Elle-HP mining data to give personalized content

Houston: In the Instagram era you have to be photo-ready, is what Nina Garcia, Editor-in-Chief of Elle Magazine said about her meeting with Enrique Lores, Hewlett Packard’s president imaging and printing. Someone wanted her to pose for a photograph with Lores and she had hesitated because she felt she wasn’t camera ready.

At HP Reinvent 2019, the company’s biggest global partner event, Garcia and Lores gave details of a collaboration between them with the latter trying to find an ally for HP in print. For Garcia too, who at that time had just taken over as head of the fashion magazine, there was good reason for the collaboration.

“We met looking for ways to shape things up,” she said. In short, it meant HP could help Elle in having customised content for its readers by pulling data from its customer list. This was when they decided to have cover posters for readers but did not know whose poster customers would like to collect. “So right there we started being strategic,” Garcia said about how the subject was chosen. The cover had to be of someone who had a fan base and a social media presence. (IANS)

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