Creative Brief Schema for Digital Content Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional creative briefs are often ignored during content creation projects as they are not effectively leveraged by existing creative service systems, leading to deviations from intended purposes and dissatisfaction among customers, and are tedious to create with limited information for effective content production.

Innovation Solution

A service provider system employs a creative brief schema to standardize and leverage creative briefs in a digital medium environment, supporting digital content creation by defining rules for configuring creative briefs, surfacing relevant information throughout the content creation process, and providing services such as mockup generation and performance prediction based on the brief data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If conventional creative briefs are used to convey marketing campaign information, then information can be communicated from marketers to content creators, but the briefs are ignored during content creation and fail to leverage the information effectively

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecreative brief information utilizationVSAvoidcontent creation process
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by continuously surfacing creative brief information throughout the content creation process. The service provider system monitors content creation activities and provides real-time reminders, suggestions, and checks that reference the creative brief, ensuring creators don't lose sight of the intended purpose and requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The service provider system acts as an intermediary between the creative brief and content creators. It ingests the creative brief information, processes it according to a schema, and delivers relevant portions at appropriate moments during content creation, bridging the gap between the brief and the creation process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Quantity of substance

If conventional creative briefs are created using word-processing documents, then information can be drafted and communicated, but the process is tedious and provides little actionable information for effective content production

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveactionable information for content productionVSAvoidcreative brief creation process
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the parameters of creative brief creation by imposing a structured schema with specific fields and data types. This transforms the brief creation process from unstructured document drafting to a form-based input process that ensures completeness and actionability of information while maintaining ease of use through guided input.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The creative brief is segmented into discrete, schema-defined fields such as campaign objectives, target audience, key messages, and success metrics. This segmentation organizes information into actionable components that are easier to create, understand, and apply during content production.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Reliability

If content creators rely on personal knowledge instead of creative briefs, then content creation can proceed efficiently, but the created content deviates from the intended purpose and fails to achieve conversion

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvealignment with intended purposeVSAvoidcontent creation efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by preparing and structuring creative brief information before content creation begins. The schema validates and organizes all necessary guidance information in advance, so creators have reliable reference material ready when they need it, ensuring alignment without slowing down the creation process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10991012B2Creative brief-based content creation
Publication Date: 2021.04.27 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

Creative brief-based content creation is described. A service provider system, such as a creative service provider system, supports the creation of digital content in connection with digital content creation projects. Initially, the service provider system defines a schema as a set of rules for controlling configuration of creative briefs to register digital content creation projects. The service provider system provides service to support digital content creation based on the data included in the creative briefs. For instance, the service provider system provides service by leveraging the descriptive data configured according to the set of rules defined by the schema, which specify particular attributes that are to be instantiated to describe digital content creation projects. Example services include surfacing mockup digital content to inspire content creators, surfacing content scores indicative of how the digital content being created is predicted to perform in relation to target demographic groups, and so on.