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Personalized content management.

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Managing personalized content with Adobe Experience Manager Sites.

Adobe Experience Manager Sites is designed to tackle the inherent complexities of large-scale content personalization by providing features engineered expressly for efficient content creation, intelligent audience targeting, and seamless delivery across multiple digital touchpoints.

Personalized content boosts consumer engagement.

Today’s digital environment is characterized by an abundance of information that is readily available. This leads consumers to expect brands to possess a nuanced understanding of their individual needs and preferences. The effectiveness of generic, undifferentiated content has diminished significantly as audiences increasingly seek out and engage with content that directly aligns with their specific requirements. This shift in consumer behavior underscores the importance of incorporating personalization as a core element of brands' marketing strategies, enabling them to capture attention and foster meaningful connections with their target audience.

Personalized content, the tangible outcome of a well-defined personalized content management strategy, is digital content — such as website text, visuals, videos, and recommendations — that has been specifically adapted to align with the distinct characteristics, preferences, or past interactions of an individual user. The cornerstone of effective personalized content lies in its relevance to the intended recipient. When content directly addresses a user's specific needs, interests, or challenges, it demonstrates a clear value proposition, significantly increasing the likelihood of capturing their attention and prompting desired actions. Examples of personalization include product suggestions based on a user's browsing history, dynamic website content that adapts to a visitor's location or behavior, and targeted email campaigns that cater to specific areas of interest.

Adobe Experience Manager Sites emerges as a leading digital experience platform, offering a comprehensive suite of tools and functionalities that empower organizations to implement personalized content management at scale effectively. This platform empowers marketing and IT teams to create, manage, and deliver tailored content experiences across a diverse range of digital channels, ultimately driving increased engagement, improved conversion rates, and stronger customer loyalty.

What is personalized content management?

Personalized content management represents a strategic and systematic approach to creating, organizing, and delivering digital content specifically tailored to individual users’ unique attributes, inclinations, and behaviors or clearly defined audience segments. This process hinges on effectively using data insights to ensure content is relevant and impactful in achieving desired marketing outcomes. It transcends the essential act of addressing a user by their name, delving deeper into understanding their motivations, needs, and position within their customer journey to provide genuinely valuable content that resonates on a personal level.

Traditional content management versus personalized content management.

Feature
Traditional content management
Personalized content management
Focus
Content for everyone
Content for individuals/segments
Data Source
Limited, often demographic
Comprehensive (demographic, behavioral, contextual)
Delivery
One-size-fits-all
Dynamic and tailored
Measurement
Aggregate metrics
Individual/segment performance
Goal
Broad reach
Engagement, conversion, loyalty

Data drives personalized content strategy.

Demographic data gives you information on who your customers are. Examples include age, sex, location, hobbies, or interests.

Contextual data provides brands with insight into how, where, and when customers interact with your brand. Examples include specific devices or browsers customers use, sites they come from (referrals), or even their social media interactions.

Behavioral data is gathered from a user’s activity on a website. Behavioral data is centered on recurring purchasing behavior and benefits that incentivize users to convert.

How Adobe Experience Manager Sites personalizes content.

Adobe Experience Manager Sites provides a robust foundation to personalize and manage content at scale, empowering you with unique tools to create content once and rapidly generate unlimited variations. This makes personalized content management achievable at scale across any channel.

Marketers can use customer data that allows them to build refined audience segments. Delivering personalized content that leverages deep insights to boost engagement is a crucial business need. However, manually creating numerous content variations to match each customer across every channel is a resource-intensive endeavor.

To truly resonate with the unique preferences of your diverse customer base, you need to implement effective personalized content management. This requires creating content that feels individually crafted without the need for manual creation of each piece. Adobe Experience Manager Sites equips your team to create content at scale and utilize your wealth of data to deliver experiences that are precisely tailored to each customer’s preferences.

Implement personalized content management.

Overcome the dual challenges of creating and personalizing content at scale from a single, unified platform. Create content efficiently with flexible Content Fragments, then repurpose across multiple channels. Utilize automated tools and workflows to match the right content to your audience’s individual preferences, identifying the most relevant experience at each critical stage of the customer journey.

Here’s how Experience Manager Sites makes scaling content production for personalization easy:

  • Content flexibility for personalized experiences: Create a model experience and effortlessly swap imagery or copy using Experience Manager and Content Fragments. These fragments enable you to quickly generate variations tailored to specific audience segments without the tedious process of manual content recreation.
  • High-performing personalized campaigns: Execute performant campaigns that effectively reach target customers and drive increased conversions. Deliver the right experience to the right customer, every time, with granular insights into the content and experience characteristics that resonate most with each audience.
  • Omnichannel delivery of personalized content: Ensure a consistent and engaging experience with content that dynamically adapts based on the specific channel and device, maximizing engagement at every customer touchpoint.
  • Intuitive integrations for optimization: Seamlessly edit, deploy, and test content variations to rapidly identify and implement the highest-performing personalized experiences through native integrations with Adobe Analytics and Adobe Target.

Case studies.

Manulife logo

“Manulife does an excellent job of delivering highly personalized customer experiences on our public websites to enhance services and drive growth,” says Morley. “I looked to that site for inspiration for what we could achieve on our employee intranet.”

Matt Morley,  AVP HR Technology, Manulife

GenesisCare logo

“Our efficiency gains with Experience Manager Sites are huge. Instead of tending to site issues, we can focus on refining content to enhance care experiences.”

Lauren Bolton,  Head of Marketing, GenesisCare

FAQs

What is enterprise content management?
Enterprise content management is a technology platform used to capture, analyze, manage, archive, and deliver content. ECM solutions are robust enough to handle both web-based marketing content and internal document management. Document management and content services are combined in a single ECM platform, enabling organizations to implement a unified solution that meets both user needs.