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Q: What is Content Automation?

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Content automation streamlines the creation, curation, and distribution process across various social media platforms and digital marketing channels. Leveraging ‌artificial intelligence and content automation tools will help reduce repetitive tasks in the content creation process, promoting efficiency and scalability for creative, marketing, and communication teams.

The Benefits of Content Automation

Increased Efficiency and Productivity

Content automation eliminates manual, time-consuming tasks within content creation. By automating processes such as scheduling, distribution, and reporting, teams can focus on more strategic aspects of content marketing, boosting overall efficiency and productivity.

Consistency with Brand Guidelines

Maintaining consistent brand guidelines across channels is challenging but crucial. Content automation ensures that messaging and visual assets align with brand guidelines, tone, and values, fostering a cohesive and recognizable brand identity. With content automation, you can ensure that only relevant content and on-brand visuals reach your target audience, enhancing the customer experience.

Reaching Audiences in Real Time on Social Media 

Reach more fans and drive more engagement by getting your content up on social media faster than ever before. Pair this automated content distribution with a powerful content management tool, and your media library becomes a one-stop-shop for all of the important steps in the content lifecycle.

How to Automate Your Content Workflow

Identify Repetitive Tasks and Processes

Start by identifying tasks and processes within your content creation workflow that are repetitive and time-consuming. These may include tagging images with keywords, scheduling social media posts, sending files to stakeholders, or generating reports. Pinpointing these areas will guide your automation strategy.

Choose the Right Automation Tools for Content Creation

Select tools that align with your content creation goals. Whether it’s social media management platforms, content automation tools, or comprehensive content management systems, choosing the right technology is essential for effective automation.

With Socialie, content distribution and reporting are automated processes. The seamless integration between PhotoShelter and Socialie simplifies content distribution, cutting out tedious steps, elevating your team’s marketing strategy, and empowering coworkers, influencers or others with shareable content in real time.

Check out this case study with the legendary Philadelphia Eagles. With Socialie, their photographers, social media team, and additional stakeholders can automatically notify the athletes when their content is ready to share with fans.

Implement Automated Workflows and Analytics Into Your Content Strategy

Once tools are selected, implement these automated workflows to streamline content creation and distribution. Additionally, utilize reporting tools to measure the metrics that are important to your team. Understanding the performance of your content allows for continuous improvement and optimization.

Content automation uses machine learning to enhance efficiency, consistency, and personalization in content creation and distribution. Its benefits include increased productivity, consistent brand messaging, and the ability to deliver relevant, personalized content at scale, and in real time. To implement content automation successfully, businesses should identify repetitive tasks, choose the right content automation platform, and implement workflows supported by analytics to optimize their content marketing efforts. By doing so, they can elevate their content strategy, engage their audience effectively, and achieve meaningful results.

Ready to automate your workflow and streamline content distribution? Get started today with PhotoShelter.