2016 is officially the year that social media surpassed traditional news and media outlets as the “go to” for current events and news. The Pew Research Center reported that 62 percent of adults obtain their news on social media, and that a large percentage of millennials also rely heavily on social media platforms to keep update and informed. This circulation of fake news through social media became even more apparent in the 2016 presidential election - which is why both social sites and individuals need to be accountable.
In the world of marketing and freelance writing, many of us have had to write all sorts of copy in our professional lifetimes, whether it was for a client’s blog post, an email marketing campaign or creating an info graphic, but do any of us really know or understand the difference between what constitutes as “copywriting” versus “content”?
One of our least favorite website designs is the infinite scroll sites that seem to have popped in around the web over the past couple of years. They lack organization, can be disorienting for viewers and often have several short blurbs of text.Marketing powerhouse, Hubspot, recently released 37 important statistics related to visual content marketing. Here are our top 7.