Collective Content (UK)

A laptop on a wooden desk displaying a LinkedIn company page for ‘Collective Content.’ The screen shows the company banner with the tagline ‘Trust through understanding.’ The desk is positioned in front of a window with greenery outside. On the left side of the desk is a decorative glass lamp, and on the right side is a small potted plant.

The recipe – opening up about our content strategy for LinkedIn 

By Tony Hallett 11/18/2025

Our CC LinkedIn content strategy is a subset of our wider content strategy. (I’ll add here that we should all have documented content strategies.) Also, I realise ours is not…

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Written By Tony Hallett18/11/2025
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11 best content marketing links Q3 25

By Shirley Siluk 10/01/2025

What is a use case and when should you use one? Kicking off this quarter with this piece from our very own Bill Clark, who lays out the important distinctions…

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Written By Shirley Siluk01/10/2025
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Senior editor John Oates coaching a participant in a B2B video who is sitting on a table, smartly dressed, ready to be filmed.

How to create a testimonial video or customer success story

By John Oates 09/16/2025

Part of a series about creating corporate and B2B video.  Using video to promote your business means choosing a story that lends itself to a video rather than a text…

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Written By John Oates16/09/2025
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Real > stock > AI imagery

By Tony Hallett 09/10/2025

I was looking at a carousel that my colleagues posted to our CC LinkedIn page a while ago (digression: you should follow our LinkedIn page, if you don’t already). The post was…

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Written By Tony Hallett10/09/2025
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The GEO-related terms that content marketers should know

By Shirley Siluk 08/12/2025

Marketers who create content need their blog posts, reports, videos and podcasts to be discoverable online. Because what’s the point of communicating if no one sees or hears those communications?…

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Written By Shirley Siluk12/08/2025
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GEO: What it is, how it’s developing and what you need to do right now 

By Andrew Smith 07/31/2025

Generative engine optimisation (GEO) is a new way to make sure your content is found by AI tools. You can think of it as an additional layer on top of…

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Written By Andrew Smith31/07/2025
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On mimetic desire and work

By Andrew Smith 07/17/2025

Part 6 Welcome to Human Work. A series about the changing nature of work today. René Girard (1923-2015) was a French-American philosopher and social scientist, his ideas now beloved of…

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Written By Andrew Smith17/07/2025
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Five of the Collective Content team sitting on sofas in a coworking space, with Daine Lindsay standing behind a camera to film them.

Whatever the content type, one process to rule them all

By Daine Lindsay 05/29/2025

We established the way we work when Collective Content mostly worked on written projects like case studies, blog posts, whitepapers and eBooks, guides and more that we did, and still…

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Written By Daine Lindsay29/05/2025
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Companies are suffering a ‘psychic energy deficit’

By Andrew Smith 05/09/2025

Companies are suffering from a slump in discretionary energy: energy that workers freely gave at work. These are the moments of ideation, fun, innovation, insight, vigour and enthusiasm that once…

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Written By Andrew Smith09/05/2025
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Content leaders – now is not the time to bury your head in the sand

By Tony Hallett 04/04/2025

I’ve had several conversations in the past few weeks with contacts at large, US-headquartered, global companies and the conversation always turned to whether (or not) they speak internally about the…

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Written By Tony Hallett04/04/2025
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 “Oh yeah we do content too” 

By Tony Hallett 02/04/2025

I’ve got an earworm. If you don’t know, an earworm is a part of a song – a melody, a key lyric etc. – that you can’t get out of…

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Written By Tony Hallett04/02/2025
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Research: Why clients work with Collective Content 

By Tony Hallett 01/22/2025

Why do your customers choose you?   This is one of the biggest questions in business. Companies that don’t know the answer are flying blind.  We always ask this question of…

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Written By Tony Hallett22/01/2025
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