Leveraging Cloud Technology to
Streamline your Content Strategy
Michael Meinhardt
Founder, Cloudwords
@m_meinhardt

@CloudwordsInc @LavaCon
@m_meinhardt
“Managing” Multilingual Content Today
Website
Vendor
Portal

Poor use of
people’s time

Slow localization
roll-outs

Marketer

Marketing Executive

Email

FTP

EMEA
Translator

Collateral

No visibility
Marketer

APAC
Translator
.XLS

Marketer

Mktg
Automation

Vendor
Portal

Reviewer

High costs
Inconsistent
message across
markets

Americas
Translator

Reviewer

@CloudwordsInc @LavaCon
@m_meinhardt
Cloudwords – The Global Content Cloud
ANY COLLABORATION &
KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM,
ANY
MARKETIN
G
AUTOMATI
ON

ANY
CONTENT MGMT
SYSTEM

ANY
KNOWLEDG
E
BASE

ANY
WEBSITE
CMS

CLOUD-BASED

ANY
TRANING/
LEARNING
SYSTEM

CUSTOMER-CENTRIC LOCALIZATION
PLATFORM

WORKFLOW
AUTOMATION &
COLLABORATION

ANALYTICS &
REPORTING

NEW TRANSLATION VENDORS
FROM CLOUDWORDS MARKETPLACE

TRANSLATION
MEMORY

HOSTED GLOSSARY
& STYLEGUIDE

ANY
TRANSLATION
SERVICES

CURRENT & PREFERRED
TRANSLATION VENDORS

@CloudwordsInc @LavaCon
@m_meinhardt
Deliver market
impact in weeks, not
months.

Increase engagement and capture
global revenue faster
with Cloudwords.

Extended market roll-outs create missed
revenue, risk of competition sweeping in, and
dilution of brand message across the globe.

@CloudwordsInc @LavaCon
@m_meinhardt
5
Expanding value proposition
Music Discovery

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013 Shazam Entertainment Ltd.

Media Engagement Music + TV
When it comes to second screen,
have we been solving a problem

that doesn’t really exist?

8
9
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013 Shazam Entertainment Ltd.

10
People of all ages
are using Shazam

13%

<18

19%

18-24

27%

19%

11%

25-34

35-44

45-54

10%

55-64

1%

65

*percentages reflect current Shazam users
source: Nielsen/Flurry 2012

11
It’s not easy turning interest into action

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL © Copyright 2013 Shazam Entertainment Ltd.

12
Engaging the Marketing Team:
You need the Data!
Results from our recent survey on
trends in the Localization Industry
September 2013

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@m_meinhardt
Who Responded?

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Content Strategy?

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Translation Memory?

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@m_meinhardt
Translation Budgets?

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What type of content?

@CloudwordsInc @LavaCon
@m_meinhardt
How fast is fast?

@CloudwordsInc @LavaCon
@m_meinhardt
BIGGEST process challenges?

@CloudwordsInc @LavaCon
@m_meinhardt
Where is the content?

@CloudwordsInc @LavaCon
@m_meinhardt
Marketing Automation?

@CloudwordsInc @LavaCon
@m_meinhardt
Translation Technologies

@CloudwordsInc @LavaCon
@m_meinhardt
What Web CMS do you use?

@CloudwordsInc @LavaCon
@m_meinhardt
Summary
-

Anyone that creates content in your
company is your friend!

-

Massive opportunities to optimize your
multilingual content business processes

-

When talking to Marketing, get familiar with
their lingo!

-

Market share, revenue growth, customer
success
@CloudwordsInc @LavaCon
@m_meinhardt
Thank you!

Michael Meinhardt
Founder, Cloudwords
@m_meinhardt

@CloudwordsInc @LavaCon
@m_meinhardt

LavaCon Portland 2013 - Cloudwords

Editor's Notes

  • #5 Flattened graphic with characters
  • #7 It all starts with music. A simple and highly effective technology that helped you to identify the music that was playing. You simply held you phone up and we texted you back.Then the iphone came along and we build the app for this new eco-system.We grew.We launched as the app store launched, across the world. We built the technology to work on BlackBerrys, Nokia’s, Windows and of course Android. We are today one of the top app downloads and two weeks ago at MWC announced the monumental milestone of 300 million users.
  • #12 TALKING POINTS:…our users make up and power Shazam’s scale, here is a look at our demographics.
  • #13 It’s not easy turning interest into action.[talk through the graphic, then say]Some just forget…Others try, but use a mobile browser and fat-finger their way to entering a URL or a keyword search, spending minutes, often pinching and zooming through non-mobile-optimized sites, and most don’t succeed.Those that give up are that much less likely to try again. Inertia… and friction. That’s what the industry is faced with. But, there is a better way…