If you’re like many brands, you want to keep close tabs on your content marketing. Contributor Rebecca Lieb details what you should consider when hiring an outside agency to help.
How many major brands want to create their content marketing in-house? One hundred percent. That isn’t a made-up statistic. This was an actual finding a couple of years ago when I was conducting content marketing research, interviewing senior executives from over 50 brands such as Nestlé, GE, Adobe, IBM and Coca-Cola.
The next finding was even more interesting. We asked these brands what type of agency they were likely to select for content creation: an ad agency, PR agency, social media agency, or one of the much smaller breed of storytelling agency (e.g., Story Worldwide) when they did outsource.
