The Digital Media Audit

Optimize ROI on digital investments. Slash digital advertising & martech costs. Beat the competition.

Identify opportunities for cost-savings, performance improvement, and competitiveness with a comprehensive digital media audit

As digital budgets have skyrocketed in recent years, digital operations have become unwieldy, inefficient, and vulnerable to competitive forces. The Digital Media Audit by East Coast Catalyst was designed to fix this problem, and provide management teams with recommendations that: 

Beat the Competition: detailed planning roadmaps provide clear strategies for market differentiation and superiority

Save Money: reduce waste and leakage due to misaligned tactics, underperforming vendors, and resource gaps

Optimize ROI: adjustments in staff composition, vendor selection, and marketing mix can yield more output at lower cost

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Your digital operation is a complex web of internal and external resources

  • Advertising & Promotion: digital media (search, display / banners, classified, mobile, digital video, lead generation, sponsorships), organic search marketing, content marketing, social media, email marketing
  • Websites: copy, images, video / animation, landing pages, microsites, customized experiences, search, live chat, blogs
  • Technology: marketing automation, content management, analytics, and data management
  • Vendors: even mid-sized digital marketing operations often have 10+ vendors involved in maintenance and optimization

Areas of investigation

Digital media audits include an assessment of the entire digital ecosystem, including:

Infrastructure

Hosting performance and scalability, hosting vendor and contract, business process methods

Website

User experience review, conversion optimization analysis

Technology

CMS, e-commerce, CRM, marketing automation, custom applications, intranet/extranet

Creative

Digital asset review, online and offline integration, messaging, content marketing

Digital Media Channels

Search marketing (organic & paid), display advertising, social media, email marketing, community development, mobile, online PR

Analytics

Technology review, configuration analysis, data collection and management

Vendors

Interviews and assessments, scoring, recommendations and introductions

Staff

Capability and composition assessment, coaching and training

Competition

Point-by-point benchmarking, budget and resource comparisons, website evaluations, SWOT analysis

Unlock Your Digital Potential with a Digital Media Audit

Is your digital marketing strategy optimized for success? East Coast Catalyst provides expert, independent analysis to help you maximize ROI and achieve your business goals.

Who needs a Digital Media Audit?

Any senior executive who has a vested interest in an organization’s digital performance is a candidate. Our clients cluster around the following executive types:

  • Boards of Directors entrusted by shareholders to guide companies through digital transformation
  • CEOs who are increasingly dependent on digital strategies for corporate performance
  • CFOs benchmarking their company’s performance and ROI against the competition
  • Business Unit Executives conducting strategic planning
  • CMOs who are setting budgets and requesting increases
  • Entrepreneurs who need to identify cost-effective digital marketing options
  • Investors who are evaluating new ventures in marketing technology and digital advertising

What are the Tangible Benefits?

A digital media audit uncovers opportunities for cost savings AND performance optimization

  • Objective and independent analysis from an experienced firm with no conflicts in the marketplace
  • comprehensive digital marketing framework for organizing resources, measuring performance, and understanding the digital ecosystem
  • Competitor and best-practice benchmarking to guide resource allocation and set expectations across the organization
  • digital marketing media roadmap for corporate planning, execution, and organizational alignment

Why East Coast Catalyst?

East Coast Catalyst (ECC) is an independent, privately-held digital media management consulting firm. Our founders are senior practitioners with decades of hands-on experience in digital media, online marketing, and web technology — working for globally recognized brands, respected middle market companies, and start-ups. ECC is also the founder and operator of Chief Digital Officer (www.chiefdigitalofficer.net), a new and growing community focused on the the interesection of digital business, digital marketing, and digital technology. ECC’s findings and recommendations — the output of digital media audits — are based on structured analysis and methodologies, and the unique requirements of our clients; we believe this objective and vendor-neutral approach is unique in the marketplace, and we therefore have no financial interest in digital vendors, media or technologies that could affect our strategic recommendations. For more information, please visit www.eastcoastcatalyst.com.

Hear what our clients have to say

“In my view, ECC’s ‘Digital Media Audit’ offering is among the best available in the marketplace.”

William Agush,

Founder CEO, Shuttersong Inc.

“ECC’s fresh and comprehensive approach to digital media helps executives maximize performance and ROI. It’s really that simple.”

Alan Osetek,

President, Resolution Media

“East Coast Catalyst helped our organization plan and manage a complex digital initiative by relying on the firm’s structured, analytical and objective methodology.”

Jason Kuscma,

Executive Director, NY METRO

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