The LinkedIn Consumer Content
Story and Why it Matters to You
Ryan Roslansky
Head of Content Products

Tomer Cohen
Mobile Product Lead

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Our Mission

Connect the world’s professionals
to make them more productive
and successful.

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Then…

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Our Mission

Connect the world’s professionals
to make them more productive
and successful.

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Now.

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Inform, educate,
and inspire professionals
through content.
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Content Evolution

• Publishing content and conversation on LinkedIn
• Relevant personalized content
• Mobile Distribution

• Companies are first class citizens in the content ecosystem

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

Original content is magnetic.
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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

Influencers
The biggest names in the professional world contributing knowledge and insight on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

“In short time posting on
LinkedIn, quality of comments is
higher than anything I've seen in 12+
yrs of online journalism.”
Herb Greenberg

- CNBC

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

Stand out by adding rich visual elements to your profile

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn
Conversation

2M+

Groups
Created

200+

Conversations
Every Minute

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

10M+

Uploads
publicly

62M+

Monthly Unique
Visitors*
*June 2013 comSore

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Publishing Content on LinkedIn

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Relevant, Personalized Content

Editors are being replaced by your network.
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Relevant, Personalized Content

One size does not fit all
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Relevant, Personalized Content
Early start-up exec

VS.
Finance exec

Who you are drives the content you receive
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Relevant, Personalized Content

Easy, discoverable topical channels accessed seamlessly across access points
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Relevant, Personalized Content

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Relevant, Personalized Content

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Relevant, Personalized Content

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Relevant, Personalized Content

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Seamless Distribution

Mobile is accelerating content consumption.
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Mobile changes the World

Print
1500

Mobile is the 7th mass media revolution

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2012

2016

PC

Tablet

Per day…

378K
1.3M

Smart phone

= 100M

371K

Sources: IDC March 2012, Gartner April 2013,

Every day there are 4.5x new mobile devices sold than babies born!

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On mobile, content is king

78%
EMAIL

57%
GENERAL SEARCH

73%
WEB BROWSING

46%
LOCAL SEARCH

64%
MAPS/DIRECTIONS

44%
READ NEWS, SPORTS

60%
GAMES

37%
WATCH TV/VIDEO

Source: IDC “Always Connected” Report - https://fb-public.app.box.com/s/3iq5x6uwnqtq7ki4q8wk

Smartphones are the central social, communication, and information tool in people’s lives

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82% of U.S. adults own a cellphone.
91% of them have their phone within arm’s reach.

Source: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Cell-Phones-and-American-Adults/Overview.aspx

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A day in a life of a mobile user.

Tablet

Phone
Desktop

3a
m

6a
m

9a
m

12pm

3pm

6pm

9pm

Midnigh
t
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Desktop = 9-to-5 Workday

DESKTOP

3a
m

6a
m

9a
m

12pm

3pm

6pm

9pm

Midnigh
t
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Phone = Always On

PHONE

3a
m

6a
m

9a
m

12pm

3pm

6pm

9pm

Midnigh
t
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Tablet = Coffee and Couch

TABLET

3a
m

6a
m

9a
m

12pm

3pm

6pm

9pm

Midnigh
t
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Being Truly Mobile.

Shop, pay, collect, learn, navigate,…

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Mobile changes LinkedIn.
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Mobile as % of total weekly unique users
33%

Q2-2013

8%
Q1-2011

Mobile is the fastest consumer product on LinkedIn

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Product evolution
2010

v1.0 – Dashboard with 12 utilities

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Product evolution
August 2011

Simplify

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Product evolution
April 2012

Shift focus to content

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Product evolution
April 2013

Design for the member

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Leapfrog Strategy
July 2012

“Katify”

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Seamless distribution
2010

August 2011

April 2012

July 2012

April 2013

Virtuous innovation cycle

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Mobile changes Content.
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Desktop

Phone

Television

Phone leads daily content consumption across desktop, television and tablet.
Source: http://www.brafton.com/news/global-content-consumption-dominated-by-the-web-mobile-on-top

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The smaller the bigger

With 65% of the screen real-estate, content is now more front and center than ever.

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The average mobile session last 4.1 minutes

Source: http://blog.flurry.com/bid/90987/The-Truth-About-Cats-and-Dogs-Smartphone-vs-Tablet-Usage-Differences

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140

1

5

6

characters

minute

seconds

seconds

Design for short digestible nuggets.

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Companies are first class citizens in the content ecosystem.
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Companies are first class citizens in the content ecosystem

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Companies are first class citizens in the content ecosystem

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Why is content so important to LinkedIn?

Increasing the talent pool on LinkedIn is
vital to your success…

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Why is content so important to LinkedIn?

Passive candidates by nature passive
don’t visit a “job” site….

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Why is content so important to LinkedIn?

But every professional consumes
content on a daily basis…

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Why is content so important to LinkedIn?

So what happens when you can start to
engage the worlds professionals
frequently through content?

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Why is content so important to LinkedIn?

They visit LinkedIn more frequently

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Why is content so important to LinkedIn?

They spend more time on the
platform, keep their profiles up to date

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Why is content so important to LinkedIn?

They connect more and invite more
people to join LinkedIn

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Why is content so important to LinkedIn?

Increasing the engagement with
LinkedIn allows us to provide you
access to the world’s professionals at
scale
Content is Driving Engagement. Engagement drives opportunity.

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Our Mission

Connect the world’s professionals
to make them more productive
and successful.

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The LinkedIn Consumer Story: Why it Matters to You

Editor's Notes

  • #3 To start this story I want to reground us with the mission of LinkedIn. (you may have heard this a few times today)There are two parts to our mission statement, but I am going to quickly pause on the first part – Connect the world’s professionals. We’ve always known that if we can execute on this part of the mission we would be in a solid position to do many great things for professionals moving forward.
  • #4 That’s why for a long time, this was the LinkedIn homepage. A page dedicated to signing up, creating a profile and connecting. And now as over 230M professionals have joined LinkedIn, with over 2 joining every second, it’s time to start focusing on the second line of our mission statement
  • #5 Make the world’s professionals more productive and successful… Not just when they are trying to create an online identity. Not just whey they are trying to build a network. But on a daily basis – whether they are trying to find a new job, or trying to become more successful in the job they currently have.
  • #6 That’s why the LinkedIn homepage looks like this today. Network and identity still play a major role in our value proposition. But now so does content and activity that is relevant and important to make professionals more productive and succsesful on a daily basis.
  • #51 http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/social-networks/14913.htmlhttp://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/how-long-should-you-make-that-youtube-video/http://blog.flurry.com/?Tag=Usage%20StatisticsSimple – dead simple – keep simple simple