Communications Conversations

JANUARY 28, 2021

But, then I got to thinking: These trends can and should inspire social content marketers as you think about what kinds of visuals to use this year in your posts on Facebook, Insta, LinkedIn and other platforms. They recently unveiled their emerging visual design trends for 2021 based on hard-core search data from their users.

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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. Video marketing is an effect way to increase brand awareness.

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Contently - Strategy

JUNE 11, 2020

We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. We spoke to industry experts, analyzed macro content trends using our in-house content strategy technology, and highlighted companies creating great content.

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Cision

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Facebook has been disrupting the scene for some time now. But if your brand is using the same content marketing strategy as it did in 2014, you’re probably not seeing any results. Because only one to four percent of your audience is actually seeing your content! Categorize Your Content. Her answer?

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PRSay

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

To keep pace, you’ll need to understand how to cater content to your brands, deliver a video to its target audience and measure performance to prove its value. On Facebook, for instance, video posts garner 135 percent greater organic reach than photo posts. Sometimes, a 30-second video is the most effective strategy.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Here are three big names to take a look at for content marketing inspiration: BuzzFeed. This Internet media company has been making waves for almost a decade, focusing on churning out content that spreads. Two lessons can be learned from Upworthy’s strategy. Upworthy’s target audience is quite general: all Americans.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Insights provided by the agency practitioner client-side include the importance of mobile, from both a creative and business standpoint. According to INC , being digital friendly is the new norm in any kind of business; inclusive of local search, to test strategies and the overall brand message traction. Search dominates.

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Contently - Strategy

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Great content marketing has the power to do that. Today’s audiences come across so much mediocre content that looks and sounds the same. Lately, innovative marketing teams have been thinking beyond the standard blog post. Interactive Tools Give Brands a Creative Edge—and Empower Buyers.

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Cision

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Critics like HBO’s John Oliver deride it as misleading and call it a threat to journalistic integrity, while proponents see native advertising as a vital revenue producer for publishers and an effective way for marketers to reach and engage audiences. It looks just like a regular Facebook post, but it is an ad.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Content strategy boils down to figuring out what content will help your target audience and inspire them to take actions that boost your business. To name just a few, you need to set goals, research your audience, and map out how buyers will interact with your content. Set a mission, goals, and KPIs. Perform SEO analysis.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

We’ve extracted the most important healthcare content marketing trends using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data. We spoke to industry experts, analyzed macro content trends using our in-house content strategy technology, and highlighted companies creating great content.

Healthcare 59

Healthcare Content Marketing Industry Trends 59

Cision

APRIL 18, 2016

A lot of the buzz after Facebook’s recent F8 Conference focused on Messenger “bots,” sensationalizing that feature to the point that you might be under the impression that Facebook’s artificial intelligence is sophisticated enough to carry on natural conversations with you (spoiler alert: they’re not).

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Cision

JANUARY 10, 2017

Not only does content marketing drive three times as many leads as traditional marketing, but it also costs more than 60 percent less. How does your brand’s 2017 strategy look? Whether you’re fine tuning your strategy or starting from scratch, here are a few words of advice to keep in mind as you leap into the new year.

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Flack's Revenge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Are the social media waters still safe for marketing? Have you been recommending a change in strategy regarding social media? My best advice for Marketing PRs and CMOs looking to bond with, and move social consumers to action is to adopt the content marketing approach I like to call our Strategic Objectives 4 H Club: Be Human.

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Cision

JUNE 2, 2015

“Over time all marketing strategies have click through rates that drop.” “Content never dies, it just sort of fades away.” Writing is the heart of content marketing, and I also think it’s our liver, lungs and central nervous system.” Stand out with your content marketing.

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ISEBOX

MARCH 14, 2016

Watch your Facebook engagement increase by 150% when a photo is posted. So when you initiate media relations’ efforts, it’s critical to have a multimedia content marketing strategy that produces great content and gets in the right hands. Producing great content is always easier said than done.

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Onclusive

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For marketers, this makes brand awareness a huge challenge: How do we stand out above the noise? Marketers and communicators are now competing for consumer attention amid Facebook posts, Buzzfeed memes, blog posts, articles, texts and more. This gives your audience access to your content where they want to find it.”.

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Sword and the Script

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

To prove otherwise, she pulled out her phone, opened up Facebook, scrolled to find the article and then handed me the phone. He then injected this gossip into Facebook and drew visceral reactions from people like my friend – which the algorithm rewarded with more exposure. You can and should run content marketing like a publisher.

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Sword and the Script

MARCH 24, 2015

As a metric for content marketing, pageviews are flawed according to a white paper – Why Content Marketers Are Using All the Wrong Metrics – published by Contently. The company provides the combination of a talent marketplace and content marketing software to manage projects and campaigns.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 8, 2021

And I see an opportunity to be more creative.”. But after graduating from Harvard, she took a job at Ogilvy, and was staffed to a new type of team they started: digital marketing. However, Facebook faced the same obstacles as other Silicon Valley startups in the early days — no resources and competing companies, she said.

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Cision

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Although that notion might seem right at first glance, a bit more digging reveals content for any industry can be exciting and engaging — all you need to do is think about creating content differently and add some extra creativity. Flo has even become a bit of a celebrity with almost five million likes on Facebook.

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Sword and the Script

AUGUST 16, 2016

It’s easy for a consumer to solicit instant opinions friends on Facebook the micro-moment before a purchase. In this case, market research has consistently demonstrated people favor recommendations from peers over brands. If you need experienced B2B help with PR, content marketing, or social media be sure to check out.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 2, 2018

The best way to stand out from the noisy crowd is by employing a few tricks of the content marketing trade. As you work on your content marketing strategy, keep these in mind: Talk to your audience, not at them. Knowing this goes a long way toward making your social media marketing successful. Use keywords.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Purpose- and mission-driven communication strategies will continue to dominate the industry, but it will be less about ‘tell’ and more about ‘show.’ Data and the use of data will become the great divide between marketers producing content and content marketing. PR adopts AI as a research and content tool.

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Contently - Strategy

JANUARY 2, 2019

At the state of content marketing webinar I co-hosted last month, attendees submitted 50 questions, which means we either did something terribly right or terribly wrong. I’m leaving on my 2-month Contently sabbatical in January. Conduct a content audit to reveal wasted content. Jagjit, Location Unknown.

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Contently - Strategy

DECEMBER 5, 2019

million for their content marketing budgets in 2019, per Contently research. This number includes content creation, distribution, technology, and talent. To help marketers be more efficient and effective, Contently created this new report that examines the state of financial services content marketing.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 21, 2021

government will finally get serious about the social media monopolies and start by breaking up Meta/Facebook, Google, etc. In addition, we’ll finally see legislation removing the blanket immunity of social media monopolies for content under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.”. Social media breakup.

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Contently - Strategy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The company has raised over $65 million to help brands personalize their marketing and thrive in the pending cookie apocalypse. Disclosure: LiveIntent is a Contently customer.). What role has content marketing played for you at LiveIntent? It’s huge for us and plays a key role in our marketing strategy.

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Shift Communications

DECEMBER 22, 2014

When devising a content strategy for a new year, it’s important to take note of what worked (and why) to plan what’s to come next year. Our top posts from the first quarter of 2014 focused on social media and content. How much will you need to pay Facebook? The Role of PR in the Coming Content Marketing Collapse.

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Communications Conversations

APRIL 15, 2021

As someone who looks at Indeed, LinkedIn and other online job portals every week for my Friday e-newsletter, I am seeing FAR more digital marketing and comms jobs than just about anything else in the creative industry. Figuring out how to develop an effective social audio strategy is another. Content marketing manager.

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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. 12) More dramatic platform changes will challenge marketing. 7: Lou Hoffman.

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Critical Mention

OCTOBER 18, 2019

While mentions and engagement do not directly impact SEO, what’s within the content can. . More specifically, encouraging link shares should be the ultimate social media strategy that organizations use to boost SEO. Craft Creative Social Posts. Put yourself in your audience’s shoes when brainstorming content ideas.

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Beyond PR

MARCH 6, 2018

The digital and content revolution has empowered customers to seize control of their path to purchase, forcing brands to retire their sledgehammer marketing tactics. Today, brands must attract customers with high-quality content, impacting their target audience through an array of online channels. But is it really that easy?

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Beyond PR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

If you’re only partially committed to creating and distributing content, Content Marketing Institute founder Joe Pulizzi would rather you do no content marketing at all. This may not have been the message Content Marketing World attendees were expecting to hear during Joe’s welcome address.

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Contently - Strategy

APRIL 24, 2019

This is an excerpt from The Content Marketer’s Playbook: Grow Your Content Program. Brands are creating more content than ever before. According to CMI’s 2019 benchmark report , a majority of both B2B and B2C marketers increased content creation budgets from 2018. Get key stakeholders on board.

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wiredPRworks

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The Social Selling Secrets Masterclass was created for anyone who wants to be more creative, persuasive, and influential. Taught in a quick-start format, this masterclass is ideal for creative professionals who want to advance digital branding, content marketing and social media skills as they accelerate success.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 24, 2015

But it struck me that the Batman franchise offers some great takeaways for content marketing. And like many writers, he’s a loner who believes the world needs nothing more than his textually-active method of bringing a creative problem to its knees. What can other comic franchises teach us about content marketing?

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