People’s attention is on their phone but they’re not looking for ads, they’re looking for content.
Content marketing is the new advertising because consumers are less likely to pay attention to what you have to say about yourself than what you have to say about the topics they care about. You'd rather be what they're interested in, rather than interrupt them from it.
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CONTENTS
1. Content Marketing Approach
2. Why Mobile Matters
3. Key Take-aways
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CONTENT MARKETING
APPROACH
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Consumers are less likely to pay
attention to what you have to say
about yourself than what you have
to say about the topics they care
about.
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Old School Media
Approach
Spray and Pray
● Exposure to media builds brand
awareness that increases the likelihood
of purchase in-store
● Creative process is to compose an idea
for TV, simplify it for print, then repurpose
into banner ads
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TV / PRINT /
BANNERS
IN-STORE
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New Marketing Mix
Digital builds relationship and drives
directly to transaction
● Compose a narrative that has a
singular message
● Tell it in pieces of long and short-
form content, tailored to media
channels
● Make it contextually relevant to the
KBD
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PRE-ROLL /
INFLUENCERS/
NATIVE ADS / SOCIAL
POSTS / ETC.
IN-STORE /
ECOMMERCE
TV / PRINT / BANNERS
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Path to Purchase
Ecosystem that drives to transaction
When we consider how all the
mediums work together to tell a
narrative, we can come up with
content that pushes our audience
through a story, increasing the
likelihood of purchase
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PAID
PURCHASE
OWNED
EARNED
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Tell A Story
Content marketing is storytelling for the
modern age
● People don’t buy products, but rather
the stories that products and brands
represent
● Come up with ideas for stories not for
media channels
● Tell the stories in various forms of
content
● Identify which media channels work
best with which stories
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CAMPAIGN
CONTENT
INFLUENCER
CONTENT
COMMUNITY
CONTENT
SOCIAL
CONTENT
TV / Print
Native
Ads
Promoted
Posts
FB Video
Ads
Pre-Roll
Pushes
Customers
Pushes
Custom
ers
Pushes
Custom
ers
PROMOTES
INSPIRES
FUELS
Pushes
Customers
Blog Articles
Short Videos
Social Recipes Tips &
Tricks
Take
Ownership
Create UGC
Express
Passion
Capture
Curate
Re-Purpose
IN-STORE
DIGITAL
EXPERIENCE
STORY
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Crowd-sourced
Media Planning
Make little bets then test and iterate
● Create content for multiple
channels
● Track target behavior
● Fuel what is working, abandon
what isn’t
● Track, measure, optimize
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WHY MOBILE MATTERS
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People’s attention is on their phone
but they’re not looking for ads,
they’re looking for content
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Drives Transaction
Mobile has ability to drive in-store to
complete a digital experience
● Content needs to provide value to
user
● Users will trade their privacy for
value
● Need privacy to complete user-
journey
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Video on Mobile
Smartphone viewers are 2X more
focused when viewing video on
mobile than on TV
● More than 50% of the
smartphone video viewers use
video to help them make product
decisions
● YouTube is their #1 destination
for finding information about a
brand or product
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Source: Google/Ipsos, Brand Building on Mobile Survey (U.S.), February 2015.
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Content Game
Changers
Different apps and experiences are
constantly evolving the way in which we
consume
● SnapChat reports vertically shot video
was viewed to the end 9x more when
shot vertically.
● Instagram turned everyone into a
photographer
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Source: AdWeek, Snapchat Persuades Businesses,, April 2015.
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What works for Video doesn’t
necessarily work on
Facebook, or Instagram –
content needs to be tailored to
the place where it will be
served
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KEY TAKE-AWAYS
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Jab, jab, jab… Right hook
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Content First
Create a connection with our
audience
● Think story before media
channel
● Talk about what’s important to
them
● Align audience with brand
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Mobile Drives In-
Store
Create content for where attention is
● Short, shareable, relate-able
● Trade privacy for value
● Drives in-store to interact with
product/display, unlock more
content
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