Digital Transformation of the Podcast Business for an American Mass Media & Entertainment Conglomerate
Overview
The client is a $35bn+ US based Mass Media & Entertainment Conglomerate with significant presence in the US and international markets in the development, production, and marketing of broadcasting, streaming and content businesses. It owns a premium content studio that works by leveraging the capability and scale of the client.
The premium content studio business operates in creating content for some of the world’s top organisations such as Amazon, Netflix, Youtube and others.
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Challenges
ACL Digital has leadership expertise in providing cutting edge solutions in both business strategy and technology to enable digital transformation. The client approached ACL Digital to
Build a global brand and digital platform which provides unparalleled audio experience in the Podcast entertainment market
Develop a Podcast Portal to air the podcast series with multiple episodes
Integrate popular podcast platforms such as iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, etc
Solution
ACL Digital worked with the client to clearly understand the Digital Experience the client wanted to deliver to it’s customers. Our solution included:
- Experience Creation Understanding: Content strategy and audio experience
- Design Language: Creating a brand affinity through proximity of the design and technology enabled experience with the company brand guidelines, aesthetic elements and engagement with the portal. The responsive design adopted, reflected complete conceptualization of the portal and a deep understanding of the needs and wants of the end-users. In-line with the always on the move digital world and consumers, the responsive design approach reacts to the changes in devices and browsers by adjusting the placement of design elements to fit in all the form factors starting from desktops, laptops, tablets, and mobile.
- Digital Technology Architecture: Translating the strategy into well-defined easy to use information architecture which provides effortless navigation through the podcast series’ and periodically published episodes.
Outcomes
- The solution is defined on Digital Branding and Marketing Strategies and integrated with the social and popular podcast platforms such as iTunes, Google Podcasts, Spotify, etc
- Drupal Digital Experiences help podcast production to publish and manage the content
- The responsive design approach makes web pages render well on a variety of devices and screen sizes
- Audio Experience by integrating the Art19 podcast solution
- Drupal’s API-first architecture and third-party integrations help to deliver the portal on a compressed timeline
- Followed an Agile delivery and an open collaborative and communicative approach with the suite of products Jira, Confluence, and Slack
- Pantheon WebOps Hosting platform automates the portal development, test, release, and support process.