Buzzfeed and Twitter seek to turbo-charge content marketing

Content marketing and social media sharing are trends that have become cemented in the day-to-day lives of brand managers, but that doesn’t mean they won’t evolve.

Two recent announcements seek to make the processes more effective for the growing number of PR, marketing and social media pros moving to online campaigns.

Buzzfeed recently introduced Pound, a technology that tracks a piece of content’s spread across social media platforms.

Though there are lots of tools and services that track social media shares, most of them group the data in “buckets,” meaning PR and marketing pros see only how much content is shared on each social platform, not how an individual social media site affects the spread of an article, picture or video.

Buzzfeed publisher Dao Nguyen wrote in a blog post that over 75 percent of Buzzfeed’s 200 million monthly users come from social media. Pound enables brand managers to see what happens when a tweet is then shared on Facebook, prompting another follower to share it in a blog post, and so on.