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Content Strategy

Content strategy is the planning, creation, distribution, and governance of content to achieve specific business goals, defining what you create, for whom, and how it serves your audience's needs and your brand's objectives.

Content Strategy vs. Social Media Strategy

Content strategy is broader than social media strategy — it encompasses all content a brand creates (website, blog, email, social), not just social media. Social media strategy is a subset of a wider content strategy.

For this glossary, we focus on content strategy as it applies to social media.

The Content Strategy Framework

Why: What business goals does the content serve?

Who: Which audience segment does this content address?

What: What topics, formats, and messages?

Where: Which platforms and channels?

When: Publishing frequency and timing

How: Production workflow, tools, and resources

Content Strategy Decisions

Good content strategy requires making explicit choices about:

Format mix: What percentage of posts are video vs. image vs. text? The right mix depends on your audience and which formats your team can produce consistently.

Topic balance: Promotional vs. educational vs. entertainment vs. behind-the-scenes. A common rule of thumb is the 80/20 rule: 80% value-adding content, 20% promotional. The actual ratio depends on your brand and stage.

Production standards: What quality level is acceptable? Highly polished production vs. authentic, lower-production content? Both can work — inconsistency across both is the problem.

Repurposing workflow: How does one piece of content become multiple? A blog post → carousel → Reel quote card → LinkedIn summary is a simple but effective repurposing chain.

How Aibrify Implements Your Content Strategy

Aibrify builds your content strategy during onboarding and executes it through a managed production and publishing workflow. The strategy is a living document updated quarterly based on performance data.

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