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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. At Guitar Center is distributed both through the Guitar Center YouTube channel and as a podcast.

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4 Reasons To Add Customer Storytelling to Your Marketing Mix

Contently - Strategy

But fear not; there’s a secret weapon that can lift your brand above the noise: customer storytelling. While there are countless reasons why customers should be at the center of your marketing strategy, here are the top four reasons customer storytelling will help your business. These reviews can either be in written or video form.

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Power of Digital Storytelling: A Guide for Nonprofits to Engage Youth to Become Change Agents

Deirdre Breakenridge

Youth engagement through the art of digital storytelling. Digital storytelling has become a key tool for many organizations to engage with their audiences and stakeholders. Here are some storytelling tips that will help your organization empower young adults to create change: Tip #1: Use the right platform.

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Media Storytelling

PR for Anyone

Make sure to Like and Subscribe to our YouTube Channel and ring the bell so you’re notified of new videos by clicking HERE. I spent Tuesday interviewing people for my online business show, More-2-Media on Daily Ad Brief , and what I found in every call was the importance of storytelling. it needs to be based on a story.

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ICON 2024 Q&A: Impact Communications With National Geographic’s Dolly Maiah

PRSay

She works with scientists, storytellers and educators around the globe to craft PR campaigns using scientific research. The National Geographic Society combines science and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of our world. Your question framed it nicely: fostering connection [and] emotion as the storyteller.

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What is Storytelling? Why Does Storytelling Work? What are Good Examples? [UML]

Sword and the Script

Like many in PR, I’ve had debated many times over the years, and the reason is that storytelling works. 1) What is storytelling? To understand storytelling, you have to understand what makes a good story. 2) Why storytelling works: The Angel’s Cocktail. So, what are some good examples of storytelling?

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What Popular YouTubers Can Teach Us About Video Marketing

Contently - Strategy

Posting a video on YouTube is one thing. Though many marketers just consider YouTube a free video hosting service, it actually has a dedicated audience comparable to Netflix, Hulu, or any cable network. In 2016, YouTube surpassed the top 10 cable programs in regular viewership, and as of this year, the platform averages 1.9

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