Spotlight Ideas

The Top 100 Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR Blogs

This comprehensive list of Advertising / Marketing / Media / PR blogs is split into 23 categories.

Twitter IDs (for those who tweet frequently) in blue.

TOP 20 BLOGS

REST OF BLOGS (21 – 100)

Advertising / brand news / trends

  • AdFreak – Advertising and media @AdFreak
  • Adland – latest advertising news from a creative point-of-view @adland
  • Adlab – Predictions in advertising and advertising technologies
    + AdRants (top 20 list)

Account planning / Brand Communications

  • Ian Tait Crackunit- by a planner with a background in creative work who does a ‘a kind of creative plannery type thing’ @iaintait
  • Herd – by Mark Earl, author of ‘Herd: How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing Our True Nature’ @herdmeister
  • Fallon Planning - ‘Share ideas that inspire. FALLON PLANNERS (and co-conspirators) are freely invited to post trends, commentary, obscure ephemera and insightful rants regarding the experience of branding.’
  • Optimism- ‘Embracing failure since 1998. A weblog about life at wieden + kennedy london’
  • Only Dead Fish - ‘media, communications, planning, magazines, life’ @neilperkin

Branding – General

Media – general

  • Publishing 2.0 - the evolution of media: the way technology is transforming media @scottkarp
  • Noah Brier – ‘marketing, media, technology and randomness’ – by Noah Brier head of planning and strategy at The Barbarian Group. @heyitsnoah

Digital marketing

Marketing – general

Small business – Marketing and branding

Marketing – word of mouth

Cartoons and Marketing

Customers

Leadership

  • Tom Peters – Leadership / consumer behaviour / general psychology of people in the world of economics

Lead generation

PR – general

Social media – general

Blogging

Copywriting

Design – general

  • Core77 – ‘Industrial Design content and community site – articles, discussions, interviews and resources’
  • Noisy Decent Graphics – graphic design (and communication, ideas and brands)
  • A List Apart – ‘explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices’.
  • Ideas On Ideas – design plus brands @karj
    + David Airey, Smashing Magazine (top 20 list)

Creative work – advertising

  • The Inspiration Room - for general media channels
  • Adverbox – ‘daily visual pleasure’
  • AdGooness – ‘the best and sometimes the worst around the globe’ by art director Frederick Samuel’
    Ads of the World (top 20 list)

SEO – general

PPC

  • PPC Hero - useful, general resource blog for Pay Per Click

Affiliate marketing

Online marketing

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  3. Thanks for including MarketingBlurb in your list!

    Comment by Susan Gunelius — August 13, 2008 @ 1:19 pm

  4. Thanks. We appreciate the recognition and are clearly in great company on this list.

    Best,

    Derrick

    Branding Strategy Insider

    Comment by Derrick Daye — August 13, 2008 @ 8:04 pm

  5. Now that’s an impressive collection of bloggers. Thanks for sorting and shifting them into categories for us!

    Best,

    Drew

    Comment by Drew McLellan — August 14, 2008 @ 1:33 am

  6. I find this type of list really useful and it always helps to point me at blogs I haven’t experienced or remind how long its been since I paid a visit to some that are great.

    Just a shame that my Business Coaching blog is going to be too general even though there is a lot of marketing content for small businesses.

    Comment by Paul Simister — August 14, 2008 @ 11:00 am

  7. Thanks Susan, Derrick, Drew and Paul for your comments.
    If anyone has any feedback regarding how the format could be tweaked in any shape / form, please let me know. Or anything else.

    Comment by Eamon — August 14, 2008 @ 3:13 pm

  8. Hi, Eamon ..
    Thanks for the inclusion of both OneDegree.ca and MyNameIsKate.ca! Amazing company to be in. And I love the grouping – very helpful!

    Cheers .. Kate

    Comment by Kate Trgovac — August 14, 2008 @ 11:14 pm

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  10. Good list – although it would be good to get more new names and small blogs on the list..there’s only a couple of names I don’t already know/read/subscribe to. And I’d suspect most marketing people are aware of Seth Godin, Joseph Jaffe etc…

    Comment by Dan Thornton — August 15, 2008 @ 4:17 pm

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  13. Kate and Dan. Thanks for commenting.
    Dan: I will be fine-tuning this list, and adding other (lists).

    Comment by admin — August 15, 2008 @ 4:29 pm

  14. I am outraged we didn’t make the branding section…

    http://www.brandidentityguru.com/wordpress

    Maybe not outraged, just sad…very, very sad. I’m officially crying directly in my hands as I type.

    Comment by BIG Kahuna — August 15, 2008 @ 5:49 pm

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  16. Big Kahuna.
    Thanks for your comment.
    Please be aware that this list is not set in stone. It will be reviewed regularly.

    Comment by Eamon — August 15, 2008 @ 6:32 pm

  17. This is such an outstanding list, it’s a keeper and a passer-oner (if that’s a word). I know a lot of these blogs, but not all. It’s heartening to see Toby Bloomberg’s blog, Diva Marketing, included.

    One little error – not going deep enough, to some really fab niche blogs on marketing and word of mouth: where’s Customer Evangelists? And Lip-sticking? And, Wonder Branding?

    Actually, you can’t include every great blog, every time. I am eager to explore the blogs I don’t know — thanks for highlighting the best of the best. Great sharing content.

    Comment by Yvonne DiVita — August 15, 2008 @ 6:40 pm

  18. Yvonne. Thanks. Will be providing other lists, too. For the moment, just focusing on this one (for general readership).

    Comment by admin — August 15, 2008 @ 6:51 pm

  19. Thanks for the eternal fame of ViralBlog.com
    We like your whole list as well ;-)

    Cheers

    Igor Beuker

    Comment by Igor — August 16, 2008 @ 5:58 pm

  20. Thanks Igor. Find interesting / useful / enjoy your blog, in particular Viral Friday!

    Comment by admin — August 16, 2008 @ 11:28 pm

  21. Thanks for a great list (and thanks for including ConverStations:-))

    Comment by Mike Sansone — August 20, 2008 @ 6:07 am

  22. Can I suggest for the Itlian people our blog: http://www.ninjamarketing.it ?

    Comment by alex — August 20, 2008 @ 3:37 pm

  23. Mike and Alex. Thank you for your comments.

    Alex. I’m afraid English-language blogs only:
    1) The list is a worldwide list (of benefit / interest to people from different countries who speak English)
    2) We evaluate each blog using different criteria. In particular, quality of content (which we can only read in English).
    Apologies. Hope you understand.

    Comment by admin — August 20, 2008 @ 4:04 pm

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  25. Thanks for the inclusion on this stellar list!

    Comment by Robert — August 25, 2008 @ 1:11 am

  26. Many thanks for including our blog about marketing to the older market. A great list of UK marketing and ideas blogs.

    Comment by Dick Stroud — August 26, 2008 @ 6:38 am

  27. Robert and Dick. Thanks for your comment. Glad to include your sites.

    Comment by admin — August 26, 2008 @ 8:21 am

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  29. Great list!

    I’d be remiss not to mention incomplete without a PR/SEO blog listed in the AdAge Power 150 and the Technorati 100 favorites lists that is not on the list above:

    TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog http://www.toprankblog.com

    Hopefully you’ll consider in your next update.

    Cheers!

    Comment by Lee Odden — August 27, 2008 @ 5:54 pm

  30. Great content. I really found it useful.

    Comment by Christian Pace — August 28, 2008 @ 9:10 am

  31. Thank you for including Customers Rock! on your list of Top 100 blogs. I love the way you describe my blog: focusing on happy customers. My new elevator pitch! :)

    Could you be so kind as to update my blog address, as it recently moved from customersrock.wordpress.com to http://www.customersrock.net.

    Thanks again!

    Comment by Becky Carroll — August 28, 2008 @ 5:57 pm

  32. Lee, Christian and Becky – thanks for comments.
    Lee: –> Digital marketing category
    Becky: updated URL (tag line sounds good I think ..).

    Comment by admin — August 28, 2008 @ 7:07 pm

  33. Hi Eamon,

    Fantastic list; bookmarked.

    Please consider adding Real Fresh TV for a UK corporate perspective on Social Media.

    We are publishing the UK’s first study into social media usage amongst FTSE 100 companies…one blog post at a time.

    http://www.realfresh.tv/introduction-to-study-on-social-media-usage-amongst-ftse-100-companies/

    The idea is to create a resource for brand managers and account planners who are currently starved for UK specific case studies…

    Thanks!

    Comment by Chi-chi Ekweozor — September 1, 2008 @ 4:22 pm

  34. Could you change the link for The Inspiration Room to its new home at http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/ ?
    Thanks

    Comment by Duncan — September 3, 2008 @ 4:46 am

  35. Interesting list. Will be referring to it in the future.

    Comment by Media Training — September 10, 2008 @ 4:01 pm

  36. GREAT! Thanks so much for this list – Hope I get there more information…

    Comment by Suchmaschinenoptimierung — September 14, 2008 @ 6:33 pm

  37. I want to become a media professional. As iam doing PG diploma in mass communication. I am very much motivated now from this article and the resources being shared by it.

    Comment by Checkers Boards — September 27, 2008 @ 7:36 am

  38. This is a very resourceful list of reputable blogs. It can aid greatly in information dissemination about important digital marketing issues.

    Comment by Online Marketing Agency — October 20, 2008 @ 4:23 pm

  39. I have a marketing blog too , named
    “Marketing in a Branded World”
    can i know how to add it in this list?

    Comment by Karthik Murali — October 22, 2008 @ 5:12 am

  40. Thanks for your comments

    Karthik
    The top 100 Blogs cover all the leading blogs from the in advertising, marketing, media & PR from around the world. Selection is based on many criteria, including: popularity on major blog search / bookmark sites, the amount / type of comments, as well as other factors. There are many great blogs out there would love to include in list but haven’t been able to (because there are many more than just 100 great blogs ..).
    Thank you for alerting me to your blog, and I will bear it in mind for the future.
    Eamon

    Comment by admin — October 23, 2008 @ 10:33 am

  41. This list is a great asset. Thank you for taking the time to compile it.

    Comment by Guerrilla Billionaire™ — October 23, 2008 @ 8:33 pm

  42. This is really about the only list I’ve found of author compiled resources that isn’t skewed by advertisements. Eamon, thanks very much for your hard work.

    Comment by Mark — October 26, 2008 @ 3:03 pm

  43. This blog Is very informative , I am really pleased to post my comment on this blog . It helped me with ocean of knowledge so I really belive you will do much better in the future . Good job web master .

    Comment by Jeff Paul — November 4, 2008 @ 2:40 am

  44. Wow, what a huge list of top blogs. I wish I could make mine get listed within the top 100.

    Awesome post! :)

    Comment by Aurelius Tjin — December 2, 2008 @ 3:44 am

  45. That’s a wonderful compilation of guru blogs, most have been providing wonderful resources for years now. I’ve been reader on 80% of these blogs at least once. Thanks for sharing the posts with everyone.

    Comment by ShriNagesh — December 8, 2008 @ 11:23 pm

  46. Guerilla Billionaire, Mark, Jeff, Aurelius, Shri – thank you for your comments!

    Comment by Eamon — December 9, 2008 @ 12:06 am

  47. Someone is missing! UK Queen of SEO and social media, Nikki Pilkington, e.g. see her 299 Steps to Web Heaven blog here:
    http://nikkipilk.sc10.co.uk/blog/

    Comment by Jackie Barrie — January 23, 2009 @ 5:24 pm

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  50. awesome cool collection

    Comment by designer — March 3, 2009 @ 2:10 am

  51. Thanks for the list. I definitely want to broaden my marketing mix, as well as getting more info on some of the subjects listed on this post.

    Comment by Consumer Information Directory — March 12, 2009 @ 9:39 pm

  52. How come Crenk.com isnt on the list??

    Comment by Steven Finch — March 26, 2009 @ 12:55 pm

  53. Thank you for this very comprehensive list. Many I am already aware of, but there are many that are new to me.

    Comment by Sherri Meyer — March 26, 2009 @ 1:06 pm

  54. I stumbled this list so I can hang on to it plus I Re-Tweeted it from the Tweet that I found it on. It’s nice to see the list and develop my own strategies from it.

    David

    Comment by David — March 26, 2009 @ 1:13 pm

  55. Steven. This list covers various subjects PR/design/brand communications/social media /PPC and so on. So many different types of blogs to include, here, for the general reader. Know your blog well so will keep you in mind. Thanks.

    Thanks Sheri and David for comments

    Comment by Eamon — March 26, 2009 @ 3:56 pm

  56. Fresh thinking and open-mind attitude is the key to online success along with social media and networking.

    Comment by Make Money — March 27, 2009 @ 3:27 pm

  57. Great list! Here’s a blog for small business marketing..

    Comment by Wendy Kenney — March 30, 2009 @ 11:16 pm

  58. Good list. Covering blogs from around the world.

    For a list of the UK’s Top 20 Marketing blogs, see this: Uks top marketing blogs

    Comment by Charlie — April 29, 2009 @ 9:53 pm

  59. It’s really good and important list am really thankful to you as well as I would like to tell you this is really a good article.Thanks for all the great work!

    Comment by Marketing Advertising — October 28, 2009 @ 12:58 pm

  60. What about http://www.creativecriminals.com

    I like that site

    Comment by Marc — October 29, 2009 @ 12:39 pm

  61. indeed a comprehensive list, useful and educational, thank you very much.

    Comment by Advertising Marketing Blog — February 23, 2010 @ 8:31 am

  62. What about me? :)

    PR at Sunrise – http://www.worob.com

    @Worob on Twitter

    Comment by Worob — March 4, 2010 @ 2:46 am

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