Brandpoint

MARCH 14, 2024

Branded content marketing, where public relations and marketing strategies meet, is a great way to create captivating brand stories and engage your audience. In our latest PR survey , 200 PR professionals shared how they promote and distribute branded content to elevate their brand visibility and engagement.

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Martech

MARCH 22, 2024

AI tools and large language models (LLMs) are changing the content marketing process, impacting how we conceive, produce and distribute content. Below, I delve into the content marketing lifecycle to show how content teams are incorporating generative AI at different stages.

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ClearVoice

DECEMBER 29, 2020

If you have been a content marketer for a while, you know many buzzwords are thrown around haphazardly in conversations and materials. One of those is the endless pursuit brands have with being considered a great storyteller. 6 storytelling myths in marketing.

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Contently

JANUARY 24, 2022

With strategic content methodologies, intuitive engagement metrics, and a remarkable talent network, Contently helps these brands optimize their content to tell great stories and see quantifiable results that a lackluster new year’s resolution just can’t deliver.

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Contently

AUGUST 11, 2022

As multiple researchers have found over decades of studies, stopping your marketing efforts during tough times is a mistake. Data shows that proactive marketing “ pays off ” during recessions—for brands across industries, including the likes of Toyota, Amazon, Coca-Cola, etc. Where to increase your content spend.

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ClearVoice

MAY 14, 2024

Their bring their vision to life through content frameworks that outline how they’ll create, publish, manage, and distribute content. Only 73% of marketers have a content marketing strategy in palace. But, only 40% of them have it well documented. The writer’s role is often not limited to writing.

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Contently

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Let’s just say it: Most branded content isn’t very good. I worked for years as a content strategist. I’ve spent the last decade researching and reporting on the content marketing industry. Along the way, I’ve probably consumed more pieces of branded content than anyone else.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

What are your go-to content marketing metrics ? That’s one of the toughest questions for marketers to answer, and one I heard repeatedly at both Content Marketing World and Cannes this summer. Ann : I think it’s a good idea if it’s used in a larger media mix and distribution plan of content.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

That’s partially why I love the annual speaker drinks on the opening night of Content Marketing World. But mostly, it’s because I get unfiltered access to what the smartest minds in content marketing are thinking about right now. Content marketing is being absorbed by marketing.

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Contently

JUNE 5, 2017

The brand magazine has played a really interesting role in the content marketing boom we’ve seen over the last half decade. As people continue to declare print dead, brands are still lining up to produce expensive glossy magazines. Because they look great, and the content is (usually) good. Airbnb: Airbnbmag.

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xiQ

JUNE 19, 2019

Compelling and engaging content is required, at all levels of ABM, to tell your story to your prospects. Strong content is a currency in today’s world. ABMers have to be really good storytellers. Craig Rones, VP of Marketing, NTT DATA Services. Content Marketing Institute. xiQ Helps You Tell Your Story.

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Contently

MARCH 30, 2020

Given how the coronavirus has changed our jobs as marketers , there’s a good chance you should too. The compounding returns of content. The biggest mistake people make with content marketing ROI is taking a short-term view. The vast majority of advertising and marketing is fleeting.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 30, 2021

When you hear the phrase “product marketing,” what are some of the first brands that come to mind? Product marketing is all about the consumer. To be a successful product marketer, you must pull the consumer into your narrative. All four brands mentioned above understand the importance of customer-centricity.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Kate Santore took the stage at Content Marketing World to share Coca-Cola’s storytelling ethos – and in the process inspired marketers to ask, “What if?”. Sharing this ‘thought-ware’ collectively raises the bar for every brand and therefore makes us strive for bigger, better, bolder.”. Click To Tweet. Image source.

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Contently

APRIL 2, 2018

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. But it never hurts to know your history.

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Contently

OCTOBER 11, 2019

This changing tide is why many healthcare and pharmaceutical companies are rethinking their content strategies. In 2019, 81 percent of companies are aiming for better brand awareness, per Content Marketing Institute. Think of this list as medicine for marketers searching for inspiration. Mayo Clinic | Sharing.

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Act-On

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The most common approach to B2B marketing department structure and roles Today’s B2B marketing departments are usually structured into three major buckets: Growth Marketing Product Marketing Brand Marketing Some organizations have a fourth bucket: Content Marketing.

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Anyword

JANUARY 15, 2020

From declining display revenue to the mass adoption of ad blockers, today’s storytellers face a range of unfamiliar obstacles. Leaning on two of their most valuable assets — storytelling expertise and hard-earned audience trust — many publishers have turned to branded content campaigns as a viable way to support their bottom lines.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 21, 2021

During the last year or two, we’ve seen new technologies, a backlash of sorts in social media, and influencer marketing maturing from its early days as a viable and powerful marketing channel in its own right. What do I see as the biggest content marketing trends for 2022 and beyond? My 2022 Marketing Predictions.

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xiQ

JUNE 19, 2019

Compelling and engaging content is required, at all levels of ABM, to tell your story to your prospects. Strong content is a currency in today’s world. ABMers have to be really good storytellers. Craig Rones, VP of Marketing, NTT DATA Services. Content Marketing Institute. xiQ Helps You Tell Your Story.

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Tomorrow People

MARCH 8, 2018

If you wanna be the best marketer with the greatest content marketing strategy in town, you should get a load of this. Start with the basics and work your way to content superstardom. What’s this content marketing strategy thing all about? Content is one of life’s essentials. Sounds great.

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Anyword

MARCH 4, 2019

The Storytellers , our series featuring candid interviews with leaders from the publishing world, is part of our efforts to showcase successful thought-leaders and share their insights with the rest of the storytelling community. I’ve spent my entire career in digital media and content marketing.

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Content Standard

APRIL 26, 2019

It’s difficult for social media marketers to keep up with all of these shifts. So how can you know the best social media distribution channels for your content when the platforms are in constant flux? For starters, stop thinking about distribution and start thinking about communication. We really have no choice.”

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Trade Press Services

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

For many years, “creating enough content” was cited by marketers responding to the Content Marketing Institute’s annual State of Marketing survey as their top challenge. In 2024, however, the top challenge for marketers has changed. It starts with a keen understanding of B2B buyer behavior.

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ClearVoice

JANUARY 26, 2024

We’ve been tempted to and have poured a ton of dollars into paid before, and we’re a content-led organization that has used content to grow our organic traffic 35X (and counting over the past five years). They want to be informed and educated about brands, products, and services. Not sure what that is?

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Content Standard

JANUARY 23, 2018

If you’re a marketer in the financial services industry, you likely deal with more speed bumps, red tape, and organizational luddites than, say, the typical tech startup. Unfortunately, the first examples of great content marketing that come to mind are in industries like consumer goods or travel. Actually, yes.

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Anyword

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

For storytellers, 2018 was a year filled with change: publishers adjusted to platforms’ algorithm updates, content marketers pivoted (and pivoted back), and the industry made a collective push to diversify revenue streams. This year, we expect to see a noticeable shift in how publishers approach content distribution.

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DivvyHQ

JANUARY 5, 2022

With social media still being the top content distribution channel for major brands, it needs to occupy the lion’s share of your content planning during the coming year. This guide to up-and-coming social media marketing trends can help you lead the pack in 2022. Let's go!

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Content Standard

OCTOBER 13, 2017

You know the power of storytelling. You’ve read the studies about how brand storytelling more than any other form of communication can inspire people to act. But how do you execute storytelling as part of your marketing strategy? This is the brand storytelling model that we now employ at Skyword.

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KoMarketing Associates

APRIL 7, 2021

Or, as the Content Marketing Institute recommends , “Be customer-centric.”. Then make the content relevant to the people you want to attract. And if you want to attract different types of people, be sure to create content to suit them. And unfortunately, only about half of demand generation marketers are using personas.

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Tomorrow People

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

“ If you're serious about your content marketing strategy, you have to realize you're writing for an ever-changing audience , says Jaime Bailey, Vice President of Marketing at VHT. Our audience values expert content that is well researched, helps them solve a problem, and keeps them abreast of the latest industry trends.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 22, 2018

To the uninitiated, a content marketing initiative can seem like an old-school, Dungeons and Dragons-style quest. You continually roll the dice in hopes of earning enough trust, credibility, and experience to persuade your audience to embark on a journey alongside your brand. Want proof? pic.twitter.com/D9zDWXxuDb.

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ClearVoice

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The modern audience reacts differently to legal content. Millennials and Gen Z favor engaging, storytelling-driven content over traditional legal pieces that simply overload information. Storytelling content based on data Storytelling and data are a great mix. This is a trend legal companies shouldn’t miss.

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Contently

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

A common mantra at Content Marketing World, the aggressively orange extravaganza held in Cleveland every September, is that marketers need to think more like journalists. But for the past year, I’ve been a journalist trying to think more like a marketer. Content marketing remains obsessed with audience building.

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Contently

JANUARY 3, 2017

Last month, before people went away on vacation and struggled to explain their jobs to their extended families, the editorial team asked everyone at Contently to think about the future of content marketing. Will fake news change the way publishers pursue marketing? Cara Cannella, senior brand editor. Tweet this!).

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Martech Advisor

JANUARY 24, 2020

Content marketing is a vast discipline under digital marketing that consists of strategizing, writing, storytelling, distributing content, analyzing results, and a little bit of search engine optimization (SEO) and design. Content Marketing Course - HubSpot.

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Contently

APRIL 20, 2021

And in a world where environmental impact is one of the most important brand attributes to consumers, it’s become a huge competitive differentiator for Bank of the West. A different kind of financial services content. And thanks to a distribution strategy that spans paid, social, owned, and earned, their audience is growing.

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