Слайд 1Webinar
A Culture of Content
Rebecca Lieb, Industry Analyst
Jessica Groopman, Sr. Researcher
January 14,
2015
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“If you want to learn about a culture, listen to the
stories. If you want to change the culture, change the stories.”
– Michael Margolis
Слайд 3A Culture of Content exists when the importance of content is
evangelized enterprise-wide, content is shared and made accessible, creation and creativity are encouraged, and content flows up and downstream as well as across various divisions.
Слайд 4Agenda
Welcome
Why a Culture of Content is Emergent Now
The Anatomy of
a Culture of Content
Seven Success Criteria
Q&A
Слайд 5Why is a Culture of Content is Emergent Now?
Слайд 6Demand for content has never been HIGHER, and still growing…
Слайд 8Content is also bigger than any single department
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Слайд 9Proliferation of channel, platform, and media complexity
Слайд 11The Anatomy of a Culture of Content
Слайд 12A Culture of Content is a Content Engine
Слайд 13Inspiration:
Intangibles that fuel a Culture of Content
Vision
Creativity
Risk/Willingness to Fail
Слайд 14Vision
A shared, single purpose, mission, or goal is paramount for empowering
a CoC
Establishes a baseline of understanding, how day-to-day tasks serve a higher purpose
Most effective when generated, embodied, and exemplified by leadership
Слайд 15Seattle-based Eastlake Community church was so inspired by charity:water’s content and
mission…
Слайд 16Creativity
The willingness/drive to think beyond content and marketing that has worked
in the past
Helps differentiate the organization
Grants creators the freedom to flex their creative muscles
‘The crowd’ (earned and social listening) can also inspire creativity
Слайд 17Sony identified a user-submitted troubleshooting post viewed 42k times in 2
weeks
A phone call costs the brand €7; Viewed 42k times, Sony affixed a value of €294k (€7 x 42k) to a single piece of content, then developed more content to address the pain point.
Слайд 18Risk & the Willingness to Fail
Providing permission to fail mitigates fears
of failure, embarrassment, job termination
To differentiate through content, content marketers must be empowered to take risks
View failure with a spirit of innovation– recognizing the issue, learning from it and moving on quickly
More content leaders are incorporating risk-taking & willingness to fail in the hiring process
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Inspiration:
The intangibles that fuel a Culture of Content
Vision
Creativity
Risk/Willingness to Fail
People:
The
Human Foundation of a Culture of Content
Senior Leadership
Content Leader
Business Units
External Partners
Employees
Слайд 21Senior Leadership
The critical role of senior leadership is buy-in and evangelism
When
lacking, marketing executives must make the formal business case
CM leaders cite metrics as common point of entry
CM leaders must constantly reinforce the value of content initiatives with data (e.g. sales, brand lift)
Слайд 22Content Leader
Chief Content Officer: an elusive, much vaunted, and still inconsistent
role
Key responsibilities:
Constantly evangelizes and demonstrates content’s value
Creates content strategy
Implements processes and infrastructure
Coordinates across departments, builds ownership
Identifies gaps, needs, and opportunities; nurtures creative talent and content-centric mindsets
Слайд 23Business Units
Content travels well beyond Marketing, permeating other divisions (consumer-facing first)
PR,
Comms, social media, field marketing teams, sales, HR, R&D, support, etc.
Legal and IT typically involved in approval, governance, technology implementation and deployment
Also includes subject matter experts from among senior executives, researchers, and product groups
Слайд 24A Culture of Content Flows Outward Across the Organization
Слайд 25External Partners
Equally urgent to the need for external partners to help
create the content is the need for cultural unity among all parties
Agencies of all kinds
Shopper/marketing insights organizations
Any third-party company aiding in any content marketing-related use case (e.g. agency and vendor partners)
Слайд 26“Combining content with data extends its impact.”
-- Julie Fleischer, Director, Data
+ Content + Media at Kraft Foods Group
Kraft works with several agencies and shopper insights organizations
To centralize these many initiatives, Kraft leverages a social media monitoring center that examines activity around individual brands, analyzing for insights by segment, geo-location, influencers, etc.
Слайд 27Employees
Not all employees will be content creators; encourage and empower identifiers
Evangelizing,
training, educating, demonstrating value, welcoming feedback
Operationalize via
Internal social networks, highlight best (and worst) practices, case studies, solicit feedback, asset sharing
Centers of Excellence and/or Digital Acceleration teams
Incorporate attitude towards content into hiring process
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Process:
Components that Streamline & Scale a Culture of Content
Evangelism
Governance
Education & Training
Technology
Слайд 29Evangelism
The key to evangelism is understanding the unique needs and pain
points of each constituency and tailoring content initiatives to serve their needs and yield relevant results to drive greater buy-in.
CM leaders must identify and build relationships with other functional leaders continuously
Evangelism expands to all people, including external partners
Many companies begin evangelism across consumer-facing depts. first
Слайд 30Governance
Governance empowers employees to act autonomously while also making decisions in
line with the organization
Defines how content is developed, curated, created, and reviewed; manages workflows and safeguards
What brand guidelines are; what the standards for content artifacts are
Who is empowered to make editorial decisions; and how to manage crises
Слайд 31Education & Training
Training must be both initial (at new program roll-out),
but also ongoing
Best practice sharing, case examples
Updates on programs, tools, workflows
More formal classes or routine sharing (e.g. internal social networks)
Education must account for global, regional, and local content programs
Hiring or promoting with an eye for editorial or creative background can accelerate the learning curve
Слайд 32Technology
Technology’s role is to centralize, streamline, and optimize
Execution, knowledge sharing, branded
assets, approvals, analysis, reporting, any other priority use case
Shared access across multiple teams to common tools drives efficiencies across all use cases
Leverage technology to inform more intelligent investments and activations across paid, owned, and earned
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Remember, tools are only as valuable as they are integrated
Source: Content
Marketing Software Landscape: Marketer Needs & Vendor Solutions
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Converged Media Results in Content Begetting More Content
Paid
Owned
Earned
Слайд 35The Convergence of Paid, Owned, & Earned
Content is the atomic particle
of all marketing, across paid, owned, and earned media
The mindset of media convergence is a primary impetus to a culture of content
Designing content for paid, owned, or earned
Breaking down internal barriers and silos
Multi-disciplinary planning, ideation, coordination, deployment (less about content, more about seamless CX across devices, channels, media)
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Media Convergence Drives Content Stack Evolution
Слайд 39“A culture of content begins with an obsession of the customer”
--
Michael Brenner, Head of Strategy, Newscred
Слайд 401. Customer Obsession Guides Content
Listen for consumer insights across channels.
Design content
to unify the customer–brand experience.
Assess all content for worthiness.
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2. Align Content with Brand
Crystallize how the content supports the brand
vision.
Incorporate that vision into training and evangelism.
Only publish content that supports the brand vision.
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3. Drive Content Leadership from the Top Down & Bottom Up
Evangelize
and test department-specific initiatives to drive bottom-up support.
Leverage cross-functional results and support to drive top-down support.
Both C-level and content leaders must reinforce an ongoing culture of content.
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4. Culture Requires Constant Evangelism
Content leaders must lead the content evangelism.
Articulate
and demonstrate WIIFM, both bottom-up and top-down.
Commit to ongoing cross-functional evangelism, support, communication, and optimization.
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5. Test & Learn
Start with small, tightly scoped, inexpensive pilots.
Listen,
analyze, A/B test, optimize, and repeat.
Take risks, fail forward, and apply lessons.
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6. Global Must Enable Local
Global must provide strategic oversight, support, resources,
and direction.
Enable local teams with appropriate cultural, linguistic, and contextual resources.
Appoint regional and/or local content leaders to scale training and ongoing evangelism.
Слайд 467. Integrate Across All Cultural Components
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Integrate across people: workflows, tool access,
collaboration, best-practice sharing
Integrate across technology: data sets, systems, third-party tools, analytics
Integrate across media: paid, earned, owned, local, etc.
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Agency turf wars will continue to escalate.
Convergence drives the emerging Marketing
Cloud
As the imperative for content grows, organizational acceptance, accountability, and key best practices will be well defined– across all functions.
Benefits of a culture of content will drive its adoption amidst an increasingly complex digital climate
Слайд 49Thank You
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Rebecca Lieb
Industry Analyst
@lieblink