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Content:
The New Marketing Equation
Why Organizations Must Rebalance	
  
February 16, 2012




                                            By Rebecca Lieb
                       with Zak Kirchner and Jaimy Szymanski

                    Includes input from 56 ecosystem contributors
Table of Contents
Executive Summary .................................................................................................................... 3	
  
Methodology ............................................................................................................................... 4	
  
Ecosystem Input ......................................................................................................................... 4	
  
Corporate Practitioners ................................................................................................................. 4	
  
Content Marketing Services .......................................................................................................... 5	
  
Domain Experts ............................................................................................................................ 5	
  
Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................................... 5	
  
Marketers Are Unbalanced as They Shift from ‘Push’ to ‘Pull’ .............................................. 6	
  
Organizations Must Rebalance ..................................................................................................... 6	
  
Four Fundamental Steps Toward Content Marketing Maturity .............................................. 7	
  
1. Understanding That Content Marketing Is Not Free ................................................................. 7	
  
2. Implementing Broad Cultural Integration Around Content Marketing ....................................... 7	
  
3. Integrating Content Marketing with Advertising ........................................................................ 7	
  
4. Avoiding Bright, Shiny Objects.................................................................................................. 7	
  
Gauging Progress Toward Rebalancing ................................................................................... 8	
  
Key Components of Rebalancing ................................................................................................. 8	
  
Altimeter’s Content Marketing Maturity Model ....................................................................... 9	
  
1. Stand......................................................................................................................................... 9	
  
2. Stretch: Taking the First Steps While Scanning the Horizon .................................................. 10	
  
3. Walk: Ambition and Forward Momentum ................................................................................ 10	
  
4. Jog: Sustainable, Meaningful, and Scalable Content Initiatives ............................................. 11	
  
5. Run: Inspired and Inspirational ............................................................................................... 12	
  
Content Marketing Maturity Model Self-Audit ....................................................................... 13	
  
The Content Marketing Channel Roadmap ............................................................................ 15	
  
Channels and Tactics ................................................................................................................. 15	
  
Content Channel Insights............................................................................................................ 16	
  
Recommendations .................................................................................................................... 17	
  
Build Content Around the Brand/Product/Service, Not About It .................................................. 17	
  
Drive Organizational Change and Transformation...................................................................... 17	
  
Educate and Train....................................................................................................................... 17	
  
Design Recombinant Content ..................................................................................................... 17	
  
Open Research .......................................................................................................................... 18	
  
Permissions............................................................................................................................... 18	
  
Disclosures................................................................................................................................ 18	
  
About Us .................................................................................................................................... 19	
  
	
  
 


Executive Summary	
  
Content marketing, or creating and publishing media rather than “renting” advertising time and
space, has always existed. Emerging digital technologies, platforms, and channels now enable
any brand to function as a media company with very real advantages: building branding,
awareness, trust, purchase intent, and word-of-mouth, as well as lowering acquisition costs and
increasing engagement with target audiences. Customers are tuning out advertising as they go
online to research purchases; interact with brands; and seek out news, entertainment, and
inspiration. Marketers can serve customers and prospects with content through every phase of
awareness, branding, intent, conversion, and customer service. Yet, unlike advertising, content
initiatives are continual rather than episodic, placing new demands not just on marketing
organizations, but also across the enterprise as a whole.

Content marketing requires a shift in company culture, resources, budgets, partners, and
strategy. Rebalancing is critical to achieve these goals. The choice is whether to rebalance now
or wait until later, when the battle for attention may become even more difficult than it is today.

There are five stages that organizations evolve through in their quest to market efficiently with
content. Not every company will reach every stage; the pinnacle is more aspirational than real
for most. Yet to effectively market with content, organizational change and transformation must
be driven from the top level of the organization. Left to the marketing department alone, success
is limited. New skills must be developed and training offered — both in digital technologies and
in job functions — that are more aligned with the responsibilities found at a newspaper,
magazine, or broadcaster than in classic marketing functions. Content requires more speed and
agility than does marketing, yet at the same time it must be aligned with metrics that conform to
the business’ strategic marketing goals.




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Methodology
This report is based upon 56 qualitative responses from people who are actively engaged in the
evolution of content strategy as it applies to marketing. The qualitative interviews were
conducted with representatives from B2B and B2C companies between October and December
2011.

Of the 56 interview subjects, 25 (45%) represented 19 brands, eight of which are included in the
American or Global Fortune 500. Thirty-one (55%) agency employees, consultants, and thought
leaders from 23 content service providers were also interviewed. Additional information about
interview questions is available on the Altimeter Group blog, at http://blog.altimetergroup.com.
The link to the blog post is http://www.altimetergroup.com/?p=6717.

Ecosystem Input
This report could not have been produced without the generous input from thought leaders in
content strategy, influencers, and solution vendors who have a vested interest in the evolution
of content marketing. Input into this document does not represent a complete endorsement of
the report by the vendors or individuals listed below. Not all interviewees are disclosed due to
confidentiality constraints.

To develop this report, Altimeter Group gleaned input from the following leaders:

Corporate Practitioners
Adobe Systems, Inc.: Jennifer Atkinson, Social Media Manager
Adobe Systems, Inc.: Maria Poveromo, Director of Social Media
American Express: Scott Roen, Vice President, Digital Marketing and Innovation
AT&T: Maria Mandel, Vice President Media & Marketing Innovation
Blackbaud: Frank Barry, Director Professional Services
Coca-Cola: Jonathan Mildenhall, Vice President of Global Advertising Strategy and Creative
        Excellence
Eloqua: Joe Chernov, Vice President of Content Marketing
Ford Motor Company: Scott Kelly, Digital Marketing Manager
General Electric: Linda Boff, Global Director, Marketing Communications
General Electric: Paul Marcum, Director, Global Digital Marketing & Programming
General Electric: Andrew Markowitz, Director of Global Digital Strategy
Hubspot: Mike Volpe, Chief Marketing Officer
IBM: Alisa Maclin, Vice President of Marketing, Smarter Commerce Initiative
IBM: Michela Stribling, Director of Corporate Communications, Coremetrics
Intel Corporation: Ken Kaplan, Writer, Story Producer, and New Media Strategist
Nestlé: Pete Blackshaw, Global Head of Digital Marketing & Social Media
PR Newswire: Ninan Chacko, Chief Executive Officer
PR Newswire: Rachel Meranus, Vice President of Public Relations
PR Newswire: Michael Pranikoff, Global Director, Emerging Media
Toys "R" Us: Steve Lazarus, Online Manager, Emerging Media




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UBM TechWeb: Scott Vaughan, Chief Marketing Officer
Wells Fargo: Ed Terpening, Vice President, Social Media
WGN-TV: Josh Richman, Vice President, Marketing

Content Marketing Services

360i: David Berkowitz, Vice President of Emerging Media
BOND Strategy and Influence: Mark Schiller, Chief Executive Officer
Brain Traffic: Kristina Halvorson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Campbell-Ewald: David Linabury, Director of Interactive
Content Marketing Institute: Joe Pulizzi, Founder
Deep Focus: Ian Schafer, Chief Executive Officer
dotJWT: John Baker, President
Edelman Digital: Steve Rubel, Executive Vice President Global Strategy and Insights
Federated Media Publishing: Clint Bagley, Vice President of Corporate Communications
Federated Media Publishing: John Battelle, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Federated Media Publishing: Deanna Brown, President and Chief Operating Officer
Federated Media Publishing: Neil Chase, President of Author Services
Federated Media Publishing: Pete Spande, Senior Vice President of Sales
HiveFire: Pawan Deshpande, Founder and Chief Executive Officer
HiveFire: Richard Turcott, Chief Marketing Officer
iCrossing: David Deal, Vice President of Marketing
iCrossing: Adam Lavelle, Chief Strategy Officer
Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB): Peter Minnium, Head of Brand Initiatives
Isobar US: Darryl Gehly, President
JWT: Ingrid Bernstein, Digital Strategy Director
JWT: Erin Johnson, Chief Communications Officer
Marketing Interactions: Ardath Albee, Chief Executive Officer
SlideShare: Ross Mayfield, Vice President Business Development
Story Worldwide: Keith Blanchard, Executive Creative Director, North America
TopRank Online Marketing: Lee Odden, Chief Executive Officer
VivaKi: Rishad Tobaccowala, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer
Vocus, Inc.: Peter Shankman, Vice President and Small Business Evangelist
Weber Shandwick: George F. Snell III, Senior Vice President, Digital Communications

Domain Experts
C.C. Chapman, author
Ann Handley, author, Chief Content Officer, MarketingProfs
David Meerman Scott, author

Acknowledgements
With thanks to support from: Lora Cecere, Ted McConnell, Jeremiah Owyang, Rick Short, Shiv
Singh, and Alan Webber




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Marketers Are Unbalanced as They Shift from ‘Push’
to ‘Pull’
Marketers are reeling from the enormous demands that continually creating and publishing
media places not only on marketing departments, but also on the enterprise as a whole. Due to
shifts in consumer attention, companies are challenged to move beyond episodic, short duration
“push” campaign initiatives into longer-term, often continual “pull” content marketing initiatives
that require new strategic approaches. Altimeter defines content marketing as the following:

       Content marketing is a term that refers to the creation and sharing of content for
       marketing purposes. In digital channels, it refers to content that resides on properties the
       brand or marketer owns (e.g., a website) or largely controls from a content perspective
       (social media channels, syndication). Content marketing differs from advertising in that,
       unlike advertising, a media buy is never part of the equation.

To continually attract and engage consumers requires companies to develop new skills. They
must learn to think and function as publishers, producers, and — often — as community
managers. Content creation and distribution places new and continual demands on the
enterprise as a whole, not just the marketing department. And frequently, content necessitates
operating in real-time environments, including evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Organizations Must Rebalance
Marketers must evolve from advertisers into storytellers. Advertisers interrupt consumers with
messaging that are overwhelmingly “me” oriented: my product, my service. Storytellers attract,
beguile, entertain, and inform. They are sought out and revisited. Often, they’ll enter into
dialogue with their audience. They’re attuned to nuanced reactions and will adjust their
narratives accordingly, whether a shift in tone of voice or a deeper dive into what was originally
just a backstory.

Rebalancing, or realigning resources, budgets, staffing, company culture, and agency and
service provider relationships, will make marketing organizations both more effective and
prepared to meet ever-changing digital challenges. Organizations that rebalance now will
enhance and improve their marketing initiatives, spend more effectively, and align to meet
changing consumer expectations.

For this report, marketers from 38 companies were interviewed. Marketers at all the companies
interviewed are currently undertaking initiatives to significantly shift their focus to content
creation and dissemination.




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Four Fundamental Steps Toward Content Marketing
Maturity
Shifting to effective and sustainable content marketing requires far more than pinpointing (or
hiring) someone with writing skills and tasking them with producing content. It must be deeply
integrated with broader marketing strategy and initiatives, including advertising, and it must
become ingrained in company culture. Even if a company is dedicated enough to make the
effort to shift, Altimeter has found there are significant obstacles to rebalancing, including:

1. Understanding That Content Marketing Is Not Free
Certainly, content marketing can reduce the media spend associated with advertising, but the
more mature a company’s content marketing efforts, the better it’s understood that effective
content initiatives require significant investment in internal staff, production and distribution
resources, and often new sources of strategic support.

2. Implementing Broad Cultural Integration Around Content Marketing
Rebalancing requires deep departmental integration and cultural shifts across the enterprise, as
well as education, training, and new digital skill sets for staff within and beyond the marketing
organization.

3. Integrating Content Marketing with Advertising
Increasing confidence in and reliance on content marketing is causing marketers to reevaluate,
and often to cut back, on advertising and shift those dollars to content production and
distribution. For optimal impact and maximum success, content and advertising should be
integrated — or at least interrelated. In tandem, the two can more fully express a brand story.

4. Avoiding Bright, Shiny Objects
In their enthusiasm for marketing with content, we found that many marketers who we
interviewed for this report are distracted by channels and technologies at the expense of
strategy and marketing fundamentals.

We believe that over the next five years, content marketing will permeate the organization. Led
by the marketing department, finding, producing, and disseminating content both internal and
external to the organization will become a core marketing function, but it will require cross-
departmental support, primarily in the form of input and creation from senior management,
sales, and product teams. To seek out stories, trends, questions, and the other “raw materials”
of content marketing, shoe leather is a requirement. Like beat reporters, those charged with
creating content must continually travel throughout their companies and, indeed, their industries,
to keep a finger on its pulse and to find the stories and ideas that can be turned into content.




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Gauging Progress Toward Rebalancing
If content marketing requires marketers to become publishers and producers, it also requires
staff outside of the marketing department to assume marketing responsibilities. Creating content
and supplying raw material for content creation cannot be accommodated by marketing alone.
Management buy-in, cultural change, and acquisition of new skills are at the core of achieving
competency, and eventually excellence, in content marketing.

Key Components of Rebalancing
Each organization faces its own challenges in making progress toward rebalancing. Altimeter
has identified five key components of rebalancing. Each component is critical to moving an
organization toward becoming more content marketing focused. These five components are:
organizational structure, internal resources, external resources, measurement, and education.
Within each of these five components are different levels of execution. To understand why these
components are critical and how organizations mature within each, we’ve broken each one
down:

       •   Organizational Structure: The infrastructure that allows content creation and
           distribution to be fostered and encouraged within both the marketing department and
           beyond it.

       •   Internal Resources: Staff roles, teams, and leadership that support and create content
           marketing.

       •   External Resources: The extent to which the organization works with outside vendors
           and service providers, including agencies, creative resources, and technology vendors.

       •   Measurement: Creating meaningful metrics around content marketing, including tying
           them to overall marketing and sales goals.

       •   Education, including:

              o   New Skills and Capabilities: Fostering understanding of content marketing;
                  executive buy-in; and ensuring staff can manage, create, and publish content.

              o   New Mindsets and Approaches: Content marketing is almost never a 9-to-5
                  undertaking. Creating, managing, and monitoring content outside of normal
                  business hours, often in real time, is essential.




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Altimeter’s Content Marketing Maturity Model
Based upon an analysis of maturity across the five organizational components, Altimeter has
identified five phases in Altimeter’s Content Marketing Maturity Model. They are: Stand, Stretch,
Walk, Jog, and Run (Figure 1). Different companies will achieve these stages at different rates.
Marketers need to ask themselves where they are on this journey and how advanced they want
to be. To determine where your company is at on its journey, marketers need to assess their
own progress on Altimeter’s Content Marketing Maturity Model.

Figure 1. Altimeter Group Content Marketing Maturity Model




                                                                                   Source: Altimeter Group

1. Stand
Characterized by: Curiosity and Consideration
Description: An organization that hasn’t yet realized the value of content marketing starts in the
Stand stage. This organization may have dabbled in social media or created a blog, but activity
is infrequent and not generally viewed as important within the organization. The marketing
department relies almost wholly on “push” communications, such as e-mail marketing, direct
mail, and advertising.

While organizations in this initial stage may have discussed elements of content marketing, no
internal stakeholder has made a case for content. These organizations require a catalyst to
demonstrate the value that content can have on their marketing, communication, and sales
teams before they can move into the second maturity stage and begin developing strategy to
guide their efforts.




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2. Stretch: Taking the First Steps While Scanning the Horizon
Characterized by: Advocacy and Experimentation
Description: An organization at the Stretch stage realizes the value of content marketing and
begins to build the strategy and support necessary to create and publish content. Understanding
develops that — while many of the tools and media are free — content requires an investment
of resources. An executive sponsor is necessary to lead the program and communicate its value
and reach to the organization. This executive sponsor is also tasked with identifying team
members to engage with early channels, building basic forms of content, and evaluating
potential agency relationships.

Content is driven by the understanding that its focus must be around the company’s products or
services, but very often not specifically about them. Content tends to be directed to one or two
discrete channels (e.g., a blog, whitepapers, or articles; a Facebook page; or a YouTube
channel).

Case Study: Indium Corporation, a privately held manufacturer of chemical compounds for the
global soldering industry, has a bold content marketing champion. Director of Marketing
Communications Rick Short recognized his colleagues’ passion for their work. The company
employs highly skilled engineers who possess detailed domain knowledge. Instead of starting
slowly with a corporate blog, Short created a stunning 73 blogs for Indium.

Seventy-three blogs on soldering supplies may initially seem crazy, but Short’s approach was
both strategic and effective. He began by researching what drove traffic to Indium’s website and
learned that visitors found the site using 73 different keywords. Rather than creating a single
blog that could reach the audience for all of those keywords, he created a blog for each
individual keyword. The approach would not have succeeded without his colleagues’ passion
and expertise. Short knew no one he could hire would be able to write more intelligently or
authentically than his own engineering team. Indium’s blog has won awards, individual bloggers
have achieved celebrity within their industry, and offerings have been expanded to include a
free online knowledge base and YouTube series of interviews, titled “What ‘From One Engineer
to Another’ Means to Me ... .” In just one quarter, Indium increased customer contacts 600%.

In the Stretch stage of maturity, first identify what the target audience is interested in, then
assess internal capabilities to create content — before engaging with external agencies or
service providers.

3. Walk: Ambition and Forward Momentum
Characterized by: Strategy and Processes
Description: In this stage, content creation and production get a solid strategic foundation
organizationally. From channel specific (e.g., “we blog”), content begins to become channel
agnostic and is distributed across a variety of channels and platforms. Processes are
formalized. This is the stage at which a team begins to take shape, strategy is more fully refined
and tweaked, and the team begins to establish governance to scale and shape content
processes.




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Existing content, as well as potential sources of content, are identified and unified across the
organization. Content is then formally audited and assessed, often with a formal scoring or
grading process. Content is optimized for digital and social distribution, and efforts are made to
identify repeatable, sustainable content modules and practices. The leader of the content group
makes a more concerted effort to connect content development with all parts of the
organization’s communication teams.

Case Study: Eloqua is a privately held company that sells digital marketing automation
software. The company was already creating some content when Joe Chernov was promoted to
the newly created role of vice president of content marketing. Given the metrics-driven nature of
the company’s products and services, Chernov knew he would have to prove the value of his
own marketing efforts while creating content that positioned Eloqua as a thought leader in the
marketing industry. Chernov launched a corporate blog and worked on a series of free e-book
guides, white papers, webinars, infographics, and other educational content. He also hired a
former journalist as a full-time corporate reporter.

Leveraging internal experts as bloggers, Eloqua’s corporate blog reached the Ad Age Power
150 within its first year. Chernov used the blog to promote the company’s free content, made
trackable by prompting visitors with the option to provide their name, e-mail, phone number,
company, and job title pre-download. This data, coupled with data from distributing that content
via an email marketing campaign with a lead generation form, enabled Chernov to connect the
dots between revenue and content. Four free guides influenced $2.5 million in annual recurring
revenue, booked in 2010. Not only can Eloqua directly connect revenue with content, it can also
evaluate lead quality. On average, 17% of visitors to Eloqua.com are VP or higher, and 25% of
visitors who find the site via content pieces are VP or higher.

The Walk stage of Altimeter’s Content Marketing Maturity Model requires an organization to
implement a measurement framework to demonstrate content value to the organization.

4. Jog: Sustainable, Meaningful, and Scalable Content Initiatives
Characterized by: A Culture of Content
Description: This phase of the maturity model is the goal for most companies seriously
committed to content marketing. The organization’s strategy is clear, as well as communicated
throughout the enterprise at this stage. Focus shifts toward expanding the team and its ability to
create experiential, engaging content rather than simply creating and publishing simpler stories
and informational pieces. The processes for producing content are also more fully developed
and strategic. Content is created with a view toward being reusable or repurposed across
multiple media platforms. To achieve this, content must have a life of its own — decoupled from
the brand, product, or service — to enable it to travel. Agency relationships are frequently
deepened into longer engagements rather than episodic, campaign-based
initiatives. Connections between the content team and the rest of the organization’s
communication groups solidify, but there are still some growing pains/holdovers.

Earned media increases in importance, as the organization’s efforts have existed long enough
to sustain a constant flow of “earned” media that helps extend reach. Achieving earned content
is often expressly a goal of the company’s paid advertising, while owned content is created with
a view toward sparking conversation and other forms of earned media. A continual challenge is
to achieve a resource balance that maintains both growth and equilibrium while remaining cost
effective and to scale — and at the same time maintaining a high level of customer


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engagement. Yet even these sophisticated marketers can overly focus on “bright shiny objects,”
the newest, most sophisticated, and technologically advanced digital channels, while
overlooking basics such as search and e-mail.

Case Study: Nestlé is the world’s largest nutrition, health, and wellness company, with global
revenues exceeding CHF 109M. When Pete Blackshaw became global head of digital and
social media, one of his first orders of business was fostering a “culture of content” within the
executive leadership ranks. While Nestlé had long recognized the importance of content
proliferation as part of its global marketing and sales strategy, Blackshaw believed further
development was necessary if Nestlé wished to remain top-of-mind with its social-savvy
consumers and boost product speed to market.

Blackshaw flew a team of senior managers from company headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland,
to visit entrepreneurial and fast-moving digital companies in Silicon Valley, notably Facebook.
Nestlé’s executives were inspired by the social network’s constantly evolving and listening-
focused company culture. Blackshaw cites the executive “field trip” as a success in helping the
company more quickly adapt to changes in the digital landscape. He plans to continue content
marketing training in 2012 with the launch of a company-wide training initiative.

Other companies within the Jog stage of Altimeter Group’s Content Marketing Maturity Model
may pursue similar executive development opportunities to aid in the adaptation and
advancement of their company culture and content strategies on divisional levels, as well as
throughout the enterprise.

5. Run: Inspired and Inspirational
Characterized by: Monetizable Content
Description: This is the most aspirational phase of Altimeter’s Content Marketing Maturity
Model. Only a handful of companies have begun to Run, primarily global CPG brands with a
strong commitment to pop-culture marketing initiatives. In this phase, a successful, real-time
integration of content marketing and curation is part of the fabric of nearly all aspects of
branding. The organization has become a bona fide media company, actually able to monetize
innovative and highly polished content that is either branded and/or related to the brand
proposition. Content is sold and licensed based on its standalone merit, with content divisions
having separate P&L responsibility.

Earned media (specifically, consumer-generated content) often significantly outpaces owned
media. Media shared between the company and its partners becomes an important asset. Multi-
disciplined agency relationships are efficiently producing content that is high in quality, creative,
and professional. Production and creative are often a full, standalone business unit. Content
opportunities are discovered and leveraged that relate to a brand experience more so than
around products or services.

Case Study: Red Bull, the Austria-based energy drink company, with 3.78B euros in annual
revenue, has long been recognized as a content powerhouse. It produces high-energy,
maximum impact, visually stimulating artifacts that directly tie into its extreme energy drink
branding and related sports and aviation sponsorship. Its focus on permeating global culture
with its branded and brand-related content has proven so successful that Red Bull continued to
soar with the addition of RedBullContentPool.com — an e-commerce website that allows
(primarily commercial) users to license clips from the brand’s extensive video content library.


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In addition to the ability to license nearly 8,000 videos on RedBullContentPool.com, users
interested in Red Bull’s photography may visit an alternate site that offers more than 42,000
photos free to anyone using them for editorial purposes. The company also offers specific
pieces of content for download via iTunes, owns a record label, and publishes a print magazine,
among many other media initiatives. Red Bull’s complex distribution model allows it to utilize
content to its maximum potential in both revenue generation and impact on global culture.

Other companies within the Run stage of Altimeter Group’s Content Marketing Maturity Model
may pursue similar commercial media licensing, syndication, and distribution models to grow
the reach, impact, and ROI of their content, ultimately creating additional opportunities to
generate earned media in the process.

Content Marketing Maturity Model Self-Audit
With an understanding of how companies achieve content marketing maturity, take action and
self-diagnose. The self-audit below (Figure 2) is designed to help companies assess where they
are on the Altimeter Content Marketing Maturity Model based upon the key components
identified above. First, identify which description best describes your organization in each row.
Then, enter the score associated with that description in the column to the right.

Score: The average of all five scores indicates the numerical rank of the maturity stage of
Altimeter’s model. Your numerical rank is determined by adding together all five responses and
then dividing the total by five.




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Figure 2. Content Marketing Maturity Self-Audit


       Content Marketing Maturity Self-Audit

       Score                  0               1                     2                 3                  4            Your
                           (Stand)        (Stretch)               (Walk)            (Jog)              (Run)          Score
       Organizational   No executive    Executive         Executive            Content            Chief content
       Structure        sponsor or      sponsor and a     sponsor leads        managers lead      officer
                        formal          small, part-      small team of        teams focused      integrates
                        structure to    time support      dedicated            on different       content into all
                        create and      team              content              content types      communication
                        distribute                        producers            and channels       groups
                        content
       Internal         No internal     Assess            Expand               Formalize          Content
       Resources        resources       colleagues'       responsibilities     content team       creation is a
                        dedicated to    capabilities to   and size of the      and hire           responsibility of
                        content         produce           content              dedicated          all marketing
                        creation or     content and       production           talent;            and
                        strategy        create a small    team                 incentivize        communication
                                        team                                   creativity and     teams
                                                                               contributions
       External         No external     Consultants       Establish            Agencies           Working with
       Resources        resources       make the          relationships        assume a           cutting-edge
                        engaged to      case for          with agencies        larger role in     agencies to
                        make the case   content           for content          creating more      explore new
                        for or create   marketing         creation and         advanced           types of
                        content                           production           types of           content
                                                          support              content, e.g.,
                                                                               video and
                                                                               mobile apps
       Measurement      Very limited    Form a            Track basic          Connect            Advanced
                        measurement     measurement       KPIs, such as        metrics to         sentiment
                        of website      strategy;         page views,          meaningful         analysis and
                        traffic; no     begin a basic     fans, likes,         business           ROI
                        formal          listening         comments             objectives         calculations
                        strategy        program
       Education        No              Executive         Training for         Content            Continual
                        educational     education to      content team         marketing          training on
                        programs        encourage                              training           emerging
                        within the      buy-in                                 incorporated       content trends
                        company in                                             into the overall   and
                        regard to                                              employee           technologies
                        content                                                training
                        strategy.                                              program


                                                                                                  Average Score:


                                                                                                    Source: Altimeter Group




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The Content Marketing Channel Roadmap
Understanding marketers’ content channel needs and priorities are critical to the process of
rebalancing. While determining which channels content should be created for should always be
approached strategically, with a view toward overall marketing goals, it cannot be ignored that
each channel brings with it new technological and budgetary requirements. In our interviews,
Altimeter found marketers are increasingly looking toward channels such as video and mobile.
Creating and distributing multimedia and mobile content will require greater investment in terms
of budget, technical and production expertise, and measurement than does text-based content,
e.g., blogging, articles, and e-mail.

As marketers become more ambitious technologically and, at the same time, less reliant on
advertising, the need to ramp skills, hire and budget effectively, and plan for the future become
correspondingly more complex. Consumer preferences and trends put increased pressure on
this area. Blogs have receded in significance as more social channels and video have risen to
the fore. We therefore recommend marketers keep a close watch on channel effectiveness, as
well as emerging trends in content marketing channels and technologies.

Channels and Tactics
What content channels do marketers say are effective now, and where will they focus their
efforts in the short-term future? To answer this question, we asked organizations what content
channels are important now and what types of content they hope to both deploy and de-
emphasize — or diminish — in the future (see Figure 3).

Figure 3. Marketers Confident in Future of Online Video, Social, Mobile




Base: 56 marketers; Size of bubbles above reflect marketers' intention to increase/decrease use of that content type
over the foreseeable future. * Based on question: What are the most effective types of content you’ve used to
promote your brand? ** Based on question: Which type(s) of content do you plan to phase out, use less of, or have
found ineffective?; Source: Altimeter Group




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Content Channel Insights
While it’s essential not to confuse strategy with tactics, at least some tactical understanding and
planning is essential as organizations strive to rebalance. New channels require new
investments and a willingness to commit resources to experimentation. At the same time, gap
analysis is essential as well. While few interview subjects cited search engine optimization or e-
mail as elements of their content marketing initiatives, common sense dictates otherwise. What
marketers said in interviews, and to an extent what they did not say, reveals a great deal of
what’s required to address content requirements going forward.

       •   Visual information reigns supreme, from video to images to infographics.
           Overwhelmingly, marketers plan to add more video to content marketing initiatives,
           necessitating increased investment in both technology and production resources.
       •   Mobile and location-based marketing are the second most-cited area into which
           marketers want to expand content initiatives. Again, this will call for increased
           investment and more technological resources.
       •   Marketers must manage flow and develop the ability to respond in real time in social
           channels
       •   Bright, shiny objects, i.e., a fixation on newer channels and technologies, can distract
           from foundational channels (e.g., search; written content, such as blogs; and educational
           content, which is often essential in B2B channels). We believe these less-glamorous
           areas to be essential to content marketing initiatives, even as efforts to expand into
           glitzier channels expand.
       •   Budgets must increase to accommodate content channels, such as video and mobile,
           that require larger production and development investment.
       •   Marketers’ confidence in and reliance of content marketing is beginning to diminish their
           reliance on print and broadcast advertising, as well as public relations.




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Recommendations
Build Content Around the Brand/Product/Service, Not About It
Redefine customer relationships based on serving, educating, and entertaining customers with
content that is not product- or brand-centric. This necessitates a shift toward communication
and away from advertising, as well as away from the “I” of a brand, product, or service and
toward the “you” of the customer. Content that is too product- or brand-focused is ill-equipped to
travel digitally; it’s seldom shared or passed along, whereas content that stands on its own
merits as entertainment, storytelling, educational value, or utility will be shared and passed
along. First steps in this phase often involve listening, e.g., learning the questions and concerns
a target audience might have around a product or service category and then addressing those
questions to foster helpful communication.

Drive Organizational Change and Transformation
Create a culture of content throughout the organization, with top-level buy-in. Communicate
across silos, and create content creators and advocates across and within corporate divisions to
find and maximize content opportunities. The stories content marketing tells, or the customer
problems content provides solutions for, do not reside in the marketing department, but rather in
a wide variety of corporate divisions. Correspondingly, content creators, thought leaders, and
customer advocates also live outside the marketing department. Building bridges to these
disparate sources of content and the raw materials that inform its creation require new levels of
cooperation and communication through programs and initiatives, such as training (see below),
incentives, making content part of a job requirement, incentive programs, and even rewards,
such as the fame and recognition that can come with authorship.

Educate and Train
Educate and train management and staff in content strategy and tactics. This will vary
depending on the organization, but generally involves three levels of training. First, focus on big-
picture conceptual training for senior executives to foster organizational buy-in to content
initiatives and executive-level support for content marketing. Next, implement strategic training
for managers and marketing/communications staff who will be tasked with overseeing content
marketing initiatives and whose staff is expected to contribute. The third level is tactical training,
particularly in digital channels, e.g., social media, community management, SEO, etc., for
content creators in the organization — both within and outside the marketing department.

Design Recombinant Content
Strive to create content that can be distributed in multiple formats across numerous platforms
and channels to maximize value and minimize the resources dedicated to continually creating
content from scratch. Understand how to redistribute and reuse discrete components of longer
form content. An executive speech at a conference, for example, might be turned after the fact
into a long-form video, short video excerpts, a shared slideshow, one or more blog entries on
the topic, an infographic, a podcast, a whitepaper, tweets, etc.




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Open Research
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under the principle of Open Research and is intended to advance the industry at no cost. This
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Disclosures
Your trust is important to us. As such, we are open and transparent about our financial
relationships. With their permission, we publish a list of our client base on our website. At the
time of this report’s publication, some of the technology providers we interviewed may be
Altimeter Group clients. See our website to learn more:
http://www.altimetergroup.com/disclosure.

Disclaimer
Although the information and data used in this report have been produced and processed from
sources believed to be reliable, no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the
completeness, accuracy, adequacy or use of the information. The authors and contributors of
the information and data shall have no liability for errors or omissions contained herein or for
interpretations thereof. Reference herein to any specific product or vendor by trade name,
trademark or otherwise does not constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation or
favoring by the authors or contributors and shall not be used for advertising or product
endorsement purposes. The opinions expressed herein are subject to change without notice.




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About Us
Altimeter Group is a research-based advisory firm that helps companies and industries leverage
disruption to their advantage.

About Rebecca Lieb, Analyst
                Rebecca Lieb (@lieblink) is an analyst at Altimeter Group covering digital
                advertising and media, encompassing brands, publishers, agencies and
                technology vendors. In addition to her background as a marketing executive,
                she was VP and editor-in-chief of The ClickZ Network for over seven years.
                For a portion of that time, she also ran Search Engine Watch. She’s written
                two books on digital marketing: The Truth About Search Engine Optimization
                (2009) and Content Marketing (2011).

About Zak Kirchner, Researcher
                 Zak Kirchner (@Zak_Kirchner) researches the impact disruptive technology
                 has on leadership strategy and the relationship brands have with their
                 customers. He currently focuses on enterprise social strategy and the tools
                 available to brands for managing their presence online. He has worked at
                 market research and consulting companies and is interested in social
                 commerce and entrepreneurial strategy.

About Jaimy Szymanski, Researcher
                 Jaimy Szymanski (@jaimy_marie) researches how organizations can
                 effectively utilize social media and other disruptive technologies to achieve
                 business advantage. She currently focuses on content marketing and strategy.
                 Jaimy has worked in marketing consulting and social media advisory roles and
                 is interested in location-based and mobile technologies.




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[Report] Content: The New Marketing Equation, by Rebecca Lieb

  • 1. Content: The New Marketing Equation Why Organizations Must Rebalance   February 16, 2012 By Rebecca Lieb with Zak Kirchner and Jaimy Szymanski Includes input from 56 ecosystem contributors
  • 2. Table of Contents Executive Summary .................................................................................................................... 3   Methodology ............................................................................................................................... 4   Ecosystem Input ......................................................................................................................... 4   Corporate Practitioners ................................................................................................................. 4   Content Marketing Services .......................................................................................................... 5   Domain Experts ............................................................................................................................ 5   Acknowledgements ....................................................................................................................... 5   Marketers Are Unbalanced as They Shift from ‘Push’ to ‘Pull’ .............................................. 6   Organizations Must Rebalance ..................................................................................................... 6   Four Fundamental Steps Toward Content Marketing Maturity .............................................. 7   1. Understanding That Content Marketing Is Not Free ................................................................. 7   2. Implementing Broad Cultural Integration Around Content Marketing ....................................... 7   3. Integrating Content Marketing with Advertising ........................................................................ 7   4. Avoiding Bright, Shiny Objects.................................................................................................. 7   Gauging Progress Toward Rebalancing ................................................................................... 8   Key Components of Rebalancing ................................................................................................. 8   Altimeter’s Content Marketing Maturity Model ....................................................................... 9   1. Stand......................................................................................................................................... 9   2. Stretch: Taking the First Steps While Scanning the Horizon .................................................. 10   3. Walk: Ambition and Forward Momentum ................................................................................ 10   4. Jog: Sustainable, Meaningful, and Scalable Content Initiatives ............................................. 11   5. Run: Inspired and Inspirational ............................................................................................... 12   Content Marketing Maturity Model Self-Audit ....................................................................... 13   The Content Marketing Channel Roadmap ............................................................................ 15   Channels and Tactics ................................................................................................................. 15   Content Channel Insights............................................................................................................ 16   Recommendations .................................................................................................................... 17   Build Content Around the Brand/Product/Service, Not About It .................................................. 17   Drive Organizational Change and Transformation...................................................................... 17   Educate and Train....................................................................................................................... 17   Design Recombinant Content ..................................................................................................... 17   Open Research .......................................................................................................................... 18   Permissions............................................................................................................................... 18   Disclosures................................................................................................................................ 18   About Us .................................................................................................................................... 19    
  • 3.   Executive Summary   Content marketing, or creating and publishing media rather than “renting” advertising time and space, has always existed. Emerging digital technologies, platforms, and channels now enable any brand to function as a media company with very real advantages: building branding, awareness, trust, purchase intent, and word-of-mouth, as well as lowering acquisition costs and increasing engagement with target audiences. Customers are tuning out advertising as they go online to research purchases; interact with brands; and seek out news, entertainment, and inspiration. Marketers can serve customers and prospects with content through every phase of awareness, branding, intent, conversion, and customer service. Yet, unlike advertising, content initiatives are continual rather than episodic, placing new demands not just on marketing organizations, but also across the enterprise as a whole. Content marketing requires a shift in company culture, resources, budgets, partners, and strategy. Rebalancing is critical to achieve these goals. The choice is whether to rebalance now or wait until later, when the battle for attention may become even more difficult than it is today. There are five stages that organizations evolve through in their quest to market efficiently with content. Not every company will reach every stage; the pinnacle is more aspirational than real for most. Yet to effectively market with content, organizational change and transformation must be driven from the top level of the organization. Left to the marketing department alone, success is limited. New skills must be developed and training offered — both in digital technologies and in job functions — that are more aligned with the responsibilities found at a newspaper, magazine, or broadcaster than in classic marketing functions. Content requires more speed and agility than does marketing, yet at the same time it must be aligned with metrics that conform to the business’ strategic marketing goals. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 3    
  • 4.   Methodology This report is based upon 56 qualitative responses from people who are actively engaged in the evolution of content strategy as it applies to marketing. The qualitative interviews were conducted with representatives from B2B and B2C companies between October and December 2011. Of the 56 interview subjects, 25 (45%) represented 19 brands, eight of which are included in the American or Global Fortune 500. Thirty-one (55%) agency employees, consultants, and thought leaders from 23 content service providers were also interviewed. Additional information about interview questions is available on the Altimeter Group blog, at http://blog.altimetergroup.com. The link to the blog post is http://www.altimetergroup.com/?p=6717. Ecosystem Input This report could not have been produced without the generous input from thought leaders in content strategy, influencers, and solution vendors who have a vested interest in the evolution of content marketing. Input into this document does not represent a complete endorsement of the report by the vendors or individuals listed below. Not all interviewees are disclosed due to confidentiality constraints. To develop this report, Altimeter Group gleaned input from the following leaders: Corporate Practitioners Adobe Systems, Inc.: Jennifer Atkinson, Social Media Manager Adobe Systems, Inc.: Maria Poveromo, Director of Social Media American Express: Scott Roen, Vice President, Digital Marketing and Innovation AT&T: Maria Mandel, Vice President Media & Marketing Innovation Blackbaud: Frank Barry, Director Professional Services Coca-Cola: Jonathan Mildenhall, Vice President of Global Advertising Strategy and Creative Excellence Eloqua: Joe Chernov, Vice President of Content Marketing Ford Motor Company: Scott Kelly, Digital Marketing Manager General Electric: Linda Boff, Global Director, Marketing Communications General Electric: Paul Marcum, Director, Global Digital Marketing & Programming General Electric: Andrew Markowitz, Director of Global Digital Strategy Hubspot: Mike Volpe, Chief Marketing Officer IBM: Alisa Maclin, Vice President of Marketing, Smarter Commerce Initiative IBM: Michela Stribling, Director of Corporate Communications, Coremetrics Intel Corporation: Ken Kaplan, Writer, Story Producer, and New Media Strategist Nestlé: Pete Blackshaw, Global Head of Digital Marketing & Social Media PR Newswire: Ninan Chacko, Chief Executive Officer PR Newswire: Rachel Meranus, Vice President of Public Relations PR Newswire: Michael Pranikoff, Global Director, Emerging Media Toys "R" Us: Steve Lazarus, Online Manager, Emerging Media © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 4    
  • 5.   UBM TechWeb: Scott Vaughan, Chief Marketing Officer Wells Fargo: Ed Terpening, Vice President, Social Media WGN-TV: Josh Richman, Vice President, Marketing Content Marketing Services 360i: David Berkowitz, Vice President of Emerging Media BOND Strategy and Influence: Mark Schiller, Chief Executive Officer Brain Traffic: Kristina Halvorson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer Campbell-Ewald: David Linabury, Director of Interactive Content Marketing Institute: Joe Pulizzi, Founder Deep Focus: Ian Schafer, Chief Executive Officer dotJWT: John Baker, President Edelman Digital: Steve Rubel, Executive Vice President Global Strategy and Insights Federated Media Publishing: Clint Bagley, Vice President of Corporate Communications Federated Media Publishing: John Battelle, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Federated Media Publishing: Deanna Brown, President and Chief Operating Officer Federated Media Publishing: Neil Chase, President of Author Services Federated Media Publishing: Pete Spande, Senior Vice President of Sales HiveFire: Pawan Deshpande, Founder and Chief Executive Officer HiveFire: Richard Turcott, Chief Marketing Officer iCrossing: David Deal, Vice President of Marketing iCrossing: Adam Lavelle, Chief Strategy Officer Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB): Peter Minnium, Head of Brand Initiatives Isobar US: Darryl Gehly, President JWT: Ingrid Bernstein, Digital Strategy Director JWT: Erin Johnson, Chief Communications Officer Marketing Interactions: Ardath Albee, Chief Executive Officer SlideShare: Ross Mayfield, Vice President Business Development Story Worldwide: Keith Blanchard, Executive Creative Director, North America TopRank Online Marketing: Lee Odden, Chief Executive Officer VivaKi: Rishad Tobaccowala, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer Vocus, Inc.: Peter Shankman, Vice President and Small Business Evangelist Weber Shandwick: George F. Snell III, Senior Vice President, Digital Communications Domain Experts C.C. Chapman, author Ann Handley, author, Chief Content Officer, MarketingProfs David Meerman Scott, author Acknowledgements With thanks to support from: Lora Cecere, Ted McConnell, Jeremiah Owyang, Rick Short, Shiv Singh, and Alan Webber © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 5    
  • 6.   Marketers Are Unbalanced as They Shift from ‘Push’ to ‘Pull’ Marketers are reeling from the enormous demands that continually creating and publishing media places not only on marketing departments, but also on the enterprise as a whole. Due to shifts in consumer attention, companies are challenged to move beyond episodic, short duration “push” campaign initiatives into longer-term, often continual “pull” content marketing initiatives that require new strategic approaches. Altimeter defines content marketing as the following: Content marketing is a term that refers to the creation and sharing of content for marketing purposes. In digital channels, it refers to content that resides on properties the brand or marketer owns (e.g., a website) or largely controls from a content perspective (social media channels, syndication). Content marketing differs from advertising in that, unlike advertising, a media buy is never part of the equation. To continually attract and engage consumers requires companies to develop new skills. They must learn to think and function as publishers, producers, and — often — as community managers. Content creation and distribution places new and continual demands on the enterprise as a whole, not just the marketing department. And frequently, content necessitates operating in real-time environments, including evenings, weekends, and holidays. Organizations Must Rebalance Marketers must evolve from advertisers into storytellers. Advertisers interrupt consumers with messaging that are overwhelmingly “me” oriented: my product, my service. Storytellers attract, beguile, entertain, and inform. They are sought out and revisited. Often, they’ll enter into dialogue with their audience. They’re attuned to nuanced reactions and will adjust their narratives accordingly, whether a shift in tone of voice or a deeper dive into what was originally just a backstory. Rebalancing, or realigning resources, budgets, staffing, company culture, and agency and service provider relationships, will make marketing organizations both more effective and prepared to meet ever-changing digital challenges. Organizations that rebalance now will enhance and improve their marketing initiatives, spend more effectively, and align to meet changing consumer expectations. For this report, marketers from 38 companies were interviewed. Marketers at all the companies interviewed are currently undertaking initiatives to significantly shift their focus to content creation and dissemination. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 6    
  • 7.   Four Fundamental Steps Toward Content Marketing Maturity Shifting to effective and sustainable content marketing requires far more than pinpointing (or hiring) someone with writing skills and tasking them with producing content. It must be deeply integrated with broader marketing strategy and initiatives, including advertising, and it must become ingrained in company culture. Even if a company is dedicated enough to make the effort to shift, Altimeter has found there are significant obstacles to rebalancing, including: 1. Understanding That Content Marketing Is Not Free Certainly, content marketing can reduce the media spend associated with advertising, but the more mature a company’s content marketing efforts, the better it’s understood that effective content initiatives require significant investment in internal staff, production and distribution resources, and often new sources of strategic support. 2. Implementing Broad Cultural Integration Around Content Marketing Rebalancing requires deep departmental integration and cultural shifts across the enterprise, as well as education, training, and new digital skill sets for staff within and beyond the marketing organization. 3. Integrating Content Marketing with Advertising Increasing confidence in and reliance on content marketing is causing marketers to reevaluate, and often to cut back, on advertising and shift those dollars to content production and distribution. For optimal impact and maximum success, content and advertising should be integrated — or at least interrelated. In tandem, the two can more fully express a brand story. 4. Avoiding Bright, Shiny Objects In their enthusiasm for marketing with content, we found that many marketers who we interviewed for this report are distracted by channels and technologies at the expense of strategy and marketing fundamentals. We believe that over the next five years, content marketing will permeate the organization. Led by the marketing department, finding, producing, and disseminating content both internal and external to the organization will become a core marketing function, but it will require cross- departmental support, primarily in the form of input and creation from senior management, sales, and product teams. To seek out stories, trends, questions, and the other “raw materials” of content marketing, shoe leather is a requirement. Like beat reporters, those charged with creating content must continually travel throughout their companies and, indeed, their industries, to keep a finger on its pulse and to find the stories and ideas that can be turned into content. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 7    
  • 8.   Gauging Progress Toward Rebalancing If content marketing requires marketers to become publishers and producers, it also requires staff outside of the marketing department to assume marketing responsibilities. Creating content and supplying raw material for content creation cannot be accommodated by marketing alone. Management buy-in, cultural change, and acquisition of new skills are at the core of achieving competency, and eventually excellence, in content marketing. Key Components of Rebalancing Each organization faces its own challenges in making progress toward rebalancing. Altimeter has identified five key components of rebalancing. Each component is critical to moving an organization toward becoming more content marketing focused. These five components are: organizational structure, internal resources, external resources, measurement, and education. Within each of these five components are different levels of execution. To understand why these components are critical and how organizations mature within each, we’ve broken each one down: • Organizational Structure: The infrastructure that allows content creation and distribution to be fostered and encouraged within both the marketing department and beyond it. • Internal Resources: Staff roles, teams, and leadership that support and create content marketing. • External Resources: The extent to which the organization works with outside vendors and service providers, including agencies, creative resources, and technology vendors. • Measurement: Creating meaningful metrics around content marketing, including tying them to overall marketing and sales goals. • Education, including: o New Skills and Capabilities: Fostering understanding of content marketing; executive buy-in; and ensuring staff can manage, create, and publish content. o New Mindsets and Approaches: Content marketing is almost never a 9-to-5 undertaking. Creating, managing, and monitoring content outside of normal business hours, often in real time, is essential. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 8    
  • 9.   Altimeter’s Content Marketing Maturity Model Based upon an analysis of maturity across the five organizational components, Altimeter has identified five phases in Altimeter’s Content Marketing Maturity Model. They are: Stand, Stretch, Walk, Jog, and Run (Figure 1). Different companies will achieve these stages at different rates. Marketers need to ask themselves where they are on this journey and how advanced they want to be. To determine where your company is at on its journey, marketers need to assess their own progress on Altimeter’s Content Marketing Maturity Model. Figure 1. Altimeter Group Content Marketing Maturity Model Source: Altimeter Group 1. Stand Characterized by: Curiosity and Consideration Description: An organization that hasn’t yet realized the value of content marketing starts in the Stand stage. This organization may have dabbled in social media or created a blog, but activity is infrequent and not generally viewed as important within the organization. The marketing department relies almost wholly on “push” communications, such as e-mail marketing, direct mail, and advertising. While organizations in this initial stage may have discussed elements of content marketing, no internal stakeholder has made a case for content. These organizations require a catalyst to demonstrate the value that content can have on their marketing, communication, and sales teams before they can move into the second maturity stage and begin developing strategy to guide their efforts. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 9    
  • 10.   2. Stretch: Taking the First Steps While Scanning the Horizon Characterized by: Advocacy and Experimentation Description: An organization at the Stretch stage realizes the value of content marketing and begins to build the strategy and support necessary to create and publish content. Understanding develops that — while many of the tools and media are free — content requires an investment of resources. An executive sponsor is necessary to lead the program and communicate its value and reach to the organization. This executive sponsor is also tasked with identifying team members to engage with early channels, building basic forms of content, and evaluating potential agency relationships. Content is driven by the understanding that its focus must be around the company’s products or services, but very often not specifically about them. Content tends to be directed to one or two discrete channels (e.g., a blog, whitepapers, or articles; a Facebook page; or a YouTube channel). Case Study: Indium Corporation, a privately held manufacturer of chemical compounds for the global soldering industry, has a bold content marketing champion. Director of Marketing Communications Rick Short recognized his colleagues’ passion for their work. The company employs highly skilled engineers who possess detailed domain knowledge. Instead of starting slowly with a corporate blog, Short created a stunning 73 blogs for Indium. Seventy-three blogs on soldering supplies may initially seem crazy, but Short’s approach was both strategic and effective. He began by researching what drove traffic to Indium’s website and learned that visitors found the site using 73 different keywords. Rather than creating a single blog that could reach the audience for all of those keywords, he created a blog for each individual keyword. The approach would not have succeeded without his colleagues’ passion and expertise. Short knew no one he could hire would be able to write more intelligently or authentically than his own engineering team. Indium’s blog has won awards, individual bloggers have achieved celebrity within their industry, and offerings have been expanded to include a free online knowledge base and YouTube series of interviews, titled “What ‘From One Engineer to Another’ Means to Me ... .” In just one quarter, Indium increased customer contacts 600%. In the Stretch stage of maturity, first identify what the target audience is interested in, then assess internal capabilities to create content — before engaging with external agencies or service providers. 3. Walk: Ambition and Forward Momentum Characterized by: Strategy and Processes Description: In this stage, content creation and production get a solid strategic foundation organizationally. From channel specific (e.g., “we blog”), content begins to become channel agnostic and is distributed across a variety of channels and platforms. Processes are formalized. This is the stage at which a team begins to take shape, strategy is more fully refined and tweaked, and the team begins to establish governance to scale and shape content processes. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 10    
  • 11.   Existing content, as well as potential sources of content, are identified and unified across the organization. Content is then formally audited and assessed, often with a formal scoring or grading process. Content is optimized for digital and social distribution, and efforts are made to identify repeatable, sustainable content modules and practices. The leader of the content group makes a more concerted effort to connect content development with all parts of the organization’s communication teams. Case Study: Eloqua is a privately held company that sells digital marketing automation software. The company was already creating some content when Joe Chernov was promoted to the newly created role of vice president of content marketing. Given the metrics-driven nature of the company’s products and services, Chernov knew he would have to prove the value of his own marketing efforts while creating content that positioned Eloqua as a thought leader in the marketing industry. Chernov launched a corporate blog and worked on a series of free e-book guides, white papers, webinars, infographics, and other educational content. He also hired a former journalist as a full-time corporate reporter. Leveraging internal experts as bloggers, Eloqua’s corporate blog reached the Ad Age Power 150 within its first year. Chernov used the blog to promote the company’s free content, made trackable by prompting visitors with the option to provide their name, e-mail, phone number, company, and job title pre-download. This data, coupled with data from distributing that content via an email marketing campaign with a lead generation form, enabled Chernov to connect the dots between revenue and content. Four free guides influenced $2.5 million in annual recurring revenue, booked in 2010. Not only can Eloqua directly connect revenue with content, it can also evaluate lead quality. On average, 17% of visitors to Eloqua.com are VP or higher, and 25% of visitors who find the site via content pieces are VP or higher. The Walk stage of Altimeter’s Content Marketing Maturity Model requires an organization to implement a measurement framework to demonstrate content value to the organization. 4. Jog: Sustainable, Meaningful, and Scalable Content Initiatives Characterized by: A Culture of Content Description: This phase of the maturity model is the goal for most companies seriously committed to content marketing. The organization’s strategy is clear, as well as communicated throughout the enterprise at this stage. Focus shifts toward expanding the team and its ability to create experiential, engaging content rather than simply creating and publishing simpler stories and informational pieces. The processes for producing content are also more fully developed and strategic. Content is created with a view toward being reusable or repurposed across multiple media platforms. To achieve this, content must have a life of its own — decoupled from the brand, product, or service — to enable it to travel. Agency relationships are frequently deepened into longer engagements rather than episodic, campaign-based initiatives. Connections between the content team and the rest of the organization’s communication groups solidify, but there are still some growing pains/holdovers. Earned media increases in importance, as the organization’s efforts have existed long enough to sustain a constant flow of “earned” media that helps extend reach. Achieving earned content is often expressly a goal of the company’s paid advertising, while owned content is created with a view toward sparking conversation and other forms of earned media. A continual challenge is to achieve a resource balance that maintains both growth and equilibrium while remaining cost effective and to scale — and at the same time maintaining a high level of customer © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 11    
  • 12.   engagement. Yet even these sophisticated marketers can overly focus on “bright shiny objects,” the newest, most sophisticated, and technologically advanced digital channels, while overlooking basics such as search and e-mail. Case Study: Nestlé is the world’s largest nutrition, health, and wellness company, with global revenues exceeding CHF 109M. When Pete Blackshaw became global head of digital and social media, one of his first orders of business was fostering a “culture of content” within the executive leadership ranks. While Nestlé had long recognized the importance of content proliferation as part of its global marketing and sales strategy, Blackshaw believed further development was necessary if Nestlé wished to remain top-of-mind with its social-savvy consumers and boost product speed to market. Blackshaw flew a team of senior managers from company headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland, to visit entrepreneurial and fast-moving digital companies in Silicon Valley, notably Facebook. Nestlé’s executives were inspired by the social network’s constantly evolving and listening- focused company culture. Blackshaw cites the executive “field trip” as a success in helping the company more quickly adapt to changes in the digital landscape. He plans to continue content marketing training in 2012 with the launch of a company-wide training initiative. Other companies within the Jog stage of Altimeter Group’s Content Marketing Maturity Model may pursue similar executive development opportunities to aid in the adaptation and advancement of their company culture and content strategies on divisional levels, as well as throughout the enterprise. 5. Run: Inspired and Inspirational Characterized by: Monetizable Content Description: This is the most aspirational phase of Altimeter’s Content Marketing Maturity Model. Only a handful of companies have begun to Run, primarily global CPG brands with a strong commitment to pop-culture marketing initiatives. In this phase, a successful, real-time integration of content marketing and curation is part of the fabric of nearly all aspects of branding. The organization has become a bona fide media company, actually able to monetize innovative and highly polished content that is either branded and/or related to the brand proposition. Content is sold and licensed based on its standalone merit, with content divisions having separate P&L responsibility. Earned media (specifically, consumer-generated content) often significantly outpaces owned media. Media shared between the company and its partners becomes an important asset. Multi- disciplined agency relationships are efficiently producing content that is high in quality, creative, and professional. Production and creative are often a full, standalone business unit. Content opportunities are discovered and leveraged that relate to a brand experience more so than around products or services. Case Study: Red Bull, the Austria-based energy drink company, with 3.78B euros in annual revenue, has long been recognized as a content powerhouse. It produces high-energy, maximum impact, visually stimulating artifacts that directly tie into its extreme energy drink branding and related sports and aviation sponsorship. Its focus on permeating global culture with its branded and brand-related content has proven so successful that Red Bull continued to soar with the addition of RedBullContentPool.com — an e-commerce website that allows (primarily commercial) users to license clips from the brand’s extensive video content library. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 12    
  • 13.   In addition to the ability to license nearly 8,000 videos on RedBullContentPool.com, users interested in Red Bull’s photography may visit an alternate site that offers more than 42,000 photos free to anyone using them for editorial purposes. The company also offers specific pieces of content for download via iTunes, owns a record label, and publishes a print magazine, among many other media initiatives. Red Bull’s complex distribution model allows it to utilize content to its maximum potential in both revenue generation and impact on global culture. Other companies within the Run stage of Altimeter Group’s Content Marketing Maturity Model may pursue similar commercial media licensing, syndication, and distribution models to grow the reach, impact, and ROI of their content, ultimately creating additional opportunities to generate earned media in the process. Content Marketing Maturity Model Self-Audit With an understanding of how companies achieve content marketing maturity, take action and self-diagnose. The self-audit below (Figure 2) is designed to help companies assess where they are on the Altimeter Content Marketing Maturity Model based upon the key components identified above. First, identify which description best describes your organization in each row. Then, enter the score associated with that description in the column to the right. Score: The average of all five scores indicates the numerical rank of the maturity stage of Altimeter’s model. Your numerical rank is determined by adding together all five responses and then dividing the total by five. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 13    
  • 14.   Figure 2. Content Marketing Maturity Self-Audit Content Marketing Maturity Self-Audit Score 0 1 2 3 4 Your (Stand) (Stretch) (Walk) (Jog) (Run) Score Organizational No executive Executive Executive Content Chief content Structure sponsor or sponsor and a sponsor leads managers lead officer formal small, part- small team of teams focused integrates structure to time support dedicated on different content into all create and team content content types communication distribute producers and channels groups content Internal No internal Assess Expand Formalize Content Resources resources colleagues' responsibilities content team creation is a dedicated to capabilities to and size of the and hire responsibility of content produce content dedicated all marketing creation or content and production talent; and strategy create a small team incentivize communication team creativity and teams contributions External No external Consultants Establish Agencies Working with Resources resources make the relationships assume a cutting-edge engaged to case for with agencies larger role in agencies to make the case content for content creating more explore new for or create marketing creation and advanced types of content production types of content support content, e.g., video and mobile apps Measurement Very limited Form a Track basic Connect Advanced measurement measurement KPIs, such as metrics to sentiment of website strategy; page views, meaningful analysis and traffic; no begin a basic fans, likes, business ROI formal listening comments objectives calculations strategy program Education No Executive Training for Content Continual educational education to content team marketing training on programs encourage training emerging within the buy-in incorporated content trends company in into the overall and regard to employee technologies content training strategy. program Average Score: Source: Altimeter Group © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 14    
  • 15.   The Content Marketing Channel Roadmap Understanding marketers’ content channel needs and priorities are critical to the process of rebalancing. While determining which channels content should be created for should always be approached strategically, with a view toward overall marketing goals, it cannot be ignored that each channel brings with it new technological and budgetary requirements. In our interviews, Altimeter found marketers are increasingly looking toward channels such as video and mobile. Creating and distributing multimedia and mobile content will require greater investment in terms of budget, technical and production expertise, and measurement than does text-based content, e.g., blogging, articles, and e-mail. As marketers become more ambitious technologically and, at the same time, less reliant on advertising, the need to ramp skills, hire and budget effectively, and plan for the future become correspondingly more complex. Consumer preferences and trends put increased pressure on this area. Blogs have receded in significance as more social channels and video have risen to the fore. We therefore recommend marketers keep a close watch on channel effectiveness, as well as emerging trends in content marketing channels and technologies. Channels and Tactics What content channels do marketers say are effective now, and where will they focus their efforts in the short-term future? To answer this question, we asked organizations what content channels are important now and what types of content they hope to both deploy and de- emphasize — or diminish — in the future (see Figure 3). Figure 3. Marketers Confident in Future of Online Video, Social, Mobile Base: 56 marketers; Size of bubbles above reflect marketers' intention to increase/decrease use of that content type over the foreseeable future. * Based on question: What are the most effective types of content you’ve used to promote your brand? ** Based on question: Which type(s) of content do you plan to phase out, use less of, or have found ineffective?; Source: Altimeter Group © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 15    
  • 16.   Content Channel Insights While it’s essential not to confuse strategy with tactics, at least some tactical understanding and planning is essential as organizations strive to rebalance. New channels require new investments and a willingness to commit resources to experimentation. At the same time, gap analysis is essential as well. While few interview subjects cited search engine optimization or e- mail as elements of their content marketing initiatives, common sense dictates otherwise. What marketers said in interviews, and to an extent what they did not say, reveals a great deal of what’s required to address content requirements going forward. • Visual information reigns supreme, from video to images to infographics. Overwhelmingly, marketers plan to add more video to content marketing initiatives, necessitating increased investment in both technology and production resources. • Mobile and location-based marketing are the second most-cited area into which marketers want to expand content initiatives. Again, this will call for increased investment and more technological resources. • Marketers must manage flow and develop the ability to respond in real time in social channels • Bright, shiny objects, i.e., a fixation on newer channels and technologies, can distract from foundational channels (e.g., search; written content, such as blogs; and educational content, which is often essential in B2B channels). We believe these less-glamorous areas to be essential to content marketing initiatives, even as efforts to expand into glitzier channels expand. • Budgets must increase to accommodate content channels, such as video and mobile, that require larger production and development investment. • Marketers’ confidence in and reliance of content marketing is beginning to diminish their reliance on print and broadcast advertising, as well as public relations. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 16    
  • 17.   Recommendations Build Content Around the Brand/Product/Service, Not About It Redefine customer relationships based on serving, educating, and entertaining customers with content that is not product- or brand-centric. This necessitates a shift toward communication and away from advertising, as well as away from the “I” of a brand, product, or service and toward the “you” of the customer. Content that is too product- or brand-focused is ill-equipped to travel digitally; it’s seldom shared or passed along, whereas content that stands on its own merits as entertainment, storytelling, educational value, or utility will be shared and passed along. First steps in this phase often involve listening, e.g., learning the questions and concerns a target audience might have around a product or service category and then addressing those questions to foster helpful communication. Drive Organizational Change and Transformation Create a culture of content throughout the organization, with top-level buy-in. Communicate across silos, and create content creators and advocates across and within corporate divisions to find and maximize content opportunities. The stories content marketing tells, or the customer problems content provides solutions for, do not reside in the marketing department, but rather in a wide variety of corporate divisions. Correspondingly, content creators, thought leaders, and customer advocates also live outside the marketing department. Building bridges to these disparate sources of content and the raw materials that inform its creation require new levels of cooperation and communication through programs and initiatives, such as training (see below), incentives, making content part of a job requirement, incentive programs, and even rewards, such as the fame and recognition that can come with authorship. Educate and Train Educate and train management and staff in content strategy and tactics. This will vary depending on the organization, but generally involves three levels of training. First, focus on big- picture conceptual training for senior executives to foster organizational buy-in to content initiatives and executive-level support for content marketing. Next, implement strategic training for managers and marketing/communications staff who will be tasked with overseeing content marketing initiatives and whose staff is expected to contribute. The third level is tactical training, particularly in digital channels, e.g., social media, community management, SEO, etc., for content creators in the organization — both within and outside the marketing department. Design Recombinant Content Strive to create content that can be distributed in multiple formats across numerous platforms and channels to maximize value and minimize the resources dedicated to continually creating content from scratch. Understand how to redistribute and reuse discrete components of longer form content. An executive speech at a conference, for example, might be turned after the fact into a long-form video, short video excerpts, a shared slideshow, one or more blog entries on the topic, an infographic, a podcast, a whitepaper, tweets, etc. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 17    
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  • 19.   About Us Altimeter Group is a research-based advisory firm that helps companies and industries leverage disruption to their advantage. About Rebecca Lieb, Analyst Rebecca Lieb (@lieblink) is an analyst at Altimeter Group covering digital advertising and media, encompassing brands, publishers, agencies and technology vendors. In addition to her background as a marketing executive, she was VP and editor-in-chief of The ClickZ Network for over seven years. For a portion of that time, she also ran Search Engine Watch. She’s written two books on digital marketing: The Truth About Search Engine Optimization (2009) and Content Marketing (2011). About Zak Kirchner, Researcher Zak Kirchner (@Zak_Kirchner) researches the impact disruptive technology has on leadership strategy and the relationship brands have with their customers. He currently focuses on enterprise social strategy and the tools available to brands for managing their presence online. He has worked at market research and consulting companies and is interested in social commerce and entrepreneurial strategy. About Jaimy Szymanski, Researcher Jaimy Szymanski (@jaimy_marie) researches how organizations can effectively utilize social media and other disruptive technologies to achieve business advantage. She currently focuses on content marketing and strategy. Jaimy has worked in marketing consulting and social media advisory roles and is interested in location-based and mobile technologies. © 2012 Altimeter Group   Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States 19    
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