2018 Creative Trends - Shutterstock’s data and creative teams analyzed their customers’ billions of searches for images, footage, and music search and download data to discover the biggest year-over-year increases. What are the top trends? Fantasy, New Minimalism, Space, Natural … | Continue reading
Get the most out of your influencer marketing strategy in 2018 by staying on top of these seven dominating trends. | Continue reading
The modern consumer is in a constant-state of evolution. Learn what emerging and rising trends need every marketer’s attention in 2018 and beyond. | Continue reading
This week's top digital marketing news via @toprank featuring what marketers really think about AI, Google Search Console adds 16 months of data, and autonomous stores. | Continue reading
Are you maximizing your data’s ROI? Here are five tips for getting more out of your data and becoming a better data-informed content marketer. | Continue reading
The next evolution of content marketing isn’t about the latest shiny objects. It’s about the deep changes that are happening in the way we think about and create content. Josh Nite shares his top trends for 2018. | Continue reading
This week's top digital marketing news via @toprank featuring keeping up with the visual internet, influencer marketing challenges and trends, and Millennials ruining everything. | Continue reading
Get a look at how B2B and B2C brands are using Twitter to deliver social care, creating a great customer service experience and fostering brand loyalty. | Continue reading
This year demonstrated an explosion of interest in influencer marketing bringing with it a sharp increase in attention as well as implementation successes and failures. The mixed bag of advice for any shiny new object of marketing attention like working with influencers brings un … | Continue reading
Social Commerce Takes Hold. A study by PwC reports that 78% of consumers are influenced by social media when shopping online. According to Marketing Week, the “social commerce boom” is being fueled by young mobile consumers. Thirty-three percent of 18- to 24-year-olds say they wo … | Continue reading
Over the past 14 years this marketing blog has had numerous contributors, thousands of posts, hundreds of thousands of social shares and millions of views. To say blogging has had a positive impact on our business would be a gross understatement. December 28 is our blog birthday … | Continue reading
2017 marks the 8th year we’ve published a list featuring “women who rock” in the digital marketing space. I started the list in 2010 with social media specifically and after 5 years handed the reins over to Ashley Zeckman for a few years when the focus has broadened to digital ma … | Continue reading
Content makes the Marketing world go ‘round, especially with our work here at TopRank Marketing. While content has been a steady drumbeat in the marketing mix over the past 7-8 years, marketers are still hungry for best practices, examples and the latest trends. Lucky for our rea … | Continue reading
It's that time of year again, where here in Minnesota the snow is falling, the temperatures are dropping and hearts are warming with thankfulness and appreciation. 2017 has been a year of change, evolution and innovation for the digital marketing industry and at TopRank Marketing … | Continue reading
The 10 Most Watched Ads on YouTube in 2017 - This impressive collection of work includes two video ads that exceeded 100 million views. Which was your favorite? Natalie Portman for Miss Dior or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson” for Apple? AdWeek B2B Tech Buyers More Motivated by Reliab … | Continue reading
I love how Tom Fishburne aka marketoonist always does a great job of showcasing marketing truths. While the focus for marketers to deliver the right message to the right audience at the right time is nothing new, it’s also safe to say that we have a lot of work to do. For example … | Continue reading
For content marketing to succeed, marketers need to consistently produce quality, engaging content. Here’s how the team at TopRank does it. | Continue reading
There’s little doubt that social media is a powerful marketing tool. Join us as we look back at some of the biggest changes that shook up social media in 2017. | Continue reading
Innovation carries a cost, but marketers who alter their mindsets and embrace the fear of failure will ultimately prove to be the industry’s game-changers. | Continue reading
How Predictive Analytics Can Help Your Business See the Future. Now more than ever, predictive analytics are becoming available to small businesses looking to get ahead of the competition by mining their data and generating meaningful intelligence. From mapping customer purchase … | Continue reading
Join Ann Handley, Joe Pulizzi, Chris Brogan, Alex Rynne, Tim Washer, Dayna Rothman and Chris Moody for top content predictions for 2018. | Continue reading
The way consumers search on the internet is changing – is your search marketing evolving, too? Make sure your 2018 plans address these new search habits. | Continue reading
Get a glimpse of how purposeful businesses are making their causes known and getting their products seen on social media. | Continue reading
These content marketing tactics might go against the grain, but that’s why they’re effective. Learn why, and which brands are using them to get results. | Continue reading
TopRank Marketing has partnered with Onalytica for the Women in Tech: Hot Topics and Influencers List for 2018. The list features influencers in the categories of Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, Blockchain, BigData, IoT, EdTech, MarTech, InsurTech, Virtual Reality, and Cyber Se … | Continue reading
Content marketing tactics that worked just a few years ago are as obsolete as a first-gen iPhone. Learn how to upgrade your content marketing strategy. | Continue reading
Much of what we hear about influencer marketing is centered around reach and engagement objectives. This is not unlike the early days of social media marketing programs where platform capabilities and user behaviors created a perfect storm for connection and interaction. Fast for … | Continue reading
From our perspective, without employee engagement, your marketing efforts can’t reach their full potential. Learn what benefits you may be missing out on. | Continue reading
Snapchat and Instagram Stories are all the rage. Find out how your brand can jump on the hype train with these five B2B brand examples. | Continue reading
From golden arches to red bulls, color is fundamental to our recognition of familiar brands and color affects the way people react when they first encounter a company. Vistaprint worked with Dr. Sally Augustin of Design With Color to develop recommendations for the design of plac … | Continue reading
You can learn a lot from a role model, but even more from a cautionary tale. Let these frightful Christmas ads help you become a better marketer. | Continue reading
Join Ann Handley, Joe Pulizzi, Chris Brogan, Alex Rynne, Tim Washer, Dayna Rothman and Chris Moody for top content tips for 2018. | Continue reading
Boost your social media marketing efforts in 2018 and beyond with industry-specific engagement insights from a recent Rival IQ study. | Continue reading
Your target audience is always moving. Stay in front of them by adopting these four emerging marketing channels into your 2018 marketing strategy. | Continue reading
This week's top digital marketing news via @toprank featuring tech enabled ABM, top search ranking factors and 2017 consumer trends. | Continue reading
This year, members of the TopRank Marketing team reflect on what they are most thankful for in their career, as well as what they've learned. | Continue reading
Businesses are choosing less revenue by closing on Thanksgiving and/or Black Friday. Here’s why embodying values with a bold stance is good for business. | Continue reading
One of the best ways to improve your skills as a content marketer is to learn from the successes and failures of other marketers. And as we near the end of 2017, many marketers are reflecting on what has (and hasn’t) worked in the past year and looking to what this means for cont … | Continue reading
It’s no secret that many fast food chains are cultivating a unique presence on Twitter. But what can other marketer learn from their examples? Find out. | Continue reading
This week's top digital marketing news via @toprank featuring social content storefront, Google's Trust Project and Facebook's new app. | Continue reading
Now that Twitter has expanded its character limit to 280, social-savvy B2B brands are finding clever and creative ways to make use of the new real estate. | Continue reading
Like all brands or marketers, you’ve likely experienced a few content marketing campaign mishaps in your day. Despite your best efforts, sometimes a campaign just doesn’t quite reach its objective or it outright flops. And when this happens your disappointment typically spurs you … | Continue reading
In today’s competitive and content-saturated digital landscape, SEO is no longer a stand-alone, sure-fire way to grab audience attention in the search results. As a result, the role of a search marketer is transforming beyond the traditional walls of organic SEO and merging with … | Continue reading
For years now, the atomic unit of content marketing has been the 500-word blog post. But is that the content your business needs? What are the alternatives? | Continue reading
This week's top digital marketing news via @toprank featuring email vs. SMS, Twitter trolls itself and Google's AI Wizard. | Continue reading
Get the scoop on some of the key findings from Demand Metric and Vidyard’s “The State of Video Marketing 2017” report and what they mean for marketers. | Continue reading
TopRank Marketing evolved from PR to digital marketing agency in the mid 2000’s, right about the time our new VP of Operations got into agency project management. Twelve years and multiple advancements from a creative agency Director of Production to Senior Director of Operations … | Continue reading
Who was the first person to set foot on the moon? Of course the answer is Neil Armstrong — who else? But, actually, the question really is “who else?” In order for Armstrong to walk the moon, there were innumerable individuals who contributed something large or small to get him t … | Continue reading