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Social Spotlight: A lesson in social storytelling from The New York Times

Sprout Social

The New York Times is considered by many to be the greatest general interest publication in the world, but until recently lagged behind its digital-first peers in terms of innovation and risk-taking in its storytelling. Enter: a new approach to storytelling, learned from social. And that created a big problem. How to solve it?

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Marketer of The Month Podcast- Episode 079- Achieving Growth With Product Market Fit and Getting Your Brand Storytelling Right

Outgrow

The state of brand storytelling in the early 2000s. Lessons learned from over half a decade of startup experience. Why deliberate decision-making for startups is preferred to hasty testing and adaptation based on market response. Episode 079- Achieving Growth With Product Market Fit and Getting Your Brand Storytelling Right.

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The Big Difference Between the Ads People Love and Ads People Hate

Contently

But let’s not underestimate the cute animals, since they play a big part in how much storytelling is upending advertising. In 2014, BuzzFeed was in the midst of launching a new kind of advertising agency. When Purina came to BuzzFeed in 2014 to run an advertising campaign, Frank didn’t pitch them on a big spot.

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13 influential marketing technology leaders

ClickZ

As an internationally recognized expert in new technologies, branding, storytelling, and social influence, Tamara is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading female technology influencer and was named the Most Influential Woman in martech by B2B Marketing. Stephanie Buscemi (Salesforce). Max Wessel (SAP). Melanie Deziel (Storyful).

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Top Marketing Blogs You Should Be Reading

Kabbage

Here are our lists from previous years: The 25 Best Marketing Blogs of 2014. They’re a must-have for any content feed and as an added bonus they also have one of the best startup culture blogs out there. They cover topics ranging from content creation, conversion-optimized copywriting, and brand storytelling. TopRank Blog.

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Top Marketing Blogs You Should Be Reading

Kabbage

Here are our lists from previous years: The 25 Best Marketing Blogs of 2014. They’re a must-have for any content feed and as an added bonus they also have one of the best startup culture blogs out there. They cover topics ranging from content creation, conversion-optimized copywriting, and brand storytelling. TopRank Blog.

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The Destruction of Silicon Valley, and 4 Other Stories We Loved in April

Contently

But as anyone from Contently will tell you, storytelling is on the rise. Since 2014, Hooked, a chat-fiction app, has been downloaded more than 10 million times. In other words, we can keep lamenting the death of the way things used to be, or we can be proactive and find innovative ways to carry along the history of storytelling.