Pulse June 2015 | Page 14

PULSE POINTS U.K. Marketers: Twitter is Most Effective for Content Marketing C ommissioned in partnership with Content Marketing Institute and the U.K. Direct Marketing Association (DMA), Content Marketing in the U.K. 2015: Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends reports that 96 percent of marketers from the United Kingdom (U.K.) who utilize content marketing strategies for their organization use LinkedIn as their primary social media platform to distribute content. However, in terms of effectiveness, Twitter ranks as the most effective social media platform. Content marketing is defined by Content Marketing Institute as “a strategic marketing approach focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant and consi