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Content Rocket Integration

ApproveThis manages your Content Rocket Integration approvals.

April 17, 2025

Integration Category: Content Files

Modern businesses face a critical challenge: moving fast without sacrificing quality. For marketing teams, legal departments, and operations managers, this often means wrestling with disjointed approval processes that delay campaigns, frustrate stakeholders, and create compliance risks. Enter the integration between ApproveThis and Content Rocket – a solution that bridges the gap between content creation and decision-making.

Why This Integration Matters

Content Rocket excels at producing social media assets, blog posts, and multimedia content at scale. But even the most efficient creation process hits roadblocks when legal teams need to review compliance, executives demand final sign-offs, or clients request edits. ApproveThis adds structure to these decision points through:

  • Automatic routing based on content type or approval thresholds
  • Real-time visibility into approval bottlenecks
  • Email-based approvals requiring no software downloads

Together, these platforms enable marketing agencies to reduce content review cycles from days to hours, e-commerce teams to maintain brand consistency across global campaigns, and regulated industries to automatically enforce compliance checks.

Three Workflows That Transform Content Operations

1. Pre-Publish Quality Control

The Problem: A financial services company needs legal review for every social media post but can't afford to slow down their daily content calendar.

The Solution: When Content Rocket generates a new draft (via its "New Input Record" trigger), ApproveThis automatically:

  • Routes the post to compliance officers based on keywords like "ROI" or "guaranteed"
  • Escalates overdue approvals to backup reviewers using vacation delegation
  • Updates Content Rocket's publishing queue via Zapier once approved

Result: 63% faster legal reviews at a major insurance provider using this workflow.

2. Client-Driven Content Revisions

The Problem: Marketing agencies lose billable hours chasing client feedback through endless email threads.

The Solution: ApproveThis converts client decisions into actionable tasks:

When a client rejects a video storyboard (triggering ApproveThis' "Request Denied" event), Content Rocket automatically:

  • Creates a revision ticket with annotated comments
  • Assigns the task to the original designer
  • Sets a deadline based on the project's calculated due date field

Key Benefit: External clients approve directly via email without needing Content Rocket logins.

3. Audit-Ready Compliance Logging

The Problem: Healthcare organizations struggle to prove marketing materials received proper approvals before publication.

The Solution: Every approval decision in ApproveThis triggers Content Rocket to:

  • Record the approver's name, timestamp, and comments
  • Attach final approved versions to a centralized audit log
  • Generate monthly compliance reports automatically

Critical Feature: Approval thresholds automatically flag high-risk content for extra scrutiny based on predefined compliance rules.

Setting Up the Integration

Connecting ApproveThis and Content Rocket via Zapier takes under 15 minutes:

  1. Create a Zapier account (free tier available)
  2. Choose your trigger (e.g., "New Input Record" in Content Rocket)
  3. Select the resulting action ("Create Request" in ApproveThis)
  4. Map Content Rocket fields to ApproveThis templates
  5. Test with a live content piece

Pro Tip: Use ApproveThis' calculated fields to auto-route content based on variables like project budget or word count pulled from Content Rocket.

Team-Specific Benefits

Marketing Teams

Accelerate campaign launches by setting parallel approval paths for copy, visuals, and compliance checks. If a social media post needs both legal review and brand alignment approval, ApproveThis handles both simultaneously while Content Rocket holds the publish date.

Legal/Compliance Teams

Reduce risk exposure through conditional logic. Example: Any Content Rocket asset tagged "FDA-regulated" automatically requires two senior reviewers in ApproveThis, while standard blog posts only need marketing director approval.

Operations Teams

Gain real-time visibility into bottlenecks. ApproveThis' dashboard shows which Content Rocket projects are delayed awaiting approvals, enabling proactive resource allocation.

Critical Features That Make It Work

Approval Thresholds: Auto-approve minor copy edits under $500 budget impact but require CFO sign-off for changes affecting quarterly forecasts.

Calculated Fields: Dynamically determine required approvers based on Content Rocket metadata like content type or target region.

Email Approvals: External clients or executives approve directly from their inbox without training on either platform.

Real-World Impact

A B2B SaaS company reduced their sales enablement content cycle from 22 to 8 days by:

  1. Creating product sheets in Content Rocket
  2. Auto-routing to ApproveThis for legal/product team reviews
  3. Publishing only when all stakeholders approved

Their CMO noted: "We now handle 3x more content requests without adding headcount."

Getting Started

To implement these workflows:

  1. Sign up for ApproveThis (14-day trial available)
  2. Connect your Content Rocket account via Zapier
  3. Clone pre-built templates or create custom approval chains

For complex use cases like multi-regional approvals or regulated industries, book a custom demo to see conditional logic and audit features in action.

The Bottom Line

Content creation tools like Content Rocket remove production bottlenecks – until decisions need to be made. ApproveThis eliminates this last mile of delay through:

  • Structured approval processes that adapt to your content strategy
  • Seamless handoffs between creation and decision platforms
  • Enterprise-grade audit trails without enterprise complexity

The integration works where your team already does – no disruptive platform migrations required. Start with a single workflow (like client approvals), then expand as you see time savings compound.

Ready to accelerate your content velocity? Launch your free trial or schedule a tailored demo to see industry-specific workflows.

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Best Approval Workflows for Content Rocket

Suggested workflows (and their Zapier components) for Content Rocket

Create approval requests for new content inputs

When a new input record is added in Content Rocket, an approval request is generated in ApproveThis to verify content before publication. This integration streamlines quality control and content compliance. *Note: Adjust your approval workflow settings in ApproveThis as needed.*

Zapier Components

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Trigger

New Input Record

Triggers when a new input record is created.

Action

Create Request

Creates a new request, probably with input from previous steps.

Create input records for new approval requests

Whenever a new approval workflow is initiated in ApproveThis, a content input record is created in Content Rocket to maintain a consistent record of approvals. This automation enhances tracking and streamlines content management. *Note: Customize input details mapping in Content Rocket as needed.*

Zapier Components

Trigger

New Request

Triggers when a new approval request workflow is initiated.

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Action

Create Input Record

Creates an Input record in the system

Create content logs for completed approvals

When an approval decision is made in ApproveThis, a content log is created in Content Rocket to capture the outcome of the workflow. This integration simplifies record keeping and decision tracking. *Note: Map approval statuses carefully between systems.*

Zapier Components

Trigger

A Request Is Approved/Denied

Triggers when a request is approved or denied.

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Action

Create Input Record

Creates an Input record in the system