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Survey Analysis: Competition in B2B Content Marketing Heats Up

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B2B marketing has overwhelmingly adopted the concept of content marketing, according to the 2018 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets & Trends survey. That may mean content marketing is maturing, but that also means competition for an audience will heat up. Measuring ROI is hard.

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

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Scott Kaminski , Senior Marketing Manager, Häfele America Co. . Growth of independent journalism. “We We are going to see more journalists build their own paid content channels – with or without backing from media outlets. The metaverse, Web 3.0, David Berkowitz , Founder, Serial Marketers . Happy New Year!

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Media Relations Keeps Getting Harder; Here are 6 Dynamic Techniques to Adapt

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That’s an increase from 68% in 2019 and 51% in 2018. That’s better than estimating the publication’s web traffic or impressions. If media relations is hard, so too is journalism and reporting. That’s what content marketing is all about. Too many confuse content marketing with marketing content.

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7 Media Statistics from an Annual Survey of Reporters that Gives PR a Glimpse of their Mindset

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The 2018 State of the Media report by Cision is an annual survey of reporters that offers some insight. For example, citing the Edelman Trust Barometer, Digiday reported , “trust in traditional media has increased from 48 percent last year to 61 percent in 2018.”. 4) Emphasis on professional journalism. A majority (78%) of U.S.-based

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Be Relevant: 21 Media Relations Insights From 3 Surveys Polling 3,000+ Journalists [UML]

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The full report is a quick and easy read: The State of Journalism 2020 by Muck Rack b) Survey of 3,253 journalists by Cision Cision also has an annual survey of journalists, which they use to produce a report called the State of the Media (here are my notes from editions in 2019 , 2018 and 2017 ). 542 from the U.K. and 348 from Canada.

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20 of the Coolest Marketing Conferences to Attend in 2020

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Marketers will likely gravitate toward tracks including: Advertising and brand experience. Media and journalism. The premier gathering of digital marketers on planet Earth!”. If you’re a marketer, surely you thought ‘yes, please’ to at least two of those categories. Digital Sales & Marketing World.

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Pubs Converting Contributed Articles to Native Ads is Another Reason to Build Your Own Audience

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Web publishing changed all that, and it gradually contributions grew into a bit of a free-for-all as publications built out networks of contributors to feed the insatiable content beast. One big change is that, effective September 13, 2018, we will no longer be accepting contributions from vendors for the ICN.” [ emphasis added ].