The document discusses trends in content marketing for 2015, highlighting 7 key trends: content will become more social, visual, personalized, hyper-connected, automated, immersive, and data-driven. It emphasizes that companies need to adapt quickly to keep up with changing consumer behaviors and new technologies. Content must become more customer-centric, integrated across platforms, and focus on telling compelling stories to engage audiences.
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Content 2015 - Post Modern Engagement
1. Content 2015: Post-Modern Engagement,
Immersiveness, and What That Actually Means
CMA Digital Day
Toronto
October 20, 2014
Sean Moffitt
Managing Director - Wikibrands
@seanmoffitt
Wikibrands - Reinventing Your Organization in a Customer-Driven Marketplace
5. Caveat – Even 18 Months in a Connected Age is
a Very Short Time…
Teenager’s Favourite Social Network
40%
20%
42%
12%
30%
23%
Fall’12 Spring’13 Fall’13 Spring’14
Source: Piper Jaffray
7. “Content” represents a dramatic shift for marketing
Creative Excellence content Excellence
What brands
Believe, know, OR
HELP SOLVE AND
STAndardized media EMBRACE OF new
improve
media and
TEChnology
What brands
sell or feature
8. THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTENT
MArketing: The Industry
- We are Doing It - 77% of brands in 2014
- …In More Places – Ave. of 12 Tactics/7 Platforms
- …By Investing More - 78% say more $$$ in 2014
- …And It Frustrates Us – 95% of CMOs believe it is one of their
19. CONTENT 2015 – TREND #1 – MORE Social - social commerce 3X as fast as ecommerce/
native social content & ads will be 40% of spend
Local - Location-based mobile media will double in
market size by 2017
Mobile - half of email subscribers now open up emails in
mobile , yet 42% of marketers rarely/never use responsive
design in their emails.
Sources: Internet retailer, Cisco
26. CONTENT 2015 – TREND #3 - PERSONALIZED
“The only way to win at content marketing is for the
reader to say, ‘This was written specifically for me.’”
• 41% of customers buy more when emails are
personalized
• 73% of shoppers prefer personalized experiences
• …yet web personalization is currently 10th on list of
marketing web priorities
28. CONTENT 2015 – TREND #4 – HYPER-CONNECTED
In developed worlds, we will each have 26 smart,
connected objects per person by 2020.
31. CONTENT 2015 – TREND #5 - AUTOMATED
The average lifespan of a tweet is 12 minutes;
a Facebook post is 30 minutes.
64% of content marketers biggest challenge is
producing enough content.
34. CONTENT 2015 – TREND #7 - SMARTER
90% of the data in the world has been created
over the last 2 years;
only 1% of it is being analyzed,
it will grow 12 fold to 40 zettabytes by 2020.
35. MOBILE LOCATION
SOCIAL MEDIA3
CONTENT is Morphing – 6 Forces
DATA
SENSORS CROWDING
@seanmoffitt 35
37. CONTENT 2015 – COUNTERTREND - PRIVACY
53% Data Pragmatists 31% Data Unconcerned 16% Data Fearful
46. “Companies need
to catch up to the way that humans
now actually work and live.
Customer context, timeliness and
intimacy are a vital foundation for
content.”
63. New forms of content - The Connected
Home?
Health:
Automatically
track blood
pressure, weight,
and activity
Home Technology Application Areas
Notify when
someone is at the
door, or when it
opens or closes.
Safety:
Automatically light
your entire path to
the bathroom at
Notify of water leaks Get an alert when
night
or flooding while
medicine cabinet
you’re away
opens or closes
Caregivers: Monitor
fridge door to track
mealtimes
Get an reminder when
the stove is left on
78. Content Transformation
• Ignore the 8 content trends at your peril
• Get more resources behind your content plans, stick to them
• When confronted by more emotion and more data-driven content as
options, choose both
• Develop a culture of content – top-down and bottom-up
• Develop marketing competencies across all 7 Chief Content officer
areas NOW – 18 months is not long
80. 18 months is a short time, where
will we be in…
@seanmoffitt #digiday14 @wikibrands