How brands are jumping on the Pokémon Go bandwagon: the good and the bad
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How brands are jumping on the Pokémon Go bandwagon: the good and the bad

8y Tereza Litsa

How brands are jumping on the Pokémon Go bandwagon...

Pokémon Go has gone big very quickly, and brands have been quick to jump on the opportunity.  Pokémon Go may not even have a worldwide release yet, as...

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Six ways Pinterest is becoming serious about visual search
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Six ways Pinterest is becoming serious about visual search

8y Tereza Litsa

Six ways Pinterest is becoming serious about visua...

Pinterest is transforming into a powerful visual search engine and its latest features hint of a promising future. More than 2 billion searches are co...

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Three things marketers can learn from Lokai on social media
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Three things marketers can learn from Lokai on social media

8y Bob Cargill

Three things marketers can learn from Lokai on soc...

If you think social media is a big deal now, you’ve seen nothing yet. Social media is poised to take over the world, or at least it’s heading in that ...

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Four things to watch as Election 2016 ramps up
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Four things to watch as Election 2016 ramps up

8y Al Roberts

Four things to watch as Election 2016 ramps up

The 2016 election that is set to pit Hillary Clinton and  Donald Trump against each other for the highest office in the land will probably see the mos...

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How the future of advertising is in servicing the 'moment'
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How the future of advertising is in servicing the 'moment'

8y Sophie Loras

How the future of advertising is in servicing the ...

Great advertising starts when a brand delivers a service to the consumer – rather than an ad, says Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur, Brian Wong. Read M...

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How Facebook's #Friendmageddon will affect publishers
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How Facebook's #Friendmageddon will affect publishers

8y Tereza Litsa

How Facebook's #Friendmageddon will affect publish...

Facebook recently announced a new change to its News Feed algorithm, in which it will favour personal posts over news stories. But what does this mean...

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How the NBA engages China's 200M millennials with mobile video
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How the NBA engages China's 200M millennials with mobile video

8y Steven Chang

How the NBA engages China's 200M millennials with ...

China's younger generations are making greater use of mobile Internet services, consuming more content especially around mobile and video, creating bi...

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What can Medium's Creative Exchange bring to native advertising?
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What can Medium's Creative Exchange bring to native advertising?

8y Rebecca Sentance

What can Medium's Creative Exchange bring to nativ...

Last week, social publishing company Medium announced the launch of a programme that will allow its writers to partner with brands to create dedicated...

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Nine SEO techniques that take less than 15 minutes
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Nine SEO techniques that take less than 15 minutes

8y Christopher Ratcliff

Nine SEO techniques that take less than 15 minutes

I know. It’s the 21st century equivalent of ‘8 minute abs’. But bear with me on this… Read More...

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The emotions that make content go viral
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The emotions that make content go viral

8y Rebecca Sentance

The emotions that make content go viral

Viral content is sort of the holy grail of internet marketing; everyone wants it, but almost no-one knows how to get it. Whatever it is that makes con...

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Are content thieves harming your search rankings?
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Are content thieves harming your search rankings?

8y Graham Charlton

Are content thieves harming your search rankings?

Sites which scrape and copy content from others are sometimes able to outrank the original source and damage their search rankings. What can be done a...

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A handy guide to optimising content marketing for mobile
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A handy guide to optimising content marketing for mobile

8y Gerald Murphy

A handy guide to optimising content marketing for ...

A responsive website is not a mobile strategy. There have been lots of re­cent articles on mobile and more and more of us are getting on-board but how...

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Should publishers and content marketers be playing the platform game?
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Should publishers and content marketers be playing the platform game?

8y Rebecca Sentance

Should publishers and content marketers be playing...

The early 2000s saw the advent of platforms on the web: somewhere that bloggers and publishers could host their content without having to worry about ...

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Meeker report: what you should know about the rise of visual content
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Meeker report: what you should know about the rise of visual content

8y Tereza Litsa

Meeker report: what you should know about the rise...

Mary Meeker published her Internet Trends of 2016 last week and among others, there were very interesting stats regarding the increase of visual conte...

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The science behind shareable content
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The science behind shareable content

8y Rebecca Sentance

The science behind shareable content

In a presentation at CMA’s Digital Breakfast, StoryScience founder Kohlben Vodden gave some fascinating insights into the science of what makes conten...

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How brands like BMW, GEICO and Lenovo create video content for the "skipping" generation
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How brands like BMW, GEICO and Lenovo create video content for the "skippin...

8y Sophie Loras

How brands like BMW, GEICO and Lenovo create video...

Breaking down the winning formulas of top YouTube Leaderboard advertisements offers useful tips for marketers when creating engaging and shareable vid...

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How controversial content pays off for Paddy Power
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How controversial content pays off for Paddy Power

8y Rebecca Sentance

How controversial content pays off for Paddy Power

Paddy Power is a brand well-known for its controversial sense of humour, and ad campaigns that are unafraid to push the boundaries of what’s considere...

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How Brompton Bicycle uses social media to spread the word about its brand
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How Brompton Bicycle uses social media to spread the word about its brand

8y Rebecca Sentance

How Brompton Bicycle uses social media to spread t...

Brompton Bicycle doesn’t advertise. The UK’s biggest manufacturer of folding bicycles prefers to rely on word of mouth to spread the message about its...

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How Coach and Moleskine use WeChat for ecommerce
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How Coach and Moleskine use WeChat for ecommerce

8y Sophie Loras

How Coach and Moleskine use WeChat for ecommerce

WeChat started out as a social messaging app but has become an essential part of an integrated online and offline (O2O) ecommerce strategy for brands ...

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Filling in the data gaps: How content can be used as a tool for targeting audiences
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Filling in the data gaps: How content can be used as a tool for targeting a...

8y Rebecca Sentance

Filling in the data gaps: How content can be used ...

Have we been measuring content the wrong way? Inbar Yagur, Senior Content Strategist at Taboola, gave a talk at the Content Marketing Association Dig...

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BBC Food website closure: what have we lost and who stands to benefit?
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BBC Food website closure: what have we lost and who stands to benefit?

8y Graham Charlton

BBC Food website closure: what have we lost and wh...

Today it was announced that the BBC Food recipe website is to close, or at least mothballed in some way. It contains more than 11,000 recipes, many ta...

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Interview: ‘Content is not a conceit or a vanity project – it makes people money’
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Interview: ‘Content is not a conceit or a vanity project – it makes people ...

8y Leonie Mercedes

Interview: ‘Content is not a conceit or a vanity p...

Content marketing has been one of the industry’s buzz phrases for the last few years, but as the medium rapidly evolves and consumers’ expectations ch...

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What is appropriate (and inappropriate) content for LinkedIn?
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What is appropriate (and inappropriate) content for LinkedIn?

8y Sophie Loras

What is appropriate (and inappropriate) content fo...

Should you post stories about people dying, religion or bikinis on LinkedIn? That all depends on the business context. Read More...

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Six email marketing optimization tips from #ClickZChat
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Six email marketing optimization tips from #ClickZChat

8y Matt Owen

Six email marketing optimization tips from #ClickZ...

Email marketing is far from perfect. It often gets given short shrift when something new and shiny and… well… social comes along, and marketers strugg...

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12 reasons for brands to use GIFs in content marketing
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12 reasons for brands to use GIFs in content marketing

8y Tereza Litsa

12 reasons for brands to use GIFs in content marke...

GIFs are nothing new, but their use is more popular than ever. Here’s why brands should include them as part of their content marketing strategy...

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Eight ways content marketing and SEO can work together
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Eight ways content marketing and SEO can work together

8y Graham Charlton

Eight ways content marketing and SEO can work toge...

Content marketing and SEO should work together to get the best from both disciplines. Here are eight ways in which they can complement each other. Rea...

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10 tips for marketing success on LinkedIn
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10 tips for marketing success on LinkedIn

8y Sophie Loras

10 tips for marketing success on LinkedIn

Using LinkedIn for personal and professional branding is easy, so why do so many brands and individuals get it so wrong? Read More...

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