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State of Content Marketing 2019: Creativity Strikes Back

Contently - Strategy

The brand had a slick new site, detailed persona work, and a strong SEO gameplan. I’ve worked at Contently, one of the pioneers in content marketing, since 2013. Starting in 2013, brands started hiring journalists to work on their content programs. Their bosses shrugged off the failure by blaming an entire industry.

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30 Pragmatic Marketing and PR Predictions for 2020

Sword and the Script

Organic social reach is all but dead, paid social has pathetic CTRs, and organic SEO is as rough as sitting in the crowd at AT&T Stadium and hoping the Monday Night Football camera crew focuses on your homemade sign. “Content marketing will revolve more around individuals and storytelling components. For this, I apologize.

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