The State of Content Marketing in 2022: Trends to Watch For

In just a few years, content marketing has gained traction in the world of business and rapidly gained traction as an effective tool to generate leads, build trust with customers, and create brand awareness. But what will the trends be in the next five years? Ten years? What changes can we expect to see? Native Advertising Will Be The Norm When people discuss native advertising, they’re talking about paid content that is designed to blend into a website. In other words, it’s content marketing. And, as it turns out, people really like it. According to Forbes , native advertising grew 6X from 2013–2015 and is expected to continue growing at that pace or faster. We don’t think we need much more evidence than that. The key takeaway here is that over time (and probably by 2022), virtually all content will be produced with a business objective in mind—even if business objective just means raising awareness and not necessarily selling product . If you have an opinion on something but are...