This document discusses disruptive changes in content consumption including the rise of artificial intelligence, interactive content, and voice interfaces. It provides examples of how brands are using these technologies in their content strategies and marketing. Specifically, it explores how AI is enabling more personalized content and automation of repetitive tasks. Interactive content is shown to improve engagement by converting buyers more effectively. And the rapid adoption of voice assistants is highlighted as a new frontier for content discovery and delivery.
4. WHAT IS AI?
• Machinecapabilityto imitate humanbehaviourat
scale
• Amachineusing dataandlearning from it to deliver
insights quickly
• Enablingbusinesses to free up employees from
repetitive tasksandfocuson morecreative, higher-
valuework
17. WHERE WE ARE WHERE WE’RE GOING
50Bn
428%
10s of m
Voice Searches
Per Month
Source: MindMeld
12MonthGrowth in 3rdParty
Skills
Source: Amazon
Alexa Devices Sold
Source: Amazon
200Bn
$11B
n
70M
Voice Searches
Per Month
Source: MindMeld
Ecomm Revenuevia Smart Speakers
by 2021
Source: Tractica
USHouseholds with SmartSpeakers by
2022
Source: Juniper
18. AVIVA PENSION
'Alexa, ask Aviva what is
my pension value'
'Alexa, ask Aviva what are my
regular contributions'
'Alexa, open Aviva'
19. VITALITY
'Alexa, ask Vitality to give me
a healthy living tip'
'Alexa, ask Vitality to play
me a workout'
'Alexa, ask Vitality to
give me a recipe'
40. Private groups
“More groups content will
start appearing in the
Newsfeed”
“Different groups have
different needs, so we’re
introducing new features
for different kinds of
groups” - Facebook, F8
Not just Facebook:
LinkedIn, WhatsApp and
Instagram too
41. Stories
1. Designed for mobile
2. Doesn’t have to be
perfect content
3. Grabs the attention
and encourages
engagement
No longer just on
Snapchat, but across
Instagram, Facebook,
WhatsApp, … even Skype
trialled this format
42.
43. LinkedIn (&
Live)One minute videos can get
400-500% more reach, and
10x the video views on
LinkedIn than on Facebook
Rise of LinkedIn
influencers
Algorithm update: likes,
comments & shares
increased more than 50%
YoY
44. Greater
personalisation
1. Moderate your use of
targeting
2. Provide transparency
over data use - and
allow your users to opt
out
3. Listen to your target
audience: do they
appreciate this kind of
approach?
4. Be genuine and useful
45. New, emerging
appsMuch cheaper and
engagement rates are much
higher the earlier you
join a new app or
platform
But are your audience
actually there?
Ones to watch:
- TikTok
- Lasso
- Vero
46. WhatsApp for
business
“The most popular
messaging app in the
world”
Separate version of the
personal app: free for
businesses to download
and use
Extension of customer
support, with features
such as ‘away’ messaging
47.
48. Chatbots
Click-through rate of 15-
60% (compared to just 4%
for email)
Open rate of 70-80%
(three to four times
better than for email)
But demographic groups
differ:
- 40% of millennials
interact with chatbots
every day
49. Leaving social
Facebook user numbers in
Europe have declined for
the last two years
Certain demographic
groups are also leaving
the platform
Lush: “Tired of fighting
with algorithms”
Sonos: publicly announced
that they’d no longer be
advertising on Facebook
VR/AR, Voice assistants, machine learning and AI. These tech advancements are having and will continue to have a big impact on how you communicate with your customers and reach them.
Washington Post using Heliograf to support on news stories relating to election results, crime, real estate, or earnings announcements producing 850 automated articles in one year.
In 2016- the post did 15% more content for the election compared with the 2012 election due to ai
Associated Press using it to automate earnings reports The AP estimated that it’s freed up 20 percent of time
Unilever using it to gain insights on what people are talking about, trends.
Using Quid and Traackr to understand audiences and identify content topics from big data sets and global influencers
Example tool that automates content – SOME GOOD SOME BAD. Jury out on quality at the moment.
Used AI and voice to create allow him to speak in nine languages but the voices actually belong to others having been digitally mapped to Beckham’s own features with the help of AI-powered video synthesis technology.
The theory behind the platform Synthesia is it lets you create 100s of videos to communicate with your customers or employees without the bottlenecks of conventional video production.
Build a dynamic library of video content that can easily be updated, edited and translated within 48 hours.
Uses AI to syncronise the lip movements of actors to make the translation seamless.
The type of engagement that you can expect to see from interactive content includes increased lead generation, link building and driving more traffic to your website
Example of interactive content/video.
Example of a calculator
65 follow BACKLINKS
73 pieces of coverage
MOVED POSITION 3 TO 2 FOR HOME INSURANCE
Traffic to the home insurance product page also saw a 50% uplift year on year
DRUM AWARDS HIGHLY COMMENDED
Shortlisted for number of awards
A voice assistant is a device that has the ability to listen, action and respond to a command.
There are two main companies in this area which are Amazon and Google.
A voice assistant can be on your phone, TV and in your car
Apple and Microsoft also have an offering but they haven’t invested heavily in this area at the moment.
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Think about how fast desktop and mobile was introduced
Good context for why voice is an important channel to think about now
As you can see there are already lots of voice searches, but in a few years it’ll be even more
A huge growth in revenue and sales through voice
Plenty of households owning a voice assistant
Process of searching through voice, rather than typing on a desktop or mobile.
From an SEO perspective, it means you need to optimise content on your site in a more conversational way so that when someone searches through an assistant, your content is the source of the information
Treat voice search as a bolt on to your current SEO strategy – not something to be ignored as the rate in which people are searching through voice is increasing constantly
The way people find your content is changing every day.
We’re using everything from the traditional desktop computer through to smart watches and increasingly voice search to discover new brands, find solutions to problems, research and buy products.
The older generation who are leading the way in the adoption of voice search, as are the ever-elusive millennials.
Where voice search thrives is in its appeal to people that were previously ill-served by traditional search, and in times and places in which it was previously not possible or convenient.
Take those who are less literate, or less confident using a computer. Before now they may have struggled, not only to pose the right question, but to try to find the answer among the sea of potential search results. In contrast, voice search technology can deliver them a definitive answer in a fraction of the time.
A voice app can be used in content marketing for a range of industries and topics
From charity donations through to in car assistants
There is so much potential for a voice app right now for your company
Looking at the 2017 stats for Alexa skills by category you can see the most popular categories are news, games, and education. Research suggests that by 2022, as many as 90% of new cars will offer some form of voice-recognition capability, a dramatic expansion of the access to the technology available.
That presents an enormous opportunity to those brands who embrace the potential for voice as a way to put their services in front of both new and existing customers.
There are 60,000 skills available in the UK
Voice assistant usage doubled in 2018
(Swansea and Cardiff Met) Out of the 26368 Universities worldwide there are only 190 ‘University’ apps on the Alexa marketplace right now
(TFW) Great Western, Train Line and other companies don’t have an app yet. There is a national rail, virgin media ones though
The user penetration by brands clearly shows in 2018 Amazon having the majority of smart speaker penetration in 2018
However in 2019 Google will be catching up as well as other brands like Microsoft and Apple
https://www.digitaltrends.com/home/what-is-google-duplex/
Google Duplex is a new project from Google that is currently live in the majority of the U.S. It allows certain users to make a restaurant reservation by phone, but instead of the user speaking directly to the restaurant employee, Google Duplex, with the help of Google Assistant, speaks for the user with an AI-based, but human sounding, voice.
- Surprisingly most people already have access to voice enabled technology.
- More than two thirds of adults have access to a voice assistant, which is a huge amount of people.
Voice search is for your website – you need to optimise content on your site so that when someone searches through an assistant, your site is the source of the information. Voice assistants are separate to your website and act as another channel – you use a command to open an app within the assistant.
By having a joint up approach people can either find you through voice search or by using your app
FS are “position zero” and are the blocked out results a the top of the SERP and are usually 40 – 50 words.
More than 40% of all voice search answers come from a featured snippet and our own testing has shown the remainder come from the top 5 positions of Google. When creating content, keep it simple and to the point. - Voice search result - 29 words.
Featured Snippets Cheat Sheet
MOBILE – 60% voice searches come from mobile – images / coding / redirects
PAGESPEED - A voice search results page loads in 4.6 seconds - 52% faster than average page. Avg. over 8s
KEYWORDS - Query length is expanding - using longer, more descriptive and conversational language.
“Hey Google, find a Mexican restaurant for two near me” or TEXT - “restaurant near me” and filter options down manually.
SCHEMA – coding which allows you to “describe” what the data on your website means – easier for Google to understand & boosts visibility
provide search engines with additional information about site content – think of it like metadata, or data about data.
powerful yet significantly underutilized SEO practices, so by simply implementing schema markup to your site, you’re already putting yourself way ahead of the curve
Large names leading the way in developing voice search technology, mistake to assume this will continue.
Many searches to date have been local queries, whether that’s where to get dinner to checking the local traffic.
Google My Business
The growth of voice search will fuel local searches. This helps create opportunities for local businesses and giants who want to target locally eg the aa driving school is a good example of a big brand with local reach.