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Should You Get Paid to Guest Blog?

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October 19th 2011
Author
Andrew Boer

ADOTAS – We love guest blogging. Catch us in the elevator here at Movable Media and we might casually tell you that we are, at our core, “an agency for guest bloggers.” It doesn’t sound that impressive, does it? Guest blogging has been around for a while, and it typically has been [...] more...

Branded Jest: David Foster Wallace and Content Marketing’s Biggest Obstacle

Written on
September 16th 2011
Author
Andrew Boer

ADOTAS – My college friend and MovableMedia Editor Zora O’Neill is currently on a cruise ship to London (the Queen Mary II). I suggested she read (or as it turned out, re-read, because she is definitely the kind of person who read Harper’s magazine in the 90s) David [...] more...

The Difference Between Content Marketing and Custom Content

Written on
September 7th 2011
Author
Andrew Boer

ADOTAS – I am at the extremely well-attended Content Marketing World — the first conference of its kind here in Cleveland (from Junta42), and I am picking at one of the four different macaroni and cheese combinations they are offering tonight at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (that [...] more...

Sony Demos Android-Powered Walkman, Targets Runners on Active.com

Written on
September 1st 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – The Walkman is dead; long live the Walkman! In announcing the demise of the portable cassette player last year, Sony made me feel ridiculously old — I think I had my first Walkman when I was 10 and blasted my home-duped Pink Floyd cassette (“Dark Side” on A, “Wish [...] more...

What Kind of Content Curator Are You?

Written on
August 25th 2011
Author
Pawan Deshpande

ADOTAS – We all structure our lives to accommodate the traits and idiosyncrasies that make us—and the people around us—“us.” You may appease your Type A colleague’s competitive spirit by giving him all the credit on a project, or if you are a slow mover in the morning, you know [...] more...

Trimming the Content Mullet

Written on
August 16th 2011
Author
Andrew Boer

ADOTAS - Business in the front, party in the back – In 2008, Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti coined the expression “mullet strategy” after the hairstyle once favored by hockey players and country music fans.  In a New Yorker article on the Huffington Post, Peretti described the merits of HuffPo’s assimilation of both [...] more...

Social Media as Robocop: Regulating the World of Branded Content

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June 8th 2011
Author
Pawan Deshpande

ADOTAS – There is no longer any doubt about the critical role that content now plays in most marketing strategies. Companies like Adobe, Yankee Group and Novell, among others, have all built sites that leverage original and third-party content to engage customers and prospects—and they are, in many cases, the [...] more...

Is Google Really Diving Into Video Content Production?

Written on
April 7th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

When Google bought video content monetizer and syndicator Next New Networks (NNN) for YouTube last month, most media coverage suggested Big G was going to leap into the video content creation game. Google denied this, and it didn’t make much sense anyway as NNN has a tiny studio but is [...] more...

TV Marketers’ New Best Bud: Online Video

Written on
March 9th 2011
Author
Steven Horn

ADOTAS - One of the most interesting television viewership statistics I’ve recently read is Nielsen’s report that this season’s new comedies are showing a significant uptick in viewer engagement, as measured by recall of details within an episode, with a 5% increase over last year. Programmers should be proud of this [...] more...

All the YouTube Stars Are Out Tonight

Written on
February 28th 2011
Author
Gavin Dunaway

ADOTAS – Last night’s big hoohah of Hollywood back-slapping, the Academy Awards, supposedly aimed to bring in a young audience by having hosts in their late-20s/early-30s. But do kids these days want to grow up to be stars of the silver screen, or even grace boob tubes nationwide? Hell no! [...] more...



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