1. 2021 Contently Report: What buyers want from content marketing Kicking off this quarter’s curation with one of the year’s big bits of research, from the team at Contently. 2.…
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“Content is fire, social media is gasoline.” – Jay Baer, President, Convince and Convert A while back, for a few years, it felt like everyone jumped on social media as…
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Media theorist Marshall McLuhan is famous for saying, among other things, that “The medium is the message”. Essentially, that means that the type of medium you choose to communicate a…
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We live in an on-demand economy. From food to car rides to a hundred other things, what we want is no more than a click or two away. But commissioning…
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What is the difference between content and content marketing? Answer: It’s all in the destination… A time when PR and content marketing work together… Our annual research looks at how…
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What happens in the long term? What happens when every organisation, not just every agency, is producing meaningful content? It might be useful content, entertaining content or – occasionally –…
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We ask this because most definitions that we can find suck. At least the Wikipedia page about clickbait contains a line about ‘…especially at the expense of quality or accuracy’.…
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To all those who say we need more quality content, not more quantity, I say this: You’re going to get both. (And if you don’t even like the word ‘content’…
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Why is the word ‘content’ frowned upon by some? I see this dislike, sometimes even hatred, mostly from my old fraternity – journalists. To journalists, what they do is usually…
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How do you know if a writer is any good? I get asked this a lot and often it’s not a simple answer. Of course it’s a vitally important question…
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Approaches to content auditing are being formalised, mainly by those who seek to charge you for such a service. And make no mistake, demand is up as everyone realises a…
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Do you know what kind of content will drive your business? Collective Content (UK), since we set up almost 18 months ago (does that now make us ancient in content…
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