Today, 82% of marketers actively use content marketing. Why is content king? Because it not only helps build brands and communicate both value propositions and brand values, it cultivates trust and converts interest into sales. High-quality content—and lots of it—is not only good for business, it’s essential.
As content marketing guru Gary Vaynerchuck (Gary Vee) predicted, this decade has become a game of volume and targeting. Brands that can generate more—and more strategically targeted—content will disproportionately pick up market share. Instead of trying to reach 10,000 people on one channel with one piece of content, Vaynerchuck recommends that marketers create 10 different pieces of content for 10 channels, each focused on reaching a specific group of 1,000 people in a way that will actually interest and engage them. The result is both more, and more effective, content.
Brands now need to create content frameworks that differentiate by platform and hone messages according to ideas that may already be resonating for target audiences on those channels. Social media video platforms such as Tik Tok and Instagram, compliance with the ADA, voice-search optimization and personalized content experiences are surfacing as key trends.
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