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Gaining first mover advantage is a popular social media strategy but it doesn’t work.

Mukbang is a new trend demonstrating gluttonous behavior on video. So why not? Gluttony and other trends on The Marketing Companion!

LinkedIn video production is soaring. Can it be an effective customer connection point, or are marketers on the brink of ruining it?

In the 150th episode of The Marketing Companion, we learn how to monetize a Facebook Group with BossMom Dana Malstaff and Mark goes on a rant!

In this post, you learn why the ad revenue model in the content creation business is doomed and what model to focus on instead.

In this post, you’ll learn lessons from Netflix that you can apply for your own content strategy in the streaming era.

The announcement of IGTV from Instagram is a bet on vertical video, and begs the question, what does this mean to the future of television?

I was startled to learn that a private group meeting had been broadcast on Facebook Live. Is this simply an “expectation” for the future?

Mark Schaefer provides some personal highlights from SXSW 2017, including observations on chatbots, new media and angry artificial intelligence.

[podcast_player] By Mark Schaefer Is your head spinning over the prospect of digital transformation and marketing? Certainly the change ahead might seem dizzying. Social media

A lot of marketers think this is the year of live video. But hold on one minute. Maybe services like Facebook Live are not quite ready for prime time!

Journalism and social influence are merging as journalists seek to become part of the social conversation and influencers must learn skills of journalism
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