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Data Tells Us: Film Scripts Love A Good Cliché

Moviegoers love a nice cliché. At least, if ticket sales for superhero comic films are any indication. See what I did there? I just used one myself. (Actually, two.) As a writer, I’m obligated to turn my nose up (three!) at clichés, wherever I see them. But my snobbery is hypocritical: I critique the unoriginality… 

December 6, 2019 · Shane Snow

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5 Useful Skills Marketers Should Learn From Media Companies

Content marketers look to the mainstream media companies for inspiration. Brands may have different goals, they still want to reach the same creative levels as the best editorial publications and TV channels. However, when marketers try to duplicate what they see, key concepts are often lost in translation. Every brand wants to release a product… 

October 21, 2019 · Emily Gaudette

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A Marketing to Media Translation Dictionary For Journalists Turned Content Marketers

Translating is a tricky business. I took seven consecutive years of French classes, and most of the time, my teacher was a Lebanese-American woman named Hala Kim. She liked to remind us that English was her fourth tongue—after Korean, Arabic, and French. In Madame Kim’s unique blend of languages, she’d always say we needed to… 

July 31, 2019 · Emily Gaudette