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Disrupting Distribution

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D I S R U P T I N G D I S T R I B U T I O NG I L B A N E B O S T O N 2 0 1 6

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Content Management is about getting the right content to the right user at the right time

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Digital Content Management is about getting the right content to the right user at the right time

through the right channel in the right format on the right device,

and quickly!

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W H E R E D O U S E R S C O M E F R O M ?

• Search - First via directories, then via Search Engines, leading to SEO and SEM

• Social - First via “Portals” and “Vortals” now via Facebook, Twitter, Medium et al

• Mobile - Growth in mobile devices outpacing desktops; increases in mobile-dominant and even mobile-only users

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• The Mobile Web of 2016 is problematic

• Responsive Web Design has won, but has had unintended consequences due to poor implementation

• Growth in website page size exceeded growth in usability

• Advertising and third-party scripts in particular create subpar mobile experience

T H E R I S E ( A N D S LO W D O W N ) O F T H E M O B I L E W E B

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N E W D I S T R I B U T I O N M E C H A N I S M S

Facebook Instant Articles

Apple News

Accelerated Mobile Pages

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FAC E B O O K I N S TA N T A R T I C L E S

• Officially launched May 12, 2015 with select publishing partners. (First article June 9th).

• April 2016 available to anyone.

• FB Mobile apps (iPhone & Android) will render the FBIA version of any link shared by any user

• Restrictions on content & format

• Links out of FB load in FB web view

• Allows direct-sold ads; FB takes 30% of ads they sell

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I M P L E M E N T I N G F B I A

• Multiple “styles” can be defined via FB configuration

• Getting Content to Facebook:

• RSS Feed of articles in “Instant Article Markup”

• Instant Articles API: Post new articles to API end point

• Plugins: For commonly used CMS platforms

• FB recognizes the canonical url of the article, will replace it with FBIA version in Android / iPhone app when shared

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F B I A I N T E R AC T I V E E L E M E N T S

• Autoplay Video

• Tap to Expand, Tilt to Explore

• Fullscreen Snap-to-Frame

• 3D Rotating Maps

• Geotagging

• Slideshows

• Embeds

• Feedback Settings

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F B I A P R O C E S S N O T E S

• “Publishing” Instant Articles to Facebook doesn’t actually put them in anyone’s feed - FB senses when a URL is shared whether it has an Instant Article version

• Getting approval requires a minimum number of articles, validation by Facebook for content and format

• Facebook “Pages Manager” app can be used to test, validate, and update articles already published - including development/preview feeds separate from production feed

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F B I A R E S O U R C E S

• https://www.facebook.com/instantArticles/

• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instant-articles/

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/fb-instant-articles/

• https://instantarticles.fb.com/

• https://www.facebook.com/facebookmedia/get-started/instant-articles-partners

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A P P L E N E W S F O R M AT• Announced June 8, 2015 (after the FBIA announcement

but before the first article appeared). News App launched Sept. 2015.

• RSS Feeds or Apple News JSON format - now open to all content sources.

• Content shows in “News” app for iOS 9 or newer, in the US, UK, and AUS

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P U B L I S H I N G T O A P P L E N E W S

• RSS is an option, but not recommended except as transitional strategy

• Apple News Format (JSON) is preferred, published via:

• Web Authoring using Apple News Publisher

• Apple News API (REST)

• Plugins (WordPress, Drupal, Craft CMS, Squarespace)

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A P P L E N E W S F O R M AT R E S O U R C E S

• https://newsresources.apple.com/en/overview/

• https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/General/Conceptual/Apple_News_Format_Ref/

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/publish-to-apple-news/

• https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2016/508/

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AC C E L E R AT E D M O B I L E PAG E S

• Announced October 2015.

• Started showing in Google Mobile Search results (“Top Stories”) Feb 24, 2016.

• Sept. 2016, AMP started rolling out to broader mobile search results (not just “Top Stories”)

• Lots of speculation about how AMP pages impact rank (directly, or indirectly via speed)

• AMP links appear in an “AMP Viewer” not directly served from your site - clicks through go to site

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A M P B E YO N D G O O G L E ?

• If AMP delivers faster performance for mobile users, why not serve it to all mobile visitors?

• eBay: “In the future, based on how AMP pages are performing, we may choose to have one mobile version (AMP) and serve it to all platforms"

• Reddit: “AMP pages look great and load fast on desktop just like they do on mobile. . . . for many kinds of pages, we think the AMP version is the only version we’ll ever need”

http://searchengineland.com/google-opens-amp-firehose-259569

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A M P R E S O U R C E S

• https://www.ampproject.org/

• https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml

• https://wordpress.org/plugins/amp/

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Primary Benefit Interaction Exposure

Where Is Content Displayed?

Facebook Mobile App (iOS, Android)

iOS 9+ News App (US, UK, AUS)

Google Mobile Search Results

Basis Of FormatHTML w/

Custom ElementsCustom JSON Subset of HTML

Potential UpsidesBetter performance in edge rank algorithm?

Exposure via Editorial Features

Better performance in Search algorithm

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R E S U LT S ?

• FBIA:

• Mixed results - higher engagement with articles shared on mobile, but limited referral through to site & high bounce rate

• Apple News:

• Significant for the right targeted audiences

• http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/after-a-slow-start-apple-news-is-emerging-as-a-significant-traffic-driver-for-some-news-orgs/

• AMP:

• Some clients have seen clear 10-20% increases in page views by mobile users - but may vary based on your level of SEO/SEM and existing mobile traffic

• http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-amp-gets-mixed-reviews-from-publishers-1477648838

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S H O U L D YO U U S E T H E S E ?

• Is your site mobile optimized?

• Use analytics to determine value of target segments:

• Mobile traffic via search

• Mobile traffic on iOS by content types

• Mobile traffic referred by Facebook

• What is the center of your digital ecosystem? Your site(s), mobile app(s), social presence?

• Does reaching more people off-site lead to more traffic on-site? If so, does that mean success? If not, does that mean failure?

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G E T T I N G S TA R T E D

• Audit

• Decompose pages into elements

• Special attention to third-party scripts, embeds

• Challanges: Ad codes, tracking codes, viewability, third-party promotional content

• Develop

• Prototype, beta test

• Test & Tune - use the tools provided by vendors

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