The most popular content on the New York Times and Buzzfeed in 2013 were quizzes. While the content was vastly different, its promotion wasn’t.
Audience analysis should underlie entire top-of-funnel content marketing campaigns. Too often, marketers separate creation from production, and throw a piece of content over an imaginary wall to a promotions team. In excitement to market with content, we forget to understand who the content is for, why it exists, what the reader should do after consuming it,…