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Your Content Isn't Just Competing With Other Brands Anymore

Your Content Isn’t Just Competing With Other Brands Anymore

For the past two decades, SEOs and content marketers played a fairly predictable game: Optimize for rankings, maximize share of voice against direct competitors, chase CTRs. Success meant earning the click and driving traffic back to your site. That model is breaking down. In AI-driven discovery environments, your content is no longer competing with other… 

January 30, 2026 · Ajith Babu

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Leverage LinkedIn Articles for Maximum Impact

When LinkedIn first rolled out, it was a useful place for people to network, search for jobs, and share updates — and look up whatever happened to that coworker from 10 years ago. However, these days, the benefits go beyond building interpersonal connections. With more than one billion members, LinkedIn can be a key platform… 

October 9, 2024 · Karen Stevens

Social Media Laws: What Are They and How Do They Impact Brands?

Social media has profoundly shaped global events, public discourse, and the very fabric of our societies since the early 21st century. As platforms like Facebook, Twitter (now X), and Instagram became integral to daily life, they also introduced new regulatory challenges.  From disinformation to privacy violations and incitements to violence, social media’s vast influence has… 

September 30, 2024 · Benjamin Sperduto

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What Are the Best Days and Times to Post on Social Media?

Ah, the ever-changing world of social media engagement—a digital marketer’s playground and puzzle all in one. If you’ve been navigating this space for any length of time, you know that what worked yesterday might not work today, thanks to shifting user behaviors and those enigmatic algorithms. One moment, you’re riding high on likes and shares;… 

August 21, 2024 · Benjamin Sperduto

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Is It Plagiarism or Jumping on a Trend? The Ethics of Social Media Content

Social media trends—even brands jump in on them. But when is it social sharing and when is it social plagiarism? The difference between jumping on a trend and stealing can be blurry on social media, where memes, sounds, and other types of content are widely redistributed by brands and users alike, with the understanding that this content is within the public domain. Check out these ideas to help keep you on the straight and narrow.

September 20, 2022 · Jonathan Crowl

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The 2018 Branded Twitter Awards

2018 may be the year that goes down in history as harboring some of the strangest, most unique, and most entertaining brand tweets of all time.

December 7, 2018 · Tallie Gabriel

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The News, According to Facebook

To see what my world would look like without any other influences, I did an experiment: For one day, I could only get my news from publishers on Facebook.

September 25, 2018 · Tallie Gabriel