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Michael Brito shares ways businesses can employ participation marketing within their company or organization, connecting their audiences to one another.

While corporate storytelling is all the rage, let’s consider three trends that point to the dawn of a humbling new era in consumer marketing.

The world is changing rapidly. Here is your guide to profound digital marketing trends to follow and help you remain relevant in the next few years.

The ad industry is in trouble and stock valuations are in a freefall. This podcast episode examines the problems in the ad industry.

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

We may be moving inexorably toward an ad-free world. Where are those marketing budgets going to go? Here’s one possible answer.

Coke and Budweiser both featured Super Bowl ads with a theme of diversity and acceptance. One was an example of great brand-building, one was cheap schlock.

In an increasingly ad-free world, content marketing (and all of its iterations) seems like a viable option to break through and reach customers.

Subscription-based revenue now far exceeds advertising revenue amonf media consumers. A content dominance strategy is driving the new media economy

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

The newsfeed evolution means publishers are being forced to turn over content for free or become irrelevant. Here are strategies from top content publishers

In this latest episode of The Marketing Companion podcast, Mark Schaefer and Tom Webster discuss content marketing FOMO, and courage in marketing
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