Digital Creative Brief Schema for Marketing Campaign Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional creative briefs are often ignored during marketing campaigns due to their lack of integration into creative service systems, leading to deviations from intended purposes and dissatisfaction among marketers, as they fail to leverage the information they contain effectively.

Innovation Solution

A digital creative brief schema is employed within a service provider system to standardize the configuration of creative briefs, enabling the creation of digital content projects by defining specific attributes and providing support services such as surfacing mockups and performance predictions based on the schema-defined data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If conventional creative briefs are used in word-processing documents, then they are simple to create and communicate, but they are not integrated into creative service systems and are abandoned during campaigns

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of creationVSAvoidintegration into creative service systems
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a digital creative brief schema as an intermediary layer between the simple word-processing document and the complex creative service system. This schema acts as a standardized interface that translates unstructured brief information into structured data that the service system can process, thereby enabling integration without complicating the creation process for marketers.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms the creative brief from an unstructured document format into a structured digital format with defined parameters and attributes. By changing the parameters from free-text fields to standardized data structures (including mandatory and optional attributes), the brief becomes machine-readable and integrable into creative service systems while maintaining ease of creation through guided input forms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If conventional creative briefs are abandoned during campaigns, then content creators rely on personal knowledge, but created content deviates from intended purpose

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent creator flexibilityVSAvoidalignment with intended purpose
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by structuring the creative brief with predefined attributes, categories, and validation rules before the content creation process begins. This preliminary structuring ensures that all necessary information is captured and organized in a way that guides content creators throughout the campaign, preventing deviation from the intended purpose while allowing flexibility in execution.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where the structured creative brief data is continuously referenced and validated against the actual content being created. The system provides feedback to content creators about whether their work aligns with the brief requirements, and allows marketers to verify that created content meets the specified criteria, thereby maintaining precision throughout the creative process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If conventional creative briefs provide little useful information, then creation is tedious for users, but content creators still need to produce effective content

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experienceVSAvoiduseful information for content creation
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the creative brief into distinct, organized categories and attributes (such as mandatory attributes, optional attributes, and hierarchical structures). This segmentation makes the information more manageable and easier to navigate for users, reducing the perceived tediousness while ensuring that all necessary information is systematically captured and made available to content creators.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal creative brief schema that serves multiple functions: it guides marketers in providing necessary information, structures data for system processing, validates content against requirements, and provides reference material for content creators. This multi-functional design ensures that the brief remains a valuable resource throughout the entire campaign lifecycle without being overly burdensome to complete.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10853766B2Creative brief schema
Publication Date: 2020.12.01 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

A creative brief schema 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 by employing the creative brief schema. Initially, the service provider system defines the 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. Examples of these attributes include a brief identifier, a brief name, associated products or services, creative spend, expected performance, audience demographics, delivery channels, mood, and so forth.