The Composable Content guide
How composable content is transforming digital experiences across industries
Lisa Lozeau
Updated: November 20, 2024
The Composable Content guide
- 1. What is Composable content?
- 2. What is composable architecture?
- 3. Composable vs headless
- 4. What is a composable CMS?
- 5. From composable content to composable commerce
- 6. Composable content for marketers
- 7. Composable content for developers
- 8. How composable content is transforming digital experiences across industries
This is chapter 8 of the series, The Composable Content Guide
Summary
Composable content gives small teams a competitive advantage and lets large enterprises manage content efficiently across multiple experiences, channels, regions, and brands.
In this final chapter, we’ll show you how composable content is transforming experiences and the way teams deliver them across industries.
When you’re ready to see what composable content can do for you, let’s chat.
Retail and consumer packaged goods
Featured case study: Ace & Tate
Challenge:
Ace & Tate struggled to scale its storytelling and preview content before publishing to support frequent and important campaign launches and new collections.
Solution:
- A composable content platform stores/structures content to scale.
- An easy-to-use editorial interface gives marketers autonomy.
- Integrations support A/B testing and personalization.
Results:
- 5 locales supported.
- 30+ unique campaigns launched in 8 months.
- 11 markets were served.
See more retail case studies or download our retail guide to composable content.
Quick serve restaurants
Featured case study: KFC
Challenge:
KFC struggled to support its global franchises with a user-friendly piece of technology that would support brand consistency and scaling as franchises uplevel their digital marketing efforts.
Solution:
- A unified, user-friendly content model shared by multiple markets: Australia, India, South Africa, Canada.
- Governance balances brand consistency with localized content (menus, promotions, etc.).
Results:
- 50% of sales are now digital.
- Increase in digital sales since before adopting Contentful.
- Increase in menu-to-cart conversion.
See more QSR case studies or download our quick serve restaurant guide to composable content.
Media and telecom companies
Featured case study: Audible
Challenge:
Audible’s monolithic CMS required developer intervention to manage content, hindering creativity and collaboration amid a brand refresh.
Solution:
- A composable content platform creates a framework for consistency and repeatability.
- Extensibility features support, building more immersive digital features.
- A knowledge-base framework makes brand guidelines accessible, supporting consistency.
Results:
- 7 locales supported
- 20% increase in conversion rates
- 200K increase in organic blog visits
- 19 region-specific blogs launched
- 80% decrease in content production time
See more media and telecom case studies.
Sports and entertainment companies
Featured case study: Milwaukee Bucks
Challenge:
The Milwaukee Bucks lacked an agile, scalable content solution to support new digital platforms — namely its app that provided information to fans about Deer District — its gameday remote-watching venue.
Solution:
- A headless content platform streamlines integrations.
- A low-code environment and content models to enhance productivity.
- Contentful Content Delivery API to reduce lag and downtime.
Results:
- 2.9 million app opens during the NBA playoffs with no lag/downtime.
- 106k engagements during the NBA finals in 2021.
- 392% increase in YOY site conversion from 2020 to 2021 (when it adopted Contentful).
See more sports and entertainment case studies.
Technology companies
Featured case study: DocuSign
Challenge:
DocuSign’s monolithic CMS didn’t offer all the capabilities teams needed to update and manage content, requiring them to build a work-around in an attempt to speed up content production and enable localization.
Solution:
- Streamlined workflows enable faster handoffs and publishing.
- An editor-friendly user interface empowers teams to update content without developer assistance.
- Localization presets support rapid roll out and expansion to new markets.
Results:
- Faster time to update web content. Before Contentful, it took two weeks, with Contentful, it takes just minutes.
- Fast and simple localization.
See more technology case studies.
Manufacturing and automotive companies
Featured case study: BMW
Challenge:
BMW wanted to set a new digital standard within the automotive industry but lacked the technology and tooling to unify its brand across dealerships and connect with customers online.
Solution:
- A solution partner sped up migration with tech recommendations, a content audit, and content modeling support.
- Composable content, governance features, and a “fixed,” “flexible,” and “free” content model create a balance between consistency and flexibility.
- An easy-to-use, no-code platform encourages dealers to manage their content, lightening the workload for the larger BMW team.
Results:
- 44% increase in finance quote requests.
- 61% increase in “Contact us” submissions.
- 47% increase in test-drive bookings.
Healthcare
Featured case study: Breastcancer.org
Challenge:
Breastcancer.org struggled to find an easy-to-update, single source of truth to house and edit its dense library of medical information.
Solution:
- Structured content and references support consistency.
- Integrations streamline collaborative workflows.
- Localization features speed up translation.
- UI customizations improve the editorial experience.
Results:
- 194 million site visitors.
- 1,300+ articles stored in one place.
- 50% faster translations.
See more healthcare case studies.
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Written by
Lisa Lozeau
Lisa Lozeau is an expert in content strategy, content creation, and content marketing, where she has utilized these skills as a writer at Contentful for over 6 years. She has led marketing programs across several industries on a variety of platforms. Well-versed in the limitations of traditional CMSes, she is passionate about innovative solutions.