Prohibition

MARCH 16, 2021

Exclusive insights into 2021 marketing trends that will put certainty back into your strategy and help your brand bounce back from COVID faster. Since April 2020, we’ve been busy exploring what the impact of COVID – and the related national lockdowns – really mean for brands, and how this has impacted customer and consumer behaviour.

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Prohibition

MARCH 16, 2021

Exclusive insights into 2021 marketing trends that will put certainty back into your strategy and help your brand bounce back from COVID faster. Since April 2020, we’ve been busy exploring what the impact of COVID – and the related national lockdowns – really mean for brands, and how this has impacted customer and consumer behaviour.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 22, 2021

. “We pivoted our storytelling to focus on armchair travel,” explained Robin Bennefield, Marriott International’s editorial director of Marriott creative and content marketing. Robin Bennefield, Marriott International’s editorial director of Marriott creative and content marketing.

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Contently - Strategy

JULY 28, 2021

According to Malissa Mackenzie, director of creative services at CarMax, the turning point was gaining support from the company’s senior leadership. Malissa MacKenzie, director of creative services at CarMax. It also helps that a heavy investment in content just makes sense for CarMax.

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PR 20/20

MARCH 26, 2020

We talked about what we were seeing, and how it made us feel as consumers; about opportunities for our clients to add value, and where they might take a step back; about what the future could hold, how we could prepare ourselves and our clients, and how to move forward in the midst of so much uncertainty. The answers aren’t easy, or obvious.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

And now on with the marketing and PR predictions for 2020. 1) Marketing embraces sustainability. Marketers will begin to more fully embrace concerns about sustainability and will show more courage in implementing changes across their marketing strategies and their organizations.”. Cori Pearce | ChurnZero.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

be the year that some SaaS vendor figures out how to manage and market B2B influencer marketing at scale. There are several platforms out there to simplify and manage B2C influencer marketing, such as Paladin, Heepsy, HypeAuditor, and InBeat. But B2B influencer marketing works completely differently. “I

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PR 20/20

JULY 24, 2019

newsletter and website content, email send times and subject lines). reallocate budget to higher-performing paid channels, mix and match an infinite number of ad copy and creative). Complete repetitive marketing tasks (e.g. Analyze content for completeness and effectiveness. Marketers have a ton of data on their hands.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

” What’s been interesting is that we’ve already had more downloads and plays in 2020 than we had all of 2019. What role has content marketing played for you at LiveIntent? It’s huge for us and plays a key role in our marketing strategy. It’s a lot of what we do on the marketing side.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Marketing investment was redirected towards demand generation (content marketing, paid media) as startups looked for deal flow. As the market lifts, brands will need to raise awareness and will be ready to invest for the longer term as their horizons extend. ” ~ Morgan McLintic , CEO, Firebrand Communications 6.

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PR in High Definition

DECEMBER 13, 2017

For example, Apple recently began hiring engineers with psychology backgrounds to help Siri have meaningful conversations and by 2020, Gartner has predicted that the average person will have more conversations with bots than with their spouse. Soon, marketers will have to design their campaigns around algorithms as well as humans.

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Shift Communications

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Today, with over 2 billion smartphones in use, the ways in which consumers experience brands is fundamentally different. This is no fad – it is projected that by 2020, 80% of adults on Earth will have a smart phone. The rise of mobile changed the way we consume information, with huge impacts for brands.

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Prohibition

AUGUST 17, 2021

Video content is nothing new but with the introduction of video only social media platforms such as TikTok and the launch of Instagram’s IGTV and Reels – concise an consumable content is a strong content marketing tactic. Bite sized content. Why is this? Increasing Brand Awareness.

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PR Fuel

MARCH 17, 2020

You may have heard experienced business owners talking about the power of PR to bring a business into the light of consumers’ attention. Most people focus on three main areas when trying to promote their business: advertising, content marketing , and public relations. A Long-Term Strategy: Content Marketing.

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Sword and the Script

JUNE 26, 2018

The study projects that by 2020, podcast revenue will top $650 million.”. While that’s not nearly as large as other segments of marketing spend (TV advertising is ~$70 billion ), podcasts continue to grow, slowly but steadily. Don’t miss these related posts: The 4 Engines You Need to Pull Off Content Marketing Successfully.

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Contently - Strategy

JUNE 11, 2020

More importantly, what should doctors, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare companies do to improve the state of healthcare content online? We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. The same holds true for healthcare content.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Research and surveys are the most valuable content in B2B. Nearly three-quarters (72%) of B2B buyers say they consume three or more pieces of content before engaging a salesperson, according to a survey by Demand Gen Report. That’s up from the firm’s last report which put the market at $4.8 billion in 2020.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

More importantly, what should doctors, hospitals, insurers, and healthcare companies do to improve the state of healthcare content online? We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. Research for this report was compiled in May 2020.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

It’s a wide umbrella, spanning everything from consumer banking, investment banking, credit cards, fintech, insurance, and more. Companies in this space have a unique opportunity to build meaningful relationships with consumers. million for their content marketing budgets in 2019, per Contently research.

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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. 8) Creativity over productivity. Consumers trust others of similar ilk. 12) More dramatic platform changes will challenge marketing.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Dozens of marketing and PR professionals express aspirations for 2020 along with educated guesses about the future . Marketing be nimble. Predictability is dead – 2020 killed it. This creates renewed opportunities for marketers who communicate via podcasts. Marketing PSTD. Susan Kostal | Stet.

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