Ways to build content with data
There was a time when graphs and data could close the browser, turn the page and clear the room. Not now. With the advent of open data, a new breed of journalists is coming [...]
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The power of giving away your secret sauce
An underpinning principle of content marketing is the free distribution of content. Preferably content that is of a high editorial standard. This allows you to create a [...]
New York Times buys content marketing boost
The New York Times, the third most-viewed site in the world, has long been a proponent of content marketing. Principally, this has been done through its subsidiary T-Brand [...]
Global content campaigns and how to create them
The web is supposed to have made the world a village. But if it has, we are all largely speaking the same language. According to some estimates, more than 50 per cent of all [...]
Content marketing for non-writers
Scanning through Reddit recently there was one post that caught my eye: ‘Those with no writing skills, how do you create content?‘ In essence, the writer was [...]
Clickbait headlines – a numbers game
Over the past year or two, there has been a shift in the way people read headlines. Back in the day, it used to be that short and cryptic was the way forward as a means to [...]
Brexit blues help create new content marketing
Brexit-focused content marketing could be one, albeit less far-reaching, result of the referendum. The implications of the vote have resulted in numerous sectors being [...]
Dark side of content marketing revealed in US election
Donald Trump may have a content management problem. That might seem strange to say about someone who has run an unprecedented political campaign whereby he is the source of [...]