Procter & Gamble: Content Darwinism

Procter & Gamble, a multi-national consumer goods corporation, created a different approach to content measurement and optimisation to better evaluate the effectiveness of its content in the UK.

Agency: Proximity London

Objectives

When it comes to digital content, there are two main problems that agencies and clients face into.

Firstly, the traditional approach of measuring content is fundamentally flawed, with too many individual, platform-centric metrics. This makes understanding the true impact of each piece of content very difficult, often feeling like we are living in a world full of smoke and mirrors.

Secondly, we are often berated for chasing vanity metrics, which makes some feel very smug and popular, only to sneakily slip out of the door when asked the question but what has this actually achieved?...

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