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This Week in Content Marketing: Facebook Continues To Mess with Your Content

In this episode, Joe and Robert go deep into more Facebook algorithm changes. Will all your promo content go bye bye? Plus, Marriott’s move to a full-blown media company, two raves (including one for a new print publication) and more.

This Week in Content Marketing: Failed 2014 Content Marketing Predictions

In this one-year anniversary episode, Joe and Robert grade themselves on their 2014 predictions. Plus, Facebook offers an interesting deal for publishers, a rant and rave on Alex from Target and blog comments, and much more.

Hey WSJ – Content Marketing Is NOT Native Advertising

This is one of those “inside baseball” posts. It is devoid of any helpful how-to information. Joe Pulizzi wrote this post because he believes it needs to be said. So there. Read on to learn why Joe’s ranting about a sentence in The Wall Street Journal.

This Week in Content Marketing: The Real Cure for the Native Advertising Blues

In this episode, Joe and Robert go in-depth on Buzzfeed's niche content practices and how progressive marketers are starting to think print. The boys also discuss native advertising in detail, and why the problem is not transparency. Rants and raves include Jerry Seinfeld at AdWeek and whether Coke and...

This Week in Content Marketing: Is Corporate Blogging Waning?

In this episode, Robert and Joe reflect on Tribune Publishing's decision to invest in a content marketing shop, review a horrible example of native advertising from a personal injury law firm, and question the accuracy of new research that shows corporate support for blogging is waning. We also praise...

This Week in Content Marketing: Long Live the Content Editor

In this episode, Robert and Joe speculate on SlideShare's decision to make certain Pro features available free of charge, and comment on Clay Shirky's assertion that newspapers are "dead men walking." We also applaud Yahoo's decision to launch "content box" native ads and discuss why marketers ought...

This Week in Content Marketing: When Native Advertising Erodes Trust

In this episode, Robert and Joe dive into the controversial issue of native advertising and talk about what happened when a blogger "liked" everything he saw on Facebook for two days. They also discuss the latest research on the growing pay gap between journalists and public relations professionals and...

This Week in Content Marketing: Storytelling, Steroids, and the Southern Pacific

In this episode, Robert and Joe offer constructive advice on ways to address the issues raised in John Oliver's recent diatribe on native advertising. They also cover content marketing's use by venture capitalists, Demand Media's poor quarterly report, and Budweiser's "Whatever USA" program. Rants and...

This Week in Content Marketing: John Oliver Vs. Native Advertising

In this week's episode, Robert and Joe discuss TopRank's new series of content marketing best practice eBooks, take issue with one author's claim that content marketing can't work in associations, and share observations on the success of Adidas' awesome World Cup content marketing campaign. They also...

This Week in Content Marketing: Beck Schools Us on Storytelling

In this episode, Robert and Joe discuss a musician's mad content marketing moves, debate some potential causes of a decline in content quality, and reveal what the real purpose of native advertising is for brands. In addition, they discuss two shifts in the world of social media and take FourSquare to...

This Week in Content Marketing: Weird Al's Diabolically Brilliant Strategy

In this episode, Robert and Joe discuss the important implications of LinkedIn's acquisition of Bizo, congratulate blogger Scott Monty on his recent move from Ford to an agency role, and speculate on what will happen to Forbes now that it's owned by foreign investors. They also ruminate on the continuing...

Native Advertising Gets Its Own Magna Carta

In this week's episode, Robert and Joe dissect Mary Meeker's latest report on technology trends, do a deep dive into the elements of the publishing equation that brands are missing, and discuss Conde Nast's "Magna Carta" guide for native advertising. Raves go to Maya Angelou and a Harley Davidson/Marvel...