Video Storytelling: Here’s How To Get More From Your Investment
November 2, 2021
Jodi Harris
Stop focusing your content on your audience’s wallets and reach for their hearts. Follow the advice of these content experts to create the kind of authentic visual storytelling that captures interest, earns trust, and wins business.
3 Pre-Launch Steps To Make Your Content Project Stronger
November 1, 2021
Ann Smarty
Before you publish a content project, do your competitor and promotional research and you’ll get better results when you launch.
Are You Terrorizing Your Audience? (Plus More Seasonal Hot Takes)
October 29, 2021
Content Marketing Institute Team
A scary-smart horror parody from Umault skewers companies that stalk people who dare to pass through their content gates. Party City treats its audience to original research on a content sweet spot. And the Food52 community shows it’s better to give and to receive.
Why the Future of Demand Gen Lies in Self-Service Content Experiences
October 28, 2021
Ann Gynn
B2B buyers want to control their journey. That means the future of sales-enablement and demand gen content lies in self-service. Try these ideas from Ardath Albee and Marcus Sheridan to develop truly buyer-led content experiences.
How’d You Make That Flipping Awesome Content for HBO?
October 27, 2021
Kim Moutsos
What happens when an audience falls in love with your content series – and then the series gets canceled? HBO and HBO Max’s senior vice president of multicultural marketing takes you behind the scenes of the content experiences that help them keep audience's engaged even when their favorite programming...
5 Easy Places To Curate Content for Social Media
October 26, 2021
Claudia Bird
You can publish a steady stream of social media content that attracts an audience without creating it from scratch. How? Content curation. These five ideas will help make it even easier.
3 Hot Takes: Bad Thought Leadership, Irrelevant Content, and a New Media Network
October 22, 2021
Content Marketing Institute Team
Frustrated B2B readers give thought leadership content a bad review, and most say they skip out on anything they deem irrelevant. B2C retail giant Lowe’s adds a media network to monetize its audience. Read our hot takes.
Use Loyalty Content To Sustain Your Hard-Won Customer Relationships
October 19, 2021
Jodi Harris
If you think new customer acquisition should be content marketing’s primary goal, you may want to think again. Read on for tips, examples, and more about how to make content and customer retention go hand in hand.
Why You Should Doubt Headline Best Practices Advice (Except This)
October 18, 2021
Ann Gynn
Headline advice articles promise a magic formula for crafting titles that compel people to click through and read your content. But what happens when one set of “best” practices conflicts with another – and with what your data tells you? Here’s how to sort it out.
3 Content Marketing Examples That Surprise and Delight (Plus Our Hot Takes)
October 15, 2021
Content Marketing Institute Team
These examples are all about the unexpected. A writer creates a sticky wicket for finding other creatives. Ronald McDonald House sponsors content that has nothing to do with itself. And NEA Member Benefits turns ‘boring’ content into a hoot. See our hot takes.
Write Each SEO Page Title with Google Changes in Mind
October 14, 2021
Mike Murray
Google keeps changing SEO page title tags. It’s hard to predict what text the search giant will use if it modifies yours. Give your pages titles a better chance of appearing as you intended by following these suggestions.
B2B Content Marketing Insights for 2022: More Budget, More Work, More Empathy [Research]
October 13, 2021
Stephanie Stahl
Companies are waking up to the power of B2B content marketing. That’s the refrain that echoes through our survey of marketers in the newly released B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends: Insights for 2022.
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