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The B2B Marketing Guide to Paid Content Distribution

Digital B2B Marketing

Forrester recently released a report pointing out the failure of most content marketers to plan for adequate content distribution. Marketers are slaving over content today, but almost no one sees that content. Start incorporating content into your advertising. And they’re right. Promoted Tweets.

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Infographic: A Brief History of Content Marketing

Contently

People often talk about content marketing like its the flashy new gadget in a marketer’s toolbox. While the practice has skyrocketed in popularity over the past few years, the principles of content marketing have been around for centuries. After a few decades, each issue reached millions of customers.

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Research Maps Spending on Content Marketing

B2B Marketing Directions

Image Source: The Branded Content Project/Borrell Associates Inc. billion on content marketing this year, according to new research commissioned by The Branded Content Project. In 16 business categories, the use of content marketing is nearly ubiquitous, and it accounts for between 45% and 66% of the total marketing budget.

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The Truth About Guest Posting

RebelMouse

There’s a lot of chatter about guest posting, or guest blogging, in the digital content community. Guest posting became oversaturated quickly, and evolved into a popular way for spammers to get their content to rank highly on search. Guest posting is often listed as a popular way to improve a site’s ranking on search.

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Everything you need to know about native ads in email newsletters

Liveintent

Native ads are similar to an advertorial but come in a variety of formats. The three main types of native ad formats are branded content native ads, in-feed native ads, and content recommendation native ads. Branded content native ads. The publisher hosts and distributes the content on its website and newsletters.

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The 2 Rules of Sponsored Content

Marketing Insider Group

Welcome to my 2nd day coverage of Content Marketing World. Yesterday we covered the content quantity vs. content qualit y debate. Today, i am participating on a panel discussing Sponsored Content. There’s a lot of debate these days around sponsored content and the more recent term of “native advertising.”.

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3 Ways Brands Can Make Native Advertising More Effective in 2017

Contently

Through focus groups and a survey of 1,212 consumers, we pinpointed some big problems with native content, but also discovered how it can deliver big benefits to advertisers. More than half of respondents felt deceived after figuring out they read content sponsored by a brand. Prioritize correct targeting for paid distribution.