Traffic Soared but Funding Disappeared (Plus Other Content Marketing Surprises of the Week)
A popular brand-funded magazine gets cut. An email error creates an accidental community. And marketers fear they’ve maxed out their audience’s digital attention spans. But the lessons to take from these examples might surprise you.
3 Happy Little Content Marketing Examples (Feat. Bob Ross)
Bob Ross is back thanks to Mountain Dew. Plus, Twitter Marketing pits brand against brand – and marketers learn how shipping containers can predict business health.
About That Burger King Tweet … and More Helpful Content Marketing Lessons
This week, Burger King UK gets a lesson in context. A new resource shows marketers their path along the social media maturity roadmap. And an at-a-glance flow chart reveals just how many steps go into producing high-performing content.
3 Playful Content Marketing Examples Show Brands Getting Their Game On
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]
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]
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
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]
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]
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
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]
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]
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.