Content · The calendar · Component
Seasonal moments
The fixed points in the audience’s year worth planning around, and how far ahead each is started — because everyone addresses the same moments and the earliest start wins.
The deliverable
What it is
The moments that matter come from the audience’s year — their reporting periods, their busy season, their renewal dates — and not from the organisation’s own calendar, which is the one usually used.
Everyone addresses the same moments, which makes lead time the differentiator. The execution that stands out is the one that started when nobody else had begun.
One level in
What it is made of
Each element is a constituent part of the component. Follow one to see the attributes it carries.
The crowding
How contested the moment already is.
3 attributes: Crowding · Who else is there · Worth entering
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Take the moments from the audience’s calendar. Yours is rarely the year they are working to.
The other components in the calendar
The cadence
How often the organisation publishes, per channel and per format — set at a level it can hold through a difficult quarter rather than at its best month.
LearnThe plan
What is scheduled, when, and by whom — far enough ahead that production has time, close enough that it can still respond to what is happening.
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