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Our content strategies drive engagement and nurture clients' customer relationships from prospect to sale, and on to return purchase.

Quad Digital is a content marketing agency. We blend creative, SEO, social and PR to build profitable audiences for brands.Our content strategies drive engagement and nurture clients' customer relationships from prospect to sale, and on to return purchase.

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by Yigal Chazan

Can Native Ads Offer Newspapers a Lifeline?

February 19, 2015 in Content , Content Creation , Content Marketing

Newspapers online-002 Newspaper publishers have long struggled to come up with an answer to plunging advertising revenues that have threatened to kill off their industry. While it may not be a panacea, the emergence of native advertising in recent years has provided significant revenue streams, calming the nerves of executives and journalists anxious about the future. Read the rest of this entry →

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by Emma Krstic

Clickbait: Can brands and publishers learn from it?

February 12, 2015 in Content , Content Creation , Content Marketing , Social

Clickbait is taking over the world, and it’s not good news for media organisations. While respected news publications are still working out how to make profits online, social media sites are awash with clickbait, luring streams of traffic to their websites by piquing people’s curiosity, and making huge profits through advertising revenue. Read the rest of this entry →

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by Emma Krstic

Why branded films are the next step for video content

January 29, 2015 in Content Creation , Content Marketing , Editor's Picks , Video

Warning: Contains extremely engaging and very distracting video

Have you heard? Hollywood heavyweights Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Di Niro and Brad Pitt are to star in a new film. If that’s not impressive enough, Martin Scorsese is directing, and the whole thing was written by The Wolf of Wall Street’s Terrence Winter. But there is a catch. It’s not a feature length film, rather a short, branded picture – albeit costing $70 million. And the brand behind it? Studio City, a new casino in Macau. Read the rest of this entry →

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by Emma Krstic

The social media storm that is Movember

November 14, 2014 in Content , Content Creation , Content Marketing , Social

moustache 2-001 It’s November, and all around the world men are sporting facial hair. It’s the ultimate masculine accessory of the moment, but it’s also an image which men’s health charity Movember tapped into and promoted long ago for its annual fundraiser. This was before facial hair – moustaches to be precise – were considered cool.

Every year, in November, Movember turns moustaches into a symbol of support for its cause. But given their widespread popularity, this year they’ve adopted a different tack – convincing men to clean shave their bushy faces and start from scratch for November.

Do you think they’ve succeeded? Read the rest of this entry →

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by Yigal Chazan

A winning formula for company blogs

October 23, 2014 in Blogging , Content , Content Creation

They have the potential to be powerful marketing weapons – retaining customers, acquiring new ones, increasing brand recognition and providing strong material for PR campaigns. So why do so many company blogs struggle to deliver?

While there’s no definitive answer, we at Quad have a pretty good idea of what’s going wrong. At the heart of the problem is a fundamental misconception of what a blog is for. As a journalist, I know the importance of writing for an audience. If you don’t produce stories they want to read, they’ll go elsewhere. And if their interest and tastes change, you have to adapt to cater for them. Read the rest of this entry →

Using our skill-set to help the National Literacy Trust

October 9, 2014 in Content Marketing , Design , Quad , Search , Social

This is a bit of a departure from my usual blogs, which focus solely on the industry and Quad’s perception of the challenges that brands face. But, this time around I wanted to take a look at a piece of work we were involved in through 2014 with The National Literacy Trust (NLT), an amazing charity which works tirelessly helping to raise literacy standards in the UK.

As an agency that values content so highly, including the editorial variety, it seemed like an obvious fit to offer our services for the Books about Town campaign. It involved digital, installations, and a good deal of participation from famous authors and artists to create book benches, which you may well have seen dotted around London as part of four trails. On Tuesday, with summer and prime outdoor reading weather having drawn to a close, the benches were auctioned off. In total, over £250,000 was raised for the charity, funds that are vital for the NLT to be able to continue its good work in the UK. Read the rest of this entry →

Our mission to remove confusion from content marketing (or how to sober up an astronaut)

July 2, 2014 in Blogging , Content Creation , Content Marketing , Quad

Recently we’ve discussed at some length the confusion that exists around content marketing and what exactly it means. We certainly know what it means to us. I’ve blogged about this before, just as I’ve also blogged about the many companies out there peddling other content marketing solutions and given some advice on how to pick one, which I hope has been useful. Read the rest of this entry →

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by Isobel Weiner

Quad Digital expertise supports literacy campaign

June 26, 2014 in Content , Content Creation , Design , Quad

With the National Literacy Trust’s campaign about to begin, we at Quad are buzzing with excitement and anticipation.

From next week, you’ll be able to follow a trail of open book-shaped benches across London, each featuring the cover of an influential novel or children’s book, painted by some of the UK’s leading artists. We volunteered to build and design the website for the cause, since its aim of improving literacy is a subject close to our heart. Read the rest of this entry →

The importance of building content infrastructure

May 28, 2014 in Content , Design , Quad

Much of content marketing focuses on brand and audience building. But when you’re building an audience you need an infrastructure around which it can gather. Here at Quad , we have an in-house development team who work with our clients to create the best platform for the content their audience is going to engage with.

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Above is a perfect example of an infrastructure we’re very proud of. The website we built for Wimbledon Studios allows visitors to see all aspects of its business: the sets, the catering, its capacity for events and more. The blog also gives Wimbledon the opportunity to engage with potential location managers, event organisers, and other professionals who want to know what Wimbledon Studios offers that other facilities don’t. Without this platform, the content we create for Wimbledon would struggle to be seen.

Most of the content created off-site directs traffic back toward the website and that’s why building a solid infrastructure is so key. Writing excellent copy for Wimbledon Studios’ website and for other sites wouldn’t work effectively if there wasn’t a central hub for the audience to come to.

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We’ve written before about our work with Books About Town, the partnership between the National Literacy Trust and Wild In Art designed to encourage reading for enjoyment. Their BookBenches celebrating stories linked to London are soon to be unveiled for the summer. To mark this launch we’ve created a platform that encourages exploration and sends readers on their own BookBench finding adventure.

Books About Town has truly great content to share. The process of painting and placing new BookBenches provides important opportunities for pictures, tweets, and lively discussion. Below you’ll see our own contribution to this collection of excitingly decorated street furniture.

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There are lively interactions between us, the artist Mandii Pope, Books about Town, the National Literacy Trust and others in the location where our BookBench will be placed. All of this is directed back to the infrastructure of the Books About Town website. Without that infrastructure the readers interested in this story have no place to go.

If you need an infrastructure for your audience to live in from this content marketing agency , we can help. Call us on , drop us a line at or tweet us. We’re @QuadDigital.

Audience building for Books About Town

April 15, 2014 in Content , Design , Quad

If you’ve been following us on Twitter, you may have heard we’re working with Books About Town, a collaboration between the National Literacy Trust and Wild In Art to encourage reading for enjoyment. Based in London, the Books About Town plans include a series of sponsored BookBenches, designed by top artists and celebrating stories linked to the capital. The benches, shaped to resemble open books, will start popping up around London this July. Read the rest of this entry →