When you see the phrase “native advertising,” do you think of content marketing? Well, a lot of people do, so much so that I felt compelled to write about it. Know the difference and why it’s important we speak the same language.

In This Old Marketing, Joe and Robert talk the finer points of content marketing’s definition. The boys banter about Google's mobile friendly deadline, comment on the advertising industry’s boom, and share the week’s rants and raves.

Creating more valuable content that isn’t tagged properly, isn’t scalable, or isn’t easily reusable seems completely wrong. Joe Pulizzi reveals why content marketing as many enterprises practice it today isn’t enough for it to thrive.

In 2014, CMI published a series of posts to help marketers get back to the basics of content marketing. In case you missed it, here is a quick 10-step primer with practical tips to jump-start your content marketing blueprint in 2015.

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, Joe and Robert discuss the real definition of content marketing, ponder if publishers can succeed with time-based metrics, give some love to Mozilla’s new media platform, and disagree with Snapchat’s native advertising approach. Rants include an amazingly inaccurate infographic and why the...

To get buy-in and in-house advocates for your content marketing projects, don’t think a boring PowerPoint presentation will do the trick. Play to their spirited competitiveness and gamify your content marketing lessons. Learn how to create a good game plan for your company team.

In CMI's latest research, the number of people who described their marketing efforts as content marketing actually declined — from 93 to 86 percent. At first glance, that stat was a bit startling, but it may actually be an encouraging sign. Find out why it's a good thing that fewer B2B marketers say...

In this eighth and final installment of Content Marketing Institute's "Back to Basics" series, we'll walk you through one process you can use to understand how well your content efforts are working and continually refine your content marketing program for greater success. Use these 5 steps to track your...

How can you know if your content is adequately supporting your marketing and business goals? In this seventh post of our Back to Basics series, we outline a simple plan you can use for tracking and measuring the marketing effectiveness of your content program.

While it takes a wide variety of skills to achieve content marketing success, there is one essential role that any company looking to get started in content marketing will need to fill: the managing editor. This sixth installment of our "Back to Basics" series delves into the skills needed to build,...

In this fifth installment of our Back to Basics content marketing series, we tackle the basics of SEO — the core principles and key considerations you should be aware of in order to produce the most successful content marketing possible. Get the essentials on SEO.