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Guitar Center: Content Marketing and Storytelling at Their Best

Polaris

Guitar Center’s YouTube channel beat out hundreds of leading brands, including Target, Four Seasons and General Electric, to snag the Project of the Year award at Content Marketing Institute’s 2014 Content Marketing Awards. Content Marketing'

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Caine’s Arcade: How Powerful Storytelling Can Make a Difference

Polaris

Stories—and storytelling—are powerful. Its signature event is the Global Cardboard Challenge, held in 2013 and 2014 on the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the 2012 flash mob. Content Marketing' They help charities secure more donations, persuade juries in trials and sway opinions in politics and the boardroom.

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Best of SHIFT: Top 3 Posts from Q4 2014

Shift Communications

Our top posts from the last quarter of 2014 focused on measurement and good, old Facebook. The Bedtime Test of Content Marketing & PR. Looking for a brutally honest test of your content? We hope you had a wonderful 2014 en route to an even better 2015. Senior Marketing Analyst. Here’s how. No, seriously.

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What to Know Before Creating a Content Marketing Strategy

Cision

This post is based on our white paper “ Outside-The-Box Content Marketing for PR.” ” A week into 2014, Mark Schaefer published a blog post that questioned whether content marketing – which he termed “the hottest marketing trend around” – was a sustainable strategy for businesses.

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Native Advertising: Where Content Marketing and Journalism Overlap

Cision

Critics like HBO’s John Oliver deride it as misleading and call it a threat to journalistic integrity, while proponents see native advertising as a vital revenue producer for publishers and an effective way for marketers to reach and engage audiences. david carr (@carr2n) June 13, 2014. What is native advertising? From Netflix, natch.

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Content Marketing Lessons Learned From Our Best Performing Blog Posts

Polaris

Hopefully we learn a few content marketing lessons by reviewing the past year, then use that information to develop even more effective editorial calendars in 2015. Here are some of Polaris’ most popular blog posts from 2014, along with the lessons they taught us. Content Marketing Lesson #1: Make it useful and timely.

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The Top PR Trends For 2017

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Today’s PR programs are less about selling and more about telling… stories that engage prospects or customers, and visual storytelling is hotter than ever. Google quietly filed a patent in 2014 that many in the search business feel presages an actual formula for tracking implied links. PR and SEO are joined.

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