Content Studio Brief
Learning partnerships
Program
Content DeveloperFormat
Stockholm, HybridPeriod
Apr 21 - May 23, 2025Cost
20 000 SEKOverview
The core of this course is for the students to explore what it means to run a content business from a day-to-day perspective, including: management, organisation, culture, finance and clients. The students will be responsible for all aspects of full life-cycle content projects while being challenged in the team development and leadership knowledge, skills and competencies.
Course Goals Students
- Manage stakeholder relationships and expectations for concept generation, strategic deliverables and final output
- Apply business acumen to design and technology to optimise content creation and distribution
- Manage content projects in terms of time, resources and requirements
- Create engaging stories that present information in an innovative way
What is a Content Studio?
A content studio typically works on a wide range of projects and business challenges related to content creation, production, and distribution. Some common types of projects and challenges that a content studio may work on include:
Content Strategy: Developing a comprehensive content strategy that aligns with the brand's goals and target audience, and outlines the types of content to be created, channels to be used, and key messaging.
Content Creation: Producing various types of content such as articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, social media posts, infographics, and more. This includes ideation, writing, designing, filming, editing, and post-production.
Brand Storytelling: Crafting compelling narratives that effectively communicate the brand's values, mission, and unique selling propositions to engage and resonate with the target audience.
Content Marketing: Planning and implementing content marketing campaigns to increase brand awareness, drive traffic, generate leads, and nurture customer relationships. This may involve leveraging various distribution channels and platforms.
Social Media Management: Managing and curating social media channels, creating and scheduling posts, engaging with the audience, and monitoring social media analytics to optimise performance.
Video Production: Creating high-quality videos for various purposes, such as brand introductions, product demos, explainer videos, testimonials, and corporate videos.
SEO Content Optimization: Optimising website content, blog posts, and other digital assets to improve search engine rankings and organic visibility. This may involve keyword research, on-page optimization, and content performance analysis.
Content Analytics and Insights: Tracking and analysing content performance metrics, user engagement, and audience behaviour to gain insights and make data-driven decisions to improve content strategy and effectiveness.
Content Personalization: Tailoring content to specific audience segments or individual users based on their preferences, behaviour, or demographics, to enhance the user experience and drive better results.
Content Localisation: Adapting and translating content to target different international markets, ensuring cultural relevance, language accuracy, and local preferences.
It's important to note that the specific projects and challenges a content studio works with may vary depending on their expertise, industry focus, and the needs of their clients. In this course, the students will collaborate with their clients within areas connected to the clients business needs.
This does not mean that the students will solve all the above-mentioned areas; rather focus on 1-2 areas that are of top priority for their clients.
Client information
How will you collaborate?
Experience based Peer-Learning
In this collaborative experience the students will apply a Design Thinking approach following the process of empathise, define, ideate, prototype and test alongside the Hyper Island Experience Based Learning process of doing, reflecting, generalising and applying. In connection with this, the client will take an active role in providing feedback-loops and anchoring the process and progress of the work to their business needs.
Meetings: The client and the student team are expected to meet at least once a week.
The Hyper Island Way
The Hyper Island Way™ is about doing. By working with clients the students will grow and find the confidence to be what’s next in the industry. This also emphasises peer-learning and exchange of experience, perspectives and knowledge between students and industry professionals.
Community Innovation
Peer-learning is the bedrock of innovative growth, sparking the kind of creativity and problem-solving that no single mind can generate on its own. By enabling the exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives, it fosters a collective wisdom that drives groundbreaking solutions. By investing in peer-learning, we're not just facilitating knowledge sharing – we're pioneering a culture of collaborative innovation.
FAQ
In a Learning Partnership companies and students meet to exchange value; the students get an opportunity to learn new skills by practical implementation of the learning goals of their coursework and the client gets project deliveries in the form of strategies, reports or production of creative material and assets. Important to remember for clients is that you will be working with students still in training, who will do their best to meet expectations within the brief, but who is still “learning by doing” and who will once the project ends, move on to their next course.
Projects are around 4-6 weeks, during this time you should be available for about 2-4 hours a week to support and touch base with students as they go and to feedback continuously. The students will alongside their project with you have a parallel learning track with workshops, seminars and similar to support and enable them to solve the challenges from the brief successfully.
You have ownership over the ideas and concepts presented by students, to further develop and implement them. An NDA will be applied to ensure sensitive business information remains tightly within the collaboration.
We ask participating companies to pay a sponsorship fee to work with our students. This allows us to fund a team of three people working with Learning Partnerships across all of our full time YH programs in Sweden; ensuring quality of project briefs for our students to get practical training in real client projects as well as supporting the clients in the collaboration. It also supports us to continuously develop our programs and ensure future talent to the industry.
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