Re: Does anyone use Predictive Content?

Frank_Breen2
Level 10

Re: Does anyone use Predictive Content?

The first issue is the how Marketo scrapes the content for Predictive Content, it will only scrape the main domain, if you have sub domains then you need to get Marketo Support to add those sub domains, which in some cases is limited to 4 domains and sub domains. Once the url’s are scraped, on occasion it also scrapes url’s with parameters, so you see multiple instances of url’s (but the analytics does usually only point to the main url, the other will just say 0), from an admin/housekeeping point of view I manually delete these duplicates.

A nice feature is that you have to manually add a url for use in Predictive Content, i.e. Marketo won’t just randomly add content for you.

Once the add an item for use in Predictive Content, you then go into another tab and make you edits, currently I’m using the Rich Media styled feature, my number 1 bug here is that Titles are restricted to 50 character max, but this is not documented anywhere and I’ve only worked this out as you get a random error if you try and approve. The thumbnail is a fixed size, so if it doesn’t fit within your website styling, you have to write CSS to override the styling, as it’s a ‘one size fits all’. The Rich Media styled Predictive Content has only 3 templates to choose from, again if it doesn’t work for you, CSS styling is needed to remove to tweak the styling. I understand customisation is part of our day to day jobs but rather than adding your own styling, you have to hack the code Marketo provides and this has to be done once it’s live as styling is not provided in Predictive Content.

The above comments are what I see and use within my instance and currently only use Rich Media.

Dan_Stevens_
Level 10 - Champion Alumni

Re: Does anyone use Predictive Content?

I attended the Content-AI webinar this afternoon.  Unfortunately, they ended the call 40 minutes early and skipped right over the questions I had posted in the chat window.  JD Nelson​ - maybe you can help answer:

  • Aside from some enhanced analytics, how does Content-AI compare to the former "Predictive Content" offering?
  • From what I understand, "conversions" apply to content that is engaged with when filling out a gated content form.  Are we able to attribute engagement with non-gated content - like a direct click on a PDF link - as a conversion?
  • They mentioned how you can tag your content appropriately so that it appears for specific segments (like specific industry content).  Yet, i cannot find anywhere in the interface on where you can include additional tagging beyond the content type - am I missing something?  In other words, where do I tag a piece of content as "Banking"-related?  This is all I see:

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JD_Nelson
Level 10 - Community Advisor

Re: Does anyone use Predictive Content?

ContentAI is to Predictive what Person was to Lead -- they are the same thing, just new name.  AI-bandwagon?

In Content-AI Analytics, Conversions do not include un-gated content -- I believe this is the only panel of that page that un-gated content is not a part of.

You can tag your content most appropriately in an email. When you "enable [an image] contentAI" the popup let's you pick style/design and category -- this is where you would narrow down your categories:

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If you can see, below the picklist, it also shows how many pieces of content are eligible for that combination of categories. For instance, if you have, and picked, "blog post" and "innovation" and "healthcare" it would then show how many you have (so you can narrow down or expand as needed) -- remember you always need ~10 pieces of content eligible for ContentAI to work best.

The caveat, here, is when you do it on a website -- you don't really have that ability to segment (out of the box) to show the categories -- now that you have me thinking about it, I'm curious if you could segment a predictive section based on a web-campaign to insert the code -- that could be VERY interesting!

Dan_Stevens_
Level 10 - Champion Alumni

Re: Does anyone use Predictive Content?

Thanks JD!

ContentAI is to Predictive what Person was to Lead -- they are the same thing, just new name.

Except for some of the analytics, I believe.  Earlier this month, we received this from our account exec (where I complained we were already paying in the six figures and now being "nickle and dimed".  Our subscription ends in September):

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You can tag your content most appropriately in an email.  If you can see, below the picklist, it also shows how many pieces of content are eligible for that combination of categories. For instance, if you have, and picked, "blog post" and "innovation" and "healthcare" it would then show how many you have.

I still don't see where you can tag content (similar to tagging programs).  For example, where do I tag a piece of content as "Healthcare"?

In Content-AI Analytics, Conversions do not include un-gated content

That's too bad.  If it included ALL content, this would really give us (and Marketo) a better understanding of what content is resonating with specific users.

JD_Nelson
Level 10 - Community Advisor

Re: Does anyone use Predictive Content?

I still don't see where you can tag content (similar to tagging programs). For example, where do I tag a piece of content as "Healthcare"?

You can set your categories under Content Settings (click your name in the top right of the screen):

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Anonymous
Not applicable

Re: Does anyone use Predictive Content?

I too am confused by the note about getting Analytics for a limited time. I thought it was part of the product that we purchased when we added it to our renewal in August. And, in the webinar, the presenter specifically said Analytics was included with Content AI. I asked my Customer Success Manager about it, and she basically told me to attend them webinar.

JD_Nelson
Level 10 - Community Advisor

Re: Does anyone use Predictive Content?

Okay -- I stand corrected, Predictive Content and Content AI are NOT the same thing -- they are, but they aren't. It seems like they're basically migrating people from Predictive to ContentAI (it just happened that my renewal was at the same exact time as the switch, so it seemed seamless to me). ContentAI Analytics was added to all existing Predictive customers as a trial through April, and is included in any renewals that then become ContentAI. The only thing I'm not sure about is what happens if your renewal is after April -- it seems like you'll lose the dashboard. From a sales side, I foresee some more options coming from Marketo to keep that from happening...

Sorry that doesn't really clear it all up - but that's all I've been able to uncover. Enjoy!