Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 31, 2018

For a growing number of brands, the story of standout content marketing success in 2018 might just sound like a podcast. Though podcasting certainly isn’t a new medium, it has come into its own as a content platform over the last few years. Just how large an opportunity could podcasting represent for marketers?

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 25, 2017

2017 will go down as the year contributors to the magazine repeatedly blew my mind. At least a half dozen CCO articles in 2017 inspired an exclamation I can only describe as “No sh*t?!,” Virtual reality and a sit-down with author of The Martian ( February 2017 ). Making sense of AI, plus ideas about hiring ( April 2017 ).

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

“Peek behind great content marketing efforts and you’ll nearly always find a driven, well-organized team.”. I adore this sentiment from Cameron Conaway because it succinctly illustrates the power of your content marketing team. Of course, the question looms: How do you put a team together for content marketing?

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Content Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

The key phrases behind content-writing robots you’ll see a lot – intelligent narratives, natural language generation (NLG), and automated storytelling technology. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Cognitive Content Marketing: The Path to a More (Artificially) Intelligent Future. Other content was complete stories.

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Buffer

JULY 27, 2017

We have published more than 1,000 posts—and we’re honored to receive more than 1.5 sessions in May 2017. sessions in May 2017. For instance, when our post on headline formulas  performed well, we thought of ideas like copywriting formulas  and storytelling formulas. million visits every month.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 11, 2018

I can’t think of any superpower that would be more useful for content marketers than to have a sneak preview of all the important developments, trends, technologies, and key disruptors that will impact our strategic and creative decisions over the next 12 months. Allison Wert , content marketing manager, Frontline Education.

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Content Marketing Institute

MARCH 21, 2018

1 seed Virginia), I offer six basketball-tournament inspirations for your content marketing strategy. Take a page for your content marketing playbook. Here’s how it could work: Pick 16 articles published in four of your primary categories. How to Do a Content Audit in a Few Hours. Build a bracket.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2017

If you happened to catch our collection of content marketing predictions for the upcoming year, you may think you’re in for a bumpy ride. Your purpose and goals : The “why” – why you are creating content and what value you expect it to provide. Ready or not, 2018 is on its way. Click To Tweet.

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Content Marketing Institute

JANUARY 16, 2018

But while your Google Home pods, face ID-enabled iPhones, wearable fitness trackers, 3D printers, and the like might be fun and games now, there’s serious power behind those tools – power that enhances the performance of your content marketing efforts, makes them easier to produce, and makes them more enticing to your audiences.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2017

After you put away the champagne flutes and flip the calendar to 2018, what will you set your sights on to take your marketing to the next level in the new year? What has 2017 taught you? One place to look for lessons is CMI’s two conferences – Content Marketing World and Intelligent Content Conference.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 26, 2018

What keeps you up at night about your content marketing program? Your peers – even at brands lauded for their content approach – struggle with the same issues. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Stop Acting Like a Marketer and Start Acting Like a Publisher. Well, guess what? Why this works.

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Content Marketing Institute

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In her Content Marketing World talk, Structuring Content for Dynamic Storytelling , content strategist Carrie Hane details what it means to set your content free by structuring it – and why marketers should care. Structured content is fast emerging as a necessity for content marketers.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2017

As I shared in Content Creation Robots Are Here , billions of AI-created pieces of content are published yearly. What does this mean for humans who create content? Despite the growth in artificial intelligence capabilities, the human content writer is needed more than ever. Artificial intelligence is all around us.

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Content Marketing Institute

APRIL 19, 2018

Well, instead of watching a mocking cursor, take a tip (or 27) from your fellow marketers on how they get out of a creative content marketing slump. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Out of Ideas? 13+ Tools to Spark Content Creation. Katie Derrick, content marketer, Anglo Liners. Grab some toys. Mix it up.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2017

We’ve updated it and are sharing it now because video is only growing as a critical tactic for content marketers. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 12 Types of Awesome Visual Content You Can Use in Your Blog Posts. As with any content effort, your video-based storytelling needs to be supported by a deliberate, strategic plan.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Natalya Minkovsky finds some of the best examples for her Idea Garage column appearing in each Chief Content Officer magazine. Here are 15 of the most intriguing as she shared them in 2017. Starbucks inspires with multichannel Upstander series ( February 2017 ). AT&T creates media brand with Hollywood actress ( April 2017 ).

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 14, 2018

If you could pick one thing in content marketing you want to go away today, what would it be? That’s what we asked Content Marketing World presenters. Jason Schemmel , social media manager, Harper Collins Christian Publishing. Some of these are publishers big enough to know better. Wish would die: Clickbait.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2017

See what inspires you given your content marketing strategy , audience, and formats. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: 16 Visual Storytelling Tips to Give Your Content Marketing a Boost. To be a well-known leader in your industry, start creating data-driven content. You do not have to use all of them.

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