Cognitive Content
Solutions
Topic
Predict What To Publish Next - A
Workshop on creating an Audience
Empowering Content Strategy
AI-based Content
Marketing
Lecture AI (ML) and
NLP
Web-Personalisation
Kaffeehouse.com
Crowed Sourced Poetry
Translation
Why are we here and what
are our goal?
• SEO
• Traffic
• General Understanding
• Content Strategy
• General Content Knowledge
• Marketing
• Adtech Personalisation
Cognitive Content
“Content that is aware if it’s context and
that can adapt to the changing needs and
preferences of a target Audience”
“The goal of Cognitive Content is to create
a strong emotion relationship between
audience and brand/message.”
“The needs and preferences of a target
audience can be known and/or unknown to
the target audience”
By using advanced AI/ML approaches
Why do we need this?
Markets are shifting fast
Audience motivation
changes fast
Competition is
increasing
Complexity is increasing
Costs are increasingNew Technologies: Data –driven Marketing / Audience Segmentation /
Interactive Content / 3D Content / Mixed and Augmented Reality / Complex
Content Campaigns / AI and ML
Main Market Shift
MOVING FROM A TRANSACTION
ECONOMY TO A RELATIONSHIP
ECONOMY
This has implications on how you
produce, distribute and re-use
content.
Say what?
RELATIONSHIP ECONOMY?
SHIFT FROM A TRANSACTION
ECONOMY TO A RELATIONSHIP
ECONOMY
Source: McKinsey & Company - Consumer
Decision Journey
Audience Aware Content
Production
Know Audience Trends Know Market Trends
Cognitive Content = Aware
Content
Goals of Cognitive Content
Audience
Specific
Continuous
Refinement
Engagement
FocusedCreating a lasting relationship
Solution – Connecting
Content Production with
Content Delivery
Content Production Content Delivery
Who else thinks this is
important?of all customers believe that providing
custom content are interested in
building good relationships.
Source: Content Marketing Institute 2016
78
% of all customers buying decision is
influenced by custom content.
Source: Dragon Search Marketing 2016
61
% of all CMOs in the top 500 US Brands
believe custom content is the future
of marketing.
Source: Demand Metric
78
% believe “Orginal Written Content” is the
most important content to drive
conversion and engagement ahead of
visuals and videos. Source: Social Media
58
Key Performance Indicators
- KPIs
What are yours?
• Comments on social posts
• Retention (in time)
• Eyeballs (view – impressions)
• Retweets
• Outbound – Inbound (call to action)
•
Main KPIs
Mostly ends up as
Brand Awareness
1. Social media reach
2. Brand mentions
(mentions/google alerts)
3. Media mentions (not
consumers)
4. Branded searches (AdWords,
Keyword Planner, Google
Trends…)
5. Video and Mobile (view time,
interaction)
6. Marketing Research / Self
Reports
Brand awareness a bit
more advanced
Detour
Text Classification
Example Finding Entities
Engagement
Engagement
Reach vs. engagement
Reach is a vanity metric.. It’s also easily
manipulated. Think clickbait e.
Time on page vs. engagement
Time on Page is based on bounce. Better: Scroll
depth, clicks, copy and paste actions etc.
Ultimate Gold: Conversions
Create a call to action that you want people to
complete after they read your content (e.g.
newsletter sign-ups) and track how well that
performs instead of how far your content reaches.
Detour: Shares vs.
Engagement
Tracking
share
counts is
not a good
idea.
Tracking
Comments
is a good
idea.
Main factors for conversions
Relevant Content
High Quality
Interesting and Fresh
Provides Real Value
Easy to consume and find
…
Creating Engaging Content
Start with your audience’s
motivation (intention)
Inspire trust with a
believable story
Build on Trust
Make it Personal
Make it feel real
Be honest
Be Professional
Invite people to actively
participate
Pull the audience
Provide an action
Audience Participation
Audience into the
drivers seat
Open up options
Create a full emotional arc
Plan how the emotional journey will
unfold
Think not one piece of content
think campaign
Plan the journey
Use data to optimize your
approach
Trend Detection
Know what they want or know what they
should know
How do you know what to
publish next?
• Event based
• Social media tracking
• Social media feed analysis
• Niche Website
• Following News
• Following the bubble
Trends and Audience
Awareness
Give them what them what you know they
want
VS
Give them what they don’t know yet that they
want
How?
1) Predicting Audience Trends
Easier
2) Predicting Market Trends
Not so Easy
3) Creating Trends
Black Art
Finding Trends
Google Trend
Follow KOLs
Follow Social Media
Follow Competitors
Collect data and look for converging
trends
KOL Example: Robert Scoble
Trend Conversion
TIME
MENTIONS
NOW
AR
VR
MR
Trend Conversion
TIME
MENTIONS
NOW
AR
VR
MR
Urban Marketing
Alternate Reality Games
How to start
1. Focus on a domain or area (form a question)
2. List KOLs, Websites, Blogs, Competitors,
Thought Leaders, Social Media
3. Use listening tools to track what they talk
about
4. Extract top keywords and categories
mentioned (AI/ML)
5. List top categories and keywords related to
the domain
6. Collect data and map (look for convergence)
7. Use SEO keyword tools, google trends, or
even predict lookup from google
8. Create a narrative – a story how and where
the trend will relate and congregate.
Check trends quick and easy
Trend detection
Advances Cognitive
Content Solutions - Market
Trends
Example Novels
Bestsellerometer
The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the
Blockbuster Novel, by Jodie Archer
Running their model, Archer and Jockers
found the book’s number-one subject was
“human closeness.”
Don’t blindly trust a trend
Mind the Gap
Niche Websites - Example
Revenue Breakdown
8,000 Euros a month revenue
Advertisement - 20%
Affiliation Marketing - Not adwords, direct
links to other companies with different
revenue share models for conversions, visits
etc.)
Other revenue – Links via company deals
and promotions and sponsored articles such
as reviews.
Keyword planning
Identify niche keywords on which
you can place/target your product
Identify where are you are placed
in search engines(taking into
account all the different
personalisation configurations used
by people)
Learn about your competitors (Is
the keyword located in their title,
metatags, their page ranking,
Long tail keywords
Audience Intelligence
Content Delivery
Push or Pull
Bringing the Audience to your
Content
Or
Bringing the Content to your
Audience
Bringing the Audience to your
Content
Know what they are looking for
Influencer Marketing
SEO
Social
Ad campaigns
….
Bringing the Content to your
Audience
• Channels and content spaces
• FB, linked in etc.
• Know what they are looking for
• Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Social Media
• Display Ads
• Offline Events
Know your audience -
WHERE
Personalisation aka know
your audience
Segmentation
Template
Whiteboard / Planed
Organic
Evolving out of the data
ML / AI based
Example AI ML: Pulling
keywords from reviews
Know your audience - HOW
Content Quality and
Semantics
Schema.org
Semantic Tagging
Semantic Uplift
Case Study Tourism
Advances Cognitive
Content Solutions -
Audience Trends
Dublin | Fine
Art
Galway| Oysters
Jameson|
Distillery
Temple Bar|
Music
Guinness|
Visiting Centre
Advances Cognitive
Content Solutions -
Audience Trends
Galway| Oysters
Advances Cognitive
Content Solutions - Market
Trends
Advances Cognitive
Content Solutions – Market
Trends
Schottland | Austern
Predictive Topic Modeling
Know Audience Trends Know Market Market Trends
Solution – Connecting
Content Production with
Content Delivery
Content Production Content Delivery
Solution
Cognitive Content Strategy (AI/ML
based)
Market Trend
Detection
Audience Trend
Detection
Trend based
Content
Component
Engagement
Tracking
Audience based
Content
Component
Dynamic
Audience
Segmentation
Cognitive
Trend Prediction
Cognitive
Content Production
Cognitive
Content Delivery
Breaking it down
Market Trend
Detection
Audience Trend
Detection
Trend based
Content
Component
Engagement
Tracking
Audience based
Content
Component
Audience Specific
Content Delivery
Cognitive
Trend Prediction
Cognitive
Content Production
Cognitive
Content Delivery
Produce Promote Measure
Next Event
June!
Trying to run this every month now!
Thank you
Contact for more Info
Kevin Koidl
kevin@wripl.com
@wripl @koidl
Cognitive Content
Solutions

Predict what to publish Next

Editor's Notes

  • #2 There is a lot under the hood and complicated to do Please reach out to me or team members to discuss this Its an interesting field Mention ‘predict’ a lot Focus on goal/outcomes/commercials Focus on future challenges and how these can be addressed Make sure you know who the talk is focused on and what you are trying to pitch
  • #8 Why -> competition is one click away Realtionship with what -> with the brand -> think apple, think blue bottle, think teeling whiskey
  • #10 - Why is the funnel in the past? It’s short term thinking / so you get your conversion and then? What then? Don’t Flush it down the funnel!!!!
  • #13 What does that mean a lasting relationship?
  • #15  First and last comment and mix in video and facebook live and snapchat and so on Text is great because of the narration!!!
  • #18 https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/2017-state-of-content-marketing#sm.00001j5ft6the7dcbx374vsqylz8t
  • #19 https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/2017-state-of-content-marketing#sm.00001j5ft6the7dcbx374vsqylz8t
  • #20 http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2017/04/metrics-content-brand-awareness/
  • #21 ML / AI
  • #23 https://api.freme-project.eu/ckeditor/ckeditor/samples/freme.html
  • #25 http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/03/measure-engagement-right/
  • #27 https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/lead-gen-content-ideas#sm.00001j5ft6the7dcbx374vsqylz8t http://www.frac.tl/lead-generation-content-7-best-types/ http://optinmonster.com/27-clever-lead-generation-ideas-you-can-implement-immediately/
  • #29 http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/2016/10/art-science-emotional-engagement/
  • #41 You want to be in a spot that the trend picks you up! Be innovative not incremental
  • #43 http://neilpatel.com/blog/beginners-guide-to-content-based-lead-generation/
  • #45 Topic Detection NLP NER Predictive Analytics AI and Machine Learning
  • #46 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/09/bestseller-ometer/499256/ this book attempts to analyse novels from the points of view of theme, plot, style, character and all data points
  • #51 SEMRUSH https://www.incomediary.com/how-much-traffic-website-gets Google Keyword Tool Planner SEMRUSH
  • #58 Suzanne Jackson Suzanne Jackson is a blogger and writer from Ireland who writes on fashion and trends. She is described as one of the most successful bloggers in Ireland.
  • #59 https://www.brandwatch.com/blog/content-marketing-trends-2017/
  • #61 Long tail keywords
  • #66 Looks at the outside market Jenny builds these clusters over a few weeks and can start to see trends in the topic clusters which help her predict what user clusters are tending towards what topics. She can now start studying overlapping topics and see how some topics are more effective and some not.
  • #67 Looks at the outside market Jenny builds these clusters over a few weeks and can start to see trends in the topic clusters which help her predict what user clusters are tending towards what topics. She can now start studying overlapping topics and see how some topics are more effective and some not.
  • #68 Looks at the outside market Jenny builds these clusters over a few weeks and can start to see trends in the topic clusters which help her predict what user clusters are tending towards what topics. She can now start studying overlapping topics and see how some topics are more effective and some not.
  • #69 Looks at the outside market Jenny builds these clusters over a few weeks and can start to see trends in the topic clusters which help her predict what user clusters are tending towards what topics. She can now start studying overlapping topics and see how some topics are more effective and some not.
  • #76 Thank you slide Alan Weldon Stuart Fergus John Whelan Vicky Samways O'Driscoll, Robyn Buttle, Thomas
  • #77  You need to build a story a narration that aligns with your brand and with the interests of your audience