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The 2021 Content Marketing Checklist

Contently - Strategy

Smart marketing leaders are planning to shift that budget to content, as it’s more or less impossible to do good digital marketing without great content. According to LinkedIn, a whopping 78 percent plan to up their investment in content. Content from brands is going to get better as a result.

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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. “Content marketing just doesn’t work,” they said. I’ve worked at Contently, one of the pioneers in content marketing, since 2013. Creativity strikes back. Creativity strikes back.

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3 Data-Driven Content Strategy Solutions for the Next Era of Content Marketing

Contently - Strategy

” Over the past few years, I’ve found that this problem plagues most organizations when it comes to content strategy. Everyone says they want to create data-driven content based on their audience’s interests, but many marketers have no idea what data matters or how to use it. That promise was flawed.

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Does Your Content Marketing Strategy Tell a Data-Driven Story?

Cision

Content marketing boils down to one simple question: what story is your brand telling? According to CMI’s 2015 Benchmark Report , 55 percent of B2B marketers plan to increase their content marketing budget in the next 12 months—essentially, pouring more money into telling their brands’ stories.

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Social media updates: Instagram’s creator marketplace comes to the UK, Facebook streamlines influencer management and TikTok’s creative assistant

Prohibition

Instagram’s creator marketplace comes to the UK Instagram is expanding its Creator Marketplace – a platform that’s designed to facilitate connections and collaborations between brands and creators. Instagram has opened this up to eight new markets including the UK! Get in contact today to find out how we could help you.

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The New PR: The Intersection of Positioning and Content Marketing

Onclusive

Marketing and communication expert and author Andy Cunningham spoke about how to create a company’s positioning and branding as the foundation for success in the New PR. To be successful in the New PR is to identify the intersection of positioning and content marketing. The Yin and Yang of Positioning & Branding.

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The Most Underrated Skill in Content Marketing? Fact-Checking

Contently - Strategy

This piece originally appeared on Contently’s The Freelance Creative. When it comes to freelance content marketing , however, the parameters are often less clear. When a brand is behind a story, there’s bias involved. Why accuracy in content marketing is important.