October 5, 2019

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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PAID CONTENT DISCOVERY & MARKETING TOOLS:

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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.

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“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.

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