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Which social network ranks in marketers’ top three channels?

By Tony Hallett / 15/07/2014

Earlier this year we carried out some research about the adoption of content marketing, specifically by B2B technology and telecoms vendors (where we have a number of clients). Out of…

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Testing times for those who don't get content marketing

By Tony Hallett / 27/02/2014

Here’s a game – have you ever listened to one of those frequency tests that works out how old you are based on what you can and can’t hear? There…

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Which companies don’t need to use content marketing? Apple and…

By Tony Hallett / 09/09/2013

Last week we noticed a piece on Econsultancy calling Apple the “worst content marketer in the world” and it got us thinking, especially when read in tandem with a follow-up saying…

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B2B content marketing in Europe – tell us about it

By Tony Hallett / 25/07/2013

How much do you know about B2B content marketing? How much would you like to learn? We, together with our partner Xpointo Media, would like to find out both those…

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Newsjacking? Not if you turn around as fast as an oil tanker

By Tony Hallett / 08/05/2013

One day last week I had two very different meetings back to back, one with a company that wanted to use newsjacking, another with a focus on long-form content. It…

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Our favourite content marketing chart

By Tony Hallett / 08/04/2013

OK, it’s not perfect. And OK, it might not be our favourite all the time. But this chart tends to get used by us again and again. We don’t care…

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Newsrooms aren’t for every brand

By Tony Hallett / 28/02/2013

There has been a lot of hype about brand newsrooms. These are not newsrooms in the old PR sense – where you go to find assets if you’re a journalist,…

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“An email that no one clicks on is spam” – discuss

By Tony Hallett / 16/09/2012

I dialled in to the #mpworld event from Marketing Profs on Friday, which was an excellent virtual conference featuring the likes of Anthony Schneider (@anthonyws), Brian Clark (@copyblogger), Sonia Simone…

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Curation is king? Maybe, if you answer these questions

By Tony Hallett / 09/08/2012

One of the big trends of the moment – on independent editorial pages as well as in commercial content marketing – is curation. It simply means pulling together useful or…

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What is engagement?

By Tony Hallett / 01/08/2012

‘Engagement’ is now a bullshit bingo word within the media industry. But irritation aside there must be a good reason why everyone appears to be ‘seeking engagement’, ‘measuring engagement’ and…

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B2B is embracing content marketing [infographic]

By Tony Hallett / 07/07/2012

The following B2B-centric infographic says it all (well, almost all). It comes courtesy of the excellent team over at BlueGlass Interactive. Some of the numbers in here about the rise…

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Our persona #1 – content strategies for marketers

By Aled Herbert / 02/07/2012

There are three main groups of people Collective Content (UK) targets. We thought we’d write three blog posts to explain these types. Some in content marketing circles would call them…

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