Quick Thinking
Confluent
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From tech proposition to business-ready messaging
Confluent’s data streaming platform helps businesses access and use data in real time. But its messaging was built for technical audiences, filled with terms like ‘data architecture’, ‘MLOps pipelines’ and ‘Apache Kafka’.
While data engineers understood its value, business leaders didn’t. Confluent needed a new narrative to reach the C-suite.
Our audience insights revealed business leaders were caught between moving fast by relying on ‘gut feel’ or being slow to react by taking time to analyse data. They needed a third way — the ability to move quickly with the confidence that they were making informed decisions.
Enter Quick Thinking — a new communications campaign to reposition Confluent’s technology as the enabler for better business decision-making.
Reaching new audiences. Driving growth
Quick Thinking gave Confluent a platform to speak directly to the C-suite, transforming a complex technical proposition into a compelling business story.
By combining original research with strategic media engagement, we elevated Confluent into national and business media for the first time, while strengthening its presence across core technology titles.
The Quick Thinking narrative also underpinned marketing campaigns, event keynotes and sales enablement, directly supporting qualified lead generation.
More importantly, we helped to establish Confluent as the business leader in real-time data streaming, reframing the brand as a driver of faster, smarter business decisions — not simply another infrastructure technology.
The business power of real-time data streaming
Quick Thinking shifted the conversation away from technical product features to the real business challenges data streaming can solve.
Research commissioned with 200 UK business leaders revealed the critical challenge: 90% have to make decisions in ‘real time’, but over half say data is out of date by the time it reaches them and 46% use ‘gut feel’ to make key decisions.
These insights became the foundation of an integrated campaign involving media engagement, content creation and lead generation.
An online campaign hub brought the findings to life through executive insight and practical business advice, with an ebook and sales deck delivering fresh ways to approach lead generation and prospect engagement.
The platform also became the centrepiece of Confluent’s annual Current event, shaping keynote sessions, C-suite roundtables and media briefings, while an annual media programme took the story to national, business and technology publications.
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