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  15 Best Writing Blogs for Writer’s to Follow in 2023 These are the best writing blogs from thousands of blogs throughout the web. These blogsites offer varied information from grammar to submitting your work to publishers. They are helpful to up-and-comers as well as more established writers. 1. The Creative Penn Bath, England, UK You will find resources to help you write, publish and market your book by Joanna Penn - New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, voted one of The Guardian UK Top 100 Creative Professionals 2013.  She was also voted one of the Top 10 Blogs for Writers and one of the Top 10 Blogs for Self-Publishers. 2. Daily Writing Tips Daily Writing Tips - Daily Writing Tips as the name suggests publishes daily articles to help writers enhance their skills. Daily articles on grammar, business writing, spelling, misused words, writing basics, writing quizzes, vocabulary, punctuation, fiction writing, freelance writing, and more! 3. Live Write Thrive Santa ...

  According to a NewsLab study, 80% of journalists use social media in their daily work 1 . Journalists told us that they’re using social media to complete a variety of work-related tasks, including story promotion, networking, sourcing information, and receiving PR pitches. Naturally, time management becomes a challenge and social media burnout is imminent. On top of the rising demand for content output, journalists are expected to be always listening and always engaging. Monitoring the latest news and user-generated content and promoting their own stories on social media can take up a large amount of time in a journalist’s day.   So how can journalists find and maintain a balance between staying on top of the latest news, connecting with their audience, and getting everything else accomplished? When you’re checking social media platforms daily for your job, how can you tell when you’ve reached your mental limit? To help you recognize some signs of social media burnout a...

Ryan Reynold’s is typically known as an actor and comicbook superhero Deadpool. But the Hollywood star has a lot going on in the business world. He is also one of the most in-demand and influential creators in advertising. The Canadian-born star is the cofounder of film production company and digital marketing agency Maximum Effort and has had a string of viral campaigns with advertisements he’s co-produced and written since the firm’s inception in 2018. Reynolds sold the company to ad tech company MNTN in 2021 but still plays a hands-on role as its chief creative officer. He and a partner, George Dewey, formerly senior vice president of digital marketing at 20th Century Fox, co-founded Maximum Effort initially to promote “Deadpool,” a film Reynolds fought ten years to get made. That’s where the iconic black and red suit came into play. “We then started marketing with the suit and having fun with it without giving away pieces of the film, and it turned out to be really successful,” sai...

LONDON, Oct. 20, 2022 -- Talenthouse will invest up to $7 million in cash and shares in Nerve, an embedded banking solution for the US creator economy. This is the first time Nerve will be providing their embedded banking proposition on a private-label basis. TalentPlus, Talenthouse's one-stop-financial app built for Creators has partnered with Nerve Banking as well. Through this investment and partnership, TalentPlus plans to introduce in the US in late-November and move into several markets in 2023 including the UK and Latin America to lessen the financial burdens of Creators. Furthermore, TalentPlus plans to add personal banking services to its offering in 2023 across all markets to benefit the Creator Economy. Made possible with the dawn of Open Banking in early 2018, TalentPlus is a vertical banking solution that supplies a financial suite of services for Creators that goes beyond the offerings of commercial banks. The concept emerged from a Talenthouse pilot program called E...

  Implementing integrated marketing strategies and delivering measurable results is the essence of comprehensive marketing solutions for businesses across all industries. Due to budgets, specializations, and trust concerns, finding a marketing agency is challenging for many companies. Agencies help businesses develop marketing strategies that capture leads and engage them through advertising. Instead of focusing on the low-hanging fruit and quick fixes, an agency provides long-term strategies and results-driven initiatives and campaigns. A marketing agency or firm can help with the following 5 bedrocks of marketing strategy 1. Uncover Solutions to your current business challenges and market environment. 2. Identify Goals of your main marketing objectives and sets specific, quantifiable goals. 3. Create Strategies that are within your budget, customizing plans to assist you with reaching goals. 4. Generate Campaigns and executes them to attain the short-term and long-term goals ...

Creator of the world's largest hospitality podcast network, Wil Slickers, recently announced the formation of Amplified Audio, a new on-demand digital audio company devoted to fueling the growth of voices in niche categories. Besides offering end-to-end production and distribution support for creators, Amplified Audio brings a new, tiered fee structure to the market, designed to equalize access to high-value sponsorship deals. "Podcasting continues to grow in popularity with all kinds of audiences, all over the globe," said Amplified Audio founder Wil Slickers. "Hosts are in the ears, homes and cars of their listeners and can cultivate trusting relationships worth their weight in gold." According to Nielsen Podcast Ad Effectiveness data, 69% of podcast audiophiles said they became aware of a new product or service from podcasts, and two-thirds report having researched or purchased a product or service after hearing about it in a podcast episode, according to Com...

August 26, 2022 - Nielsen revealed that streaming usage surpassed cable in July to claim the largest share of television viewing for the first time, according to The Gauge, Nielsen's monthly total TV and streaming snapshot. Streaming represented a record 34.8% share of total television use, while cable and broadcast came in at 34.4% and 21.6%, respectively. Streaming consumption has exceeded that of broadcast before, but this is the first time it has also topped cable viewing. Total time spent watching TV in July closely resembled that of both June 2022 and July 2021, but despite these similarities, the change in the distribution of viewing formats on a year-over-year basis further demonstrates how viewing behaviors continue to shift. As the biggest mover this month, streaming usage increased +3.2% compared to June and gained +1.1 share points. Time spent streaming in July averaged nearly 191 billion minutes per week, and each of the five measurement weeks in July 2022 now account ...