The answer is startlingly simple; a story is not a story if it is of no interest to anyone but the person who wrote it. Unfortunately PR and marketing agencies, including Click2View, are often faced with the prospect of having to turn such stories into press releases, blogs, graphics and videos, which the client just as often finds disappointing. […]
May 5, 2015If you attended as many marketing and communications conferences and exhibitions as I did in 2014 you’ll not have escaped the fact that “storytelling” was the theme that permeated almost every panel and keynote. It seems that after years of declining ad effectiveness (and revenues) our industry has finally realised that, all this time, we weren’t buying magazines, visiting websites and watching […]
January 12, 2015This article originally appeared on Marketing Interactive. In our ever changing industry, we often see the open vacancy job titles in the classified change with the new trends. With people like ‘Head of Social’ and ‘Mobile Marketing Manager’ walking among us, it seems only fitting that the content marketing experts are coming out of the […]
July 2, 2014Employing journalists is becoming increasingly important in content marketing and corporate communications but that will only continue if reporters are allowed the traditional independence of their craft. In our work we’ve found our films benefit from interviews conducted by journalists who, by nature, are not willing to accept scripted answers. We’ve used journalists to do […]
June 24, 2014One key part of Visa’s content marketing strategy in Asia Pacific is to inform key influencers about Visa products and programs and seed Visa stories in media outlets. It’s an alternative approach to PR that is working very well, and at the core is a commitment to making journalist-quality content for the brand. C2V began […]
May 12, 2014Tis the season for newsjacking it seems, and every week there is a new event in our calendars for which we must of course create witty content. Kicking off with Christmas, we’ve ushered in 2014, watched the Golden Globes and Grammy’s, followed the ad action at the Superbowl, celebrated V-Day and patiently await the Oscars […]
March 10, 2014