If you’ve got a well-oiled content strategy in place – or indeed several content strategies all vying for attention and wishing to become the chosen one – then a new report from SDL may be of interest. The study, called ‘Enabling the Future State of Content’, has advocated that brands need to rip up their current initiatives and look ahead to an automated future.

Naturally, it’s worth noting...

Every agency out there has got an opinion – at least, one that you probably have to pay for – about how you need to do content marketing.

It’s gone beyond mere choice. More often it’s become a question of: quality or quantity? Naturally, some believe they can offer the content equivalent of the moon on a stick. Peter Bell, senior director at Marketo, wrote for this publication

Content marketing is naturally a vital process in terms of telling your customers – existing or potential – about your message, as well as become a lead generation tool in itself. But the content method can be industrialised through an ‘intelligent content supply chain’, according to a new study.

The findings appear in a report from content management firm SDL and analyst Forrester. The study, titled...

More than a quarter of European organisations expect to beef up their marketing budgets in the coming year, with account-based marketing (ABM) and video high on the priority list, according to a new report from Spiceworks.

The report, which involved a survey of more than 350 B2B marketers in technology companies across North America and Europe, found half (49%) see their budgets remaining flat year on year with only 8%...

Data-driven personalisation at scale is not a new concept – it is a fundamental part of programmatic – yet consumers still frequently find themselves bombarded with irrelevant and untargeted ads.

While data-driven thinking is increasingly being applied to the audience and media components of the programmatic equation, it is still in the early stages on the creative side. In fact, a recent study reveals a massive...

As the start of a new year dawns, it's time to reflect on 2018 and consider how the advertising industry will evolve in 2019.

Data’s been the word on everybody’s lips, with regulatory changes shining a light on how companies process, store and share information. Transparency and marketplace quality remain hugely important and a top priority for all advertising companies – and it’s been very...

You don’t have to be a data scientist to be a CMO these days, but it helps.

That might be stretching the idiom a bit – but a data-centric background certainly hasn’t hindered Yannic Pluymackers. The chief marketing officer of Lastminute.com for more than two years – while admitting he is no data scientist himself – studied economics and statistics at university, and feels being conversant in these disciplines is...

It’s 9am on a regular working day, sometime around 2012. The computer has just been fired up, the coffee is starting to cool, and you ease yourself into proceedings with a cursory scan of your inbox. The vast majority of what you find is not to your taste. Emails that are full of jargon, with a cliched call to action, and so lacking in personalisation that they all blur into one dirge of dullness.

It certainly...

Pinterest bamboozles a lot of marketers and brands. It’s clear that brands can get amazing results on the platform, but they don’t always understand how.

Pinterest, after all, is so different from other social media platforms, and with audiences using it in different ways, businesses need to adapt in order to get results. The best way to do this, hands-down, is to create clickable pins that users are excited to view and...

Marketers are always experimenting with all sorts of campaign and content ideas. Many of them may have had multiple previous reincarnations. Several unused blog cuts or email newsletters laying on the workshop floor waiting for an inspired marketer to piece them together to create the next content masterpiece. I came across the concept of Frankenblogging on our own Marketo blog, a phrase introduced by one of our past colleagues, Jason Miller, and it takes inspiration...