More usually equals better—unless you're talking about the Internet. In the social sphere, the dearth of user-generated content (Twitter claims to host more than 340 million tweets per day) can be a hazard for those looking to tweet and post items that help bring buzz to their brand. This is the challenge that eventually birthed the content curation platform Rallyverse, which uses an algorithm to separate the wheat from the chaff in social sites and across the Web for clients in specific verticals such as automotive, financial services, retail, real estate and technology. And now the company—a startup founded in January 2012 by former Microsoft ad execs—is partnering with LinkedIn to also offer its clients premium content from that channel. "Essentially, we make it really easy for marketers to scale their social and content marketing by using technology to help them identify and publish great content," said Rallyverse co-founder and CEO Joe Doran, explaining that the technology looks at a brand's owned assets (such as a LinkedIn company page, Facebook page or Twitter page) as well as relevant third-party content to create a set of draft social media posts—complete with images, videos and hashtags—for a marketer to edit and set to publish as needed. Doran said his company is an answer to the question: "How do I find great things to say and share every day, 10 or more times per day, that connect to what people are talking about right now?" Within the Rallyverse... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
[ AdWeek | 2013-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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"Journalism is the new marketing degree" is the slightly sarcastic motto among New York Times staffers, many of them former journalists, who create articles and videos for brands. It appears the same could be said at The Atlantic, which just hired former Time magazine Managing Editor James... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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As more publishers launch branded content divisions, native advertising is taking over a larger part of digital marketing. Adweek caught up with Peter Minnium, the Interactive Advertising Bureau's head of brand initiatives, to talk about the trend, which was the topic of a panel he recently... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2015-03-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With the content marketing and native advertising scene getting increasingly crowded with tech players such as Outbrain, Sharethrough and Nativo, just to name a few, OneSpot thinks it's found an edge on those competitors. The Austin, Texas-based marketing vendor, which has big clients such... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For going on a year, LinkedIn has been repositioning its ad business around content marketing. Now it's launching new tools to let advertisers see how they're faring as publishers within its walls.LinkedIn will now start assigning brands content-marketing scores to gauge the effectiveness of... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The industry can learn about quality, and maintaining readers' loyalty, from the arrival of the Guardian and New York TimesThe recent, dramatic arrival of tanks – in the form of some of the world's biggest news organisations, including of course the Guardian – on the content marketing industry's... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The editorial director of the Online Publishers Association weighs in on whether brands should be in the business of creating copy -- or whether that should be left to a partnership with the pros. The post Should Brands Even Be in the Content Business? appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The “brands are publishers now” line has become so ubiquitous in digital media that it risks becoming a cliché. While it is often true that companies are increasingly creating their own content, not all that’s published is created equal. Here’s to the brands that took the time and money to... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2013-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marketers continue to be in love with their own content. Spending on branded content is set to reach $1.8 million this year, or 37 percent of marketers’ ad budgets, up from $1.7 million in 2012, per a Custom Content Council survey. The lion’s share of that is going into print. Spending on... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-12-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The New York Times is planning to step off the sidelines and into the world of native advertising online, where a growing list of traditional publishers have thrown their arms around sponsored or branded content.Meredith Kopit Levien, exec VP-advertising, said the Times is planning to introduce... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-10-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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LinkedIn is the latest social network to take the sponsored-content plunge, announcing today that it will offer a program for marketers. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Developing a content syndication partnership with a larger brand can have long-term benefits that extend beyond the day, week or month your publication’s copy is housed on another site. Introducing readers to your brand via an already trusted source can help create and reach new readers that... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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If you've got content you think other publishers want to buy, what do you need to do to to make it an attractive proposition? A good example of a successful licencing operations is Bloomberg, which provides content to more than 600 publish ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-11-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pilot program will allow direct-to-home printer access for some branded content. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bonniers Parenting website announced its partnership with the TODAY shows website; offering Parenting.com and Today.com users a wider breadth of content, and advertisers a greater reach for their campaigns. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's been a year since we've surveyed our audience about the state of brand safety in digital media. Since then, marketers, publishers, social platforms and tech providers have worked overtime to help brands avoid unfortunate adjacencies. Complete the survey and you'll receive a $5 Starbucks... Continue reading at Digiday
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Both Domino and Seventeen look beyond their pages to interact with audiences. The post On-Brand, Off-Page: Magazine Brands Aim to Build Social Communities appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2017-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishers take deeper dives into targeted topics, looking to appeal to millennials, expand ad inventory, and drive names into their databases. The post If Magazine Brands Are So Valuable, Why Are There So Many Non-Branded Offshoots? appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2016-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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5 fifteen, a premier supplier of consulting services and cloud-based software solutions designed for newspaper and magazine publishers, has appointed Bluefin Technology Partners, a leading provider of online classifieds and self-service advertising s ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2014-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A couple weeks after introducing its new iBooks Author app, Apple has clarified legal language about what happens to the books users create with the software. Apple continues to insist that users can only sell electronic books in the iBook format via its iTunes store. But it makes it clear that... Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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