An effective content distribution strategy depends primarily on a marketer’s data-backed understanding of the best times to reach target audiences across each digital channel. The optimal times vary by industry, audience, and channel, but we’ve done some macro-marketing analysis and found a few overarching trends to help your content cut through the noise. For our Marketing Maven’s Guide to Facebook, for example, Read more …
Whether you love it, hate it, or love to hate it, there’s no doubt that Fifty Shades of Grey is a viral content sensation. Since Random House acquired the rights to the series in 2012, Fifty Shades of Grey has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. To put that into literary sensation perspective, Stieg Larson’s bestseller The Girl With The Read more …
Did you know that Americans purchase 6.5 billion greeting cards each year? Second only to the Christmas, Valentine’s Day is a critical holiday for greeting card companies, with 145 Million units sold in the U.S. in 2014. Using our platform’s content filtering tools, we analyzed the top-performing marketing content from a sampling of leading greeting card companies. With its Read more …
The ROI of content has remained the elusive white whale for marketers. Content strategies are planned months in advance, but the impact of that content is measured with a “rear-view mirror” approach to ROI. The problem is, with a backwards-looking approach to ROI, marketers have no insight into what’s working and what isn’t. (More on that here.) This lag between Read more …
This September, the Content Marketing Institute (CMI) will roll out the orange carpet in Cleveland for the 5th annual Content Marketing World! In honor of the 5th year, CMI will be unveiling an impressive roster of Hollywood heavyweights to bring this year’s theme — “Bright Lights, Big Content” — to life. As a proud Platinum Sponsor for Read more …
