The Top 100 Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR Blogs
What this list is about?
- the list is intended to represent as broad a field of genres within advertising, marketing, media and PR as possible
- that the list is of interest to the general reader as well as for those who want to learn a bit more about related subjects and / or who want to develop their overall marketing mix
* Please note: blogs within categories are not ranked against each other
This list is updated regularly (update: 2).
TOP 20 BLOGS
- PSFK - Cultural and business trends
- Seth Godin’s Blog - Branding / general business ideas
- Branding Strategy Insider - Branding: general
- Russel Davies - Account planning
- Jaffe Juice - Marketing: general
- One Degree - Digital marketing
- Micro Persuasion - Digital trends
- Pronet Advertising - Online marketing
- BannerBlog - Online advertising
- AdRants - Advertising news
- Search Engine Land - SEO and affiliate marketing
- Richard Edelman - PR: general
- PRBlogger - PR and technology
- Social Media Explorer - Social media: general
- Centre Networks - Social networking
- ProBlogger - Blogging
- Copyblogger - Copywriting
- David Airey - Graphic design
- Logic + Emotion - Design: general
- Ads of the World - Advertising ads archive
REST OF BLOGS (21 - 100)
Advertising / brand news
- AdFreak - Advertising and media
- Adland - latest advertising news from a creative point-of-view
+ AdRants (top 20 list)
Customers / customer behaviour
- Tom Peters - Consumer behaviour / general psychology of people in the world of economics
- Customers Rock! - focusing on happy customers
- Third Way Advertising Blog - ‘straight talk on advertising from the client side’
- Marketing Producivity Blog - Moving from a low accountability to a high accountability business model
Advertising - future trends
- Ad Lab - Predictions in advertising and advertising technologies
Account planning
- Adliterate - ‘radical thinking for the brand advice business’
- Ian Tait Crackunit- by a planner with a background in creative work who does a ‘a kind of creative plannery type thing’
- Herd - by Mark Earl, author of ‘Herd: How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing Our True Nature’
- Fallon Planning - ‘Share ideas that inspire. FALLON PLANNERS (and co-conspirators) are freely invited to post trends, commentary, obscure ephemera and insightful rants regarding the experience of branding.’
- Optimism- ‘Embracing failure since 1998. A weblog about life at wieden + kennedy london’
+ Russel Davies (top 20) - Only Dead Fish - ‘media, communications, planning, magazines, life’
Branding
- Brand Flakes For Breakfast - with contributions by various authors
- Advergirl - general blog about brand strategy
- Make The Logo Bigger - brands and advertising
- The Engaging Brand - communication
+ Branding Strategy Insider (top 20 list)
Media - general
- Cymfony - consumer insight on traditional and social media
- Publishing 2.0 - the evolution of media: the way technology is transforming media
- Noah Brier - ‘marketing, media, technology and randomness’ - by Noah Brier head of planning and strategy at The Barbarian Group.
Digital marketing
- My Name Is Kate - ‘the intersection of marketing, technology and other juicy things’
- ToddAnd - marketing, media and PR
- Buzz Marketing for Technology - for B2B technology marketeers
- London Calling - focusing on mobile and the telecommunications industry
- Infovore- By Tom Armitage who writes, designs and develops for the web
- Adverblog - interactive marketing with focus on PR, retail and presence marketing
- Inside the Marketers Studio - interactive marketing - insight and trends
- Get Elastic - E-commerce
+ One Degree (top 20 list)
Marketing - general
- Drew’s Marketing Minute - Marketing and branding in general
- Brand Autopsy - by John Moore, author of ‘Tribal Knowledge: Business Wisdom Brewed from the Grounds of Starbucks Corporate Culture’
- Marketing Blurb - general marketing blog
- Influential Marketing Blog - plus advertising and PR strategy
- Murketing - by Rob Walker, author of ‘Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy And Who We Are.’
- Future Lab - marketing, strategy, innovation and design
- Diva Marketing Blog - ‘An approach to marketing that’s fun, bold and savy.’
- Make Marketing History - ‘The views of a marketing deviant’
Small business - Marketing and branding
- Duct Tape Marketing - was chosen as a Forbes favourite for small business and marketing
- Small Business Branding - by various authors
Marketing - word of mouth
- Damn! I Wish I’d Thought of That - creative marketing blog by Andy Sernovitz, author of ‘Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking’.
Lead generation
- B2B Lead Generation Blog - plus sales leads and marketing
PR - general
- Livingston Communications - with focus on account planning
- Pop! - Communications
- PR 2.0 - Focusing on social media, PR, web marketing and technology
- Thorny Fallis - PR and social media
- Every Dot Connects - PR and social media
- A PR Guy’s Musings - ‘business, politics, technology, public relations, and social media’
+ Jaffe Juice (top 20)
+ Edelman (top 20 list)
+ PR Blogger (top list)
Social media - general
- Neville Hobson - blogging, PR, marketing
and blogging - Web Ink Now - viral marketing strategies using blogs, news releases, ebooks and online media
- The Viral Garden - ‘bluring the line between company and customer’
- Viral Blog - including Viral Friday, showing the most popular viral videos and more.
- PR2 Squared - ‘conversations about social media and marketing’
- Shel Holtz - communication, technology and PR
- Web Strategy by Jeremiah - ‘how web tools enable companies to connect with customers.’
- Groundswell - focusing on social technologies
- Chris Brogan - ‘using social media and technology to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals’
+ Social Media Explorer (top 20 list) - Mashable - social networking news
+ Centre Networks (general)
Blogging
- ConVersations - and social media
- Hyku - blogs for public relations, marketing, media, communication & branding
ProBlogger (top 20 list)
Copywriting
- The Copywriting Maven - ‘A copywriter shares tips, techniques, reviews, and cranky commentry’
+ Copyblogger (top 20 list)
Graphic Design
- Veerle’s Blog - and web design
+ David Airey (top 20 list)
Design - general
- Ideas On Ideas - design plus brands
- Designers who blog - ‘A Design blog for designers, photographers, writers, marketeers, etc., who blog’
- Mark Boulton - web design
- Noisy Decent Graphics - graphic design (and communication, ideas and brands)
+ Logic + Emotion (top 20 list)
Creative work - advertising
- The Inspiration Room - for general media channels
- Adverbox - ‘daily visual pleasure’
- AdGooness - ‘the best and sometimes the worst around the globe’ by art director Frederick Samuel’
Ads of the World (top 20 list)
SEO - general
- Search Engine Roundtable - with contributions from various SEO expert
- Search Engine Watch - includes a useful and interesting forum
- Search Engine Guide - targeted at small businesses, editor focuses on search engine marketing, viral marketing, and social media.
- SEOMOZ.org - providing education, tools, resources and paid services.
- Search Engine Journal - Easy to follow, well-written articles
Search Engine Land (top 20 list)
PPC
- PPC Hero - useful, general resource blog for Pay Per Click
Affiliate marketing
- Zac Johnson an entrepreneurial expert in this field
Online marketing
- Shoemoney - by entrepreneur Jeremy Schoemaker
- Marketing Pilgrim - with emphasis on online advertising
- Hitwise - online competitive intelligence
- Online Marketing Blog - SEO, PPC and affiliate marketing
- Yoast - tweaking websites
- Conversation Agent – ‘Connecting ideas and people – how talk can change our lives’
- + Pronet Advertising (top 20 list)
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