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Novelty: The Storytelling Element Your Brain Craves

Contently

Last week, I explored the first of the four elements of great storytelling: relatability. ” In my content strategy work with brands, many conversations start out with the well-intentioned desire to copy brands they admire. .” Unfortunately, it often doesn’t make for very good content or storytelling.

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How Brands Are Using Live Streaming Video Successfully

Convince & Convert

I am a storytelling and comedy nerd, a marketer, and a comic improviser. the future of streaming video success belongs to leaders that embrace conversation, being human, and letting go. Brand control is an illusion. The Rise of the Improvisational, Adaptable Brand. How Successful Brands Get Results (and So Can You).

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The Future of Digital Marketing: Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

Marketing Insider Group

AI will tell us what to create, but our best storytellers are our existing employees from across the business. Influencer marketing has already grown huge in recent years with top influencers on platforms like Instagram and YouTube attracting millions of followers and making a six-figure income from their deals with brands.

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Forward 2016, Day 1: Why Content Marketing ? Brand Storytelling

Content Standard

At Forward 2016 , Skyword’s annual storytelling conference, brands from across the country came together yesterday to celebrate the fusion of marketing and storytelling. ” On the other hand, storytelling conveys meaning through a sequence of events that reveals a character’s true self.

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3 Social Media Storytelling Ingredients for Effective Brand Narratives

Content Standard

The way content marketers talked about social media storytelling made it sound whimsical and impassioned. And at the very top of it all, brand storytelling as an ultimate goal felt like the purest, most authentic marketing practice that anyone could pursue. Three Ingredients for Brand Narratives.

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Thoughts from Viewtopia 2016: Video Has Evolved

Vidyard

Last week, hundreds of marketers, sales leaders, and video producers came together in San Francisco to challenge the status quo of video for business. Long regarded as simply a top-of-funnel asset, Viewtopia presented the evolution of video within an organization. Elaine Ip (@_elaineip) November 9, 2016.

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What Virtual Reality Can and Can’t Do for Your Brand

Contently

In October of 2016, I attended the Future of Storytelling Festival , a gathering of innovative storytelling formats, most of which dealt with virtual reality and augmented reality. What makes virtual and augmented reality so effective for storytelling is how they put multiple senses in the middle of the action.