Content Marketing Institute Team
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3 Playful Content Marketing Examples Show Brands Getting Their Game On
March 12, 2021
Look beyond your content team for inspiration. Involve your at-home co-workers, viewers, and customers in your content creation and delivery to up the fun factor for everyone. These brand examples show how it’s done.
The Right Way to Teach, Tease, and Soothe Your Audience With Content [Examples]
March 5, 2021
Content shouldn’t put your audience to sleep – unless you’re trying to help them sleep better. That’s just one of the lessons to take away from this week’s roundup of cool, creative, and copyright-killed content examples.
Great Content Experiences Start With Giving Up Control [Content Marketing Examples]
February 26, 2021
The best content experiences put audiences front and center – and even at the controls. Get the inside scoop on three out-of-this-world examples that let audiences star in, design, or direct the action.
3 Content Marketing Examples That Say: Enough About Me, Let’s Talk About You
February 19, 2021
The Super Bowl may be over, but the content marketing lessons learned there play on. This week we’re celebrating examples that show brands are finally catching on to what content marketing is (and isn’t) all about.
Forget the Super Bowl Ads – Brands Took Their “A” Game to Twitter [Content Marketing Examples]
February 12, 2021
You don’t need a massive budget to score big with fans – but you do need creative ideas. This week, we’re celebrating brands’ Super Bowl tweets, a hot pasta playlist, and a clever contest offering one NASCAR fan a dream job.
3 Brands Crank Up the Volume [Content Marketing Examples]
February 5, 2021
Brands are turning up the volume this week. A new TikTok video celebrates the #SeaShanty trend, Mastercard amps up its sonic brand identity, and a video book review tells a charmingly experimental tale.
Brands Give COVID-19 Vaccine a Shot in the Arm
January 29, 2021
A powerful campaign to promote COVID-19 vaccines taps into the emotional power of authenticity – while Budweiser’s (nonexistent) Super Bowl ad teaches an important lesson about content spend.
Disguises Are for Superheroes – Not Great Content [The Weekly Wrap]
January 22, 2021
Don’t hide your content behind a bland headline. This week in content marketing, we share an example to prove the rule, plus new research into the search performance of marketing terms and a sweet ( but overlooked) content opportunity.
That’s How You Make a Splash: Slime Cannons, Sewer (Public) Servants, and More [The Weekly Wrap]
January 15, 2021
This week in content marketing, Nickelodeon and the NFL team up to recruit a new audience, a public sewer agency makes each employee feel like No. 1, and a popular email newsletter spills into new channels.
How to Get Customer-Centric Content Right (and Wrong) [The Weekly Wrap]
January 8, 2021
“Put the audience first” is a content marketing adage for good reason. In this Weekly Wrap, we share how Chewy and Netflix make this approach pay off – and why IKEA needs to reread the instructions.
This Week in Content Marketing: Lessons From Home Depot, KFC, and Google
December 18, 2020
Once upon a time, a child’s toy comes to life inside a retail store. Elsewhere in the world, a man combines 11 herbs and spices while romancing an heiress. Catch those stories and one more from Google this week.
We Want a Snow Day, a Mailbox Delivery and More [The Weekly Wrap]
December 11, 2020
As December debuts with colder and snowier weather, we’re wishing for snow days, warming up with a print magazine, and answering questions about writing. These are the three things we noticed this week.
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