Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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Why AI Will Not Create Great Content Any Time Soon
I am bullish on AI creating content at scale.

I am bearish on AI creating GREAT content at scale – or at all.

Why? It comes down to limits of training data, fundamentally.

All machine learning models, from the most basic to the most sophisticated, need something to learn from. In the case of language generation – automated creation of content – they need tons of examples to learn from.

And therein lies the problem.

Before we go farther, let’s define great content as content that’s well-written with a unique point of view and a distinct voice. That part is important.

Content Quality in the World

When it comes to publicly available content, there are two potential distributions, a power law distribution and a normal distribution.

A power law distribution looks like this:

This is also known as an 80/20 rule or a 95/5 rule; fundamentally, the amount of poor quality content dwarfs everything else. The amount of great quality content is on the right hand side – and it’s very small.

A normal distribution looks like this:

In this case, it says there’s a small pool of absolutely terrible content, a massive amount of mediocre content, and a small pool of absolutely great content.

Whichever distribution we think represents reality, there’s very little great content compared to everything else – which means machines have very little great content to learn from.

And if there’s an insufficient amount to learn from, then the machines will not be able to synthesize great new content. They will be able to synthesize mediocre content or poor content.

How Much Content to Train?

How much content are we talking about in order to train a natural language model? The Pile, an 800 GB dataset created by Eleuther.ai, is a training dataset composed of 22 libraries:

The largest item in The Pile is the CC, the Common Crawl, derived from the Wayback Machine and Archive.org. That means it’s ingesting a huge amount of web text from all over the web – and of substantially varying quality. OpenWebText2, according to the documentation, is another scraping of web content based on Reddit upvotes.

All this indicates the level of quality of the training data. The folks who assembled this training dataset, like the other major natural language models, have done their best to filter out the bottom of the barrel, the absolute garbage that would do more harm to a natural language model than good. So we can be fairly confident in a normal distribution in terms of content quality; after all, YouTube subtitles, US patents, and medical papers are important documents but not exactly riveting reading most of the time.

What isn’t obvious from the table above is just how little data we have for a specific example. The Common Crawl is 227 GB of data, with an average document size of 4 KB. What that works out to is a dataset of 56.7 MILLION pages. That’s how many web pages are needed in just a portion of the training set.

The overall dataset is 825.18 GB, with an average document size of 5.91 KB. That’s 139 MILLION pages of text. That’s what is needed to construct a language model.

Now, let’s say for giggles that you think your website is the bee’s knees, that your content is A+ content. Let’s use Social Media Examiner, a well-regarded blog, as an example. How many pages are on this site? About 62,000 per the AHREFS SEO tool. When you think about it, that’s a tiny amount of text. Even the Reddit-filtered OpenWebText2 portion of the pile is 16 million pages.

In terms of a unique voice, let’s use this blog. I’ve been blogging here consistently since 2007. How many pages of content have I managed in that time? 8,954. That’s not a ton of content in the big picture compared to what is used to train machine learning models.

Which means that natural language models will inherently be biased towards creating mediocre content, content that’s readable and coherent, but not compelling or unique, because that’s what the vast majority of the language is that they are trained on.

An Example

Let’s illustrate the limits of language models trained on a diet of mostly mediocre data. First, let’s take a mediocre use case – writing a press release. I’ll feed the GPT-J-6B natural language generation model the following text from a press release:

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Effectv, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable, released the latest edition of its TV Viewership Report. The report explores viewership trends for the first half of 2021 based on Comcast aggregate household viewership data, as well as insights based on Effectv’s campaign ad exposure data for both traditional TV and streaming content.

According to an analysis of more than 20,000 Effectv cross-platform campaigns, streaming consistently served as a strong complement to traditional TV campaigns in the first half of 2021. In fact, 57% of reach from streaming in those campaigns was incremental to linear TV campaigns. Additionally, streaming impressions were +209% more likely to be served within households that viewed little or no traditional TV. This proves that complementing traditional TV strategies with premium long-form streaming will grow incremental reach and increase exposure with households less likely to be tuning in the traditional way.

This is only half the press release; I’ve highlighted in yellow the part I’m feeding the AI:

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I want the AI to autocomplete the rest of it. Let’s see how it did:

“Our data shows that traditional TV and streaming are complementary platforms, which is why we’ve invested so heavily in both,” said Mark O’Neill, senior vice president, Ad Sales. “We’re seeing strong results with streaming, and we look forward to sharing more insights at the upcoming IBC in September.”

Viewership Trends

TV Viewership Trend Analysis

With the recent U.S. restrictions on travel and gatherings, viewership of national, regional and local channels has been declining in most markets. For those channels that are continuing to deliver, the decline is expected to be between -7% to -19% in 2021.

Comcast

For the first half of 2021, total viewership of all channels declined by +3% from the first half of 2020. Viewership of NBC-owned networks (NBC, Telemundo and CNBC) declined by -15% to -11%. Viewership of Fox-owned networks (Fox, FX, FS1 and FS2) declined by -7% to -10%. Viewership of ABC-owned networks (ABC, Freeform and ESPN) declined by -7% to -9%. Viewership of CBS-owned networks (CBS and CW) declined by -4% to -9%. Viewership of the CW declined by -6% to -4%. Viewership of Univision networks (Univision, UniMas and Galavisión) declined by -3% to -2%. Viewership of PBS declined by -3% to -2%. Viewership of independent channels declined by -6% to -13%.

In total, the largest decline in viewership among the national and local channels was among NBC, ABC, CBS and CW networks. The Fox network showed the second-largest decline, followed by Univision and PBS. These results are consistent with the recent ad spending trends on these channels.

Source: Comcast

Streaming Performance

With the growth in streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu, streaming impressions have grown at a rate of +11% to +21% year-over-year. Additionally, impressions of streaming campaigns were +21% more likely to be served in households that viewed little or no traditional TV, which is a reflection of the strong viewing patterns of streaming. In contrast to streaming impressions, impressions of traditional TV campaigns showed a decline of -3% to -4%.

What we see is that for a mediocre piece of content – a bland press release – the AI did astonishingly well. The data is likely not factually correct, but it captured the tone quite well. This would, at the least, be a great first draft that an editor could tune up and be ready to publish in short order.

Now, let’s try it with something more unique and distinct. I subscribe to and enjoy Tom Webster’s weekly newsletter, I Hear Things. It’s a fantastic newsletter about all things audio, so if you care about stuff like radio, audio, audio ads, podcasting, social audio, etc., you should subscribe to it. One of the things that’s distinctive about Tom’s newsletter is his written style. It’s very unique. Here’s a sample of a passage from the most recent issue:

This can be a difficult statement to fill in for the average podcaster. What is the thing that only your podcast provides for its intended audience? Not being able to formulate this kind of statement for your show is problematic not only as a hinderance to promote your show, but also as a trailing variable for a deeper problem: an inherent lack of differentiation with the show itself.

It’s definitely a thing I thought about first when I decided to create a podcast version of this newsletter. I started the I Hear Things podcast initially as a service for those who told me they sometimes didn’t have time to read my newsletter, but could always make time to listen to it. Thus, the podcast was born, but “The Podcast For People Who Like To Read I Hear Things But Don’t Have Time” is not the most compelling pitch I’ve ever heard. It probably ranks right ahead of “The Podcast That Won’t Give You Leprosy.” This is both of those things.

But there was an ulterior motive to the podcast.

As before, I’ll highlight the part I’m feeding to the machine:

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Now, let’s see how well the state of the art natural language generation model does, a model trained on all the data I shared earlier:

But there was an ulterior motive to the podcast. When I first started listening to podcasts, I found most of them to be like a car commercial; they all talk about the same things and the people that they’re talking to don’t really give a shit. I’m not sure why, but this seems to be a common pattern. You’ll be watching a movie and it’ll be full of some bullshit talking heads that go on about some movie you’re about to watch. You’ll have the same thing when you’re listening to an audio book. Or, you’ll be at the gym listening to some exercise podcast that goes on and on and on about the best workout routines and all of that stuff. I was sick of that, so I made I Hear Things.

And when I tell people about I Hear Things, I always get an equally strong response that it’s about the opposite. It’s not all about what we’re gonna talk about, it’s about what we’re gonna NOT talk about. I Hear Things is all about different people from different walks of life, so when I was doing it, I had no idea that I would discover the show that I Hear Things eventually became. But in the end, it has. It has a unique tone, and I know what I’m getting with this show. I want you to do the same. If you make a podcast about the things that you’re interested in, chances are you can find some people who are like minded and who are also interested in the things that you’re interested in. If that’s you, then the I Hear Things podcast might be for you. And I want to hear from you, the listener. So if you’re interested in what the I Hear Things show is about, give us a call at 1-800-917-3116.

What the machinery came up with was coherent and readable, but it was not at all close to what Tom wrote. It also changed voice – Tom’s tone and use of language is very specific. It’s conversational to a degree, but with a sense of formality, a sense of poise as though each word was chosen carefully. What the machine spit out is… not that. It comes across more like what a Joe Rogan or a Howard Stern might write.

Because Tom’s writing style is so distinct, it would be very difficult to build a model around it. It would even be tricky, because he’s written comparatively little, to fine-tune a model around it – and doing so would be at a very high computational cost. It can be done, but it’s not something the average marketer is going to have the time or talent to dol

This is why I’m bullish on AI for general, mediocre content creation at scale. It’ll do a great job of it, and be affordable for everyone. But this is also why I’m bearish about AI creating something truly great, because greatness is scarce. The more scarce, the harder it is for anyone – man or machine – to replicate it.

One final bit of food for thought: if you feed your own writing into a machine learning model and what comes out is equal to or better than your writing, that’s probably a sign that you need to level up your writing. Your writing sits in the middle of the bell curve, and for both personal and professional reasons, it needs to move to the outer edge of excellence.

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September 20, 2021
Measuring Email Marketing Performance in a Post iOS15 World
Apple rolls out iOS 15 on September 20, 2021 with desktop updates coming later in the year. iOS 15 will introduce Mail Privacy Protection, and I detailed much of the basic operational changes in this blog post here. However, one of the key questions that keeps coming up is, “what should we do about measuring email marketing after iOS 15?”.

Here’s the thing: the best practices have not changed. The most effective measurement methods have not changed. And when iOS 15 rolls out, they will still not change.

Why? After all, metrics like open rate will be rendered useless; surely that makes measuring email marketing harder? It doesn’t, and here’s why.

Email Marketing Measurement Best Practices

The best practice for measuring email – or any other digital channel – isn’t by measuring the activity (opening, clicking), but by measuring the outcome. What happens after someone reads an email from you? Do they read more on your website? Do they pick up the phone and call you? Do they put items in a shopping cart? Do they schedule a demo? Do they donate to you?

Let’s take a look at an example. In Google Analytics 4, here’s what my goal completion funnel looks like:

I see the top, middle, and bottom of my digital marketing funnel by channel, with email and other digital channels clearly laid out. Because I rigorously use tagging and tracking codes on everything I do, I know what’s working and where in the funnel.

I can even tell down to the individual issue of newsletter what’s working:

The August 29th issue of my Almost Timely Newsletter knocked it out of the park.

To achieve this level of performance measurement, you need to do two things:
1. RIGOROUSLY use tracking codes on every link in every email. For Google Analytics and Matomo, that means UTM tracking codes. For Adobe Analytics, that means cid tracking codes.
2. Make sure you have meaningful goals set up in Google Analytics.
Put these two items at the top of your to-do list immediately.

Email Marketing Performance Metrics

What about email marketing performance metrics? How will we know if people are actually reading our emails if the open rate is 100% for Apple Mail users and they’re a substantial part of our audience? This is straightforward: measure with clicks instead. When someone takes an action like clicking on something, by default you know they’ve read it. If no one clicks, then you know no one’s actually reading.

Here’s the catch: you have to give people something to click on that isn’t transactional. The easiest way to do that is to include images. Here’s an example from a recent newsletter:

Anyone who wants to see that chart in more detail can click or tap on the link – and that in turn shows up as a click in email marketing performance reporting. The more you load up your email with click opportunities – especially opportunities that aren’t pressuring the reader into a sale or some other transactional marketing – the closer your click rate will be to your old open rate before the iOS 15 change.

However, email marketing performance metrics are quantitative, and you also need qualitative data to make your email marketing perform at its best. Send out surveys to your audience asking them what they want less or more of. Read feedback and replies people send to you when you send out your emails.

Then give people more of what they want, what they value, and less of what they don’t want. That survey data, combined with the quantitative data, will help you boost your email marketing performance all along the customer journey.

The Sky Is Still In The Sky

The sky hasn’t fallen on email marketing. Yes, iOS 15 will obscure some marketing data but it’s not very much and it’s not the most valuable data. Follow the best practices for measuring email marketing, understand what its impact is on your marketing overall, and you’ll still be able to know what email is doing for you.

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September 16, 2021
Understand the Meaning of Metrics
Amanda asks, “As a data scientist, you’re adept at collecting raw data, interpreting their meaning, and determining the resulting actions to take. What tips can you offer to help content creators and other analytics novices understand the meaning behind the metrics data they’ve collected?”

Metrics are numbers. So, the real question is, what does each metric measure, and how is that relevant to the outcome you’re after?

Let’s take the venerable Google Analytics session as an example. Every time you log into Google Analytics, you see a report about sessions.

Here’s a question: what is a session? Do you know? How is it different from a pageview or an event?

If you aren’t clear about what the metric measures, then it’s very hard to understand what it’s telling you or what conclusions you should draw from it.

Here’s an analogy. Let’s say your website is a book, and a person is reading it.

A pageview is exactly what it sounds like. The reader read a page of your book. Possibly more than once, depending on how tired or distracted they were. Pageviews used to be called hits, back in the day.

A unique pageview is a tally of which pages in the book the reader has read. No matter how many times they’ve fallen asleep reading page 172 in the book, they have either read page 172 or not – and once they have, that’s a unique pageview.

A session is the number of pages the reader has read in a single sitting. You sit down on a Sunday morning with a cup of tea, crack open the book, and read for a bit until the kids or the dog or your partner distracts you, and then you put the book down until later. That sitting? That’s a session.

A user is… the reader.

Once you understand the metrics and what they mean, why they exist, and what they tell you, then you start the most valuable activity of all: making decisions from your metrics. This is key: you cannot make an informed decision about a metric you do not understand. If you didn’t understand what a speedometer measured, could you make informed decisions about whether to press the pedals on the floor of the car? If you didn’t understand what a cup measured, could you make informed decisions about how to adjust a recipe?

For example, average time on page and average session duration measure very different things; both are based on your understanding of what a session and a pageview are. Now that you understand the difference between a pageview and a session, you start to understand that these metrics measure very different things.

Average time on page is how long it takes someone to consume content on any given page on your site. Suppose you have a blog post with an embedded 5 minute video. If the average time on page isn’t 5 minutes, then you know people aren’t watching the video. If you’ve written 1200 words on a page and the average time on page isn’t around 6 minutes (the average reading speed is 200 words per minute), then you know people aren’t making it all the way through your content.

Average session duration is how long people are sitting down (metaphorically) to consume your content in one sitting. How engrossing is your content? Going back to our analogy, how long did you get the reader to sit with your book? Was it a page turner and they couldn’t put it down? Or did they fall asleep after two paragraphs or get distracted?

Knowing the difference between a pageview and a session, what decisions could you make about these two metrics, average time on page versus average session duration?

Do you want to increase the amount of time the reader spends on a page in your book?

Do you want to increase the amount of time overall the reader spends reading your book?

Does one relate to the other, perhaps even drive the other?

When we understand the metrics, we understand the behaviors we’re trying to encourage.

As a marketer, I’m less concerned about how long you spend on a single page and more concerned about how much time you spend with my content in general. I care more about average session duration than I do about average time on page. What can I do to nudge you to spend more time with my content? I’d want to examine what the difference was in content you viewed for longer sessions versus shorter sessions – are there certain paths or types of content that encourage you to hang out?

That said, if there are pages where the average time on page is substantially different than what it probably should be – you spend 3 seconds on a page that should take 4-5 minutes to read – then I know something is wrong with that page.

As a marketer, there are some pages I’d like you to spend more time on, like content I’ve worked hard to produce. There are some pages I’d like you to spend LESS time on, like form pages to fill out. The faster you get through that page, the faster you get to what you wanted – and do the marketing objective I’m trying to accomplish.

So many of our more complex metrics are built on the foundation of simpler metrics – and if we don’t understand what those simpler metrics measure, then we can’t possibly understand what the more complex metrics measure either. We’re doomed to just look at the numbers in our measurement tools with a forlorn, glassy stare. We’re also prone to go buy fancier measurement tools and software simply because we think it will solve our understanding problem – and perhaps it will, but probably not. It will for certain cause us to spend more than we need to on measurement.

Invest time in understanding the tools and metrics you already have and what they do, and you will probably find they answer the majority of the questions you have. That’s my biggest, best tip for analytics novices and veterans alike.

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September 14, 2021
Does “Link in Bio” Reduce Instagram Engagement?
One of the lessons the pandemic has reinforced is to be an active, questioning reader of data presented as fact in articles and news. Not in the crazy, conspiracy-theorist “do your own research” in which you hunt down articles that only support your point of view no matter how questionable the source, but in true academic inquiry, true curiosity. I was reading a post by Rand Fishkin the other day which cited a few stats that posts on Instagram which used “link in bio” substantially underperformed.

I wondered whether that was true or not. When I dug into the cited sources, I found them… well, less rigorous than I’d like in terms of drawing a conclusion from data. This was an interesting question, one I want the answer to.

Does putting “link in bio” or its variants cause less engagement, lower performance on Instagram?

Did I know? Nope.

Could I know? Yes.

The challenge with whether we could know the answer to something is fivefold, something I borrow all the time from cooking:
- Outcome: do I know what I’m trying to achieve?
- Recipe: do I have a process for achieving the desired result?
- Ingredients: do I have the raw materials I need to make the thing?
- Tools: do I have the tools necessary to process the ingredients?
- Talent: do I have the necessary skills to create the outcome?
Let’s break down what we’d need to understand the answer to our question about whether “link in bio” matters or not.
- Outcome: clear. We want to know if putting “link in bio” dampens Instagram engagement and performance.
- Recipe: from a data science perspective, this is also clear. There are many different ways to accomplish this, but the recipe I’m going with is something called propensity modeling. We classify Instagram posts by whether they use the target phrase or not as a treatment, and then use propensity modeling to see what kind of lift that treatment gets, of similarly matched content.
- Ingredients: this is the challenge for a lot of social media inquiries. A lot of data is hard to come by. I sourced my data from Facebook’s Crowdtangle software.
- Tools: clear. I’ll be using R Studio and the R programming language.
- Talent: I have the necessary skills for this particular outcome.
Experiment Results

Now, let’s dig in. To make this work, we need to do some feature engineering on our dataset, tagging posts that use “link in bio” so that we can classify them appropriately. We also need to remove accounts that have missing or broken data. Because of the size of the dataset – nearly a million records in its raw form – I’ll need to use a random sampling of it instead, about a third of the records.

Once we’ve done that, we build our model and match similar records to take out as many confounding factors as possible. That’s the beauty of propensity modeling – by matching similar records, we can reduce the impact of variables and relationships we don’t know to look for or can’t see, looking for the statistical difference JUST along the “treatment”, which is the use of “link in bio”.

Propensity modeling, in other words, is more or less a retroactive A/B test when you can’t run a large-scale A/B test.

What are the results of our assessment?

What we see is… no, there’s pretty much no difference or not in terms of performance and the use of “link in bio”. We see there’s a slight difference in account size – accounts that use “link in bio” have a mean number of followers that’s slightly higher than those that don’t.

However, there’s no real difference in terms of the mean number of likes, and a 1% difference in the mean of comments on posts that use “link in bio”.

The conclusion we draw? Using “link in bio” has no impact on engagement in Instagram.

We can test this further by using automated machine learning. With IBM Watson Studio’s AutoAI, we feed the ENTIRE dataset (instead of just a sample) into Watson and ask us to tell it which variables have the strongest correlation to the outcome – engagements – that we care about:

What we see is fairly straightforward: the number of views a post earns delivers engagements, as does the size of the audience. Whether or not a post has a “link in bio” statement is utterly irrelevant, in terms of variable importance.

Key Takeaways

The key takeaway here isn’t whether or not “link in bio” matters to Instagram engagement or not, though that is a handy little tidbit. No, the key takeaway that I’d like you to remember is to read and question the validity of these little data tidbits we read every day. For things that genuinely pique your curiosity, ask whether you do know the answer, and if not, could you know the answer.

Again, that doesn’t mean hunting down things that agree with your point of view – that’s called incuriosity (as well as confirmation bias) and it’s literally the opposite of the takeaway. No, the point is to be MORE curious, to wonder what the answer really is, and to conduct valid, methodologically-sound research to get to the answer. If you have the capability to truly do your own scientific and statistical research, do so and publish it so that the greater community can benefit.

And feel free to tell people they can learn more with the link in your bio on Instagram.

Methodology and Disclosure Statement

I extracted 970,000 Instagram posts from Instagram public content, sampled from curated lists by Trust Insights in Facebook’s Crowdtangle platform. The sample population includes 7,856 Instagram brand accounts and 10,341 Instagram personal accounts across a variety of industries. The timeframe of the study data is July 1, 2021 – September 12, 2021. The date of the study itself is September 13, 2021. I declare no competing or conflicting interests, and I was neither given nor gave any compensation for this research, other than applicable service fees to vendors for the operation of their software itself.

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September 13, 2021
Avoid The Content Marketing Graveyard
I was cleaning up some backups the other day from one of my older computers and came across a series of short films distributed by the AtomFilms To Go podcast – way back in 2006. They were brilliant, pithy short films, a few minutes at most, produced for the first video iPods of the era.

Eager to share them, I hit up YouTube to snag a copy I could share… and found nothing. They weren’t there. In fact, they weren’t anywhere. That’s impossible, I thought to myself. Almost everything is on YouTube, and these short films weren’t anything objectionable. They were actually quite good; this one is called High Maintenance:

High Maintenance by AtomFilms To Go, 2006
Watch this video on YouTube.

Can’t see anything? Watch it on YouTube here.

Then I remembered… they were from 2006. YouTube launched in 2005 but didn’t really become the dominant player in online video for a few years after that. In its first years, it was the cat video site. The creators of these AtomFilms to Go episodes probably didn’t even consider uploading to YouTube at the time.

Which means that for all practical intents and purposes, these videos are just… gone. All that time, effort, marketing resources, budget… poof. As though it had never happened. That content ended up in the content marketing graveyard, and the tombstones are so worn, no one can remember it any more.

The same goes for a lot of content from the early and mid 2000s, especially the first wave of podcasting. Virtually all of the episodes of my first podcast, the Financial Aid Podcast, are gone from public access; when the company I worked for at the time discontinued the podcast, they stopped paying the hosting provider, and the files were all deleted. I still have about 75 of the 940 episodes, but most of them are permanently gone, and there’s no way to retrieve them. A half hour’s work every day for 5 years just erased.

So what’s the point of all this, besides a walk down memory lane? Content lives on only as long as the underlying infrastructure supports it. If you’re doing great work, make sure it’s published somewhere that will sustain it, that will be around as long as you want the content to be around. This is especially true for your personal brand; some of my content from the early 2000s does still exist and is still accessible, but the majority of it is gone.

If you create something that you think represents some of your best work or is in some way notable, make sure you keep a copy of it – possibly several. There’s no way to know whether services like the Wayback Machine will correctly and accurately capture your work for preservation, so it’s on you to save it. Services like Amazon Glacier will hold your data for as long as Amazon keeps them active, and the cost of storage is very low.

If you’re an organization and you’re not sure you want to keep some content around – your brand or strategy might have changed – it’s still not a bad idea to use a service like the Wayback Machine to take a snapshot of where you are now, for posterity’s sake, as well as backing it up to services like Amazon Glacier. At the very least, it will let you have something to talk about at major company milestones down the road, and it will help your future self and future employees understand where the company came from.

At best, you’ll have a swipe file of content you can draw future inspiration from and maybe even resample and reuse, without needing to pay new licensing fees or contract out help to generate.

For example, I still have probably have close to 300 hours of music licensed from the Podsafe Music Network (long since defunct) that I can still legally use in new publications. That includes the now almost impossible to find Vegas Hard Rock Shuffle by former Brooks & Dunn guitarist Charlie Crowe. If I wanted to, I could reuse that music in new content under the terms of the license I signed. Instead of languishing in content marketing limbo, it could be brought back to life.

Don’t allow your hard-created content to end up in the content marketing graveyard. Create some kind of archiving system, be it just simple storage and backups or something as complex as a digital asset management system, but keep your content alive and working for you.

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September 9, 2021
What Personal Data Science Teaches Marketers
A few years ago, there was a big movement called Quantified Self, in which we would apply principles of analytics and data science to our lives with fitness trackers and other apps that would help quantify how we were living. For a variety of reasons – mainly overhead – that movement never really took off.

However, in some ways, the data collection for that movement never ended. Your smartphone, your watch, your laptop, your tablet, your smart speakers – you’re surrounded daily by devices that are constantly gathering data about you and storing it. Big technology companies like Google, Amazon, and Facebook use this data all the time to target you with advertising and offers.

Here’s where our quantified self story gets interesting. Thanks to privacy regulations and other pressures on big technology companies, much of that data is available to us for free. We can, should we choose to, download everything Google has tracked about us, everything we’ve interacted with on Facebook, etc. and analyze it ourselves. We could conduct personal data science experiments, personal data analysis on the data being collected about us.

Why would we want to do this? Curiosity, for one; in exploring data about you, you might learn some interesting things about yourself. Another would be to get a big picture perspective about yourself from the tech company’s point of view. What do THEY see when their algorithms and machine learning models look at you? Finally, and most important to me professionally, what can we learn about our marketing assumptions based on the person we should know best?

Obtaining Your Personal Data

First, you’ll need to obtain your data. I’ve linked some of the major providers below; almost any can be found by searching for “how to download your X data” where X is the name of the service. Pro-tip: if you use a social network or other tech service that doesn’t permit you to download your own data… you might want to stop using that service.
You’ll typically have a few different data format options:
– HTML: this is a summary of your information you can use in your browser. For data exploration purposes, it’s almost useless.
– JSON: this is your data in the JSON format, which most data science tools can import and use. If you have Microsoft Excel with PowerQuery or the Data Analysis add-on, you can use this format, too.
– CSV: some services allow you to get CSV formatted data, which you can import into nearly any data analysis tool.

For this article, I used the JSON exports and the R language plus the jsonlite package to process it.

Analyzing Your Personal Data

Once you’ve got your data, then what? Let’s look at an example. I want to examine my YouTube viewing habits, so I’ll open up my YouTube watch history to see what I’ve been watching on YouTube. We have to import it, clean it up by removing fields we don’t need, and see what’s in the box, as it were.

We can see from this snapshot that I’ve watched 23,611 YouTube videos in this data export from 2011 onwards, along with details like who the video publisher is, the video URL, the channel URL, and the date and time.

There’s already a lot we can unpack here.

The Big Picture

Let’s first summarize the table by views over time. How many videos per month have I watched, and is there a pattern?

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Two interesting things to note here. First, we see my YouTube usage started to go up dramatically in 2018. Why? That’s when I started my former video show, You Ask, I Answer. YouTube is phenomenally good at getting us to watch more stuff because its recommendation engine is crazy accurate, so every day when I logged in to upload my video of the day… I ended up watching something, too.

Second, my usage REALLY went up around April of 2020. Why? Pandemic. Those first few months of the pandemic, I was watching a LOT of YouTube video. You probably were, too.

From Google’s perspective, I became much more valuable to YouTube and Google Ads in 2018 because I was consuming much more video. Let’s restrict further analysis from January 2018 onwards.

Top Videos

Some videos I’ve rewatched more than others in the last 3 years. Which are they?

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The top video is a livestream I listen to during the workday when I’m writing or coding; that’s no surprise. The rest is almost all music – which shows what YouTube really is for me, an audio player that happens to come with video. This is a really interesting insight for me personally, because that’s not how I think of YouTube mentally as a marketer, but it’s clearly what I do as a consumer.

From Google’s perspective, if advertisers want to get my attention, they don’t need to work super hard at targeting specific interests. They just have to aim at the music I listen to.

Channels

Next, let’s dig into channels. When we think about influencers, we’re not thinking about individual videos, we’re thinking about channels and producers. Who do I watch?

Unsurprisingly, as someone who published a daily video for almost three years and quality checked my videos, I watch my own channel the most. Ignoring that, we get a mix of all sorts of cultural stuff – Stephen Colbert, video mixes from the music show The Voice, First We Feast (the folks who run the Hot Ones show), Conan O’Brien, The Voice Ukraine:

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From a marketing perspective, if you wanted to get my attention, you’d have a very wide range of very disparate, seemingly unrelated topics to choose from. This highlights one of the dangers of advertising: if you make assumptions about your audience, those assumptions might be thoroughly incorrect. Would you know, based on my age, demographics, and profession that a channel like Tropical Tidbits (tropical storm analysis) or Violet Orlandi (great Brazilian cover musician) or The Graham Norton Show (English talk show) would be good targets? Probably not.

To be fair, I’m even surprised by this data analysis. I didn’t think I watched nearly as much of some of these channels as I thought, and other channels I watched far more of than I thought.

Frequency

Finally, let’s get into the ad targeting nitty-gritty. A lot of people – especially in B2B marketing – advertise Monday-Friday, 9 AM – 5 PM in the targeted audience timezones, a practice in advertising called day-parting. But the question is… is that when the audience is paying attention?

I don’t know about you, but usually from 9 AM to 5 PM… I’m working. And at least for my YouTube viewing history, I’m watching far more video in the evenings than I am any other time – between 8 PM and 10 PM Eastern time:

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If you were a B2B advertiser using YouTube ads/Google Ads during the workday… you probably missed me. Well, that and when I upgraded to YouTube Premium as part of a promotion with Discord, now you’ve definitely missed me, but that’s a topic for another time.

The bottom line here is your audience may not be paying attention when you think they are. When you’re launching a new campaign, you may want to run some tests around the clock, every hour of every day, to see when your audience is actually paying attention versus when you think they’re paying attention.

What I Know About Myself As a Marketer

This personal data science adventure, analyzing my own data to see who I am and what I watch, is a powerful example of looking at yourself through the lens that big tech companies see us through. I’m not much of a YouTube show watcher, but I’m most assuredly a YouTube music listener. Yet when we mentally think about YouTube, especially as marketers, we think of it as a place that’s video first. My own viewing history shows that’s not always a reliable conclusion.

Here’s a quick question to think about: if you’re running YouTube ads, is the audio track ALONE enough to convey meaning, like a radio ad? If not, and your audience is anything at all like me, using YouTube to listen rather than watch… you might want to amend your YouTube ad strategy.

As a marketer, seeing how I behave on YouTube gives me pause about the counsel I might give clients. For sure, I might give serious thought to surveying my audience about what they watch on YouTube and more important, who they watch – then use that information to possibly conduct sponsorships. I might get more out of, say, sponsoring Violet Orlandi’s channel with a 10K ad budget then I would get out of running 10K of video ads on YouTube if I found out my audience were die-hard fans.

We can’t – thankfully, as a consumer – get this level of data from YouTube about anyone except ourselves. However, we can and should survey our audiences frequently to ask them what they’re watching, who they’re watching, where, and when. With that information, we can become better, smarter, and more effective marketers, supporting the things our customers already support and earning new attention in ways that are not only less invasive, but more impactful.

Take the time and effort to analyze your own personal data from the big tech companies. Look at what you search for, what you watch or listen to, what you shop for – you might find some fascinating insights about yourself, and pick up some useful learnings and thought starters for your marketing.

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September 7, 2021
Zero Party Data And Customer Data Consent
I keep stumbling across this term in discussions around privacy and consumer data: zero-party data.

Folks like MarTech Alliance define it as:

“First-party data is data collected directly from your audience, as opposed to being acquired and sent to you by a third-party.

Zero-party data is data that your customers intentionally share with you. This can include purchase intentions, personal context, communication preferences, and how the individual wants the brand to recognize them.”

I don’t know about you, but that sounds like it’s pretty much exactly the same thing. Now, I suppose the distinction is passive versus active; a customer browsing your website is passively giving you information about themselves by the pages they visit, the browser they’re using, etc. whereas filling out a form is data actively coming from the customer.

To better understand why we might want to make some kind of distinction between the two, let’s refresh our definitions of data parties.

First-party data comes from the customer. When they fill out a form on your website, they’re giving you the data directly.

Second-party data comes knowingly from the customer through an intermediary. When you do a co-registration form with a partner, and the customer is aware they are sharing data with you, but you get the data from the partner company, that’s second party data. This could also include data passively collected on a partner site; if you got permission from a partner to install your Google Analytics tag on their site, this would be an example of second-party data.

Third-party data comes from a customer without their consent. Third parties harvest data about customers from cookies, from demographic data, etc. and is sent to us from those third parties without the customer’s approval. Any time you’re acquiring data – typically through ad platforms – about a customer or using targeting data (again through ad platforms usually) that the customer did not give you directly, you’re using third-party data.

The reason privacy restrictions are ratcheting down is simple: third-party data comes to us without the consent of the customer. Anything without consent is bad news.

So, why this difference between passive and active first-party data, aka zero-party data? I suspect a consulting firm somewhere needed a fancy new term to bandy about and sell, honestly. It’s reminiscent of Jim Lecinski’s Zero Moment of Truth, which was a revamp of P&G’s 2005 Moments of Truth.

Why do we care about this concept? Here’s what I think we’re all trying to understand, with varying degrees of success. Success in marketing data comes down to data consent in the post-cookie era. The more data consent you obtain, the better your data and the better your marketing engagement.

Let’s look at the parties again through the lens of data consent:
- Third-party data: no consent. Going away.
- Second-party data: some consent given (“We share data with our partner…”)
- First-party passive data: some consent given (“by using this website, you agree to our use of…”)
- First-party active data: more consent given – when a customer fills out a form, they’re knowingly giving you lots of data, usually in exchange for something of value
- First-party proactive data: full, active, willful consent. This is the gold standard, what we really want. It’s when someone fills out a contact us form or a request a demo or calls us or walks into our store, eager to do business with us. This is a customer who wants to give us information with no prompting or bargaining or cajoling on our part, because they want to engage with us, maybe even buy something from us.
Consent is proportional to data value. The more consent we get, the more valuable the data.

When we’re talking data parties, we’re really talking about data consent. Thus, the question you and I have to ask ourselves is, what can we do to climb the ladder of data consent in our customers’ minds?

Data consent comes with value provided:
- The more value we provide, up front, without expectation, the easier it is to obtain data consent.
- The better our brand’s reputation and trustworthiness, the easier it is to obtain data consent.
- The more we’re focused on what we can do for the customer, rather than what they can do for us, the easier it is to obtain data consent.
Think about how you feel when you’re confronted with a lead capture form, usually in front of some kind of download. You give consent by filling it out, but sometimes it’s grudging consent. That feels different than when you fill out a form asking someone to contact you – you’re eager, maybe even happy to do so. There’s a qualitative difference in the type of data consent you’re giving.

If you’re struggling to obtain data consent from customers, take a strong look at how much you give versus how much you ask – then rebalance in favor of giving. The more you give, the more likely you’ll receive.

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September 1, 2021
Why I Stopped Curating Content on LinkedIn
I’ve stopped curating content on LinkedIn.

Why? After all, isn’t it a best practice to share thought leadership content and provide stuff that’s interesting to keep your audience engaged?

It is. But not when you’re not around to engage with it. In the most recent episode of So What? The Marketing Analytics and Insights Live Show, I walked through four engineering posts and academic papers that LinkedIn has published about how things like People You May Know and the LinkedIn Feed work.

One of the key takeaways for the feed is that LinkedIn divides engagement into two categories: upstream and downstream metrics. Downstream metrics are when your network engages and shares your content – activities downstream from your post. Upstream metrics are when your network’s engagement re-engages you, the creator.

And when I post curated content, I just toss it out there (well, technically Agorapulse does that for me) and then forget about it. My engagement is zero on it, even when someone hits a like on it. And that hurts future posts’ probability of being seen and recommended.

Now, does that mean curated content is bad? Is this a practice everyone should adopt? No, of course not. This is appropriate only to me, or to people like me who are not willing to make a substantial time investment in LinkedIn. If you are willing to invest the time to craft posts that curate content AND that you keep an eye on, that you structure for engagement, that you aim for that very low time to first like that the algorithm uses (which we also discuss in the episode), then curated content will do as well as any other form of content on LinkedIn. But that’s the key. I am unwilling right now to make the time for more than a post a day or so, and automating the curation just wasn’t doing it for me – or the LinkedIn newsfeed algorithm.

If LinkedIn is critical to your marketing, to your business, to your personal brand, then you will make different choices about where to invest your time, and you’ll get results commensurate with that willingness to invest. As with all things, in the long run, you get out of something what you put into it.

So, no more content curation for me on LinkedIn. If you do want curated content, you can follow my very noisy Twitter feed if you need it right away, or subscribe to my newsletter if you want just the highlights each Sunday.

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And if you’d like to keep up with what I DO post on LinkedIn, you can follow me there.

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August 31, 2021
Why Your Content Marketing Isn’t Working
On any given day, a dozen or more articles pass by in my LinkedIn feed and blog reader, sharing the latest tips and tricks for content marketing success. The more lurid ones promise instant results or deep secrets of some kind that ostensibly will make your content marketing wildly successful. And yet almost none of them talk about the one success factor that really will.

The problem is, you’re probably not going to like it, because it’s not something you can buy. It’s not a tool. It’s not scalable. And it can take a long time to acquire, especially if the company you’re doing it for isn’t inspiring you.

The “secret” to long-term success in content marketing is that you have to love it.

Conversely, if you don’t love it, both personally and organizationally, you’ll do really bad at it.

I’ll give you two examples.

I love my email newsletter. Love it, love it, love it. It’s been a staple of my professional life and a pet project since June 17, 2010. I invest several hours each week creating it and maintaining it, and I publish, rain or shine, every week. I hand-built the server environment it runs on. I actively try to improve it. I look forward to writing it. It’s my baby. (You’re subscribed to my newsletter, right?)

I don’t love my Facebook page. I ignore it and do the bare minimum needed to keep it functional. On a day to day basis each post, curated by machine, earns the tiniest sliver of engagement. I don’t believe in Facebook as a platform or a company, I don’t invest any time in it, and if I didn’t have great software like Agorapulse to manage my Facebook page, I wouldn’t use it at all.

These two points of view show in the results I earn. One glance at my Google Analytics 4 attribution funnel makes that abundantly clear:

My newsletter tops my early funnel acquisitions and last touchpoints. Facebook? Barely in the middle, and I can’t disambiguate between my personal account and my Page (because I’m unwilling to invest the time to set up analytics properly for a channel I don’t care about). And paths to conversion? My newsletter is a massive driver, outpacing organic search.

There’s an expression in my martial art, “energy flows where attention goes”. That’s not only true about fighting, but about anything that requires effort. I put effort, care, and emotion into my newsletter. I put none of that into Facebook. That desire to invest, to put in effort, comes from my love of email marketing and my email newsletter in specific.

Here’s the challenge: you can’t make someone – including yourself – love something. You can’t make yourself love Facebook or email marketing. You can become proficient at it, certainly, regardless of your feelings about it – but your efforts will always lack that spark that can only come from deep emotional investment.

So how do you incorporate this into your content marketing plans, if you can’t force love? There are two straightforward methods. First, if there is a channel you truly love, invest in it. Double down on it. Make it the star of your show. Outsource the channels you don’t love to other team members, to partners, to agencies, to contractors, to anyone else who will love it in the way you can’t if the channels you don’t love are strategically relevant.

Second, if there’s nothing you love in content marketing, channel-wise, and changing careers to something you love isn’t an option, then find a person that you care deeply about on a channel you dislike the least, and focus your mental and emotional efforts towards creating content for that person. Ann Handley talks about writing a newsletter to just one person instead of to a faceless audience. That trick works for any marketing channel. You may not love the channel, but you can emotionally invest in creating something for whoever the target person is.

One way or another, if you want your content marketing to succeed over the long-term, you have to love what you’re doing. You have to be emotionally invested in it beyond just a paycheck, because that’s what will keep you going when you hit creative and technical headwinds. That love will also shine through in your content, in the emotion you convey, in the care you exude to your audience.

Love it, or leave it.

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August 26, 2021
Marketing Strategy: Exclusive Doesn’t Mean Good
Let’s talk marketing strategy for a second. I received an “exclusive” invitation the other day for a deal with some mastermind group I’d never heard of:

Heya Reader! EXCLUSIVECLUB is the fastest way to level-up your marketing strategy. It gives you exclusive access to weekly office hours with SOMECOMPANY experts (including with me!), coaches, marketing expert masterclasses, drop-in sessions and dedicated monthly workshop sessions, exclusively for EXCLUSIVECLUB Members.

So many things have gone wrong with this. Let’s unpack it a bit.

By nature, something that is exclusive is not welcoming to everyone. You are intentionally excluding other people outside a select group (hence exclusive). If your email starts with a generic “Hey Reader”, then that sort of bursts the bubble, the illusion of actual exclusivity.

Exclusion is forced scarcity. When you say something is exclusive, you’re limiting access in some way to make it appear more valuable than it probably is. Generic marketing is therefore antithetical to creating exclusion, because exclusion’s implication is that you know who I am. It’s like sales pitches that start with “there are only 1,000 seats available for this exclusive webinar”. Kind of doesn’t create that environment of intentional scarcity.

Second and far more important, just because it’s exclusive doesn’t mean it’s good. For example, I could take a drawing I made on my iPad of a crappy watercolor landscape, with the handwritten formula for logistic regression, and issue it as a limited NFT (non-fungible token, a type of cryptocurrency purchase). It would indeed be exclusive – the barrier to entry alone for an NFT intentionally excludes a whole bunch of people who don’t want the time or hassle of setting up the extensive mechanics of buying an NFT.

The mechanics of setting up an NFT are daunting; there’s a real dollar cost to putting things up for sale (which is why mine isn’t). But here’s the underlying thing…

The underlying asset, the picture above, just isn’t very good. Exclusive? Yes. Hard to obtain? Yes. It’s literally a one-of-a-kind product. But it’s fundamentally not valuable because it’s low quality.

This is where marketing exclusivity goes wrong. Bad marketers treat exclusivity like it’s Nutella, putting it on everything in the hopes that people want it more; they hope that by making something exclusive, it increases the value perception and masks the fact that what they’re selling doesn’t have much intrinsic value. It’s the proverbial putting lipstick on a pig, and what the marketer who wrote that email to “Reader” did.

Here’s the part about exclusivity that bad marketers fail to understand. Something with high intrinsic value automatically has some level of exclusivity. Sometimes it’s literal; a high-demand product can run out, and just getting the product at all is an elite club. Ask any parent that’s had to search store after store for a valued toy for the holidays how exclusive that club can be.

Other times, a high-value product is simply priced out of reach of some of the market. The latest high-end smartphone from the manufacturer of your choice probably costs as much as a laptop computer. And in still other cases, there’s simply a limit on supply.

For professional services, you only have (or should have) 8 working hours per day. If those 8 hours are booked with valuable clients, then there’s simply no more room in the queue for new clients unless they’ve got something to offer that can displace an existing client. In these cases, the marketer doesn’t have to create exclusivity. The service’s value and your inherent time constraints do that automatically.

Exclusivity is like humility. If you have to say it, it’s probably not true. If you want to create real exclusivity, make your product or service so valuable that real resource constraints apply to it. You know you’ve reached true exclusivity when, instead of telling customers how exclusive your product or service is, you’re constantly apologizing that you can’t make more.

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August 24, 2021

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