Things move fast in the world of marketing, with new technologies, platforms, and strategies popping up like weeds. That’s why we’ve put together this list of the 127 best marketing blogs to help you stay on top of marketing news, insights, and best practices.
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We’ve organized our full list into the following 12 categories:
Marketing News
Digital Marketing
Content Marketing
Social Media Marketing
Marketing Automation and Demand Generation
Search Marketing
Business of Marketing News
Technology and MarTech News
Customer Relationship Management
Public Relations
Branding
Video and Visual Marketing
What are the best marketing blogs?
We’ve put together a list of the top 10 marketing blogs and news resources we read here at TrackMaven. Take a look:
Top 10 Marketing Blogs
- Digiday — According to their website, Digiday, “creates content, services, and community that foster change in media and marketing.” Their articles cover digital marketing, content, and advertising.
- Marketing Land — Marketing Land provides digital marketing and technology news, covering social, search, mobile, and more.
- Moz — Led by influencer Rand Fishkin, the Moz Blog is THE source for SEO and inbound marketing tips, news, and advice.
- Content Marketing Institute (CMI) — CMI’s website is the holy grail for content marketers. Led by influencer Joe Pulizzi, its articles cover content marketing strategy, research, actionable insights, and how-to marketing guides.
- MarketingProfs — Led by influencer Ann Handley, MarketingProfs publishes marketing how-to articles, opinion pieces, and research findings.
- Mashable — Mashable is an essential source for marketers looking to stay on top of technology, social media, and business news.
- Buffer — Buffer’s blog has quickly become a treasure trove of actionable insights for social media marketers — and offers productivity tips too.
- Marketo — Marketo’s blog provides tips and best practices for digital marketing, email marketing, lead generation, marketing automation, and marketing ROI.
- Business Insider — Though not what we might traditionally call a blog, Business Insider’s coverage of marketing, brands, and business practices makes it a must-read for marketers, which we simply could not leave off this list.
- TrackMaven — The TrackMaven Blog is an authoritative source for marketing best practices news, and advice, covering social media, demand generation, marketing reporting, and more.
Best Marketing Blogs List
Marketing News
Adage — While Adage primarily covers advertising news, they also cover digital technology, and, most importantly for our purposes, provide good coverage of developments in the marketing world. It’s also important for marketers to stay on top of advertising news as more social media channels become monetized and advertising becomes more of a core task for content and demand generation marketers. You can also check out their sub-blog, DigitalNext, on emerging technologies.
Adweek — Adweek covers media, technology, and advertising, but we’re primarily interested in their branding coverage. Adweek features great articles about how brands use marketing and advertising to attract new customers and keep current customers engaged. You can also check out their sub-blog, SocialTimes, which covers the world of social media.
Blog 360i — Blog 360i covers marketing news and trends, including influencer marketing, media planning, mobile marketing, social media, startup news, and search marketing. The blog also covers marketing reports and whitepapers.
ClickZ — ClickZ is a must-read for digital marketers looking to stay on tops of the latest news and insights.
TOP TEN
Digiday — According to their website, Digiday, “creates content, services, and community that foster change in media and marketing.” Their articles cover digital marketing, content, and advertising.
DMN — DMN specializes in providing marketing intelligence to senior marketers on topics that include digital, social media, direct mail, and more.
Elevate — This American Marketing Association (AMA) blog describes itself as presenting “ideas and insights to take your marketing to the highest level.” Elevate focuses on a broad range of marketing topics, with contributors that include researchers, experienced marketers, academics, and AMA leaders.
ExchangeWire — ExchangeWire provides actionable marketing news and intelligence on emerging technologies and strategies.
FierceCMO — Led by editor Patrick Gorman, FierceCMO covers breaking news in the marketing world on topics such as analytics, lead generation, and content marketing.
Lush Digital — Lush Digital’s blog provides content marketing news, tips, and advice. P.S. Check out their podcast!
Marketing Charts — Marketing Charts covers the latest research for marketers and analysts.
TOP TEN
Marketing Land — Marketing Land provides digital marketing and technology news, covering social, search, mobile, and more.
Marketing Magazine — Marketing Magazine is a Canadian source for news and article on marketing, advertising, and media.
Marketing Week — Marketing Week provides information on marketing jobs and news, covering advertising, public relations, digital marketing, and more.
The Drum — The Drum covers marketing, advertising, design, and digital news.
Digital Marketing
{grow} — The {grow} blog focuses on “the intersection of marketing, technology, and humanity,” and is led by well-respected marketer and influencer Mark Schaefer.
B2B Marketing — B2B Marketing’s blog shares marketing insights and best practices on a range of marketing topics for B2B brands.
Business 2 Community — Business 2 Community is a contributor-driven website and blog that covers breaking news and trends for a broad range of marketing topics, such as content marketing, social media, and social selling.
CMO.com — CMO.com is geared toward CMOs and their teams and coversdigital marketing strategies, insights, and trends.
Duct Tape Marketing — Duct Tape Marketing’s blog is led by influencer John Jantsch and focuses on marketing tips and insights for small businesses.
Econsultancy — Econsultancy’s blog is a source for digital and ecommerce analysis, inspiration and learning.
eMarketer — eMarketer highlights data and research on digital marketing for business professionals.
Fathom — Fathom’s blog provides digital marketing news and insights.
Heidi Cohen — Heidi Cohen’s blog, the “Actionable Marketing Guide,” covers the latest industry trends and research.
Higher Visibility — Higher Visibility’s internet marketing blog provides tips to help marketers promote websites.
Internet Retailer — If you’re a marketer in the retail industry, Internet Retailer covers the latest in ecommerce strategies.
Jeff Bullas — Jeff Bullas’ blog provides timely and actionable articles about digital marketing.
Kissmetrics — Kissmetrics’ online marketing blog focuses on analytics, marketing, and testing\.
KoMarketing — KoMarketing’s blog covers B2B online marketing concepts, trends, and best practices.
TOP TEN
MarketingProfs — Led by influencer Ann Handley, MarketingProfs publishes marketing how-to articles, opinion pieces, and research findings.
MarketingSherpa — The MarketingSherpa Blog covers website optimization, customer acquisition, branding, marketing strategy, and more.
Smart Insights — Smart Insights’ Marketing Strategy Blog provides daily news and advice for digital marketers.
State of Digital — State of Digital’s blog provides insights and advice on digital marketing best practices.
TopRank Marketing — Led by influencer Lee Odden, TopRank Marketing’s blog focuses on digital marketing news, insights, and best practices.
TOP TEN
TrackMaven — The TrackMaven Blog is an authoritative source for marketing best practices news, and advice, covering social media, demand generation, marketing reporting, and more.
Content Marketing
Content Marketing Forum — Curata’s Content Marketing Forum provides articles on content marketing best practices, trends, and analytics.
TOP TEN
Content Marketing Institute (CMI) — CMI’s website is the holy grail for content marketers. Led by influencer Joe Pulizzi, its articles cover content marketing strategy, research, actionable insights, and how-to marketing guides.
Convince and Convert — On the Convince and Convert Blog, Jay Baer’s team of content marketing experts cover topics that include influencer marketing, customer experience, content marketing, social media, and more.
Copyblogger — Copyblogger’s blog focuses on content marketing best practices and insights, as well as tips for social media marketers.
Dreamgrow — Dreamgrow covers information on content marketing and social media.
Fractl — Fractl’s blog provides insights on content marketing, viral marketing, influencer marketing, and more.
Insights — Newscred’s Insights blog provides insights and advice on content marketing.
Marketing Insider Group — The Marketing Insider Group Blog covers content marketing, demand generation, and marketing strategy.
Outbrain — Outbrain’s blog covers content marketing, audience targeting, and more.
Problogger — Problogger provides tips and best practices for improving your writing and blogging strategy.
Quick Sprout — Neil Patel’s Quick Sprout blog provides comprehensive articles with actionable insights for content marketing.
SnapApp — SnapApp’s blog primarily covers content marketing and interactive content creation.
The Content Marketeer — Kapost’s The Content Marketeer blog covers content marketing topics, and is primarily focused on B2B industries.
The Content Standard — Skyword’s The Content Standard covers the latest in content marketing news and resources.
The Content Strategist — Contently’s The Content Strategist focuses on content marketing news and analysis.
The Whip — Newswhip’s The Whip blog provides daily commentary and data on content strategy and social distribution.
Social Media Marketing
Agora Pulse — Agora Pulse’s blog covers social media marketing tactics for agencies and brands.
TOP TEN
Buffer — Buffer’s blog has quickly become a treasure trove of actionable insights for social media marketers — and offers productivity tips too.
Buzzsumo — Buzzsumo’s blog focuses on tips and insights for content marketing and social media marketing.
Hootsuite — Hootsuite’s blog covers social media marketing trends, advice, and insights.
Ignite Social Media — Ignite Social Media’s blog covers social media marketing best practices, news, and trends.
Social Media Examiner — Social Media Examiner focuses on sharing advice and social media marketing best practices.
Social Media Explorer — Social Media Explorer provides articles with actionable insights for social media marketers.
Social Media Insider — MediaPost’s Social Media Insider blog focuses on providing information and advice for social media marketing.
Social Media Today — Social Media Today provides news, trends, and advice for enterprise social and digital marketing.
Sprout Social Insights — Sprout Social’s Insights blog focuses on the latest social media tips, best practices, and strategies.
Union Metrics — Union Metrics’ blog provides, according to their website, “all the social media analysis that’s fit to print.”
Marketing Automation and Demand Generation
Act-On’s Marketing Action Blog — Act-On’s blog focuses on “ideas you can act on.” Given that Act-On is a marketing automation technology company, it makes sense that the bulk of their blog focuses on demand generation, list management, and nurture campaigns. However, they also cover content marketing, social media, and other related topics.
AWeber — AWeber’s blog focuses primarily on email marketing tips and best practices, while also exploring list-building, lead generation, affiliate marketing, and more.
Cvent Blogs — If you’re an event marketer, Cvent has a few different blogs focusing on different topics, including: event planning, mobile event apps, strategic meetings, hospitality marketing, and web surveys.
Everstring — Everstring’s predictive marketing blog provides insights on demand generation, predictive marketing, lead scoring, and more.
ExactTarget — The ExactTarget Blog is supported by the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, and covers customer acquisition, advertising, and email marketing.
Hubspot — Hubspot’s blog covers marketing, sales, and agency content, and they specialize, of course, in all things inbound, including email marketing and marketing automation.
TOP TEN
Marketo — Marketo’s blog provides tips and best practices for digital marketing, email marketing, lead generation, marketing automation, and marketing ROI.
Modern Marketing Blog — Oracle’s Modern Marketing Blog covers data management, testing and optimization, email marketing, and more.
Optimizely — Optimizely’s blog provides advice on A/B testing and customer experience optimization.
Pardot — Salesforce Pardot’s blog offers articles for B2B marketers on inbound marketing, marketing automation, and more.
Unbounce — Unbounce’s blog focuses on best practices for improving landing pages and conversion optimization.
Wishpond — Wishpond’s blog covers website optimization, lead generation, social advertising, and other demand generation topics.
Search Marketing
TOP TEN
Moz — Led by influencer Rand Fishkin, the Moz Blog is THE source for SEO and inbound marketing tips, news, and advice.
Search Engine Journal — Search Engine Journal provides guides and information on SEO, paid search, and more.
Search Engine Land — Search Engine Land features daily search engine industry news and trends in search engine marketing, paid search advertising, and more.
Search Engine People — Search Engine People’s blog covers search marketing, content marketing, and more.
Search Engine Watch — Search Engine Watch serves as a guide to search engine marketing and search engine optimization.
SEMrush — SEMrush’s blog covers search engine marketing, search engine optimization, paid search advertising, and content marketing.
Business of Marketing News
TOP TEN
Business Insider — Though not what we might traditionally call a blog, Business Insider’s coverage of marketing, brands, and business practices makes it a must-read for marketers, which we simply could not leave off this list.
Entrepreneur — Entrepreneur has strong coverage of developments in the marketing world, as well as general business news and advice.
Fast Company — Fast Company’s articles focus on the crossroads of business and innovation, covering a wide range of business-related topics, including some must-read marketing articles.
Forbes — While Forbes is primarily a business and financial news publication, it also features a host of great articles from marketing thought leaders.
Fortune — Fortune may be best known for its Fortune 500 rankings and business news coverage, but they have many rich articles dedicated to marketing as well.
Harvard Business Review — Harvard Business Review excels at sharing advice on business strategy, innovation, and leadership, while touching on a good amount of marketing material.
Inc. — Inc. is a great source for business and brand news, but they also have a great team of reporters who cover marketing research and trends.
Industry Dive — Industry Drive focuses on business news and analysis, as well as marketing research and trends. Marketers should particularly take a look at their sub-blog, Marketing Dive, for the best marketing coverage.
Small Business Trends — Small Business Trends provides news, tips, and advice for small businesses on topics such as marketing, social media, and technology.
SmartBrief — SmartBrief covers business news, including marketing and advertising, that is broken down by industry.
The Huffington Post — The Huffington Post covers a broad range of topics, but we recommend reading their sections on business and technology news.
Technology and MarTech News
CNET — For marketers looking to stay on top of the latest technologies, CNET is a must-read for product reviews, how-tos and breaking tech news.
Digital Trends — To stay on top of emerging technologies and developments in the digital tech world, check out Digital Trends.
Engadget — Having the right tools and equipment can make marketers’ jobs a lot easier. Engadget provides “obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics.”
Gizmodo — Gizmodo covers design and technology news. With the tagline, “We come from the future,” you know it has to be interesting.
Marketing Tech Blog — The Marketing Tech Blog covers the latest developments in marketing technology, social media, and more.
TOP TEN
Mashable — Mashable is an essential source for marketers looking to stay on top of technology, social media, and business news.
Memeburn — Memeburn is a source for “tech-savvy insight and analysis.” They cover everything digital in the emerging markets sphere, including social media, mobile, and more.
Mobile Marketing Watch — Mobile Marketing Watch focuses on mobile telecommunications news and analysis.
Recode — Recode covers the latest technology news, reviews, and analysis.
SiteProNews — SiteProNews covers breaking news on technology, social media, search engines, and more.
Tech.co — Tech.co is a source for news on emerging technologies, startups, and products.
TechCrunch — TechCrunch focuses on “obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new Internet products, and breaking tech news.”
The Next Web — The Next Web offers an international perspective on the latest news about technology, business, and culture.
The Verge — The Verge covers the intersection of technology, science, art, and culture.
WebProNews — WebProNews covers breaking news in technology, search, social media, and business.
Wired — Wired provides in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology.
Customer Relationship Management
Clarabridge — The Clarabridge blog covers top news, insights, and trends in the customer experience management industry.
CustomerThink — CustomerThink is a community-powered blog covering customer relationship management, customer experience management, and social business.
Ramp — InsightSquared’s blog Ramp focuses on “helping business leaders and sales professionals gain momentum and accelerate revenue through data.”
Salesforce — Salesforce’s blog focuses on marketing strategy, customer engagement, and analytics.
Public Relations
Cision — Cision’s blog focuses on public relations and marketing insights to help marketers navigate the media landscape.
Ketchum Blog — Ketchum’s blog covers a range of communications topics, from public relations to digital marketing.
PR Daily — PR Daily focuses primarily on news and insights from the world of public relations. They also cover social media marketing and general communications topics.
PRWeek — PRWeek serves as a source for public relations news, analysis, and jobs.
Ragan — Ragan’s blog focuses on communications topics, including public relations, content marketing, and more.
Branding
Brafton — Brafton’s blog provides insights into marketing best practices and guides for brands on a range of subjects, as well as analyses of brand strategies and the lessons marketers can learn from them.
brandchannel — brandchannel has a wealth of timely articles about the latest marketing plays from big brands. They also have a series called Brandspeak, which features guest posts by brand leaders on topics such as brand loyalty and advocacy, influencer marketing, and more.
Branding Strategy Insider — Branding Strategy Insider features posts by leading influencers on the role of brand in business, brand strategy, and brand management.
Brandpoint — The Brandpoint Blog covers top news, developments, best practices, and emerging ideas in content marketing.
Brand Republic — Brand Republic focuses primarily on brand marketing, but also covers advertising, media, trends, technology, and insights.
Video and Visual Marketing
Brightcove — Video is becoming an ever-more-important part of content and marketing in general. Brightcove’s blog provides coverage of leading video industry news for digital marketers and media professionals.
Ceros — Ceros’ blog features a collection of quality posts providing interactive content marketing and design tips.
Curalate — Curalate’s blog covers best practices, trends, and strategies for visual marketing.
