Journey Builder vs Automation Builder studio

Question

Need some direction on the best way to approach this use case in SFMC:

Sweepstakes campaign that runs for 60 days. Once someone enters they receive a confirmation of entry. That's the easy part.

From there they will receive a re-entry reminder email that provides them a link to go to a landing page and re-enter the sweeps. Here's where it gets tricky. The email content for the reminder will feature a different 'hero' video each day that is specific to that day of the week. (the implication here is that this can't be a standard journey builder because I need the person that enters to not start at the beginning of the journey)

i.e. if it's day 20, the person that entered on day 1 will receive the same re-entry reminder email as the person who entered on day 19.

Answer 1

To expound on Lukas' answer - Rather than handwrite each of these, I would place them inside of a DE and then have the ampscript in the email perform a lookup to that DE to find the appropriate content area:

(If only the URL/IMG changes - you could set these in the DE and use variables rather than build a content area for each)

Example below.

DE: (Content_DE)

    Date         | ContentID
2017/12/06 | 102050
2017/12/07 | 102051
etc...

AMPScript:

%%[
SET @Today = NOW()
SET @Contentid = LOOKUP('Content_DE', 'ContentID', 'Date', @Today)
]%%
%%=ContentArea(@Contentid)=%%

---

EDIT

Content Builder requires you to use the Content Block AMPScript calls. See below for the two options:

Content Block by Key (references external key of Content Block) %%=ContentBlockbyKey("myContentBlock")=%%

Content Block by Name (Name of the content block to return - need full path) %%=ContentBlockByName("Content Builder\Weekly Portfolio")=%%

To utilize these, you would need to include either the name or the key instead of the ContentID in your DE/SQL.

Answer 2

I would do it using ContentArea('ID') AMPScript function:

Build 7 separate content areas, containing HTML for the hero of the email, and select each of them, based on the weekday.

SET @today = Format(SystemDateToLocalDate(Now()), "dddd")

Then build IF / ELSE IF which switches between the different content areas, based on the value of @today

EDIT:

You might not even need to use a DE to map dates and content IDs. Imagine this scenario. You add a number field to your sendable DE, which you increment for each email sendout. This field is then read into the email, into the @JourneyDay - then you can use it to retrieve the content areas, named: Day1, Day2, Day3 and so on.

%%=ContentBlockByName(Concat("Content Builder\Day",@JourneyDay))=%%