334 Content Marketing Resources: Tips, Strategies, Examples, Tools, & More!

CONTENT MARKETING STRATEGIES:

• Technical Hacks for Content Marketing – Awesome slide deck from Justin Briggs on how to utilize technical SEO for content marketing.
• How to Scale Credible Content –  Joe Griffin at iAcquire writes how their company scaled the identification of credible content producers.
• Twenty experts weigh in on solving their biggest content marketing pain points.
• Weird, Useful, Significant Internet Marketing – Great slide deck by Ian Laurie from Portent at SearchLove.
• The Case for Content: 620% Organic Growth – How adding quality content to different types of pages can increase traffic greatly, by Geoff Kenyon.
• How to Increase a New Website to Over 100,000 Organic Visits per Month – Great advice on content strategy here by Nick Eubanks.
• Data-Based Content Marketing That Won’t Break the Bank – One of the best pieces on content marketing, by Kane Jamison. It outlines how to utilize data with your content.
• Content, Conversion, and Calls to Action: Untangling the Ugly Mess – Joel Klettke writes about the importance of understanding your customer buying cycles.
• Why Creating Tools Can Be a Better Investment Than Creating Content – Awesome Quicksprout post about how creating tools can be the best content.
• Don’t Silo Me, Bro: Integrating Content Strategy Across Disciplines – Good content strategy post by Adria Saracino on the Distilled blog.
• Viral Content from ViperChill – This is a collaboration of the most popular posts from ViperChill. Great stuff here.
• Two great posts on MOZ about evergreen content here. One by Chris Fielden and one by Nick Eubanks.
• Creating and Developing Content Assets – The five stages of high quality content development by Venchito Tampon.
• Content With a Purpose: From Search to Conversion to Lifelong Customer – Slide deck from Mackenzie Fogelson about how to strategically use content to achieve business goals.
• Actionable Content Marketing Tips – 15 great under-utilized tips to drive more traffic to your content
• Content Curation for Marketers: The Definitive Guide – This guide truly is definitive. Want to learn how to curate content? Read this now.
• Viral Marketing Case Study – Awesome tips as usual from Brian Dean.
• Complete Guide to Content Optimization – Great tips from Jason Acidre on how to optimize content for SEO and link building.
• The Content Marketing Manifesto – Great slide deck by Rand Fishkin. It talks about how content is the keystone to inbound marketing.
• 10 Unconventional Keyword Research Tips for Content Ideas – Some unique ways to generate content ideas.
• The Definitive Guide to Copywriting and the Advanced Guide to Content Marketing – Useful guides by Neil Patel at QuickSprout.
• How to Win Fans and Influence Users – Great slide deck about repurposing content to get the most bang for your buck by 97th Floor.
• Creating a Multi-Channel Content Marketing Strategy – Post on BlueGlass about combining earned media, paid media, and owned media.
• 5 Strategic Steps to Big Content -The process of creating big content by Mackenzie Fogelson.
• Copywriting Guide – Huge guide to effective copywriting by Brian Dean aka Backlinko.
• Convert Your Content Marketing to Revenue – Seven pieces of the puzzle about converting your content to revenue from Bruce McDuffee.
• Why Our Content Sucks – Solid slide deck by Jonathan Coleman about the problems with content.
• 52 Bite-Sized Link Building Tips – Good stuff from Matt Gratt and Buzzstream. Although it’s about link building, there are a lot of good content gems here.
• The New SEO Process (Quit Being Kanye) – Great post by Mike King (ipullrank) about the evolving SEO process and how content should be utilized.
• Awesome post by Jason Acidre about how to maximize evergreen content to fuel your sales and marketing. A must read.
• The New Rules of Big Content Promotion – Good tips from Simon Penson at Zazzle about the keys to promoting big content.
• The 38 Most Creative Content Ideas I’ve Ever Seen – Experts share their thoughts on creative content ideas.
• How to Become a Content Brand – Great insights about how some of the leading content brands operate.
• Really good tips on successful content promotion from Larry Kim.
• Bad Linkbait Needs to Die – Great post by Cyrus Shephard on MOZ about the benefits of creating linkable assets.
• Five Ways to Create More Strategic Content – Some great tips from Unbounce on creating and planning for better content.
• Content Marketing through Email – John Doherty shares some great advice about a neglected strategy: content marketing through email.
• Getting Content Curation Right – Great tips from Aleyda.
• Glossary Gatecrasher Method – New content marketing strategy idea.
• How to Create a Killer Content Marketing Campaign – Awesome tips from Sean Smith.
• How to Get to the Front Page of Buzzfeed – Really good tips on getting placement on and traffic from Buzzfeed.
• The Science of Great Digital Content Ideas – Solid post on MOZ from Simon Penson.
• 12 Ways to Extend the Life of Every Article You Write – Good content repurposing guide here on Buffer.
• How You Can Create Content that Generates 40,000 Targeted Visitors – Really good tips from Noah Kagan.
• Great and useful content marketing checklist from Siege Media.
• 4 Types of Content Every Site Needs – Great resource here with a very useful content matrix graphic.
• Do Real Company Stuff – The original #RCS slide deck by Wil Reynolds. Must read.
• Epic List of Content Strategy Resources – If you want “content strategy”, go here.
• 72 Ideas to Energize Your Content – There are some good ideas here to help mix up your content marketing efforts.
• How to Build Links to and Through your Branded Content – Good, actionable tips on utilizing your content with link building.
• 60 Experts Reveal Their Favorite Content Marketing Books – If you want to read books about content marketing, here’s a solid list.
• Content Guide – Amazing resource from Distilled.
• Dollar Shave Club and Content Marketing – How the Dollar Shave Club grew their brand via content marketing.
• Promoting Content to Publishers – Great guide on how to successfully promote content to publishers and get links.

DATA GATHERING TOOLS:

• https://data.fivethirtyeight.com/ – Fantastic open data sets and code from 538.
• https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch – Amazing data search engine tool from Google.
• https://scholar.google.com/ – The Google Scholar program – lot’s of research and data available here to repackage.
• http://data.gov.uk/ – The United Kingdom’s Open Data Project.
• http://www.data.gov/ and http://www.census.gov/ and http://www.bls.gov/cex/ – The U.S. Government has some good data available as well.
• https://books.google.com/ngrams – Google N Gram Viewer.
• http://www.gapminder.org/ – Gapminder shares lots of different data sets often.
• http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory – Google Public Data.
• http://fedstats.sites.usa.gov/ – More government data.
• http://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/ – Datasets on Reddit.
• http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home – Google Consumer Surveys.
• https://www.surveymonkey.com/ – Survey Monkey.
• https://www.usafacts.org/ – New search engine data tool – great resource.
• http://topsy.com/ – Search and analyze the social web, use that data to create content.
• http://bottlenose.com/ – Find trending topics, people, and emotions on social media.
• http://fre.sh/ – A tool from Buzzfeed to find the fastest rising stories on the web.
• https://datausa.io/ – New data gathering hub. Really solid.
• http://www.quora.com/Data/Where-can-I-find-large-datasets-open-to-the-public – Good list on Quora of more data sets.
• https://analytics.usa.gov/ – Open sourced analytics from the US Government
• https://www.datazar.com/ – A research collaboration platform with tons of data available.
• https://data.world/ – Like Github but data-focused
• https://www.flickr.com/services/api/ – Flickr’s API has a ton of data
• https://developer.foursquare.com/ – Foursquare’s API also has a ton of data
• https://tinyletter.com/data-is-plural and http://dataelixir.com/ – Weekly newsletters with datasets
• https://musicbrainz.org/ – Open-source music encyclopedia database
• http://www.sports-reference.com/ – Sports-related databases
• https://www.kaggle.com/datasets – A selection of open datasets
• http://data.worldbank.org/ – Open access to global development data
• https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/ and https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps.html and http://www.bls.gov/tus/– Lots of survey data about different topics
• http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat – Large selection of European datasets
• http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/#/11111111111 – Cost of living data across the world
• http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations – Find funny non-related data visualizations
• https://contentstudio.io – Find trending content in your niche.
• http://betterknowyourarea.com/ – Great tool for finding demographic/location data.
• https://adspy.com/ – AWESOME tool that has a searchable database of Facebook and Instagram ads.
• https://app.equiplore.com/ – Find trends between Google search volume and crypto/stock prices.

DATA VISUALIZATION TOOLS:

• http://www-958.ibm.com/software/analytics/manyeyes/ – Many Eyes from IBM.
• http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/ – Create interactive data visualizations.
• http://www.google.com/drive/apps.html#fusiontables – Google Fusion Tables.
• http://oridomi.com/ – Cool tool that makes pictures and content look like origami, if you will.
• http://www.statsilk.com/ – Create interactive graphs, maps, and charts.
• http://visual.ly/ and http://infogr.am/ and http://piktochart.com/ – Easily create infographics.
• https://www.canva.com/create/infographics/ – Another great infographic creation tool.
• https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/ – Awesome new tool for data visualization purposes.
• https://datagifmaker.withgoogle.com/edit – Free tool for creating GIFs off of data.
• https://www.visme.co/ – Great tool with free version for infographics, slide decks, visual content, and more.

MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS & RESOURCES FOR CONTENT IDEA GENERATION, CREATION, AND MAKING YOUR CONTENT BETTER:

• https://github.com/abenzer/represent-map – Map making tool on Github.
• http://xaviershay.github.io/tufte-graph/ – Graph making tool on Github.
• http://www.portent.com/tools/title-maker/ – Content Idea Generator tool from Portent.
• https://socialcrawlytics.com/ – Use Social Crawlytics to see what types of content your competitors are sharing.
• https://publishers.playbuzz.com/ – New tools from Playbuzz.
• http://raventools.com/blog/tools-instant-content-ideas/ – 15 free tools for instant content ideas.
• http://flowsmapper.geo.census.gov/flowsmapper/map.html – Nice map/data tool from the US Census Bureau that can be used to generate content ideas.
• http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/instant/about.html – Google instant search / DONT HIT ENTER (h/t Wil Reynolds).
• http://memegenerator.net – Make memes.
• https://mapme.com/stories/ – Tool to add maps to your content.
• http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/websites-101/design-guides/where-the-best-designers-go-to-find-photos-and-graphics – Great resource for finding free, quality photos to use.
• http://polarb.com/publishers – Cool free social polling tool that you can embed into content.
• http://contenttools.co/ – Tools to help you make content easier.
• http://www.content-inventory.com/content-inventory-templates/ – Content inventory templates.
• http://www.tagxedo.com/ – Create pretty word cloud pictures.
• http://www.greenlaneseo.com/outdated-content-finder/ – Awesome tool from Bill Sebald: Find old, outdated content that needs updating.
• https://www.storehouse.co/ and https://exposure.so/ – Use these awesome tools to create beautiful stories.
• http://www.google.com/trends/ – Google Trends.
• http://ubersuggest.org and http://soovle.com and http://www.wordstream.com/keywords – Keyword idea generators.
• http://radurls.com/ – Tool that finds trending URLs in real-time – Use for content generation.
• http://buzzsumo.com/ – Social insights for content marketing campaigns (and SEO too).
• http://trendsmap.com/ – Real-time Local Twitter Trends map.
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday – Useful resource from BBC to find news content from the past.
• https://www.facebook.com/about/graphsearch – Facebook Graph Search.
• https://twitter.com/search-advanced – Advanced Twitter Search (sentiment, question).
• http://www.ovrhd.com/ – Add links and notes inside of pictures and embed into your content.
• http://sbstjn.github.io/timesheet.js/ – Free code to make pretty-looking timelines to embed in your content.
• https://stocksnap.io/ – Beautiful free stock photos.
• http://overapi.com/ – Tap into these APIs to make your content better.
• https://www.thinglink.com/ – Another tool for creating interactive images to share in content and social media.
• http://tinychart.co/ – Easy tool for making pretty charts for your content.
• http://builtvisible.com/content-strategy-helper/ – Content strategy helper tool. A must use.
• https://www.quadrant.io/ – Fastest way to find and chart economic and financial data.
• http://builtvisible.com/embeddable-highcharts-generator/ – Embeddable charts generator.
• https://www.qzzr.com/ – Awesome tool for making free, pretty quizzes.
• http://brackify.com/ – Create interactive voting brackets for your content.
• http://infographicjournal.com/ – Infographic resource and marketing hub.
• https://www.brandquiz.io/ – Tool to easily make interactive content.
• https://www.zine.press/ – Use this tool to create a pretty microsite/page on your website displaying your Instagram content.
• https://www.kapwing.com/ – Great tool (with free version) for creating visual content in various formats on the fly.
• https://tryspider.com/ – Scrape the web and use the data to inform your content marketing strategy.
• https://stonly.com/ – Create interactive, step-by-step explanations with rich content and embed them wherever you want.
• https://trennd.co/ – Discover rapidly growing Google search topics and build content off those trends.
• https://bentensound.com/ – Free quality stock music for videos and content.

PAID CONTENT DISCOVERY & MARKETING TOOLS:

• http://disqus.com/
• http://nrelate.com/
• http://outbrain.com
• http://stumbleupon.com
• http://zemanta.com
• http://taboola.com
• http://simplereach.com/
• http://www.sharethrough.com/
• http://written.com/
• http://newscred.com/
• https://contently.com/
• http://www.onespot.com/

EXAMPLES OF GREAT CONTENT:

• https://pudding.cool/2017/01/making-it-big/ – The unlikely odds of making it big – how music bands can go viral.
• http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt0903747 – Very cool visualization of Breaking Bad episode ratings.
• http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2015/03/opinion/ctl-child-poverty/#0 – The Poor Kids of Silicon Valley. Beautiful (and sobering) stuff from CNN.
• http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/03/14/the-many-faces-of-bill-murray-an-illustrated-compilation/ – The many faces of Bill Murray. So cool.
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/07/the-less-americans-know-about-ukraines-location-the-more-they-want-u-s-to-intervene/ – A graphic that shows the guesses of U.S. adults as to the location of Ukraine.
• http://www.matthewisabel.com/projects/deathrates/geographic.html – Mortality rates in the U.S. – data from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_04.pdf
• http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/the-distribution-of-fandom-in-pro-leagues/ – The distribution of fandom in pro sports leagues. Easy and smart content idea.
• http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/cinemagraph/ – Collection of cool cinemagraphs.
• https://pudding.cool/2017/01/shape-of-slavery/ – Amazing interactive about the shape of slavery over time.
• http://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2013/10/13/russia/ – Amazing piece by the New York Times.
• http://flowingdata.com/2013/10/14/pizza-place-geography/#more-32532 – Pizza place geography around the country.
• http://www.businessinsider.com/we-found-where-the-hipsters-are-coming-from-2013-9 – Analysis of where the Brooklyn-area hipsters are coming from.
• http://polygraph.cool/kickstarter/ – The Entire History of Kickstarter, Broken Down by City.
• http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2016/12/specials/vanishing/index.html – The crisis of extinction on CNN.
• http://www.dangersoffracking.com/ – Cool visualization of information about the dangers of fracking.
• https://cash.me/bitcoin – Really cool interactive/beautifully-designed content about Bitcoin.
• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/26/upshot/duck-dynasty-vs-modern-family-television-maps.html?_r=0 – How different parts of the country view TV shows.
• http://www.yeedor.com/data-portraits/ – Beautiful visual data portraits by Yeedor. Here’s a cool one about coffee statements: http://www.yeedor.com/self-portraits/coffee-statements-2011/
• http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/slate_labs/2013/10/united_sports_of_america_map_if_each_state_could_have_only_one_sport_what.html – If a state could have just one sport, what would it be?
• http://netflixcheating.com/ – Incredible interactive about “Netflix Cheating”
• http://peterbeshai.com/buckets/app/#/playerView/201142_2013 – Incredible deep dive into visualizing different NBA players.
• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/22/upshot/what-2000-calories-looks-like.html – What does 2000 calories look like?
• http://whatcolourisit.scn9a.org/ – What color is it?
• http://polygraph.cool/hamilton/ – Amazing interactive on the play “Hamilton”.
• http://theofficestaremachine.com/ – The Office Stare Machine. Type in an emotion and have fun!
• https://www.spotify.com/us/arts/serendipity/ – Awesome content from Spotify that shows when 2 people play the same song.
• http://tabletopwhale.com/index.html – Beautiful illustrations and design on this blog.
• http://hotpads.com/pages/reports/pet-friendly-zip-codes.htm – Great example of on-brand creative content.
• http://www.facesofpower.net/ – Cool interactive about the history of U.S. Presidents.
• http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/flights/ – Amazing interactive tool from 538 to find which flights are best in regards to delays.
• https://mozy.com/blog/infographics/mustaches-who-made-them-famous-and-who-followed/ – Infographic about moustaches and who made them famous.
• http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-09/jay-z-is-right-most-rappers-are-lying-about-their-money – Why rappers are lying about their money.
• http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html – If the Moon were only one pixel. Really cool interactive graphic.
• http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/microsites/googleplus-for-small-businesses/ – Awesome interactive small business guide to Google Plus.
• http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-biggest-lies-in-online-dating/ – The big lies people tell in online dating – funny stuff from OK Cupid.
• http://hereistoday.com/ – This one really puts things in perspective.
• http://flowingdata.com/2016/12/06/how-people-like-you-spend-their-time/ – How people like you spend their time.
• http://www.productchart.com/smartphones/ – Amazing interactive smartphone comparison chart.
• http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/projects/workouts/ – Scientific 7-minute workouts from NYT.
• http://www.drugrehab.org/prescription-drug-abuse/ – Interesting interactive on drug abuse.
• http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-how-to-spend-your-bonus/ – How to Spend Your Bonus.
• http://chrisbeaumont.org/holdem_odds/#8H+QS – Visualizing Texas Hold ‘Em hands.
• https://mosaicscience.com/story/global-health-check – Interactive that shows how health has changed since you were born.
• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/space/keplers-tally-of-planets.html?_r=0 – Kepler’s Tally of Planets
• http://www.hipstertaxcrisis.com/ – Hilarious and genius microsite about the “hipster tax crisis” from H&R Block.
• http://www.americangolf.com/blog/golf-news/the-most-iconic-sports-moments-infographic/ – Cool “GIFgraphic” about the most iconic moments in sports history.
• https://www.sweatergenerator.com/#/main/landing – Fun microsite and campaign by Coca Cola.
• http://www.bestmedicareprice.com/ – Cool interactive graphic that geographically plots medical prices based on the type of procedure.
• http://www.happier.co.uk/infogram/amount-top-companies-earn-per-second.html – How much do the largest companies make per second?
• http://planefinder.net/ – Live plane tracking tool.
• https://localingual.com/ – Really interesting tool where you can hear voices in different languages across the globe.
• http://polygraph.cool/hamilton/ – Awesome interactive about the Hamilton play.
• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/13/sports/olympics/can-you-beat-usain-bolt-out-of-the-blocks.html – Can you beat Usain Bolt out of the blocks? Give it a shot.
• http://www.ligo.co.uk/extend-smartphone-battery/ – How to extend your smartphone battery.
• https://sageproject.com/ – Really cool project sharing interactive data on food.
• http://latenightsnaphacks.com/ – Fun and funny microsite from Casper to trick your friends into thinking you’re out partying.
• http://flowingdata.com/2016/07/20/modern-family-structure/ – All the most common family structures in the world.
• http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/gun-deaths/ – Interactive from 538 on gun deaths.
• https://maptia.com/robinhoskyns/stories/the-extraordinary-lives-of-kalahari-meerkats – Beautiful piece from Maptia on Kalahari Meerkats.
• http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/17200562/build-your-own-dream-team – Building your own NBA dream team from ESPN.
• https://medium.com/foursquare-direct/how-the-trump-presidential-campaign-is-affecting-trump-businesses-c343178e3c03#.cimz0z81r – How Foursquare used data to show Trump’s properties declining during his presidential campaign.
• http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12238094/tom-brady-statistical-analysis-new-england-patriots-quarterback-nfl-record-49-postseason-touchdown-passes – Visualizing Tom Brady’s playoff TD passes. So cool.
• http://www.budgetdirect.com.au/carsmarts/ – How well do you know your car?
• http://www.polygon.com/a/xbox-one-review# – Incredible example of how to do a product review. Beautiful.
• http://www.cabletv.com/the-walking-dead – The Walking Dead interactive graphic.
• http://www.prezzybox.com/apps/christmas-song-royalties.aspx – Cool calculation of Christmas song royalties being tallied in real time.
• http://www.concerthotels.com/minimal-music-quiz – Really fun and addictive music quiz that wouldn’t be too hard to make.
• http://www.colehaan.com/wingtip-or-saddle.html – Cool idea here to help people decide which shoes are best for them.
• http://www.techadvisor.co.uk/test-centre/mobile-phone/iphone-5s-vs-peppa-pig-phone/ – Funny comparison of an iPhone 5S and the Peppa Pig Phone.
• http://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/ – Real-time billionaires tracker by Forbes.
• http://usvsth3m.com/post/70400762160/every-single-celebrity-murdered-by-the-sinister – Every single celebrity murdered by the Illuminati, as revealed by Google Autocomplete.
• http://benedictcumberbatchgenerator.tumblr.com/ – Nuff said.
• http://www.bloomberg.com/dataview/2014-04-17/how-americans-die.html – How Americans Die.
• https://pudding.cool/2018/01/music-map/ – Crazy cool interactive about popular songs across the world visualized.
• http://www.alpenwild.com/glacierexpress/ – Beautiful content about the Glacier Express.
• https://pro.turbotax.intuit.com/history-of-taxes/ – The history of the tax code.
• http://www.happier.co.uk/infogram/amount-top-companies-earn-per-second.html – How much money top companies earn every second.
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/lifestyle/national-parks/ – Nice piece from WaPo about the country’s National Parks.
• Beyonce Twitter map – A map that shows geotagged tweets mentioning Beyonce’s album release during the first day.
• http://www.rehabs.com/explore/your-face-on-meth/ – Great interactive visualizing your face on meth.
• http://www.powder.com/2017-best-skis/ – Great example of how to effectively do content on an eCommerce site.
• http://rcs.seerinteractive.com/destination-layover/where-you-at – Ideas for what to do on a layover.
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/sports/wizards-shooting-stars/ – The Wizards’ shooting stars.
• https://www.americangolf.com/blog/golf-news/the-most-iconic-sports-moments-infographic/ – Iconic moments in sports history.
• http://www.visualmagnetic.com/html/sex-politics-income/ – Sex, politics, and pay gaps.
• http://noahveltman.com/nflplayers/ – NFL players height and weight over time.
• http://blog.vctr.me/bart/ – Salary of every BART employee.
• http://smokymountains.com/fall-foliage-map/ – Fall foliage map.
• http://www.georgelmurphy.com/berrics/ – One of the best interactives I have ever seen.
• http://www.concerthotels.com/worlds-greatest-vocal-ranges – World’s greatest vocal ranges.
• http://appleplugs.com/ – Hilarious microsite about “Apple Plugs”, to put in your new iPhone 7 jack.
• https://everymove.org/fitness-trackers – Solid comparison piece on fitness trackers and fitness apps.
• https://strangergif.com/ – Make GIFs inspired by the Netflix show Stranger Things.
• https://www.defensivedriving.com/road-trip-planner/best-road-trip-music/ – Best road trip music.
• http://blog.warbyparker.com/upper-east-side-new-york-literary-map/ – Upper East Side NYC literary map.
• http://www.retale.com/info/retail-in-real-time/ – Retail in real time.
• http://mwranches.com/choose-adventure/ – Find your own outdoor adventure tool.
• http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/mass-killings/index.html#title – In depth interactive about mass shootings in the U.S. Very eye-opening.
• http://www.buzzfeed.com/rachelzarrell/the-most-charming-places-in-the-world – Beautiful content and photography on a Buzzfeed travel article.
• http://www.softwareadvice.com/crm/social-app-map/ – Social map app that shows various social CRM tools.
• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/18/sports/olympics/olympic-races-near-you.html – How far in your neighborhood you could get if you ran as fast as Usain Bolt.
• http://www.footballasfootball.com/ – NFL team logos redesigned as European football (soccer) badges.
• http://www.glasstilestore.com/lavagame/ – Fun game by a glass tile store.
• http://www.drainwig.com/the-hairy-quiz/ – How hairy is your drain? Funny/cool quiz.
• http://www.matthewisabel.com/projects/deathrates/geographic.html – Mortality rates in the U.S. for various afflictions.
• http://www.concerthotels.com/100-years-of-rock – 100 Years of Rock Music.
• http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/interactive/2013/dec/19/where-do-drivers-have-penalty-points-interactive-map – Where do drivers have penalty points?
• https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/recipes – Incredible example of a category hub page.
• http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/income-upshot – What does a person’s income say about their life?
• http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/07/interactive-this-is-how-much-money-twitter-owes-you/ – A tool released the day after the Twitter IPO that calculates how much Twitter “owes” you based on your follower count.
• http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1600-Pennsylvania-Ave-NW-Washington-DC-20006/84074482_zpid/ – The White House listing on Zillow.
• http://dev.citysdk.waag.org/buildings/ – Buildings in the Netherlands shaded by color based on when they were built.
• http://www.thistothat.com/ – A very simple but very useful tool. A testament to the fact that content and tools do not always have to be beautiful and amazing.
• http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/microsites/hungry-tech/ – Awesome interactive graphic about acquisitions from tech giants over the years.
• http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/who-gains/#/?start=1985&end=2008 – When income grows, who gains?
• http://incoming.shopify.com/ – A real-time look at sales from around the world on Shopify sites.
• https://betternews.org/topic/podcasts/ – Beautiful and intuitive interface and resource for content about creating a podcast.
• https://www.just-eat.co.uk/explore/curry/ – The “Curry Explorer”
• https://pudding.cool/2017/10/superteams/ – Interactive content about NBA superteams.
• https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-78.45,26.35,524 – Interactive map/charts of wind currents.
• http://www.extremefomo.com/ – Fun site that shows you what investments you could have made.
• https://flowingdata.com/2018/10/02/shifting-death/ – How the causes of death have shifted over time.
• https://pudding.cool/2019/03/hype/ – How many high school players made it in the NBA.
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/entertainment/game-of-thrones/ – Every death, visualized, from Game of Thrones.

“BORING” PAGES ON YOUR SITE – MAKE THEM FUN!

• http://mailchimp.com/2012/ – MailChimp made their annual report fun.
• https://www.airbnb.com/annual/ – Airbnb showed their company progress in a beautiful way.
• https://www.distilled.net/contact/ – Even a “Contact Us” page can be used for quality content (scroll down and watch video).
• http://www.quicksprout.com/contact/ – Funny and useful contact page from Neil Patel.
• https://www.distilled.net/about/people/ – Another from Distilled. Make your “Meet the Team” page entertaining!
• http://moz.com/about – Beautiful and informative About page from MOZ.
• http://www.andrewreifman.com/# – Show off your skills (click on About section).
• http://www.kickstarter.com/year/2012 – Kickstarter yearly recap.
• http://www.charitywater.org/annual-report/12/ – Charity Water’s annual report.
• https://www.kickstarter.com/1billion – Kickstarter celebrates $1 Billion in pledges.
• https://www.airbnb.com/economic-impact – AirBnb explains its economic impact.
• http://www.coryvines.com/yearinreview – Year in review from Cory Vines.
• http://andllamas.cotopaxi.com/cotopaxi-2014-year-review/ – Year in review from Cotopaxi.
• http://www.bloomberg.com/404 – Awesome 404 page.
• http://www.bluedaniel.com/404 – Creepy but cool 404 page.
• https://www.invisionapp.com/end-of-year – Really cool end of year recap from Invision
• https://ninjatune.net/2017/ – Amazing year in review from a band.

WEBSITES FOR INSPIRATION:

• http://flowingdata.com/
• http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
• http://www.ibelieveinadv.com/
• Hub of the best marketing campaigns
• http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/2013-winners/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/
• https://www.microcopyinspirations.com/
• https://www.designrush.com/trends

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Brandon Doyle

CEO + Founder

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