Conclusion
Forecasting the Future of Content Marketing Strategy
The only certainty about the future of any business is that it’s uncertain.
Almost exactly 27 years ago, Microsoft founder Bill Gates wrote an essay called “Content Is King.” In it he said that “content is where I expect much of the real money will be made on the Internet, just as it was in broadcasting.”1
It was one of Gates’s more prescient moments, because nearly three decades later it has proven to be true. The title of his essay has become a rallying cry for thousands of media and marketing strategies. A Google search on the specific phrase in quotes returns more than 1.7 million results.
But it’s not the title that interests me—it’s the very last line of his essay that I actually ...
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