14.05 adrian barrick

Re-inventing the role of content in UBM’s b2b media,

with stuff like this...

Adrian Barrick

(@adrianbarrick)

Chief Content Officer, UBM

Digital Media Strategies conference, London

4 March 2014

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Security managers organise themselves, thanks to those helpful folk

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Ahhh...those were the days

UBM had 155 magazines in 2007...and now?

Err, not the kind of ‘peer-to-peer engagement’ we quite had in mind...

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Video and radio shows rockLive broadcasts have been effective in attracting attendees and stimulating discussion

• Live video broadcasts on Enterprise

Efficiency have generated an average of

500 registrants per show and an

average of 540 messages.

• Live video broadcasts on The SMB

Authority averaged over 300 qualified

registrants per show.

• These video broadcasts are also

generating high attendee rates with 52%

of registrants taking part.

…as do ‘digital universities’…

• Each individual 7DEE course attracts between 800 and 1,300 comments on the live chat message board running in parallel to the lecture.

• 7DEE courses amass more than 20,000 comments on the message boards from qualified attendees over a three-month period.

• More than 1,700 IT executives on average register for a 7DEE series.

A dedicated week of interactive tutorials on Internet Evolution – every week

Internet Evolution’s university program was awarded a 2012 B2B

Award of Excellence from the Business Marketing Association

and the Min’s 2011 Integrated Marketing WOW

Award.

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Engineers - but possibly only engineers -love this kind of thing

Bad office

Mad office

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Really? Propeller beanie hats? Hard to believe, but this worked too

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Apart from the kit, editorial operations hardly changed in 100 years – until now

1900s ‘news factory’

2000s ‘news factory’ but with ceiling tiles

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What’s in it for our customers – and us?Partners can build relationships with the community by posting their own content

• Customers can advertise,sponsor categories, or buy integrated marketing campaigns

• Customers can connect with the community by posting whitepapers, case studies,and research papers… with options to add a social feed,videos and blogs from their leaders

Engaging stories persuade people to sign up and attend events

This.... drove 25 000 hits a month to the registration page of...

....this

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In a nutshell, content matters because…

Major stories are discovered(rather easily in this case)

Get shared and engage

Then (maybe) change behaviour

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14.05 adrian barrick