by design. A year like no other required an approach like no other.
As in past years, we fielded the survey during the summer. We asked many of the same questions as last year but added new ones to see how content marketers were faring several months into the pandemic.
Although the data did not reveal drastic reductions in content marketing resources, many respondents shared in the fill-in comments their challenges of having to do more with less. Others shared their concerns about trying to reach audiences in an overcrowded virtual world.
Nevertheless, one thing stood out: Content marketers are resilient. Most have met the challenges of the pandemic head-on: They’re adapting quickly—and they believe in the value their content provides.
Virtual conferences and events provide new opportunities for you
to showcase your product or service, meet 1:1 with your current
and potential customers, and listen to the needs of the industry. With such a large investment of time, money, and human resources, it’s no surprise that management expects great returns on each event that your company sponsors.
On behalf of the Content Marketing Institute team, we’re all here to help you. We’re ready for exciting experiences, great ROI for sponsors, and new ways for customers to advance the practice of content marketing because of partner relationships built at our events.
Welcome to Technology Content Marketing 2020: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends. This report is based on the findings from our 10th annual content marketing survey. Technology marketers continue to make progress with content marketing. Approximately one-third rate their organization’s overall content marketing as extremely or very successful, and 76% report they are much more or somewhat more successful compared with one year ago. What makes them successful? When we look at the top performers, we see they treat content marketing as a strategic business function, craft content thoughtfully, experiment with distribution, and measure their results. They use content marketing not only to create brand awareness and generate leads, but also to build loyalty and subscribed audiences.
When Content Marketing Institute (CMI) first reported on manufacturing in 2014, we noted that manufacturers were later to adopt content marketing than other industries we studied. They’ve certainly come a long way since then.
As you’ll see in this report—based on the results of our 10th annual content marketing survey—manufacturing marketers have become more strategic with their content marketing and are feeling less challenged with communicating complex content. Many are reporting success with their overall approach to content marketing. The ability to craft content for different audiences across various stages of the buyer’s journey—and distribute that content with precision—will be important to continued success in 2020.
Welcome to our annual B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America report. We’re excited to present you with the findings from our latest content marketing survey.
Content marketing has changed a lot since we launched this research nearly a decade ago. We marketers are still focused on content creation, but our thinking about the audiences for whom we create that content has evolved. So, too, have the ways we distribute, measure, and improve upon our content marketing. Technology has played a big role, along with the knowledge we’ve gained through our content marketing experiences.
As you’ll see in this report, some organizations are more developed than others with their content marketing. But you’ll also recognize your own practices reflected in many of the findings. Where does your company stand? What do you need to get to where you want to be? If you need help, let us know!
Unpredictable algorithm shifts. Falling reach and lower engagement rates. Growing consumer mistrust from fake news and data breaches.
Despite woes like these, people still use social media platforms – and marketers are still drawn to their relationship-building powers. In fact, in 2019 research from Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, 61% of B2B marketers and 69% of B2C marketers say they’ve increased their use of social media for content marketing compared with one year ago.
However, navigating the social media landscape is like entering a dark forest without a map. If you aren’t familiar with the terrain and don’t have a solid plan, you can’t expect to reach your destination, let alone make it out of the woods unscathed.
This guide is full of tools that will help you find the best path to success, from planning your social media explorations, to growing legions of brand fans, to engaging them in meaningful ways.
We’ll cover the top content marketing opportunities in the social sphere, including:
- Landmark locations like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
- Video viewing-centric channels like YouTube and Twitch
- Streaming media sites like Snapchat Stories and Instagram Stories
- Emerging social platforms like Vero True Social and WeGather Online
Welcome to B2C Content Marketing 2019—Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends. This report presents the results from the B2C marketers who took our ninth annual content marketing survey.
Our research has consistently shown that creating brand awareness is a top goal for B2C content marketing. However, many of this year’s survey respondents also reported strong concern for using content to solidify existing relationships (see page 13).
Content that can be effective at building loyalty takes many shapes and forms today, for example:
- Videos and social media stories that entertain
- In-person events that create a sense of community and belonging
- Podcasts that inspire
- Live or virtual experiences that evoke emotion
- Articles, guides, newsletters, etc., that provide information
Obviously, the list goes on. The point is, that while driving people to content is critical, giving them reasons to keep coming back will grow long-term success!
What are some of the changes content marketers are likely to encounter over the next 12 months and beyond? Find out what dozens of experts see on the horizon in Content Marketing Institute's 11th annual e-book of content marketing predictions.
Mastering Local SEO for Service Businesses in the AI Era is tailored specifically for local service providers like plumbers, dentists, and others seeking to dominate their local search landscape. This session delves into leveraging AI advancements to enhance your online visibility and search rankings through the Content Factory model, designed for creating high-impact, SEO-driven content. Discover the Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy, a cost-effective approach to boost your local SEO efforts and attract more customers with minimal investment. Gain practical insights on optimizing your online presence to meet the specific needs of local service seekers, ensuring your business not only appears but stands out in local searches. This concise, action-oriented workshop is your roadmap to navigating the complexities of digital marketing in the AI age, driving more leads, conversions, and ultimately, success for your local service business.
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Key Takeaways:
Current consumer landscape; Steps to mapping an effective consumer journey; Understanding the value of personalization; Integrating mapping and personalization for success; Brands that are getting It right!; Best Practices; Future Trends
The session includes a brief history of the evolution of search before diving into the roles technology, content, and links play in developing a powerful SEO strategy in a world of Generative AI and social search. Discover how to optimize for TikTok searches, Google's Gemini, and Search Generative Experience while developing a powerful arsenal of tools and templates to help maximize the effectiveness of your SEO initiatives.
Key Takeaways:
Understand how search engines work
Be able to find out where your users search
Know what is required for each discipline of SEO
Feel confident creating an SEO Plan
Confidently measure SEO performance
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It's another new era of digital and marketers are faced with making big bets on their digital strategy. If you are looking at modernizing your tech stack to support your digital evolution, there are a few can't miss (often overlooked) areas that should be part of every conversation. We'll cover setting your vision, avoiding siloes, adding a democratized approach to data strategy, localization, creating critical governance requirements and more. Attendees will walk away with actions they can take into initiatives they are running today and consider for the future.
Everyone knows the power of stories, but when asked to come up with them, we struggle. Either we second guess ourselves as to the story's relevance, or we just come up blank and can't think of any. Unlocking Everyday Narratives: The Power of Storytelling in Marketing will teach you how to recognize stories in the moment and to recall forgotten moments that your audience needs to hear.
Key Takeaways:
Understand Why Personal Stories Connect Better
How To Remember Forgotten Stories
How To Use Customer Experiences As Stories For Your Brand
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Videos are more engaging, more memorable, and more popular than any other type of content out there. That’s why it’s estimated that 82% of consumer traffic will come from videos by 2025.
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Digital Asset Management: Three Tickets To The Blockbuster Content Marketing Show
1. Digital Asset Management:
Three Tickets To The Blockbuster
Content Marketing Show
By RobeRt Rose, Chief Strategist, Content Marketing Institute
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welcome
North Plains are delighted to sponsor “Digital Asset Management: Three Tickets to the Blockbuster Content
Marketing Show”, in association with the Content Marketing Institute (CMI).
Marketing has changed and the number of channels and touch points deployed to reach customers is evolving
and expanding at a fast pace. The volume of digital assets needed to fuel the content machine is also growing
not don’t have the processes in place to be able to do so.
This paper showcases how with Digital Asset Management at the heart of the content marketing process,
organisations can keep up with the demand for “real-time” blockbuster content. Robert Rose walks us through
a three-step best practice model for digital asset management and demonstrates the interdependency of
successful content marketing strategy upon the “Integration, Optimisation and Accessibility” of these assets.
We hope you find it both useful and engaging and North Plains and the CMI welcome your thoughts and feedback.
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INtRoDUctIoN
Marketing Has Changed – But We Haven’t
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014 may be a pivotal point in the idea of product companies actually evolving into media brands.
The Lego Movie, which has to date earned almost $500 million worldwide, is also very likely to be the
first movie produced and sponsored by a product company to win an Academy Award® . This is huge
for content marketing.
Now certainly the idea that consumer activities, as well as their buying habits, are shifting is nothing new.
And the idea of brands-as-publishers is certainly a well-worn subject. As a result you would think that the
content marketing process – infused into the larger strategy - would start to resemble that of a publisher,
newsroom, or multi-media company rather than a traditional, campaign focused department. As my
colleague Joe Pulizzi put it:
“Your customers don’t care about you, your products, your services… they care about themselves, their wants
and their needs. Content marketing is about creating interesting information your customers are passionate
about so they actually pay attention to you.”
But here’s the thing – in most cases it’s just not happening this way.
Even though many companies will acknowledge the fundamental shift in the way that consumers behave,
buy, and engage with the brands they choose to do business with, they seem unwilling or unable to
change the process by which they engage these consumers. To put it simply: marketing has changed, but
in many cases the brand hasn’t.
It’s not a stretch to say that for global organizations, any successful transformation into actually acting like
a publisher means that the approach to digital asset management must also fundamentally change. The
simple equation is this: consumer habits and demands have changed, so our process for meeting those
demands have changed, and thus our tools for facilitating those processes must also change.
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Digital Asset management:
It’s Not How Quickly We Do – It’s How Quickly We Can Do More
Gartner reports that the operations that support digital are getting an increasing share of the marketing budget.
More specifically, that the digital operation share has increased “with annual digital operating budgets totaling
3.1% of a company’s revenue in 2013, as compared with 2.6% in 2012.”i
This is an increase of 20% in one year.
have been able to evolve and transform alongside, and into,
the new era of multi-channel, real time, customer experience
management. Successful marketing teams have recognized
that digital agility is essential for marketers today. But now,
even as content marketing emerges, the idea of real-time
advertising is just around the corner. According to some, it will
move from 8% to 28% worldwide as a percentage of digital
advertising spend over the next year.ii
This means that it’s
not only content marketing that will require the enterprise to
produce more assets, it’s the need to publish more and more
relevant assets for real-time relevance as well. Ultimately,
businesses will not only create MORE assets – they will do so at
an exponentially increasing rate.
You can see this trend happening with media companies as
well. Movie production companies are increasingly placing
bets on “micro-budget” movies and investing in a much wider
portfolio of films, as well as changing the process of how they
create, manage, and produce their assets. So – how do brands
start to make this fundamental transition of their process? How
do they get themselves into new processes that enable them to
produce blockbuster content that engages customers?
At CMI we’ve seen that there are a combination of three tickets – that used together can provide a much more
Integration, Optimization, and Accessibility. Let’s get all three in our hands.
INTEGRATION
OPTIMIZATION
ACCESSIBILITY
Doing more, faster –
and ensuring a seamless
experience across
digital channels.
Ensuring that teams
across disparate locations
and functions can actually
do things they need to do.
Ensuring that the internal
contributors stay engaged
and use the system
consitently.
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Integration:
The Ticket To Delivering More Agility
Historically, marketing was a simpler, more linear process than it is today. Think of the Madmen era when it
would all start with the Product Development team conceiving and constructing a product or service. The next
it to the marketing team or external advertising agency. These guys would then come up with a catchy slogan,
snappy copy, and great visuals for the local or regional sales teams to take and deliver it to their targeted buying
audience via print, television, radio or POP (point of purchase). A handful of channels. Done. Simple.
In today’s successful content marketing and real-time focus it takes a village to deliver assets, and it’s a process
that is never ever finished. It takes the collaboration of internal teams – Marketing, Sales, Legal, Product
Development – with coordinated external resources – from ad buying and creative agencies, to translation
services and SEO experts – to bring the targeted audiences the right message, at the right time, through their
(recognized) preferred channel.
and store their digital assets. The challenge – how to bring them all together?
And even without the requirements of “real-time” there are more of them to bring together than ever before.
Companies are moving away from the model of single agency outsourcing, engaging with more, specialized
agencies to meet their specific digital and content marketing needs. More agencies means more assets being
intellectual property.
that Digital Asset Management solutions should enable the entire marketing ecosystem by integrating their
brainstorming to final asset production, bringing seamless integration with marketing automation platforms or
marketing resource management systems, or being able to automate and streamline the end-to-end marketing
process itself. The Digital Asset Management system can be the key that unlocks the agility that marketers need
to keep up with their audiences’ ever evolving demands.
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optimization:
The Ticket To Connecting Teams
In the past marketers relied upon and worked with their local contacts and connections to get the product
brochure, signage, website, technical documentation, video, or magazine feature through production and into
to leverage in order to meet the deadline.
While it is still great to surprise the graphics guru
with a latté, or treat the lawyer who writes the legal
disclaimers with his favorite flavored cronut, it
isn’t exactly agile, and not always possible if they
happen to be sitting in another city, or just as likely,
another country.
Today’s DAM solutions can be the perfect place for
that optimization, as this technology platform has
become, for many, the centerpiece of their company’s
marketing ecosystem. It now can help streamline and
facilitate the many activities involved in developing
and delivering something as simple as a single
piece of collateral or as complex as a multi-channel
global campaign. From collaboration and design tool integration, to version control, security, and metadata
management – this can all be made easier via a DAM’s workflow and functional capabilities. As the hub of all
marketing activities, the DAM needs to be the conversation coordinator between:
Teams; local and dispersed,
Teams and suppliers, and
Companies and customers.
Today’s Digital Asset Management solution should shatter the traditional, myopic, storage focused view of
assets to rather include workflow that integrates the spectrum of contributors, influencers, and external
contributors into the marketing ecosystem. Marketing is now so much more than a create-iterate-complete
endeavor. Marketers now have to track and manage access rights, trademark, and other restrictions of use. They
need to know where an asset has been used – digitally and in print – as well as who has actually seen it, and
A 2013 Custom Content
Council survey found that
61% of consumers say they
feel better about, and are
more likely to buy from,
a company that delivers
custom content.iii
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if they were moved enough to engage in its call-
to-action. So workflow has to go beyond getting
the initial task completed, it has to support the
distribution and evolution of the assets as well.
At a recent conference a CMO of a technology
company estimated that 70% of his (marketing)
budget has to do in some way with creating digital
media, and that optimizing that spend was central
to his mission to grow revenue without increasing
content marketers” are creating “more” or “significantly more” content than they did one year ago. This is
marketers need to be able to create more and more collateral to fit the idiosyncratic aspects of the new
channel, as well as the device type it can be consumed on. Centralizing and optimizing content marketing
activities within a DAM solution can help keep costs in check.
Two out of three marketers
have moved at least 30%
of their budgets from
traditional to digital media
in the past three years.iv
8. 8
Accessibility:
In the early days of the technology, companies looked upon DAM solutions as a storage tool; a dumping
ground for files of all types to be stored for re-use or archived to make way for new versions, which would
assume, that what they need is there, but have no idea of how to retrieve, let alone leverage, the vast array
of valuable files and information residing within their Digital Asset Management platform. The net, and quite
ironic, result is that many users go around the existing DAM solution and still use email and/or shared drives to
store assets because it’s just so hard and slow to utilize the existing central solution.
Companies spend large portions of their marketing
budgets on the generation of digital assets, and
there are savings to be realized by increasing the
accessibility of those assets. By leveraging today’s
digital asset management capabilities – the ability
to manage metadata, categorize content, as well as
search and retrieve files from a single interface – can
help make today’s marketing dollars go much further.
digital asset management can lead to the ability to actually produce more digital assets.
However, in order to do this, everyone needs to know what is available and then how to best use the platform.
Today’s solution needs to be in the hands of all marketers, not just a few; everyone involved from idea
conception through to delivery of the finished product, and on-going iterations. Digital assets have to support
old school main stays as well as new school multi-channel marketing, and bring them together to deliver
a unified experience; from a localized print catalogue to mobile push messages to an exceptional in-store
experience to finally an online ecommerce purchase.
the hands of their agencies. Tasks such as include scaling and cropping an image for reuse, or taking a
snippet from a longer video to post on Facebook or YouTube. Being able to quickly leverage existing media
files in multiple shapes and sizes from directly within a DAM solution makes meeting customer experience
expectations that much easier.
Content creation is
ranked as the single most
v
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Content is important, and will continue to be more important. The pressure is on for marketers to not
only generate increasingly high quality content, but to do so quickly and responsively in order to deliver a
day-to-day marketing activities. These theoretical and speculative visions need to be replaced with a new,
more agile market approach; one that focuses on putting messaging content out there, and then adapting the
message to keep a customer’s attention once it is attained. Today’s Digital Asset Management solutions can
help by:
Integrating people, processes, technology, and information to allow for agile management of the asset
and associated processes throughout the asset’s lifecycle.
Facilitating accessibility to those involved in the content marketing process, as well as make accessible
all content types, not just rich media.
Optimizing content marketing processes thereby enabling customer experience management excellence.
As brands recognize the need to not only look like media companies, but actually become media
companies, agility in digital asset management will be critical. This means starting with something simple,
understanding that there is always room for improvement, then quickly and continuously making those
improvements based on insights garnered via direct feedback and supporting data.
Whether it is solving a customer care challenge, promoting a new product or service, or just keeping/
getting an audience informed, a well organized, integrated, and accessible digital asset management
strategy can be the hub of delighting audiences across the engagement journey. By connecting content
teams, campaigns, channels, and customers via workflows and common structures, marketing activities
become more transparent and effective, and results more predictively successful. It’s the sure ticket to a
blockbuster strategy.
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i. Gartner’s Digital Marketing Spending Report
ii. IDC RTB to Grow In Next 12 Months
http://www.pubmatic.com/press/2013/new-idc-study-shows-real-time-bidding-rtb-display-ad-spend-to-
grow-worldwide-to-208-billion-by-2017.php
iii. Custom Content Council “Spending Study: A Look at How Corporate America Invests in
Branded Content for 2013”
iv. Duke Fuqua School of Business CMO Study, August 2012.
v. MarketingSherpa 2012 Search Marketing Benchmark Report – SEO Edition
vi. Econsultancy 2013 Content Marketing Survey Report
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