Six years after Richard Murphy created a thought leadership strategy for ServiceNow, the brand has grown to over $8 billion in revenue. Here’s how the 2023 Content Marketer of the Year and his team helped the brand achieve that.

Although the term "brand journalism" may seem like an oxymoron, the practice has much to offer companies, and journalists can write great stories for a brand. Find out 7 key ways to make brand journalism work for your business by taking the time to develop credible, engaging content for the right audience.

To become a reputable source, your brand journalism can’t be light on ethics and sopping with self-interest that suffocates readers. Here are four ways your team – like real journalists – can build your audience and earn its trust.

You don’t need a background in marketing to excel in content. You do need a clear focus on your audience's needs, program goals, and story ideas that support both. Here’s how TD Bank Group’s lead content strategist applied these concepts to build an award-winning program.

More professionally trained journalists are considering content marketing jobs. Here’s how to start a brand relationship with a writing pro who can tell compelling, credible stories that inform and influence your audience.

Who said content and sales teams can’t get along? Not former journalist Diane di Costanzo, who leads a unique content practice at Foundry 360. Here’s the inside story of the compelling editorial and repeatable models for success that earned her the 2022 B2C Content Marketer of the Year title.

On this week's This Old Marketing podcast, we talk about a new report that finds spending on content marketing up and outsourcing down. We also touch on strategic moves by two big brands and indulge in a couple of rants and another example from the history of content marketing. Listen in, and let us know what you think.

I participated in a prep call today for our South by Southwest panel called "Debating Brands Roles as Publishers" (Saturday, March 12th, 9:30am, Ballroom F). The panel includes Tom Ashbrook from NPR, Lora Kolodny from TechCrunch, blogger and journalist Gary Kim, HiveFire CEO Pawan Deshpande and yours truly. For those…

Robert Rose reflects on what to do when people don’t get it, gives a fresh take on content marketing as a life ring for journalists, and talks with Alan Schulman about getting execs to appreciate the real value of content marketing.

Sorting out the content and its value throughout your business is a must for a content practitioner in 2022. Robert Rose shares some thoughts on what you and your brand should be doing to make that happen.

This week, Robert Rose asks if you’ll do a favor (it’s a trust test). And talks with the interesting person in content marketing about depending more on your audiences for your content.

Cameron Conaway straddles two worlds as an award-winning investigative reporter and a content marketing manager. He shares how a journalist’s ethos can inspire marketing and entreats marketers to take bigger content risks.