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How B2B influencer marketing will grow your brand

Sprout Social

This is particularly powerful for B2B brands that craft thought leadership content. Shopify Gartner’s study on B2B buyer influencers found that YouTube informed 65% of recent B2B purchase decisions, making it the most popular platform for research.

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What Is Content Syndication: Everything You Need to Know and How to Do It

Scoop.it

As such, social syndication can be thought of as a type of cross-functional collaboration because it allows divergent actors to align their interests without losing sight of individual goals. For video content, YouTube is the most popular location to post syndicated videos. Image Source. Paid syndication. Image Source.

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19 New Featured Sources on the B2B Marketing Zone

Webbiquity

It provides b2b marketers, trade industry journalists, analysts and other subscribers with a single subscription point for all of the best thought leadership content in b2b marketing and PR. Writing on the Web ( Ning Advertorial Business Blogging Online Marketing Linkedin Landing Page ). June 8, 2010. June 8, 2010.

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So what is native advertising?

Biznology

Long Story Short: Similar to “advertorials,” native advertising is designed to be entertaining enough in its own right to compel visitors to consume, be influenced by, and even share the content, be it videos, images, articles, or music, based only on the targeted and contextual appeal that holds on its own. Thought leadership.

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15 B2B case studies show how content marketing drives ROI

Biznology

LOGICALL : A company that focuses on inbound and outbound customer management solutions, uses content assets such as emails, microsite and ebook, Logicalis developed a thought leadership effort that supported sales teams by enabling custom messaging based on the prospects interaction with the campaign. Maersk now has more than 1.5m

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The Herb Schmertz Era: When Public Relations Had Some Balls

Marketing Craftmanship

Under his regime of “creative confrontation,” Schmertz applied a number of innovative and controversial tactics including: Introduction of modern-day advocacy advertising, or “advertorials,” which first appeared on the OpEd page of the New York Times in 1970. Herb Schmertz was no reckless PR cowboy. Masterpiece Theatre Mobil Oil Corp.

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Infographics, Videos and Listicles Have Changed the Look of the MAT Release in Today’s Digital World

Brandpoint

The MAT Release explained No matter what name you give it — feature article, branded journalism, native advertising, sponsored content or advertorial – a MAT release is one of marketing’s most powerful PR tools, and has been for several decades. Videos are easy to digest with little effort, so consumers love them.