Contently - Strategy

JULY 28, 2021

One of the most impressive things about CarMax’s sophisticated content program is that it didn’t really exist until 2016. According to Malissa Mackenzie, director of creative services at CarMax, the turning point was gaining support from the company’s senior leadership. Embracing video for Hero and Hub content.

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Cision

AUGUST 11, 2016

With the rapidly evolving landscape of the marketing mix, fueled by the MarTech revolution, the growth of influencer marketing and content marketing, and a push towards integrated communications, marketers and communicators need cutting-edge resources more than ever. Marketing Land. TopRank Marketing Blog.

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ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

JANUARY 5, 2017

According to a 2015 Chief Communications Officer survey by Korn Ferry , CCOs in the U.S. Today’s PR programs are less about selling and more about telling… stories that engage prospects or customers, and visual storytelling is hotter than ever. But PR itself is gaining influence, and rapidly. The takeaway for PRs?

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Polaris

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Guitar Center’s YouTube channel beat out hundreds of leading brands, including Target, Four Seasons and General Electric, to snag the Project of the Year award at Content Marketing Institute’s 2014 Content Marketing Awards. The company is clearly passionate about helping musicians improve their craft.

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Stuart Bruce

MAY 29, 2015

Many PR professionals help companies and organisations to create annual reports, but despite improvements to make them more interesting they are still frequently just focused on financial data with everything else relegated to mere cosmetic additions. Until 2013 Dell was a publicly listed company, when it became privately owned again.

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MaccaPR

JUNE 1, 2016

This format is the result of an intersection of news and content marketing, a completely unprecedented space in the media landscape in which online users are perusing articles, sending snaps and sharing memes that often are riddled with brand messaging. WHICH METRICS ARE MOST IMPORTANT FOR DEMONSTRATING THE VALUE OF A PIECE OF CONTENT?

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Smart SaaS has renewed focus on customer marketing “As we are currently in an extended macroeconomic downtown, companies will need to continue to focus more on the customer to ensure long-term retention to help bear the weight of new sales slowing down. This year, we saw in-house teams get downsized and agency budgets get reduced.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

c) More companies create their own content and channels to reach audiences instead of traditional media channels. d) Influencer marketing to cool off as far as the amounts of money companies are paying influencers.”. AI-written content adds more noise. PR has a bigger role in content. “I

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Cision

AUGUST 31, 2015

Between the launch of live video streaming apps Meerkat and Periscope in March and recent blow up around the Ashley Madison hack, 2015 has proven how fluid communication has become and how quickly the media can carry a message. Last Thursday, the 2015 xPotomac Conference in Washington, D.C. Want your content to stand out?

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prTini

APRIL 19, 2016

For all the talk about storytelling, content marketing and “humanizing brands” — it’s not nearly as effective if the brand can’t participate in real-time dialogue. From May 7th-July 3rd, 2015 he sent 959 tweets to brands reading “I love you [brand Twitter handle] #brandlove.”

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

How Dubin pulled it off is the stuff of marketing legend. His company, Dollar Shave Club, rose from obscurity in 2012 after he created a YouTube video called “Our Blades Are F ing Great.” He created a single piece of content, and suddenly, millions of people knew about his business. doing improv comedy on the side.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Data and analytics capabilities will mature to allow companies to predict the best possible experience and communication touchpoints throughout the entire customer journey. 3) Brands blur the lines between company and friend. Sean Callahan , Senior Manager, Content Marketing | LinkedIn. Cori Pearce | ChurnZero.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Today, creating and distributing content goes far beyond just sharing your own messages and company news. Your content must be relevant, meaningful and useful to capture your audience’s attention. According to the same survey, 79% of these professionals have a content marketing plan in place.

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Marketwired

JANUARY 5, 2016

Focus your content-sharing and creation efforts. According to our content marketing survey, 64% of PR pros are planning to increase their time, resources, and efforts spent on content marketing in 2016. For e-commerce companies for example, a micro moment might be getting people to “like” a Facebook page.

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Journalistics

MARCH 18, 2016

Content Storytelling – the best tips from each panelist on planning, producing and publishing stories for social media. Brian Rudolph, Global Digital Marketing Lead, Verifone ( @brianrudolph ) – Brian formerly worked in digital marketing and social media management roles for AT&T and The Coca-Cola Company.

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PR 20/20

MAY 23, 2017

We originally published a blog in 2015 listing 40+ inbound marketing resources. We’ve added even more to the list, so read below for an update with even more resources for marketers. As marketers, we spend hours researching the top trends and tactics to prove top-notch ROI and success. even a free marketing course).

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Stuart Bruce

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

At the moment there aren’t too many examples of companies or organisations creating VR experiences and most of them offer little more than novelty value. One of the potential uses of VR for PR is storytelling to put stakeholders inside a brand or corporate story. Amnesty used VR to increase donations.

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PR 20/20

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

“Can we automate content creation using artificial intelligence? These are the questions we sought to answer in spring 2015 when I launched an internal initiative named Project Copyscale at my content marketing agency, PR 20/20. In other words, your life is already machine-assisted, and your marketing will be too.

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The Proactive Report

JANUARY 30, 2015

On Wednesday January 28, 2015 PRSA LA chapter met for their annual State of the State of PR review. The theme this year was “How Content is Evolving to Tell Our Stories.” Robert Rose, Chief Strategy Officer, Content Marketing Institute. ” I was part of the panel along with -.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Here we go…20 insightful PR and marketing predictions for 2018 follows below. Pay to play will become more prominent as more companies automate and increase messaging volumes.”. 6) Finding a content marketing niche. Also see: PR and Storytelling; Off Script #7: Lou Hoffman. 1) Pay to play gains prominence.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This year, more than 20 professionals – real people that do real marketing and PR work every day – responded and with high-quality ideas that I found to be invigorating and thought-provoking. 7) Culture and politics usher socially conscious marketing. There will be a notable uptick in socially conscious marketing.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Marketing be nimble. Rather than having year-long editorial calendars for opportunities and content, marketing and communications professionals are will have to work in a much more agile, phased approach: creating evergreen content per quarter and making room for ‘rapid-response’ type communications based on what 2021 might throw at us.

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