…You Want The Truth! (13 Content Marketing Questions & Answers)

Last week, actionable marketing expert Heidi Cohen conducted a webinar on content marketing development, discovery and distribution. During the webinar, which was attended by 172 of you fine people, Heidi received more than a dozen shrewd questions. She provided answers to some of the queries during the webinar’s Q&A, but I thought I’d take a [...]

Tips, Tools, Lessons and Learnings (This Week in Content Marketing)

Twitter’s launch of a more personalized Discover tab helped bring content discovery to the forefront of the marketing and technology industries this week, while marketing media stalwarts continued to provide valuable insights on how to get content discovered by the right audiences. 13 Content Marketing Steps — ClickZ Author Heidi Cohen offers seven tips on [...]

What Content Discovery Means To Me…

On May 2, 2012, in content, Content Discovery, For Marketers, For Publishers, Outbrain, reading, by Ido Yerushalmi

When I was a kid I used to read the encyclopedia before I went to sleep. If my friends had known it would have led to a lot of trouble, so I also trained in Judo for 10 years. I guess it worked because they never made fun of me for being a geek. There [...]

Make Your Content Marketing Strategy A Success

Please join us tomorrow for a webinar with actionable marketing expert, Heidi Cohen, in which we discuss content creation and distribution best practices and case studies. How to Power Your Content Marketing – Development, Discovery and Distribution Wednesday, April 25 at 1PM There’s still time to register! We’ll also be taking highlights from the Q&A [...]

Four Tactics for Content Distribution

You’ve got great content: stories, photos, videos, information and blog posts. But great content doesn’t matter if no one ever sees it. How do you ensure that all of the wonderful work you’ve created is seen by your intended audience? Here are a few distrbution options you’ll want to consider: 1. SEO Search Engine Optimization, [...]

Importance of Content Recommendations Predicted in 2012

CMO.com aggregated predictions from 32 leading marketers on their outlook for digital marketing in 2012. 6 of the 32 responses directly mentioned content marketing and recommendations as something to look for more of in the coming year. Here is a sample of their responses: Content Marketing, Refined “Content marketing… is now the most-used marketing strategy [...]

Outbrain Content Discovery and Engagement Report, Q2 2011

On August 10, 2011, in Content Discovery, For Publishers, Quarterly Reports, by Outbrain

Download the full high-res report PDF here: Content Discovery and Engagement Report, Q2 2011 (1.3 MB) Executive Summary In Q1 2011, Outbrain set out to analyze trends in content consumption and discovery across the web’s leading publishers with its inaugural Content Discovery and Engagement Report. The findings were culled from traffic patterns identified across 100 million sessions from [...]

Content Sites Refer Majority of Traffic to Other Content Pages, Google’s Relative Traffic Share Drops

On August 10, 2011, in Content Discovery, For Publishers, Reports, by Kelly Reeves

In the first quarter of 2011, we introduced a new quarterly report — the Outbrain Content Discovery and Engagement Report — that offers a glimpse into how readers access and engage with online content and allows for us to identify trends and fluctuations in referral traffic to content sites over time. Today, we’re releasing the [...]

The Rise of Online Content Discovery

On July 27, 2011, in Content Discovery, For Marketers, by Simon Edelstyn

The unstoppable rise of Facebook and the social culture of sharing in which consumers now live means marketers are having to re-assess how they build a community or audience around their brand. One of the results is a blurring of the lines between content and commerce. More brands and e-commerce sites are moving into the [...]

Content Discovery Heralds New Engagement Era

On April 26, 2011, in Content Discovery, For Publishers, by David Sasson

We all love a good internet browse. With tablet technology now ubiquitous, it’s becoming the norm to wile away the time bouncing around the web. But the amount of time actually spent enjoying something new and interesting is often eclipsed by the time it takes to find it. The sheer volume of content produced is growing [...]