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@hannah_bo_banna
myths,
misconceptions,
& mistakes
(lessons learned from a decade in digital PR)
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hello there :)
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I previously worked
at both Distilled
& Verve Search,
on teams that
collectively secured
...
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We created things
like this:
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How some of
the world’s
most loved
artists
structured
their days…
2,000+
pieces of linked...
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We revealed the
films with the
highest
on-screen death
counts…
500+ pieces of
linked cover...
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A panoramic
gigapixel time
lapse of
London’s
skyline…
150+ pieces of
linked
coverage
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Now I work with
companies &
in-house teams
that are making
similar things
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this puts me in a very
privileged position
I have distance &
perspective
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I’m no longer trapped in
the grind of:
new business pitches
trying to retain existing cli...
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rather than just seeing the
challenges in a single
company
I get to see
the challenges ac...
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& this allows me
to see things more clearly
than I did before
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but of course, there’s
a downside…
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I’ve realised some things
which make me
uncomfortable
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I’ve been doing this for
over a decade…
& have given many talks at
conferences like this
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Some of the things I’ve said
I stand by
Other things?
Yeah, not so much
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I wish there was a
real-life disavow file
for some of the things
I’ve said in the past
But...
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But I can speak about some
of those things…
& that’s what
today’s talk
is about…
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a myth I’ve perpetuated
a pretty huge mistake
I’ve made
& a misconception
I’ve helped fuel
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Part One:
a myth I’ve perpetuated
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In 2018 I gave
this talk:
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Towards the end
of the talk I said this:
You don’t need
to be lucky,
all you actually
nee...
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It’s a lovely message…
The trouble is,
it’s not really true
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Here’s the problem:
Luck played a bigger part
in my own successes
than I’ve ever been
com...
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What do I mean by luck?
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Remember this?
We revealed the
films with the
highest
on-screen death
counts…
500+ pieces ...
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I’d like to tell you a little
bit more about how
those 500+ pieces of
linked coverage
cam...
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Some of this
coverage was
directly secured
by us:
It centred on the
“winner”
being surpri...
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But a huge chunk of
the coverage this
piece received
wasn’t directly
generated by us…
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Shortly after the piece launched:
Director James Gunn shared
a piece of the early coverag...
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Most of the
subsequent
coverage the piece
received was
just journalists
reporting on
Jame...
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We got lucky…
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I suspect that the piece
still would have achieved
reasonable levels
of coverage
without
...
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But nevertheless,
luck played a huge role
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& this is not an
isolated example
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When did I start
downplaying,
or outright ignoring
the role of luck
in successful campaig...
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I think it was
pretty early on in my
speaking career…
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Someone gave me
this feedback:
When you talk about
things like luck,
I feel like
you’re d...
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The truth is:
I didn’t really know
what I was doing
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& so, the thing I think I
absorbed from this
feedback was:
letting other
people know that...
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& so I began to
present sanitised versions
of how campaigns
went down
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stories which either
skipped over the parts
where we got lucky
and/or
reframed this luck
...
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What’s the problem
with this?
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When I fail to acknowledge
the part luck played,
I also fail to gain
a deep understanding...
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Myth:
“You don’t need
to be lucky,
you just need to work
*really* hard”
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Truth:
“You need to work
*really* hard
AND recognise
when, where, and how
luck contribute...
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More on this in part two…
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Part Two:
a mistake I’ve made
over & over again
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At various times,
on various stages,
I have said things like:
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~ me in 2016,
How to Build a Time Machine
“study successful content
& try to figure out
wh...
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What’s the problem?
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“study successful content
& try to figure out
why it worked”
This isn’t necessarily
bad ad...
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people struggle
to follow it
& because it’s incomplete…
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“study successful content
& try to figure out
why it worked”
What does this
really mean?
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“study successful content
& try to figure out
why it worked”
How do you actually
do this?
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Let’s travel back
to 2015…
A bunch of us at
Distilled were
fascinated by the
success of t...
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Here’s what Will
had to say
about it:
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I don’t think that “BEER”
was the reason
that piece was
successful...
& Will doesn’t thin...
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then every piece
about beer
would be successful
& that’s definitely
not the case
If “beer”...
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The trouble is,
we often unknowingly
absorb thinking like this...
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Sensemaking is the
process by which people
give meaning to their
collective experiences
~...
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People favour plausibility
over accuracy
in accounts of events
and contexts
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We’re often quick to
accept explanations that
seem reasonable
without questioning
how val...
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When thinking about
why a piece was
successful:
we often jump quickly
to an explanation
t...
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But one person,
getting one thing,
a bit wrong
shouldn’t be
a problem, right?
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Actually, it can be
a problem:
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sensemaking is
how organisations
or groups of people
make sense of things
Sensemaking is ...
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& because sensemaking is
a social activity:
plausible stories are
preserved, retained,
& ...
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& this affects the way we
interpret future events
The problem is that we
unknowingly abso...
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If we accept
that “beer” is the
reason this piece
is successful...
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What happens
when we see
another
successful piece
about beer?
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We see a
successful
piece
We conclude
“beer” is the
reason it’s
successful
We see
another...
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I see this happening in a
lot of directions at once
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What else
do those two pieces
have in common?
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They’re both maps
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We see a
successful
piece
We conclude
it’s successful
because it’s a
map
We see
another
s...
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But again,
if that was true:
then every map-based
piece would be successful
& that’s defin...
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Humans are programmed
to spot patterns
& we’re pretty great at
spotting them…
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But we find it much
harder to distinguish
whether or not those
patterns are meaningful
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& as a result,
our ability to spot patterns
doesn’t always
serve us well
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I’m sure that no one in this
room really thinks
“beer” or “map”
is the reason those
piece...
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“they offer journalists
something that they don’t
have the time or resource
to create the...
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I’ve made several pieces
about resonant topics,
which offered
journalists something
they ...
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but it’s not
a meaningful one
That’s just another pattern
I’ve spotted…
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despite saying this a
bunch of times,
I wasn’t great at
figuring out
why a piece
was succe...
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“study successful content
& try to figure out
why it worked”
This bit is part of the
probl...
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“study successful content
& try to figure out
why it worked”
We don’t need
to study the co...
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“study successful content
& try to figure out
why it worked”
I think that when
we study th...
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I spent a lot of time
looking at
successful pieces,
& not nearly enough time
looking at t...
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It was a low-effort &
pretty comforting way of
feeling like I understood
this stuff
Often...
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But those patterns were
not meaningful
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Because it wasn’t just me,
getting something a bit
wrong, on my own
& of course I wasn’t ...
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& because sensemaking is
a social activity where
plausible stories are
preserved, retaine...
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Were often being
accepted,
& were believed
to be “true”
Those patterns
I was spotting,
wh...
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“study successful content
& try to figure out
why it worked”
I still think there’s merit i...
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We need to avoid
our tendency
to slip into pattern
recognition mode
But we need to someho...
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One way to do that, is to
ask better questions...
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Now, rather than
asking myself
“Why was this piece
successful?”
I try to answer these six...
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1) What stories did
journalists write
when they covered
this piece?
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You could still answer this
in a pretty shallow way:
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When journalists
covered this
piece they wrote
stories about
beer…
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Read the stories
Try not to fall into
this trap…
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Actually, there
were a bunch of
different types of
stories written:
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Coverage designed
to provoke outrage
at the most
popular beers
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Analysis on the 2
major brewers,
InBev & SABMiller
who own most of
these beers
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& nostalgic
travel stories
“I discovered that Skol was
still going strong in Brazil...
Of...
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2) Did the coverage of this
piece feed into something
else which was going on in
the news...
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If one of those things
hadn’t happened, would it
still have been a success?
3) Were there...
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How did readers react?
What emotions do these
stories provoke in you?
4) What emotions di...
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I have a friend
who’s a journalist.
She told me this is largely
how she determines which
...
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I’m always thinking about
what emotions a story is
likely to evoke...
Strong emotional
re...
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Did the story get picked up
in different ways by
different verticals?
5) Which verticals
...
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If so, why and how did that
coverage come about?
6) Did this piece get
coverage in multip...
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Quick recap:
Stories
What stories did journalists write when they covered this piece?
Bre...
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Answering these questions
gives me a much
clearer understanding
of why a piece
really wor...
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Because I’m not looking
for patterns at all
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do you really need
to do all that?
Of course, answering all
those questions is way
more w...
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Actually,
there are other
benefits too…
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This piece got a bunch of
coverage a few years ago -
could we remake it?
This is a questi...
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How do you figure out
whether or not
remaking something is a
good idea?
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has enough time gone by?
In the past, if you’d asked
me this question,
I’d have probably ...
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I used to think that this
was important,
because if someone else
had done
something simil...
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I noticed that in some
instances, even when I
considered that
sufficient time had passed,...
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& I’ve also noticed the
opposite…
in some verticals:
very similar pieces seemed
to get co...
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&
“has enough time
gone by?”
wasn’t the question
I should have been asking
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What were the conditions
which led to the success of
the original piece?
AND
What are our...
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Remakes fail when we’re
unable to recreate the
conditions which led to
the success of the...
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Answering
these questions
will give you a
clearer picture
of what those
conditions
were:
...
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Then you need to get a feel
for your chances
of replicating those
conditions
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This is best explained
with examples…
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This is a mash-up
of publicly
available data
sources on the
most congested
roads…
Should ...
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What were the conditions
which led to the success of
the original piece?
AND
What are our...
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First we
answer these
questions:
Stories
What stories did journalists write when they cov...
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Back then:
The original piece was
covered by automotive
sections of the nationals &
regio...
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Those journalists continue
to write stories
about these types of
studies & they don’t see...
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This isn’t unique to
automotive journalists:
Often we care more about
how well specific ty...
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Let’s imagine I covered a
study last week,
& someone pitches me a
very similar study
this...
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However, this isn’t the
case in all verticals
& there are limits!
Another quick side note...
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But back to our
example piece…
Should we
remake this?
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the conditions that led to
the success of the piece
are alive & well today
In this instan...
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If we remake this piece
with a refreshed dataset,
we’ll probably achieve
similar levels o...
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Remaking this
is probably
a reasonably
safe bet
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A quick caveat:
We can never be
100% certain of success
I can’t guarantee that if
you rem...
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Let’s look at another
example…
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Should we
remake this one?
I’m hoping you
already know the
answer to this…
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As you know, the
early coverage
(which was
directly secured
by us) centred on
the “winner...
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Then this happened…
& most of the subsequent
coverage was
just journalists reporting on
J...
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What are our chances of
replicating those
conditions?
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Could we be that
lucky again?
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Possibly they chose to
cover it because the
“winner”
was surprising &
controversial
Studi...
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Because the result won’t
be a surprise &
James Gunn’s
probably not
going to spend another...
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your new winner needs to
be surprising &
controversial enough
that it’ll stand out…
these...
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You’ll then need someone
high profile to
see this coverage,
take to social media,
& create...
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I’m just saying that
on balance, I think
they’re unlikely to happen
I’m not saying that t...
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& as such,
remaking this
piece might not
be such a safe bet
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while we’re here -
this is why I think it’s so
important that
we recognise:
when, where, ...
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Because when we fail to
acknowledge
the part luck played,
we also fail to gain
a deep und...
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Ok, that was a lot!
Let’s quickly
recap this section…
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The advice I previously
gave was woefully
incomplete:
“study successful content
& try to ...
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I think this
is better
advice:
To understand why a piece was successful try to answer the...
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Answering these questions
will give you a much
clearer understanding
of why a piece
reall...
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Which is important
because patterns like this
aren’t meaningful:
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We see a
successful
piece
We conclude
“beer” is the
reason it’s
successful
We see
another...
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@hannah_bo_banna
We see a
successful
piece
We conclude
it’s successful
because it’s a
map
We see
another
s...
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rather than asking:
has enough time gone by?
& next time you’re
considering remaking
a pi...
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What were the conditions
which led to the success of
the original piece?
AND
What are my ...
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Let’s move on to
Part Three
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Part Three:
a misconception I’ve
helped fuel
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At the beginning of this
talk I showed you
three successful pieces
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How some of
the world’s
most loved
artists
structured
their days…
2,000+
pieces of linked...
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@hannah_bo_banna
We revealed the
films with the
highest
on-screen death
counts…
500+ pieces of
linked cover...
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@hannah_bo_banna
A panoramic
gigapixel time
lapse of
London’s
skyline…
150+ pieces of
linked
coverage
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But there’s something
really important
which I failed to tell you
Those pieces are
all ou...
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Less than
10% of the pieces
I’ve been involved with
performed like this
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It was not my intention to
mislead anyone
Or to give the impression
that these sorts of r...
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But nevertheless, that’s
what I’ve been doing
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Here’s another question
I’m frequently asked:
My last piece generated no
linked coverage ...
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Because, as an industry we
largely focus on sharing
our successes;
our barometer for the
...
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Today, I want to try
to help fix that
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I got in touch with a bunch
of agencies and
inhouse teams,
& asked them to share
their da...
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I have combined data
on over 2,000
digital PR pieces
from 11 agencies &
inhouse teams
As ...
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Your own results
may, or may not compare
favourably to these results
However…
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The number of pieces
you’ve launched
The niche or language market
you work in
The resourc...
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I would like people to be
mindful of how they
interpret & use this data
As such:
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I do not want this data to
be used as yet another
stick to beat
Digital PR people with
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But if you do want
to compare your
performance,
I feel strongly that
this is a better
bar...
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Ok, let’s do this:
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First up,
we’ll look at
the results
from asset-led
pieces
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.
Asset-led
pieces:
Data from
1,398 pieces
No. of pieces of linked
coverage
% of pieces
0...
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I also collated
stats on digital
PR pieces
without assets
(No landing page,
only a press ...
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.
Pieces without
assets:
Data from
730 pieces
No. of pieces of linked
coverage
% of
campa...
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.
This is the
comparison I
don’t think we
should be
making, but
inevitably will:
No. of p...
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Just for the record:
I don’t think this means
asset-led pieces are
“better” or “worse”
th...
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I just think they
perform differently
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Pieces without assets seem
to “fail” at
a higher rate:
5 % of asset-led pieces
generated ...
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& they are seemingly less
likely to generate 100+
pieces of linked coverage:
8 % of asset...
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But pieces without assets
are also typically quicker
(& therefore cheaper)
to produce.
As...
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I think both have
their place :)
If at all possible,
I would recommend
launching both
ass...
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But let’s flip back to
this question:
My last piece generated no
linked coverage at all…
A...
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My last piece generated no
linked coverage at all…
Am I terrible at this?
Unequivocally n...
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Misconception:
No one else is creating
pieces which generate no
linked coverage at all Tr...
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While we’re here,
Believing stuff like:
“You’re only as good as
your last piece”
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Because if you tie your
own self-worth
to the results you
achieve…
Really isn’t a great i...
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Performance of 40 Digital PR pieces I was responsible for
launching over a 4 month period...
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I’d like to leave you
with a couple of
final thoughts…
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The truth is,
only 8 % of pieces
perform like this:
I said that our barometer
for the act...
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How some of
the world’s
most loved
artists
structured their
days…
2,000+
pieces of linked...
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The films with
the highest
on-screen death
counts…
500+ pieces of
linked coverage
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A panoramic
gigapixel time
lapse of
London’s
skyline…
150+ pieces of
linked
coverage
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If we’re launching pieces
with the expectation that
they’ll achieve 100+ pieces
of linked...
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But that’s not the only
direction in which our
expectations are
unrealistic
In most of th...
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Every piece
should generate a
minimum of 10 pieces of
linked coverage
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Possibly you think this
sounds reasonable…
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But it really isn’t
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Is the most pernicious
misconception
of all
The notion that this goal is
achievable:
Ever...
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.
Asset-led
pieces:
Data from
1,398 pieces
No. of pieces of linked
coverage
% of pieces
0...
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Only 60% of pieces
generate 10+ pieces of
linked coverage
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Our goal is 100%
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Effectively, our goal is
never to fail
which is utterly unrealistic
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Why are we setting these
impossible standards?
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Please raise your hands if
you’ve ever implemented a
technical change
which had no impact...
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Actually, it happens
all the time
It’s not unusual…
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Tricky question, huh?
What proportion of
technical SEO changes
you’ve made
delivered an i...
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What proportion of the
technical SEO changes
you’ve made
delivered an impact?
I asked a f...
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About 60% of what I
implement now
delivers a
measurable impact
Here’s how they responded:
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About 30% of what I
implement is
future-proofing
I don't expect it to deliver a
measurable...
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About 10%
of what I implement
I expect to work,
but actually
fails to deliver a
measurabl...
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This is what I’m
experiencing now,
earlier in my career
probably only 40% of the
changes ...
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60% of tech SEO
implementations
have an impact
30% are future-proofing
(no expected impact...
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It depends
on the types of sites
you’re working on
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The site I’m working on
right now is
technically sound & so
most of the tech changes
I im...
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The technical changes
I implement,
which I expect
to work,
don’t always deliver
an impact...
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All technical SEOs
experience failure
So I think it’s fair to say:
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Just like digital PRs
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Sometimes,
but not always
But a single technical
SEO change is cheaper
to implement
than ...
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& the entire program
of activity is likely to incur
significant costs
A single technical S...
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Obviously they aren’t
the same
I’m not suggesting a single
digital PR piece,
or single te...
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They do have one thing in
common though:
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Single technical
SEO change
Single digital PR piece
They both have a
reasonably high chan...
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We expect some level
of failure…
The difference is, we don’t
expect every technical SEO
c...
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Why aren’t we expecting
some level of failure for
digital PR too?
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Just like it would be
unrealistic to expect
that every technical SEO
change we make will ...
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it’s fueling unrealistic
expectations
& causing unrealistic
goals to be set
We need to en...
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& it’s incredibly
difficult to tie
meaningful business
results to a single piece
(even th...
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Much like technical SEO
teams, we should be
assessing the
results we generate
over a numb...
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Every digital PR piece we
launch should
generate 10+ pieces of
linked coverage
Most of al...
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If a digital PR piece we
create generates 10+
pieces of linked coverage
we’ll consider it...
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xx% of the digital PR
pieces we create will
generate 10+ pieces of
linked coverage
& have...
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100% of the digital PR
pieces we create will
generate 10+ pieces of
linked coverage
I’m j...
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I’ve been doing this stuff
for more than a decade & I
still launch pieces that get
no lin...
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& I’m ok with that
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Because it’s not possible to
eradicate failure
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Or implement a
technical SEO change that
doesn’t deliver the uplift
you were expecting
Ne...
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I’m hoping that you’ll
remember that this stuff
happens to everyone
&
also that it happen...
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Thank you to the agencies
and inhouse teams who
generously shared their
data with me:
Air...
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Thanks also to wonderful
humans who helped me put
this talk together:
Areej AbuAli,
Gisel...
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& thank you!
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Got questions, thoughts, or feelings?
Or want to share your data with me?
drop me an emai...
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