Stories By Content Marketing Institute Team
3 Hot Takes: The (Always-On) Show Business of Content
Are you keeping up with all the shifts in the content marketing game? This week’s hot takes will get you up to speed in three areas: creating episodic content, insights into Instagram strategy, and the idea of ‘always-on’ content.
3 Content Marketing Lessons Inspired by RAM, Stackla, and Zoom
This week’s content lessons come from a musical road trip with Ram Truck, a new Stackla survey explaining what content influence’s real people’s buying decisions, and a Zoom initiative featuring strategically placed CTAs.
3 Video Content Takeaways From Salesforce, TikTok, and Facebook
If you don’t have a video strategy, you’re late to the party. But you can learn from those blazing the trail. Salesforce, Facebook, and TikTok. Study these insights into their programs and advice before you make your next video content play.
How Video Email Affects Your Audience (and More Content Examples)
New research into video email shows how it gets audiences’ synapses firing. A content collaboration taps into the drive to create. And a helping hand in the greeting card aisle turns into a savvy way to promote a new service.
Grey Goose Misses Bonus Free Throw With Uninterrupted Partnership
Grey Goose scores with a cool new video series with Lebron James’ Uninterrupted brand –then misses on bonus content opportunities. Plus, what to learn from Delta’s long-haul email and a calculator that shows the carbon footprint of digital marketing.
Competitions and Compromises Abound – But Which Brands Are Winning?
This week, McDonald’s searches for besties on Twitter, Heinz wants to end a long-standing food feud, and new competitors are taking to the field of sports content marketing.
Every Day Will Be Taco Tuesday for One Lucky Social Media Pro
This week in content marketing: McCormick spices up the job market. Vidyard treats influencers to a movie-premiere experience. And Ben & Jerry’s ends its Twitter deep freeze. What does it all mean for content marketing?
2 Lessons in Bold Content – and 1 in Following the Leaders
A former print publication sizzles back to life as a digital community. Instagram decides to zig when everyone else is … already zigging. And a dating app brings a hit back to the future in service of the hot vax summer. Find out what it all means for content marketers.
What to Learn From “Football Is Gay” and Other Content Examples This Week
This week, we’re talking about a takeaway from the NFL’s big statement on inclusivity (it’s not necessarily the one you’d guess) plus other good news for content pros, including a better skin-color scale and rising respect for communications work.
Tide Launches Stellar Partnership (and More Content Stories of the Week)
Dirty laundry leads to a NASA mission for Tide. Social media listening hatches a better product for El Pollo Loco. And a #ProudParent moment brings sweet results to OREO. Here’s what to learn from these content moments.
UX Lessons From Top Blogs (and More Data-Driven Content Stories of the Week)
Data makes a great basis for creative content marketing. Get inspired by these examples of companies turning data sets into engaging, helpful blog posts, website pages, and reports – and learn something from the research findings in the bargain.
Will Apple Spoil the Whole Email Marketing Barrel? (Plus More Content News)
A new privacy program from Apple could upset email newsletters. LAY’S and Uber Eats celebrate a successful non-existent restaurant. A new survey reveals how consumers share their feelings about brands. What’s it all mean? We break it down for you.