Beating content saturation through targeted narrative
Challenge
“Content shock”: in the zettabyte era, most branded content goes unseen and unshared
fischerAppelt, a major ad agency, asked SINUS to create an empirical tool to help content marketers get beyond instinct and flourish in a saturated environment
Solution
We identified critical success factors through an extensive review of academic and professional literature, secondary analysis of survey data (N=30,105), and computer-assisted discourse analysis of award-winning branded content in multiple sectors
Target group expertise and cultural studies training gave us multi-disciplinary perspective – rigorous, yet humanistic
Result
Our study uncovered four elements of good content valid across sectors: data, drama, design, and distribution
Empirical target group insight is the unifying element at the centre of this “content diamond”