Germán Frassa

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Digital Product Strategy and Management @ Prensa Ibérica
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Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain, Spain
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About Germán Frassa

I help companies to assemble, train, and manage digital product and audience development teams to define and deliver products that customers love AND work for the business. For more than a decade, I pioneered the introduction of product thinking and strategy in some of the most important media brands in the Spanish-speaking world (El Mundo, Marca, Expansión), helping them translate their leadership from their legacy businesses into the digital universe. I am currently leading digital strategy at RELEVO, the sports news platform in development by Vocento.My mantras: user-centered, data-driven product definition; rapid interactive prototyping; continuous functional user testing; agile development, and multivariate product optimization. Author of "Productos Digitales: el proceso de creación" (2016), one of the first (and still few) books in Spanish about digital product management.

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Prensa Ibérica

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Digital Product Strategy and Management
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Germán Frassa Work Experience Details
  • Prensa Ibérica
    Digital Product Director
    Prensa Ibérica Jun 2024 - Present
    Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain
  • Freelance
    Coach, Digital Product Strategy
    Freelance Jul 2021 - Present
    Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain
    Instructor and mentor in digital transformation programs for Latin American media, offered by organizations like GNI (Google News Initiative), Meta Journalism Project, International News Media Association (INMA), News Product Alliance, ADEPA (Asociación de entidades Periodísticas de Argentina), and the Newmark Graduate Journalism School at CUNY (City University of New York).
  • Máster En Produción Xornalística E Audiovisual
    Product Strategy And Management, Associate Professor
    Máster En Produción Xornalística E Audiovisual Apr 2021 - Present
    A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
  • Universidad Carlos Iii De Madrid
    Product Management, Associate Professor
    Universidad Carlos Iii De Madrid Jan 2012 - Present
    Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain
    Professor of Product Management at Máster de Comunicación Institucional y Relaciones Públicas, offered by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Unidad Editorial.
  • Relevo
    Product And Strategy Director, Relevo
    Relevo Dec 2021 - Jun 2024
    Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain
    I led Product Strategy, Audience Development, and Social Publishing at Vocento's sports news platform since its launch in May 2022.
  • The Valley Digital Business School
    Product Management, Associate Professor
    The Valley Digital Business School Oct 2012 - Dec 2021
    Madrid Area, Spain
    Coordinator, professor at Product Design module within MDB+ (Master in Digital Business).Author of "Productos Digitales: el proceso de creación", volume #8 of a collection of books on digital transformation, published by TVDBS in 2016.
  • Unidad Editorial
    Director, Digital Product & Audience Development
    Unidad Editorial Oct 2019 - May 2021
    Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain
    My main project in this phase at UE was to define and launch the paid content offerings of El Mundo and Expansión, which in just 2 years of operation amassed a combined portfolio of +100,000 customers. After launch, we complemented this project with a signwall, which increased monthly user registrations by 400% and logged-in sessions by 33% in El Mundo.We also deployed an anti-ad blocking solution at Marca.com, reducing the adblock rate in desktop from 35% to under 20%, which opened the opportunity of a 23% increase in desktop ad inventory. After some false starts in the CRO field, by the beginning of 2021 we achieved an average of 3 running experiments per week, bringing into production many design and UX tweaks that increased conversion and engagement. I also took steps into integrating functional QA into our product lifecycle by applying a criteria framework we dubbed “MVP Bakers”.To my existing Product responsibilities, I also took care of Audience Development, helping the SEO team to make its transition from focusing mostly on Google search to manage all sources of traffic (e.g. Facebook, Youtube, etc.). In this area, we defined an objective set of criteria to monitor and improve the impact of editorial decisions on SEO. We also succeeded in making Marca liveblogs available in live carousels on Google's SERPs, a feature that for obscure reasons was for years limited to a single competitor in Spain.On the innovation front, we implemented (with financial support from the Digital News Initiative) a project called ReT-UX (Real-Time User eXperience), a real-time, bi-directional, personalized in-web messaging service based on web sockets. We initially used the platform to let users visiting the site know in real-time when there are important news updates on the home page.
  • Unidad Editorial
    Director, Digital Product
    Unidad Editorial Mar 2015 - Oct 2019
    Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain
    In this phase, I oversaw the Product Management, Design, and Optimization teams. Proud to have led outstanding projects such as:Continuous navigation: An "infinite loop" that also works on home pages, serving section “fronts” as the user scrolls down. Still running on the main company's websites, it increased page views of section fronts by a factor of 30, substituting low-quality, bottom-half homepage ad slots for high-viewability, better-segmented section front ad slots, adding an inventory similar in volume to that of the home page itself. It also increased article impressions by 10% and reduced by 50% the average home page length in pixels, making it easier to update for newsrooms and faster to load on users' devices. It is a critical piece of the consistent advantage El Mundo and Marca have had since the launch in engagement metrics over its competitors. Átomos: An in-house system to dynamically add ad slots to articles, based on the article length, helping our Ad Sales team to achieve their targets by rationally optimizing the page real estate. Instead of clogging the screen with ads, the system uses rulesets to analyze the article content structure at publishing time to find suitable spots for inserting ads (e.g. not placing an ad between a question and its reply in an interview), striking a balance between revenue and user engagement goals. On the Product Design front, I led the team into developing a quick workflow for prototyping and testing product concepts with real users for early error detection. The system applies ideas by Steve Krug and Jakob Nielsen by combining tools like Axure, Camtasia and UserZoom, and is still a cornerstone of product development at the company. I also modernized the digital working environment by introducing leading services for real-time content analytics (Chartbeat), A/B testing (Optimizely, VWO), UX research/testing (User Zoom, HotJar, CrazyEgg, Litmus, Browserstack) and web performance monitoring (SpeedCurve).
  • Unidad Editorial
    Director, Platforms & Project Management
    Unidad Editorial Nov 2010 - Mar 2015
    Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain
    Unidad Editorial is one of the main print/digital media groups in Spain. At the beginning, I was the leader of the Product/Project Management team at the Digital Development Division, serving all UE brands (El Mundo, Marca, Expansión, Telva). In this phase at the company, I introduced the roles of product and project manager, implemented agile methodologies, and assembled what was probably the first Product-led team in a Spanish-speaking media company. I trained product managers in an effective, simple method to define products in detail, based on the use of "personas", the mapping of user's tasks to content and the abstract modelling of that content, allowing a clearer and more efficient interaction with UX and tech leads. I moved the product design team from being Photoshop-based to interactive prototyping in Axure, switched the workflow to a "mobile-first" setup, and aligned the development work on the web and native apps, making sure that new features and products are simultaneously available on all surfaces.I also acted as technical director of the project that in 2012 got an official online gambling license for Marca, making it the first digital newspaper in Spain to enter this business through the creation of Marca Apuestas, a ~250m € company sold to Sportium in 2021.
  • Mib - Instituto Superior Para El Desarrollo De Internet (Isdi)
    Internet Content Strategy, Associate Professor
    Mib - Instituto Superior Para El Desarrollo De Internet (Isdi) Sep 2009 - May 2014
    Madrid Area, Spain
    Professor of Content Strategy within the Product Development module of the first Master degree in Spain entirely devoted to digital business.
  • Vocento
    Managing Director, Qué.Es And Vertical Portals
    Vocento Jun 2010 - Nov 2010
    Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain
    In this phase, to my existing responsibillites I added the management of three Vocento's vertical portals: Mujerhoy.com (for women), HoyCinema / LaGuíaTV (movies and TV) and Finanzas.com (business and finance).
  • Vocento
    Managing Director, Qué.Es
    Vocento Jun 2008 - Jul 2010
    Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain
    Managing both the business side and the digital newsroom, I launched the web version of the second most popular free newspaper in Spain. By re-training journalists in digital skills, eschewing the traditional newsroom division into editorial sections and, instead, assigning responsibilities based on key digital activities (home page curation, social media, multimedia, deep linking, etc.), we moved the site from top 20 to top 5 position in the Nielsen digital newspaper ranking by monthly uniques, making Qué.es the second most visited website within our group, only behind flagship ABC.es.
  • Telefónica De España
    Digital Content Distribution Manager
    Telefónica De España Jul 2006 - Apr 2008
    Madrid Area, Spain
    Responsible of product management and business development of Pixbox, Telefónica's movies and music download service.
  • Terra Networks España
    Business And Product Development, Director
    Terra Networks España Jul 2004 - Jun 2006
    Madrid Area, Spain
    Business development and definition of the portfolio of online product and services in Terra Spain (http://www.terra.es).
  • Terra Networks Latam
    Regional Content Director
    Terra Networks Latam Mar 2002 - Jun 2004
    Madrid Area, Spain
    Coordinator of regional content production and distribution initiatives involving several Terra portal across Spain, Latin America (including the US Hispanics area).
  • Terra Networks Argentina
    Portal Director
    Terra Networks Argentina Mar 2000 - 2002
    Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Terra Networks Argentina
    Content Manager
    Terra Networks Argentina Sep 1999 - Feb 2000
    Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • El Sitio
    Editor, Technology Content
    El Sitio 1998 - 1999
    Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Mind Opener, S.A.
    Online Editor, Information Technology Magazine
    Mind Opener, S.A. 1997 - 1998
    Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Télam, National News Agency
    Journalist
    Télam, National News Agency Dec 1992 - Jun 1996
    Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Several newsroom positions, from staff writer to section chief (breaking news, local info, movies, books, music, special reports).

Germán Frassa Skills

Digital Strategy New Media Content Strategy Web 2.0 Digital Marketing Online Advertising Online Marketing Digital Media Editorial Product Management Social Media Multimedia Seo Web Analytics Social Media Marketing User Experience Content Management Mobile Marketing Google Analytics Journalism Sem Blogging Usability Information Architecture Advertising Newspapers Search Engine Optimization Web Development Writing Cms Marketing Communications Mobile Devices Newspaper Mobile Transcoding

Germán Frassa Education Details

  • Instituto Nacional De Cine Y Artes Audiovisuales
    Instituto Nacional De Cine Y Artes Audiovisuales
    (Unfinished)
  • Journalism School, Círculo De Periodistas Deportivos, Buenos Aires
    Journalism School, Círculo De Periodistas Deportivos, Buenos Aires
    Journalism

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