Creating, curating and putting great content to use
Tyler TanakaVice President of Business [email protected]
Twitter/LinkedIn: @tylertanaka
Before we begin...
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2012 Stanley Cup Champions
How it normally feels to be a Kings fan
Not Your Average L.A. Band-Wagon Fan
A Part Of The Game
All In The Family
Getting Them Started Young
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$490B Globally$85B Online$35B US Online
The spend
The Rise
64%
Advertising by the other numbers
• 8% of users generate 85% of clicks (ComScore)
• Heavy clickers are: lower income, less savvy users (AOL)
• .07% average CTR for display banners (MediaMind)
• .37% avg CTR on iPhone (MediaMind)
• But 47% of mobile ad clicks are by mistake (Harris)
The Problem
The Reason
Why? They’re looking at content
• #1 reason for not clicking: users don’t want to leave the site
Advertisers are responding by creating content
DISPLAY SEARCH SOCIAL CONTENT
Content complements
The future is “promoted”, “sponsored” and “native”
The original social networks
Forums have influential audiences
Create content people crave
(SCOTT AUGHTMON)
Create content people crave cont.
(SCOTT AUGHTMON)
Content that engages
Content inspiration
• Ask friends for ideas
• Utilize your audience
• Do an interview
• Solicit guest posts
• Create a best-case study
• Create a worst-case study
• Write reviews
• Talk about success stories
• Talk about failures
• Link to old favorites
• Use a movie to spark discussion
• Use television to start a debate
• Use a book to gather opinions
• Use a comic to draw people in
• Use a celebrity to create gossip
• Explore new cultures
Content checklist
Build it for the search engines
Is it easy to engage with?
The right place, for the right people
Make the content work for you
Harness the power of the social graph
Now make sure to get it off your site
Infographics
Infographic creation
Content Curation
In simplest terms, content curation is:
• Finding the content your audience needs and wants
• Organizing and contextualizing it
• Sharing it so it's accessible.
10 Examples of Curated Content
1. Expert Tips
2. Presentations/Webinars
3. Quotations
4. Case Studies
5. Industry Blogs/Sites
6. Infographics
7. Statistics, Data, Charts, and Graphs
8. Videos
9. Books/Ebooks
10. Industry Examples
Tools: Google Reader & Curata
Online Sources
• Google Alerts
• Reddit.com
• Buzzfeed.com
• ICanHazCheezburger.com
• Memebase.com
www.mindmeister.com/55395228/content-curation-tools-the-newsmaster-toolkit-by-robin-good-2012
Mining valuable nuggets
Remember your audience
WTH?! What CRAP!
Lovely!
• Think like a publisher, act like a publisher
• Create as often as possible
• Follow a content schedule and checklist
• Create and post in real-time
• Use tools to make creating and curating easier
• Curate content, editorialize and re-post
Summary:
And did I mention that the Kings...
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Tyler TanakaVice President of Business Development
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Twitter/LinkedIn: @tylertanaka
THANK YOU
PostRelease was created to drive discovery of content
• PostRelease solves a big challenge of Content Marketing: Discovery
• PostRelease makes content distribution scalable and measurable
• Brands leverage PostRelease to drive predictable results around their content
• PostRelease is a content broadcasting platform
• Advertisers create a campaign with headline and media.
• Then the platform analyzes the campaign and finds sites with relevant content to place the message on.
How It Works For Advertisers
• Step 1: Install a single line of code
Copy and paste the supplied java script tag
• Step 2: Create a template page
Create a copy of your site template for hosting the PostRelease articles. Or we'll do it for you.
How It Works For Publishers
• Step 3: Start generating revenue
The PostRelease platform includes a comprehensive dashboard that allows publishers to monitor and manage their participation in the PostRelease network.
How It Works For Publishers
The PostRelease platform is already built and has handled over 10,000 insertions. The robust software includes publisher, advertiser and admin dashboards as well as a relevancy engine, site traffic monitoring, and a keyword indexer.
Robust platform
Complete Reporting
• Both advertisers and publishers can track the visitors and number of reads and clicks. They for their campaigns and you for your network of sites.
• Every placement is clearly and openly disclosed as advertiser generated content
• There is no “real editorial vs. paid post” gray area
• The brand is listed as the author of the content
There is complete transparency
• Our platform runs equally well on content sites, blogs and forums.
• Advertisers view us as a premium option above banners and text ads.
• All messages are reviewed to ensure that the advertiser content is relevant to your site. If it isn’t targeted, it doesn’t get placed.
• Users respond well to our placements: we have high read rates and exceptionally good CTR %
• Completely automated. Setup is easy and once done, it’s completely hands off. You will have a dashboard to monitor your earnings and campaigns
• Checks are sent to website/blog/forum owners on a monthly basis.
Why publishers choose PostRelease?
5-20x the performance of traditional display ads
Content-based unit, relevancy and auto-optimization results in:
Scale with relevancy
Relevancy and scale are handled automatically
• Sites are automatically matched based on the content of the message
• Performance is auto-optimized based on response rates
• Geo-target or device target your content
Complete content analytics
How it appears in a community site
• Goes in as a sponsored post near the top of each relevant discussion category
• There are no comments or replies to manage
Premium placement• Locked in the 2nd position
of blog roll- CPM paid on main page impressions
• Labeled as sponsored content
• Shows for a limited time, then disappears
• There are no comments or replies to manage
How it appears in a blog
How it appears in a content site
Clicking on the article headline takes to user to the full article...• User doesn’t have to leave the site
to absorb the content
• Automatically formatted to match the look of each site placement
• Embedded images and/or video
• Multiple lines of text
• Social media sharing links (PostRelease content is actually shared by readers)
• The article is your landing page: link users to an app download or display a form from within the content
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The power of content with flexibility of display
• Automatic matching of content to relevant sites through contextual matching
• Automatic reformatting of content to match the format of the target sites
• Auto-optimization of impressions based on clicks
• Ability to set flight dates, geo-target and device target (ex: mobile)
• Detailed tracking of impressions, reads, video views, clicks
• 5X - 20X the performance of banners
• PostRelease currently has 1000+ partner sites with a combined reach of 35+ million users
• Rapid network expansion: new publishers are constantly being added
• PostRelease is built-into the latest version of vBulletin
• Robust WordPress plug-in and official WordPress partner
• API and JavaScript based integrations for content sites
• Works on mobile and tablet devices
PostRelease is expanding rapidly
[email protected] | t: 562.285.0297 | 562.285.0506 | postrelease.com
111. W. Ocean Blvd. | 18th Floor | Long Beach, CA, 90802
PostRelease is a registered trademark of Cie Digital Labs, Inc. All names trademarks, logos, and icons in this material are registered trademarks and are used to identify products and services of their respective owners.
Tyler TanakaVice President of Business Development
(562) [email protected]
Twitter/LinkedIn: @tylertanaka