Public Relations & Social Marketing Insight

For the past five years, the Content Marketing Institute has released a series of annual reports that delve into the aptly titled "Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends" of our blooming industry. The CMI works hard to monitor the field and understand its ever-changing parameters, consistently shifting their definition of content marketing and all it entails. This year’s interpretation?

"A strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience—and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action.In other words, content marketing is no longer merely about “creating and distributing,” it’s blossomed into a business in its own right.

As people-focused marketing takes over the industry, we’re starting to realize that the difference between B2C and B2B processes is becoming increasingly narrow....