content marketing

[kon-tent mahr-ki-ting]

noun

1. marketing that tries to attract customers by distributing informational content potentially useful to the target audience, rather than by advertising products and services in the traditional way.

   content marketing through blogs and email newsletters.

Word History and Origins

Origin of content marketing¹

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

Additionally, TikTok is facing a round of layoffs expected to affect employees in its global content, marketing and user departments, according to technology-focused news outlet the Information, which first reported on the job cuts.

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Ronnie Singh, head of lifestyle and content marketing at 2K, announced his company’s deal to help preserve the mural Monday on ESPN’s “NBA Today.”

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“It was a perfect storm of pop culture and sports colliding in a really positive way, with two incredibly passionate fan bases merging together and interacting in ways that they hadn’t before. So for us, it’s fantastic,” said Ian Trombetta, the NFL’s senior vice president of social, influencer and content marketing.

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Taylor Michelle Gerard, a senior executive at content marketing firm Blue Hour Studios, said some of her clients are considering adding a Threads post along with TikTok or Instagram posts as part of sponsored deals with influencers.

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"Earning one million is not as good as winning one million," said Freddie Xiao, a 28-year-old woman working on content marketing for an internet company, as she bought some lottery tickets in a mall in Beijing, the capital.

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