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Paid Media Ad Strategies for the 4 Most Common Marketing Priorities

SmartBug Media

Paid media and inbound marketing are often considered at odds or even opposite approaches to marketing. In fact, no intelligent inbound marketing plan is truly complete without the right paid media ad strategy. What Is Paid Media Advertising? Paid Media versus Free Media.

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How To Find Current Trending Topics for Content Creation: The 10 Best Tools

Marketing Insider Group

Good search engine optimization isn’t just about ranking high for keywords. However, searching for current content ideas can be time-consuming. Investigate our list of resources for discovering current trending topics that keep your content relevant. Best of all, the tool is free.

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Understanding the Difference Between Earned, Paid, and Owned Media

SmartBug Media

In today's digital marketing landscape, it is essential to understand the difference between earned, paid, and owned media. From website content to social ads, each type of media has its own benefits, and they can be used in combination with one another to maximize effectiveness. Keep reading.

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Rethinking Marketing Search and Promotion with Pinterest

Top Rank Marketing

These are just a few statistics to get you to start considering this channel for your social media content calendar. Let’s take a look at the advantages and changes that are making pinning a thing that social media savvy organizations should be doing regularly. Go update them with new visuals and post text content.

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Everything You Need to Know About Paid Social Advertising

Digilant

social network ad spending by an impressive 10 percent. This year, eMarketer now expects social network ad spending to hit $82.9 The upswing in social ad spending reflects just how important social media advertising is for brands and agencies within the current digital reality. Table of Contents? in 2024.

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How We Went Viral: Promoting Content with Influencers, Ads & PR

BuzzSumo

One of our research posts went viral. Ok, it wasn’t anything like a Buzzfeed post, but it is now the most shared post on content marketing in the last 6 months. Here is our detailed behind the scenes look at why the post went viral including: Why we wanted to create a piece of cornerstone content.

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5 Hacks to Boost Your B2B Company’s Organic Social Media Reach

Marketing Insider Group

If you’re a B2B social media manager, you’ve probably noticed that organic social media reach has been on the decline in recent years. With increases in paid ad content and algorithms constantly in flux, it’s easy to see why it’s becoming increasingly challenging to reach followers with organic campaigns.