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Go Behind the Scenes of Coca-Cola’s Storytelling

Content Marketing Institute

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?”. Read on for the Chief Content Officer magazine interview with the senior integrated marketing content manager at The Coca-Cola Company. What if we could bridge divides?”

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Why Content Marketing Beats Advertising (Almost) Every Time

Marketing Insider Group

Advertising evolved significantly since its inception, and it’s all around us—online, TV, radio, billboards, magazines, and so much more. Another important difference is to look at it this way: Content marketing is storytelling where your customer is the hero. You own the messaging, distribution, and context of the content you create.

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How Bank of the West Is Rewriting the Finserv Content Playbook With Sustainability Storytelling

Contently

And thanks to a distribution strategy that spans paid, social, owned, and earned, their audience is growing. Stories like this magazine-quality exploration of food insecurity in America , which highlights BIPOC-owned businesses making a difference, gives advisors a great piece of content to share with customers. .

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Infographic: A Brief History of Content Marketing

Contently

In 1895, John Deere published the first issue of The Furrow , an agricultural magazine that published print advertorials. The Furrow is still in print today, making it not only the pioneer example of content marketing, but the longest running branded magazine in publication. But it never hurts to know your history.

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12 Financial Services Marketing Examples to Inspire Great (and Yes, Compliant) Brand Storytelling

Content Standard

As the pioneer who’s ready to launch a strategic brand storytelling initiative, you may be inspired by the wildly creative things other brands have done to differentiate themselves and build trust through content. ” In 2006, the Danish bank began producing journalistic-style videos for internal distribution. Actually, yes.

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Is your company magazine a one-hit wonder?

Integrated B2B

Company magazines continue to consume a significant proportion of many B2B marketing budgets. Understandably so, as magazines can be a great way to profile the company’s achievements, internally and externally. No wonder it’s easy to question the business case for a magazine. Publishing is just the beginning.

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The Best Content Marketing of May: Brands, Take Note

Contently

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. In 2014, the company published Pineapple, a travel magazine distributed to 18,000 of its hosts.