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The Top 100 Companies in the Digital Content Industry: The 2013-2014 EContent 100

The 2013-2014 EContent 100, a list of the 100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry.Read More >>

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How to Create Social Media Strategies That Rock

Ashton Kutcher (aplusk) has more than 15 million Twitter followers. Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) has 1.2 million. Peggy Anne Salz, founder and chief analyst of MobileGroove has about 4000. EContent Magazine (@econtentmag) has 2600. What does this all mean? Absolutely nothing! Evaluating social media effectiveness based on "the numbers" is like evaluating whether or not the television ads run during the Super Bowl are "good" or "bad." Unless we're privy to the strategy behind them our opinions are pretty much irrelevant. And while many are still enamored with the numbers - of likes, pins, retweets and +1's - the truth is that in social media, as in any form of marketing communication, it's the real results that matter.Read More >> WED 27 NOVEMBER 2013 | LIN GRENSING-POPHAL

How to Plan and Support Better Ad Campaigns

When you want to construct a home, you need a carefully planned blueprint in place before you purchase and assemble the lumber and other essential components. The same is true of an effective advertising campaign, which requires setting specific goals before creating the content and buying space. Yet, many advertisers today are doing the opposite-building their campaign in reverse without any end goal or vision of what their finished advertising "house" should look like, experts say.Read More >> MON 25 NOVEMBER 2013 | ERIK J. MARTIN

EContent Live: Jose Castillo, Kipp Bodnar, and David Hobbs

Did you miss our latest EContent Live Hangout on Google+? You can still watch it here! Join Jose Castillo, Kipp Bodnar, and David Hobbs to discuss The Financial Times' gift articles; great content marketing from Microsfot and Coca-Cola; and our panelists' upcoming appearances at the Gilbane Conference.Read More >> FRI 22 NOVEMBER 2013

Utilizing Mobility in the Travel Industry

Imagine glorious sunsets over sandy Gulf beaches, Venetian structures dotting the Italian landscape, or a Broadway musical in the bustle of NYC. Every destination has much to offer its patrons. And in an age of mobility - and a desire to constantly be connected to the rest of the world - consumers want streaming access to information about any vacation spot they can dream. That's why one of the most important resources for the travel industry is data, according to Richard Stevenson, CEO of YUDU. "The closer a marketing message is to a customer's actual interests, the better the engagement and relationship the customer will have with the company," he says. That's why he believes that personalization is important for the travel industry, as it is for any competitive B2C industry. And being competitive, these days, means providing information and resources accessible on mobile devices. Read More >> WED 20 NOVEMBER 2013 | MICHELLE L. CRAMER

CXM: Another Detour on the Content Management Journey

Content managers used to have a relatively easy time of it-although, they likely didn't realize it then. Not that long ago, content was published on a website and accessed through page views. But a lot has changed over the past couple of years. Today, consumers of content have a wide range of devices to choose from when accessing that content-from desktops, to laptops, to iPads, iPhones, smartphones, and Kindles, etc. The experience has become far more complex-for content providers and, arguably, for consumers as well.Read More >> MON 18 NOVEMBER 2013 | LIN GRENSING-POPHAL

As Ebook Sales Level Off Content Creators Look to the Future

After years of explosive growth, ebook sales have leveled off according to a recent report by the Book Industry Study Group, a book trade association. Ebook industry observers are split on the meaning of the leveling off of sales and what it means for the future of ebooks, with some saying that a new Netflix-like rental model is needed while others claim that the decline in sales growth is a blip in the technology's adoption due to tablet usage trends and favorable demographics.Read More >> FRI 15 NOVEMBER 2013 | ROBERT SPRINGER

Can Social Media Predict the Future?

Predicting exactly how waves will break upon the shore is nearly impossible. But forecasting waves that travel along social media streams is more than doable-it's already happening, according to a collection of studies recently published in Internet Research. Consider that virtually every move we make on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media channels is being recorded in some form as documentable data. That data, apparently, can be prescient when collected on a large scale and carefully examined by social and computer scientists who are skilled at examining online behavior. These experts now have the ability, based on identifiable trends, to foresee likely outcomes such as election results, book sales, and movie box office success. Read More >> WED 13 NOVEMBER 2013 | ERIK J. MARTIN

How to Be a Credible, Immersive, and Expert Content Provider

Group SJR's "Unfiltered" report took an in-depth look at a variety of digital media platforms and how consumers respond. The SJR Insights team asked 903 individuals of all ages about their current digital behaviors and gleaned results from their responses. Probably the most relevant results in the report are regarding how Millennials respond to news media through social media channels.Read More >> MON 11 NOVEMBER 2013 | MICHELLE L. CRAMER

An Interview with Davina Baum, Director of Digital Content, AFAR

Davina Baum is the director of digital content for AFAR, a multiplatform travel media brand designed to make experiential travel easier. Baum, who oversees content strategy, says, "I spend a fair amount of time thinking about how to get our content out to the most people, how to bring new people to us, and how to make sure that reading AFAR.com is the most satisfying experience to readers, whether on browser or mobile."Read More >> FRI 08 NOVEMBER 2013 | NANCY DAVIS KHO

BlogHer: A Case of Precision Targeting

In targeting ads that would engage readers and drive revenues for its thousands of advertisers, BlogHer already uses traditional keywords and key values such as age, geography, and time of day. But in an industry in which there is constant pressure on ad prices, and growing expectations by readers that they will be served contextually relevant content, BlogHer wanted to achieve higher precision for keyword and key value targeting in a way that was scalable.Read More >> WED 06 NOVEMBER 2013 | NANCY DAVIS KHO
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