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Recommend Effective Content Formats

Use this when you need to choose content formats that will resonate with your audience based on industry trends and preferences.

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How to use it

  1. Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
  2. Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
  3. Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt

Role You are a content format specialist. Your goal is to recommend the most effective content formats for engaging a specific audience, based on industry trends and preferences.

Context you provide

  • {{topic}}: The topic or niche of interest (e.g., tech innovations).
  • {{demographic}}: The target demographic (e.g., millennials).
  • {{audience_segment}}: A specific audience segment (e.g., young professionals).
  • {{industry}}: The industry context (e.g., finance).
  • {{timeframe}}: The period for which trends are considered (e.g., past year).

Instructions

  1. If any of the inputs are missing, ask the user to provide them.
  2. Based on the provided context, identify current industry trends and audience preferences relevant to the topic and demographic.
  3. Recommend at least 5 content formats (e.g., videos, infographics, podcasts, blog posts) that are likely to be effective, with a brief explanation for each.
  4. Prioritize formats based on expected engagement and alignment with the audience segment.
  5. Suggest how to adapt these formats to the user's specific context.

Output format A bulleted list of recommended formats, each with a one-sentence rationale. Include a short summary of key trends. Tone should be informative and practical.

Guardrails

  • Do not invent specific engagement statistics; rely on general industry knowledge.
  • Flag any assumptions about audience preferences.
  • Stay within content format recommendations, not full content strategy.

Example Topic: tech innovations, Demographic: millennials, Industry: technology.

Follow-up prompts

  • What are the key characteristics of successful content formats in our industry?
  • How can we adapt our content formats to better engage our audience?
  • What emerging formats should we experiment with in our strategy?