Content Frenzy: Your Door to Content Choices

RENT IT BARN RAISE BUY IT BUILD IT III YOUR DOOR TO CONTENT CHOICES You need content. Which door do you take? RENT IT BARN RAISE Licensing, aggregating and curating content written by known, branded sources. Call on the community (employees, friends, partners, dlients) to help OR via crowdsourcing platforms. Community pitches in. The value for crowdsourced ideas and executions run $500 to $50,000. Affordable. Low end of costs. You get a constant feed of stories from hundreds or thousands of sources like a newsfeed or RSS feed tailored to your topics. Can be agonizingly slow to get cooperation within an unpaid community of volunteers. But the crowdsourcing platforms work well and quickly. Quality is assured since the work has already been used by major publications. Now differentiation since these stories appear elsewhere under another brand. Quality is variable and depends on contributor pool. Beggars can't be choosers. Take what you get, though you can start contests for crowdsourced goals/briefs. Make do with what others have already created. Unpaid contributors miss deadlines. However, using competition vendor platforms is low pain and timely. Mostly painless. NewsCred trap!t curata tongar poptent ScribbleLIVE publishthis BUY IT BUILD IT Paying for 3rd-party journalists and producers to Building a newsroom or content factory with your own pool of writers, editors, producers, and designers. create custom content in all media. Depends on volume and complexity. Major commitment to talent and capital expenditure. Flexibility to order up content but not instant delivery. Total control to "newsjack"or execute real time marketing. Can order up your own stories and formats at will. Your speed depends only on your people. Quality somewhat assured in that the platform rates the freelancers-but still some uncertainty in luck of the draw. You control the originality. Total control over your own quality-but this depends on the caliber of your talent which escalates in cost with experience. You control originality. Original content comes at a price. You can keep ordering up custom content but it may bankrupt you eventually. Depends entirely on in-house talent. With good all-service vendor, pain free. Migraine. Welcome to the media biz. Contently NewsCred Scripted visual.ly Skyword STUD IONOW Red BullMEDIA HOUSE OPEN SAP Coca Cola intel COLUMN writerAccess E byline textbroker FIVE lach C COUNCIL of PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRMS MOT Vendors PAIN Vendors ORIGINAL Vendors Corporate builders HIGH