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Almost Timely News, 28 November 2021: The Roundups Are Coming, Temporal Vectorization in SEO

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What’s On My Mind: The Inevitable Year End Roundups

Every year, just before the Thanksgiving holiday, the emails come in. “We’re doing a roundup/trend forecast of what’s hot in marketing and would like you to contribute.”

The Roundups Are Coming

While I’m always pleased that folks ask, the reality is that these roundups tends to be one of two things when they finally make it live.

  1. They’re tired rehashes of the obvious. Mobile has been a trend since 2007. Privacy has been a trend since the early 2010s. VR/AR has been a trend since the mid 2010s.
  2. They’re sales pitches for whatever the brand is selling. The CDP company will publish roundups and trends saying CDPs are the next big thing. The AI company will do the same for AI. Popular speakers on Clubhouse will say social audio is the thing. NFT sales folks will say it’s NFTs.

So, how do we do this better? Unsurprisingly, I’m going to suggest instead of asking for people’s opinions, we look at data. (shocking, I know) Here’s a couple of different ways we could slice this. Let’s say we’re all about content marketing. So we’ll take the top X headlines this year by organic traffic for the content marketing keyword space and slice up our data. What are the words and phrases that the top 25% (the upper quartile) use that are different than the words and phrases that the bottom 25% (the lower quartile) use? That’s a way of picking apart the data and showcasing what really stood out this year.

Content Splits

While many of these terms also suffer from the curse of the obvious, there is one angle that I think is interesting and might bear more digging into. When we look at both the words overall and some of the articles that make it up, 2021 was the year ad and PR agencies started admitting they weren’t especially good at content marketing and started getting more help from outside parties. Larger agency conglomerates simply vacuumed up content marketing agencies, while smaller agencies sought to add specialists when possible, albeit in a tight job market.

We could do the same with tweets, or Google News articles, or blogs just from a selected group of companies. But whatever it is, instead of purely self-serving opinion or the blatantly obvious, we’ll at least come up with something slightly more based in reality.

So please, as you do your year-end recaps and prognostications, use some of the bountiful, inexpensive or even free data available to you to spot trends and find what stands out in a crowded media space.

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See you next week,

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