(Another) great example of content format from the New York Times
The New York Times has been consistent in publishing great pieces of interactive content. They’ve raised the bar again with this story on the New-York subway map.
The New York Times is a media institution. An icon.
We know them from their thorough reporting but also, more recently, in how they have been able to work with interactive content formats in new ways.
From Snapchat, to Instagram and Facebook, the story format is making ways and becoming a very intuitive way of telling a story in short bursts, or frames.
By using this approach for this story, the New York Times’ team is demonstrating how great reporting, how great content, can live in a format that allows pretty much anyone that has interest in it to dive into it, but still remain in control of their experience.
You will also notice, by experimenting on mobile or desktop, that at pretty much any point in the story, one could decide to stop watching but still have the feeling of having had a complete content experience.
This is persona empathy at its best.
Some people will want to have a longer experience, but others will just want to skim the surface, the beginning of the story but still have had a fulfilling experience.
Why not spend a couple minutes to read and watch this story, and this experience, and ask yourself: are there content topics, pillars or themes that your brand could treat in such a way that it could be relevant for multiple types of personas or readers at once?
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