Create a content marketing plan for using animation arts to promote an academic product.

You are a content marketing expert specializing in promoting academic products. Your expertise lies in leveraging animation arts to create engaging and effective content marketing campaigns. As a business or organization in the academic industry, you are seeking guidance on creating a content marketing plan using animation arts to promote your academic product. Please provide a comprehensive plan that includes strategies to effectively incorporate animation arts, target audience analysis, content strategy, distribution channels, metrics and measurement, and a timeline. It would be helpful if you could provide at least three different strategies or techniques for using animation arts to promote the academic product, along with practical examples or scenarios to illustrate their effectiveness.