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MIIA Awards - .companion shortlisted twice for marketing intelligence

companion is nominated twice as best pioneer in "measurability of digital marketing". We are looking forward to this year's Marketing Intelligence & Innovation Awards (MIIA). Content.ONE, our universal KPI system for cross-channel evaluation and forecasting of digital media performance, is nominated in the categories "Marketing Intelligence of the Year" and "Data and Analytics"! If you want to know more, here are 3 slides.

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Managing Content Marketing: It's Easy or Nix.

TLDR: More and more budgets and use cases for content marketing and - of course - more and more data. How do you manage increasingly small-scale communication? The trade journal Horizont set out to find solutions. It found some players who are demanding what doesn't yet exist. And one that is already delivering: Us.

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"Comply or Die?" - P&G threatens digital advertising with budget withdrawal

TLDR: A remarkable speech from P&G's chief brand officer. Not the usual inconsequential lament about the untenable state of affairs in the world of digital advertising. Instead, an advertiser speaks of his own complicity in the "digital junk" - and draws all the conclusions he can on his own. One year time to all suppliers to meet 4 demands. "Comply or Die".

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Content marketing currency: "Very helpful, like a contrast agent"

TLDR: W&V reports on our "work" on a currency for content marketing. Yes, indeed, it exists, the currency is called Content.ONE and it makes communication across all channels comparable. But no, we're not working on it, it's already ready. As of 2017, every company can have every campaign evaluated according to the new standard.

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Content marketing readiness - get out of the matrix!

TLDR: Companies need to integrate their performance measurement to get ready to launch. That's one finding of the Content Marketing Readiness Study, which .companion is unveiling this week. Here's the latest Horizon interview on the topic.

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