Planning, publishing, distributing and measuring content are collective, connected challenges that modern marketing teams must master. The ever-increasing number of channels represents a massive burden for marketers. Many of whom aren’t using automation tools and are still working from Excel.
Gartner says that “by 2020, 90% of brands will practice at least one form of marketing personalisation. However, content, not data, will be the bottleneck and primary cause of failure”. He adds that by 2021, the term “content marketing” will be obsolete when all marketing content becomes higher in quality and meets expectations of attention-limited audiences.
“The aim is to unite and focus buyer engagement through valuable content, delivered across thousands of assets and channels where it expresses itself,” Gartner .
“Content Marketing Platforms are the ideal channel-agnostic environments to tag and apply structure to content; thus, they create a de facto unified back-end to fragmented channel experiences.
“This extends to reporting, as many B2B marketers integrate their CMP with a marketing automation platform or CRM system to link content consumption with specific buyer profiles or target accounts.”
Forrester defines a Content Marketing Platforms (CMP) as a collaborative tool that marketers can use to create a content strategy, manage multiple streams of activity by content creators, curators, and distributors inside and outside of the company, while optimising downstream cross-channel distribution to key audiences. A CMP enables teams to transition to some form of agile marketing (light, medium or heavy, depending on the appetite for change and the business need to accelerate the generation and distribution of better quality content more often).According to Forrester, “if content is digital’s soul, then a CMP is the church”.
On June 20 2018, together with Simple’s Sara Gonzalez, marketing capability expert Rachel Rohrlach and Simple’s product chief Michael McKerlie discussed a Simple-AMI report which found that most marketers are struggling to meet basic brand governance expectations. A significant majority (59%) of marketers reported that responsibility for managing the customer experience now rested with the chief marketing officer or marketing team at their organisation, according to the study, Marketing Resource Management in the Age of Intelligence.
The research showed marketers, hampered by the use of static tools to manage increasingly fluid processes, are struggling to obtain a big-picture view of marketing activities in areas such as planning, budgeting, governance and workflow:
- Only 13% easily monitor their spending against budget
- Just 10% say their primary planning tool provides an up-to-date view of their marketing plan
- 51% don’t monitor their marketing process at all
- And astoundingly, 41% have no formal process to manage compliance and governance issues.
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