Insights

One of the questions that keeps coming up from content marketers is how to get consumers to trust their content. A good place to start is to adhere to the regulations that [...]

There is a push among premium publications – the FT, Guardian, Wall Street Journal – to build out their content creation departments. Between all three the offering is [...]

Putting together quality content marketing requires a journalistic approach. Yet it needs something else that, arguably, is harder to achieve. Trust. Think about it this way. [...]

Someone senior at a very well-known British institution recently said (privately) that they regarded websites as dead. The future, they maintained, is apps. But reports of [...]

Gamification and content marketing is not an easy match. Gamification as a term was first introduced by Nick Pelling, a games programmer, in the early 2000s. It was intended [...]

One of the most important rules about content marketing is that you have to be consistent. New content must appear on the site regularly otherwise your customers will not [...]

A FirstWord motto is that content marketing (done correctly) is journalism. Yet there are a number of differences between publishing as a brand and publishing as a business. [...]

Nutella has created a series of films on its YouTube channel. ‘Spread the Happy’ aims to show real people and tell real stories. The thing is: is it content [...]