A successful content mix isn't random. ClickUp uses a formula: A) Recreate your proven hits. B) Adapt what's working for others. C) Jump on relevant trends. D) Experiment with unconventional ideas. The goal is to turn "D" experiments into new "A" hits, ensuring a constantly evolving strategy.

To avoid bureaucratic slowdowns at scale, Canva organizes its marketing team into small, empowered "swift boat pods." These teams can pursue impactful ideas with minimal friction and approvals, preserving a scrappy, experimental culture and preventing bureaucracy from stifling creativity.

To scale a testing program effectively, empower distributed marketing teams to run their own experiments. Providing easy-to-use tools within a familiar platform (like Sitecore XM Cloud) democratizes the process, leveraging local and industry-specific knowledge while avoiding the bottleneck of a central CRO team.

Instead of brainstorming subjectively and then seeking data to support a favorite idea, start with audience insights. Analyzing what content people already engage with defines the creative sandbox, leading to more effective campaigns from the outset and avoiding resource-draining failures.

Viral growth isn't luck; it's an iterative process. When a piece of content shows even minor success, immediately abandon your content plan and create a variation on the winning theme. This business-like A/B testing approach magnifies momentum and systematically builds towards parabolic growth.

Don't just show creatives a summary report from the marketing team. Giving designers, copywriters, and video editors raw access to performance data allows them to spot non-obvious patterns and make intuitive leaps that analytical minds might miss, leading to better creative.

Instead of blindly cross-posting, build an automated workflow that identifies your top-performing content from a primary channel (e.g., best TikToks in 24 hours). This 'repurposing engine' then intelligently reformats and distributes only these proven winners to maximize reach and impact.

For brands with distributed networks, a central marketing platform provides crucial visibility into what local teams are actually creating. Tracking metrics like content generation and channel preferences uncovers trends that are otherwise invisible, allowing central marketing to understand ROI and learn from frontline experiments.

Escape the content creation treadmill. An effective strategy is to produce a small number of high-quality, high-performing pillar assets. These core ideas can then be endlessly remixed into different formats and angles, maximizing their impact and reducing the need for constant net-new creation.