Content marketing

Sponsored content and UK publishers

By Tony Hallett / 15/10/2012

We see that Business Insider is the latest of the big boys in web publishing to include sponsored content among regular editorial. It isn’t ditching ads – it has a…

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Content marketing embraced by 93% of marketers

By Tony Hallett / 08/10/2012

This slide should blow your mind. (And not because of the funny angle or the guy’s head in the bottom-right.) Not only do 38 per cent of respondents say they…

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Do journalists and content marketing mix? Perhaps not

By Tony Hallett / 05/10/2012

Poynter publishes some of the best content around on journalism and content in general. The piece What journailsts need to know about ‘content marketing’ – replete with scepticism about the CM…

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Editorial as profit centre

By Tony Hallett / 02/10/2012

Editorial, while the necessary foundation for how many media businesses work, has long been considered by some as a cost centre. Last week at an event I made an analogy…

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Content services – publishers’ opportunity

By Tony Hallett / 01/10/2012

What do you tell online publishers about content marketing opportunities? I had that dilemma at a presentation to the Association of Online Publishers (@ukaop) event last week. The biggest thing…

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Speech-to-blog – the outsourced blogging service from Collective Content

By Aled Herbert / 25/09/2012

We are really happy to be announcing Speech-to-blog – which we tend to refer to as S2B at Collective Content – for several reasons: 1. Demand for a simple, corporate…

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“An email that no one clicks on is spam” – discuss

By Tony Hallett / 16/09/2012

I dialled in to the #mpworld event from Marketing Profs on Friday, which was an excellent virtual conference featuring the likes of Anthony Schneider (@anthonyws), Brian Clark (@copyblogger), Sonia Simone…

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Need a vision for the visual web?

By Tony Hallett / 16/09/2012

There is yet more evidence of the rise of visual material as an online traffic driver. A Pew Internet survey, conducted at the start of August (link no longer available),…

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5 core elements of successful online content marketing

By Tony Hallett / 13/09/2012

This post, from Business2Community and put together by Synecore Technologies, about the ingredients of successful online content marketing is excellent. We give you a taster here but it’s worth exploring…

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Irrelevant questions marketers ask

By Tony Hallett / 05/09/2012

Do lead-generation campaigns capture the right data? Some do but some are an example of how the changing nature of business clashes with the way marketing has long viewed the…

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Curation is king? Maybe, if you answer these questions

By Tony Hallett / 09/08/2012

One of the big trends of the moment – on independent editorial pages as well as in commercial content marketing – is curation. It simply means pulling together useful or…

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What is engagement?

By Tony Hallett / 01/08/2012

‘Engagement’ is now a bullshit bingo word within the media industry. But irritation aside there must be a good reason why everyone appears to be ‘seeking engagement’, ‘measuring engagement’ and…

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