The Business of Content

The needs of digital content businesses in late capitalism differ starkly from legacy publishing models. Explore how automation, ad-supported media, subscription culture and publishing culture are changing drastically in the 2020s.

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How content excels with creative organizational design

How content excels with creative organizational design

Whether you know it or not, your next big campaign hinges on the technical concepts behind culture-making: organizational design. Dive into how design can ferment culture.

Consistency of vision and "good" content

A cookie decorated with Google's logo.

A reflection on the meaning of good content, as defined by Google — for better or worse.

Productization: The path to more profitable freelance work

Productization: The path to more profitable freelance work

Agencies are tired of reinventing the wheel for every project, opting instead to convert their services into products. Here's why (and how) freelancers should follow their lead.

Everything lives in the rectangle: Federated content & social media

xkcd no. 927

From Mondrian to federated content, we're on the cusp of reimagining social media so that it communicates what mass social networks left behind.

Rising above the platform: How we're refocusing our social media strategy

Post from Deborah Carver: "Notes for professionals: On LinkedIn, ICP never means 'Insane Clown Posse.'"

There's no point in denying it—the social media landscape has undergone some significant changes. Here's what we're doing to shift our strategy and stay in the game.

Keep brands weird: The research framework for exceptional data-driven content

A diagram of the Content Research Framework, showing categories of self-collected and co-collected insights.

If you’re feeding yourself the same inputs as everyone else, you run the risk of homogenous, bland, boring content. This content research framework will help you find the right data.

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