Content Marketing Best Practice Guide
Content plays a vital part in any brand’s marketing strategy, supporting business objectives at every stage of the purchase funnel. This report provides best practice guidance on building an effective content marketing strategy to enable brands to engage audiences in creative ways that promote authenticity and trust.
B2B Content Marketing Best Practice Guide
This report looks at all stages of the content marketing process which, when executed effectively, can be a powerful engagement tool and convey brand purpose and brand story in a credible and authentic way. The report offers best practice advice from experts in the field.
Webinars
Digital Shift Report Q3 2021 Chapter 2 – AR, VR and wearables
Exploring how holograms, advertising and premium content are used in VR experiences, this chapter also looks at the integration of AR into social media and the intersection of wearables and AR.
Reports
Quick Guide to Online Video
This quick guide looks at the power of video as a marketing tool and outlines the key considerations for creating a video strategy, from setting objectives and defining the audience to content planning and distribution.
Quick Guide to Brand Purpose
This quick guide provides advice for businesses seeking to define or rework their brand purpose. It looks at why brand purpose has become a vital component of modern marketing, and why integrating and communicating it effectively can help win customer loyalty and increase employee satisfaction and retention.
Content Marketing Best Practice Guide
Content plays a vital part in any brand’s marketing strategy, supporting business objectives at every stage of the purchase funnel. This report provides best practice guidance on building an effective content marketing strategy to enable brands to engage audiences in creative ways that promote authenticity and trust.
Internet Statistics Compendium: Content
A collection of the most recent statistics and market data on online marketing, ecommerce, the internet and related digital media, drawn from Econsultancy’s Internet Statistics Database. Aimed at marketers looking for benchmarking stats, evidence for use cases or persuasive figures for procuring investment.
Quick Guide to Ratings and Reviews
This quick guide shows customer-centric brands how to leverage the power of customer ratings and reviews, covering topics including consumer trust, third-party review sites, review partners and measuring ROI.
Beyond Translation: Bridging Culture and Geography to Meet the New Commerce Reality
This report looks at the perspectives of eight brand marketers for whom the management of translation and transcreation is a critical, strategic tool for commercial success in a global marketplace.
Digital Shift Report Q3 2021 Chapter 1 – T-commerce and fashion
A look at developments in the area of ‘T-commerce’, covering the latest ‘shoppable TV’ announcements from Netflix, Amazon and YouTube, as well lessons from the latest innovations in the fashion category.
Quick Guide to Content Strategy
This quick guide offers an introduction to content strategy, providing guidance and outlining some key definitions, processes, tools, frameworks and practices that can enable an optimised approach.
Quick Guide to Storytelling for Marketers
A look the fundamentals of storytelling that marketers should consider in both external and internal communications, covering topics including storytelling elements, aligning stories with explicit and implicit brand values and how data can inform storytelling in marketing.
Digital Shift Q2 2021 Chapter 1 – Video and visual commerce
A look at how initiatives from the big tech players, including Facebook and Amazon, will help bring ‘shoppertainment’, the combination of entertainment and ecommerce, into the mainstream in the west.
2021 Digital Trends – Healthcare & Pharma in Focus
Produced by Econsultancy in partnership with Adobe, this report explores where digital strategies and investment are focused by healthcare and pharma companies, and the challenges that the sector continues to face.
Time to Create – Adopting Creative Automation to Plug the Content Gap
Produced by Econsultancy and sponsored by Bynder, this paper explores the main challenges creative teams face when trying to keep up with content demands: how to move away from ‘analogue’ thinking, the key deliverables of creative automation and ultimately, how to liberate creatives and help them plug the content gap.
Case Studies
thortful increases revenue and traffic for key seasonal events via digital PR
Online greeting cards marketplace partners with connective3 to launch marketing campaigns and blog to target customers looking for cards for occasions.
Car leaser’s content marketing and influencer campaign helps increase electric vehicle sales
LeasePlan UK worked with Bottle to overcome consumer and trade adoption barriers to electric cars, to increase engagement and drive organic traffic
The Bottle Club increases sales with ‘Espresso Martini Tester’ Dream Job campaign
The Direct-to-Consumer drinks company worked with JBH on a user-generated content and social media campaign which increased links, traffic, first party data and revenue.
Latest Articles
How sustainable content puts people at the heart of digital engagement
As the digital world begins to impact the planet, Ana Tolić, President of CMG Digital, explains how a focus on people – not platforms – delivers a sustainable digital future.
How Currys achieved a 56% open rate increase by optimising email subject lines in real time
Midway through 2021, electricals company Dixons Carphone announced that it would be merging its four technology and retail businesses – Currys PC World, Dixons, Carphone Warehouse, and Team Knowhow – under the Currys brand name. Announced in May of last year, the merging of the four brands was complete by October. In its wake, the […]
Eyezon COO Maria Tikhonova on the benefits of live-streaming for ecommerce
Maria Tikhonova is the COO and co-founder of eyezon – a video shopping sandbox that connects ecommerce shoppers with retailers through live streaming. I recently caught up with Maria to find out more about eyezon, the benefits of live-streaming for ecommerce retailers, and the key to capturing customer loyalty. Tell us about eyezon, and more […]
Content Strategy Best Practice Guide
A guide providing marketers with the practical guidance they need in all aspects of content strategy, covering the fundamentals of good content strategy, how to develop detailed personas, the importance of linking content strategy back to business strategy and the future of trends in content strategy.
Microlearning courses
Discover content marketing statistics with the ISD
Browse, save and export a range of content marketing statistics and charts via the Internet Statistics Database, updated regularly to reflect the latest findings from the UK and around the world.