Content + Alt + Delete ~ James Ainsworth: Creative Content Strategist

Podcast contains a review of the content marketing week plus bonus tools and tips!

This episode also features an interview with Heidi Stephens about her frying pan going viral. 

3 Advanced Influencer Marketing Strategies for Noisy Markets - Convince and Convert

Lessons in Community Engagement – Valuable Content Award for Scilly Sergeant Colin Taylor - Valuable Content

GWR –  The Art of Storytelling  - Linkedin 

Jook - The Jukebox App

Create an online jukebox through Spotify to anable your guests to throw a virtual Dime your way and play the songs they like..until someone gets drunk and puts Aqua's 'Turn back Time' on repeat until the sun comes up.

Jook

Outsmart - stay ahead of your competitors

Keep your digital marketing smart and ahead of the pack with Outsmart. Currently in Beta but looking like a promising digital marketing platform that allows you to access in sights and historical data on your competitors.

Outsmart

Adobe Audition CC - A professional audio workstation for mixing, finishing, and precision editing.

It is about time I gave a nod to the software I use to put the Content + Alt + Delete podcast together. Here is to Adobe Audition.

Adobe Audition CC

Exhibition Content (Experience) Developer - At Bristol

Deputy Head of Content and Digital - Department of Transport (Gov)  

Head of Social - ASOS

Podcast contains a review of the content marketing week plus bonus tools and tips!

Infographic: The History of Content Marketing – Contently

30+ powerful adjectives and verbs for eye-catching headlines – Econsultancy

Podcast: Storytelling tips from Pixar's story chief and the National Theatre – Campaign

FLIXTAPE - Like a mixtape for Netflix

Netflix has correctly realised that romance is not dead and before you get to the 'Chill' you need to do the woo and so they have created flixtape. a chance to make netflix episode mixtapes with netflix content that you can send on to your love interest...or your Mum. 

Flixtape

BLOGINDER- The Tinder for Bloggers

Terrible tagline but useful tool for connecting content and people? Maybe. 

Bloginder

GOODBLOCK MOBILE - One amazing, charitable Ad per day

"We believe that advertising doesn’t have to be obnoxious banner ads, data mining and clickbait. Ads, when carefully crafted, can be delightful. Our mission is to hold the Internet to that standard. Think entertaining Super Bowl ads plus data privacy."

Goodblock

Festival Marketing Content Creator (freelance) - Wildscreen

Senior Content Manager - The Open University

Web Content Coordinator - Thomas Pink

Podcast contains a review of the content marketing week plus bonus tools and tips!

How to Integrate Paid Social in Your Content Marketing Strategy – Neil Patel

Thomson and First Choice owner to scrap holiday brochures  – The Guardian

4 Strategies To Find A More Specific Niche In Content Marketing – Forbes

JULIA - A chatbot that serves up info, tips & inspiration on food & cooking

Cooking up a storm in the kitchen? This chat bot delivers recipes via text message to take you from ingredients to completed culinary masterpiece. Text an ingredient to Julia and your food-based flirtation will begin.

Julia

CORRO - Simple & Visual Content Collaboration

Marketing teams looking for a unified platform to run content, campaigns and creative output? Corro is the dashboard with truly usable workflow for you. Manage your content before it manages you.

Corro

BLUENOD - Visualize Twitter communities and find influencers.

Create visual representations of your Twitter connectedness and identify relevant influencers, content opportunities and Twitter list management.

Bluenod

Content Marketing Assistant - Unite Students

Global Snr Manager, Content Partnerships – Expedia

Social Media and Content Marketing Lead – B&Q

Podcast contains a review of the content marketing week plus bonus tools and tips!

A Marketer’s Guide to Content Curation - Convince and Convert

A sticky relationship with the Euro 2016 Panini sticker album - CRM Life 

7 Essential Content Marketing Lessons From Rand Fishkin’s Whiteboard Fridays - Content Marketing Institute

RIPL -  'Easily create eye-catching posts and share them on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram.'

Create custom animated posts for social media. Get that ad space look and feel without the need for a big media budget.

RIPL

WEVIDEO - 'Easily create outstanding videos.'

Cloud-based and collaborative video production platform with a useful mobile app too. Create video content on the fly. 

WEVIDEO

SEGMENT - 'Simplify your analytics.'

Collect customer data with one API and send it to hundreds of tools for analytics, marketing, and data warehousing. 

SEGMENT

Digital Content Marketing Executive - Matalan

Marketing Storyteller - Security - Cisco

Chief Content & Digital Officer - Capita

Podcast contains a review of the content marketing week plus bonus tools and tips!

How to Create a Content Mission Statement with 4 Simple Templates - Orbit Media

When one upvote is worth a thousand visitors - The Next Web

The U.K.’s Times and Sunday Times are structuring their new apps and website around peak traffic times - NiemanLab

ANSWER THE PUBLIC -  'Ask the Seeker. Enter your keyword and he'll suggest content ideas in seconds'

Is this the most gimmicky SEO tool you ever will see? Yes. Is it still useful under the hood? Yes. SEO is a game of supply and demand. Supply the answers with content that users demand and have yet to be satiated. 

ANSWERTHEPUBLIC

ICONOSQUARE - 'Key metrics about your Instagram account.'

Given that Instagram is next to useless for stats and metrics in and of itself, use this to standardise reporting.

ICONOSQUARE

FAQFOX - 'Is your marketing research lacking?'

In a similar set up to Answer The Public, this tool is useful for keyword, topic and content opportunity research. 

FAQFOX

Social Media and Content Marketing Manager - B&Q

Head of Content, Live and Digital, EuroFinance - The Economist

Owner Experience Content Administrator - Dyson

Podcast contains a review of the content marketing week plus bonus tools and tips!

Twitter made some changes to paid…and they are pretty cool - Immediate Future

Content Migration. Why you must say no to the madness! - Medium

Influencers to Brands at Digital Conference: Let Us Control the Content - AdAge

CONTENTTOOLS -  'Finally, a content marketing platform to manage all your content in one place'

All your content IF you use Wordpress, that is. That said, if I DID use Wordpress (I'm a Squarespace kinda guy - must be all those podcasts having their wicked way with my conscience, right?)  this would be pretty neat with workflow stage-based and distribution facets catered for within one dashboard. 

CONTENTTOOLS

NEWSIO - 'makes it easy for your team to instantly share relevant company news and content on social media.'

Similar to the likes of Dynamic Signal and their 'Voicestorm' offering or Hootsuite's fairly recent foray into content amplification for teams, Newsio has an interesting pricing structure with 5 people on your team being free forever which makes this scalable and tactical at this level before the $$,$$$ jump to play with the bigger payers. 

NEWSIO (BETA)

LOOPAGAIN - 'Go viral with perfect loop Gifs.'

There is an art to the perfect GIF. The continuity of the sequencing of the 'video' source content is identified to make the perfect looper.

LOOPAGAIN

Production Editor - BBC History Revealed Magazine, Immediate Media Company

Content Marketing Manager - Adecco

Research Content Specialist  - Gartner

Podcast contains a review of the content marketing week plus bonus tools and tips!

9 Web Content Writing Rules Everyone Should Know - The Content Factory

Aligning Content Work with Agile Processes - A List Apart

How Imgur Became An Image-Sharing, Meme-Generating Megacommunity - Fast Company

CONNECTOR -  Outreach emails, perfected.

Connect your blog content with proven email templates with tracking, scheduling & follow-up sequences.

CONNECTOR

GOODBARBER - Apps. Made by You.

Create Apps for iPhone and Android with ease. Design, Add content, test and publish your mobile first content.

GOODBARBER

COCHEDULE HEADLINE ANALYZER - Want to write better headlines?

The free blog post headline analyzer will score your overall headline quality and rate its ability to result in social shares, increased traffic and SEO value.

COCHEDULE HEADLINE ANALYZER

Content Manager - Toyota

Marketing and Communications Officer, Content Management - North Hertfordshire College

Junior SEO Copywriter - VoucherCloud

Podcast contains a review of the content marketing week plus bonus tools and tips!

Movie marketers get creative on Instagram to promote new releases - Digiday

Clarifying the Noise: The Content Marketing Spectrum - Content Marketing Institute

How Thorntons uses content marketing to gain an edge at Easter - Econsultancy

APESTER -  the next generation of digital storytelling

Embed interactivity with polls and more with Apester to find your audiences voice.

APESTER

STREAMLI -  Explore the World YOUR way

Be the director you always wanted to be and tap into a pool of film-makers:  Enter location and description( what you want to see), choose length of the live stream and select your local broadcaster.

STREAMLI

MAP ME - Build smarter maps

A touch of the geography never hurt anybody. Create, populate and annotate maps to enrich content with informative visuals. 

MAP ME

Head Content Writer - Latest Free stuff

Website and Intranet Content Manager - Avon and Somerset Police

Digital Content Manager - Boden

Podcast contains a review of the content marketing week plus bonus tools and tips!

Publishers Have to Pay Up to Track Their Audiences on Distributed Platforms - Adage

3 Ways to Use Transparency in Content to Cut Through the Noise - Content Marketing Institute

Content Marketing Lessons Inspired By The Oscars 2016 - M2 Bespoke

LEGGO –   Save your articles. We make sure you will read them.

No more dirty content stockpiling bad habits for you, dear reader. Statistics, notifications and gamification improve your reading processes and keep you as close to' inbox zero' or its backlog of articles equivalent.

LEGGO

HEISENBERG IPSUM -  Placeholder Text with added Meth

Need some inspirational copy to fill those text placeholders beyond Lorem Ipsum? Fill those boxes with quotes, dialogue and more Breaking Bad goodness. 

HEISENBERG IPSUM

FANPAGE KARMA -

Analyze Facebook profiles and those of your competitors to gain insights, benchmark and reporting that makes a difference

FANPAGE KARMA

Technical Content Manager - Camelot

Head of Content & Social - Moo

Digital Content Strategist - Sift Digital

Podcast contains a review of the content marketing week plus bonus tools and tips!

The quest to solve YouTube’s strangest mystery - BBC

Content Marketing – Stats you need to know! [Infographic] - EHL Marketing

Great content is useless when it’s not being looked at - Medium

VIDLOGS – Create your unique video brand

Generate fully customizable video streaming sites from YouTube, Facebook or self-hosted content in minutes and showcase your brand via the medium of curated and created video content.

VIDLOGS

ANCHOR.FM -  Radio by the people

"Anchor is a free iPhone app that makes it easy to broadcast short audio clips to a global audience in seconds. Your listeners can talk back, sparking instant group conversations that were never before possible."

ANCHOR.FM

GRATISOGRAPHY - Free Hi-Res images

Free high-resolution pictures you can use on your personal and commercial projects with great personality, high quality and compelling imagery.

GRATISOGRAPHY

Content Marketing Manager - Mind Candy

Content Marketing Manager - Eduserve

Senior Editor Children's Publishing - Parragon