Day Five - Multichannel Publishing and Marketing

AM - Multi-channel Marketing

Nominated trainers
David Hughes, digital consultant, Nonline Marketing


PM - Multi-channel Publishing

Nominated trainers
David Hughes, Digital Consultant, Nonline Marketing


Multi-channel Marketing

The Media Landscape

  • What's out there?
  • What is each channel best at?
  • Who is using them well?
  • What is the media multiplier effect?

The Multi-channel Challenge for Organisations


  • Too many publishing channels - print, online, mobile, e-commerce, radio, TV
  • Too many lines - on, off, above, below
  • Too many suppliers - mail, ads, PR, digital, field marketing
  • Too little dialogue - sharing plans and learning

The On-Line Value Proposition


  • How to develop and position it
  • How will it impact traditional channels?
  • Contact preference - let people choose their contact channels
  • Driving cost out of the business with channel options

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Planning a Multi-channel Strategy - the Customer Journey


  • How and why to drive on-line from off-line
  • How and why to drive off-line from on-line
  • What does it look like - navigation?
  • What are the problems of a multi-channel approach?

Measuring the Effectiveness of Multi-channel Marketing


  • Tracking the research path on and off-line
  • Last tag wins - problems of campaign specific tracking
  • Measuring conversion
  • Econometric modelling - how to set it up and what it will tell you
  • Problems with multi-channel measurement

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Case studies and research


  • Yahoo and AC Nielsen
      •  PepsiCo, Kraft Nestle
  • IAB XMOS - case studies to get you thinking
      •  Dove, McDonald's, Colgate
  • Some other multi-channel studies
      •  Tank/Nielsen Multi-channel Test Lab

Summary and Questions to Ponder


  • What role should each channel play in acquisition and retention plans?
  • How can channels be woven together to suit customer journey?
  • What should the On-Line Value Proposition promise to deliver?
  • How can you map out the customer journey with different customers from different sources?
  • How can you measure success across all channels and over time?
  • How will campaign information influence future activity?

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Multi-channel Publishing

The dilemmas facing content publishers

  • Revenue cannibalisation vs reach and customer satisfaction
  • Platform choices (an over view off)
      •  Print
      •  Radio
      •  Web
      •  iTV
      •  IPTV
      •  Digital Radio
      •  Mobile

Content strategies

  • Multi-channel content strategies in practice
      •  EMAP
      •  BBC
      •  Warner Broadcasting
      •  The Guardian

Exercise around defining strategies in various scenarios