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Today in Great Crossover Marketing: A Life-Sized Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pizza Thrower

This weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, which has quickly become the epicenter of entertainment marketing, Pizza Hut and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will debut a life-sized version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pizza Thrower toy. It will be a full-sized working vehicle and shoot pizzas at a speed of 75 MPH. Are you as excited as I am?

July 22, 2014 · Joe Lazer

Native Advertising: The AdBlock Antidote?

As more and more web surfers—specifically internet-savvy millennials—continue to take advantage of easy-to-install plug-ins like AdBlock and Adblock Plus, the end of the display and pre-roll ad may not be too far off.

July 2, 2014 · Julia Lynn Rubin

The Financial Times on Why They Embraced a New Ad Currency: Time Spent

The Financial Times recently announced that it will sell display ads based off the time its audience spends with content. The British newspaper hopes this will solve some of the viewability problems that plague the advertising industry, and more properly value The Financial Times' deeply engaged audience.

June 16, 2014 · Sam Petulla

5 Ways Newsrooms Can Catch Up to Digital-Savvy Competitors

According to “The Goat Must Be Fed,” a Duke Reporters’ Lab report released on May 14, instead of embracing the digital revolution, newsrooms tend to “...cling to familiar methods and practices even when they know better, more emerging digital alternatives are available, often for free.” Here are five ways newsrooms can innovate and not rely on outdated methods.

June 10, 2014 · Yael Grauer

What the Demise of the Cookie Means for Content Marketers

Cookies have played a crucial role in content marketing, having been accepted as a standard method of tracking user behavior and obtaining information about targeted demographics. However, as technology advances, cookies are becoming less reliable.

June 6, 2014 · Herbert Lui

5 Ways That Publishers Are Using Data to Transform the Way They Work

Data journalism is all the rage; for evidence of that, look no further than the fact that Columbia University’s Tow Center for Journalism devoted an entire conference to it this past Friday. But what impact is data actually having on the industry?

June 4, 2014 · Myriah Towner