(2010) Top 100 Marketing, Digital, Advertising, Media & PR Blogs
This comprehensive list is split into 25 categories in order to give readers an integrated overview of what’s going on in marketing (marketing/digital/advertising/branding/PR) at the moment.
Updated: June 2010
Categories (25):
Top 20 Blogs - Digital Marketing general – Marketing general – Social Media general – Facebook – Twitter – PR general - E-commerce – Mobile Marketing – Small Business marketing and branding – Entrepreneur - SEO general – PPC – Online Marketing - Advertising / brand news / trends - Account planning / Brand Communications - Branding general - Word of mouth - Cartoons and Marketing – Customers - Media – general – Leadership - Lead generation- Design general – Creative Work advertising –
Twitter IDs (for those who tweet frequently) in blue.
TOP 20 BLOGS
- PSFK - Cultural and business trends @PSFK
- Seth Godin’s Blog - Branding / general business ideas
- Brand Autopsy – Branding: general @BrandAutopsy
- Russel Davies – Account planning
- Jaffe Juice – Marketing: general @jaffejuice
- Econsultancy - Digital Marketing
- Micro Persuasion – Digital trends @steverubel
- Mobile Marketing Watch – Mobile Marketing
- Pronet Advertising - Online marketing
- BannerBlog - Online advertising
- AdRants – Advertising news @adrants
- Search Engine Land - SEO and affiliate marketing @sengineland
- Edelman - PR: general
- Web Strategy by Jeremiah - Web strategy @jowyang
- Occam’s Razor - Web Analytics @avinashkaushik
- Chris Brogan - Social media @chrisbrogan
- PROBlogger - Blogging @problogger
- Copyblogger - Copywriting @copyblogger
- David Airey - Graphic design @davidairey
- Smashing Magazine – Web Development / design @smashingmag
REST OF BLOGS (21 – 100)
Digital marketing – general
- Online Marketing Blog - digital PR, social and search engine marketing @leeodden
- Hubspot – Inbound marketing, social media, SEO, strategy, analytics, lead generation, and more.
- Digital Buzz – Featuring the latest digital ad campaigns, hot new websites, interactive marketing ideas, virals, industry news, social media, and more. @adenhepburn
- Crenk - reviewing some of the newest and best web and mobile apps on the web. Additionally insights and analysis on some of the hotest topics from around the net. @Crenk
- Buzz Marketing for Technology – for B2B technology marketeers @PaulDunay
- Infovore – By Tom Armitage who writes, designs and develops for the web
- Adverblog – interactive marketing with focus on PR, retail and presence marketing
Marketing – general
- Scobleizer - Marketing, social media, technology @Scobleizer
- Guy Kawasaki - ’a practical blog for impractical people’ / marketing / social media / technology @guykawasaki
- Drew’s Marketing Minute – Marketing and branding in general (for Spotlight Ideas interview with Drew Mclellan of Drew’s Marketing here). @DrewMcLellan
- Influential Marketing Blog – plus advertising and PR strategy @rohitbhargava
Social media – general
- Brian Solis – A digital analyst, sociologist, and futurist, Solis has influenced the effects of emerging media on the convergence of marketing, communications, and publishing. @Briansolis
- Logic + Emotion - Social media / design @Armano
- Techipedia - “Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart”
- Social Media Examiner - “Your guide to the social media jungle”
- PR2Squared - conversation about social media and marketing
- Being Peter Kim - social technology @peterkim
- Scott Monty - ‘the convergence of marketing, advertising and PR on the Web – for marketers’ @ScottMonty
- Conversation Agent - Connecting ideas and people – how talk can change our lives @Conversation Age
- Social Media Explorer - social media general – PR slant @JasonFalls
- Convince and Convert – social media consulting and coaching, working with major corporations and PR firms @jaybaer
- ReadWriteWeb - Web Technology news, reviews and analysis @readwriteweb
- Centre Networks – social networking @centernetworks
- Buzz News – ‘On this blog we share and discuss the best alternative marketing campaigns that created buzz online: viral, blog, influential, wom, buzz marketing, and branded content’
- Buzz Bin – and PR @GeoffLiving
- The Viral Garden - ‘bluring the line between company and customer’ @MackCollier
- Groundswell - focusing on social technologies
- Web Ink Now - viral marketing strategies using blogs, news releases, ebooks and online media @dmscott
- Marketing Profs Daily Fix – Branding, email marketing @MarketingProfs
- Neville Hobson – blogging, PR, marketing and blogging @jangles
- Shel Holtz - communication, technology and PR @shel
+ For Chris Brogan, Web Strategy for Jeremiah, Seth Godin, Micro Persuasion, PROBlogger, and others, go to Top 20 Blogs above)
Social Media – Other: - Mashable - social networking news and articles @mashable
- Life Hacker - ‘features tips, shortcuts, and downloads that help you get things done smarter and more efficiently’ @Lifehacker
- Inside Facebook - for application developers and social media marketers
- Pistachio - Twitter for branding and market engagement, and internal employee communication. @pistachio
PR – general
- PRBlogger - and social media / technology @stedavies
- Pop! – Communications @jspepper
- Thorny Fallis - PRand social media
+ Edelman (top 20 list)
E-commerce
- Get Elastic - e-commerce and mobile marketing marketing / apps
Mobile Marketing
- Mobile Behaviour – We observe emerging mobile technology, cultural trends, and consumer behavior, then connect the dots to generate mobile strategy and intelligence for leading global brands
- Mobile Storm - From email to RSS, SMS to SEO. Seasoned marketers have a place to sharpen their skills, and novices can become a part of the Digital Marketing revolution
- mobi Enthusiast .mobi - blog for mobile website owners, developers, marketers and end users
- 12fly – Creative, interactive, mobile
- Wireless Watch Japan – latest mobile news and articles from Japan
Small business – Marketing and branding
- Duct Tape Marketing - was chosen as a Forbes favourite for small business and marketing @ducttape
Entrepeneur
- Entrepeneur.com - starting a business, marketing, online business, and more.
SEO – general
- Search Engine Roundtable – with contributions from various SEO expert
- Search Engine Watch – includes a useful and interesting forum
- Search Engine Guide- targeted at small businesses, editor focuses on search engine marketing, viral marketing, and social media.
- SEOMOZ.org – providing education, tools, resources and paid services
PPC
- PPC Hero – useful, general resource blog for Pay Per Click
Online marketing
- Marketing Pilgrim – with emphasis on online advertising
- Hitwise - online competitive intelligence
- Yoast - tweaking websites @yoast
- + Pronet Advertising (top 20 list)
Advertising / brand news / trends
- Ads of the World – Advertising ads archive
- AdFreak – Advertising and media @AdFreak
- Adland – latest advertising news from a creative point-of-view @adland
- Adlab – Predictions in advertising and advertising technologies
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
- Branding Strategy Insider - covering a broad range of branding subjects
- Brand Flakes For Breakfast – with contributions by various authors @darrylohrt
- Advergirl – general blog about brand strategy @leighhouse
- Make The Logo Bigger - brands and advertising @mtlbblog
+ Brand Autopsy (top 20 list)
Marketing – word of mouth
- Damn! I Wish I’d Thought of That - creative marketing blog by Andy Sernovitz, author of ‘Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking’. @sernovitz
Cartoons and Marketing
- Gaping Void - ‘cartoons drawn on the back of business cards’ @gapingvoid
Customers
- Customers Rock! - focusing on happy customers
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
Leadership
- Tom Peters – Leadership / consumer behaviour / general psychology of people in the world of economics
Lead generation
- B2B Lead Generation Blog – plus sales leads and marketing
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)
Updated 13 may 2010
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Thanks for including MarketingBlurb in your list!
Thanks. We appreciate the recognition and are clearly in great company on this list.
Best,
Derrick
Branding Strategy Insider
Now that’s an impressive collection of bloggers. Thanks for sorting and shifting them into categories for us!
Best,
Drew
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.
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.
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
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Kate and Dan. Thanks for commenting.
Dan: I will be fine-tuning this list, and adding other (lists).
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.
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Big Kahuna.
Thanks for your comment.
Please be aware that this list is not set in stone. It will be reviewed regularly.
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.
Yvonne. Thanks. Will be providing other lists, too. For the moment, just focusing on this one (for general readership).
Thanks for the eternal fame of ViralBlog.com
We like your whole list as well
Cheers
Igor Beuker
Thanks Igor. Find interesting / useful / enjoy your blog, in particular Viral Friday!
Thanks for a great list (and thanks for including ConverStations:-))
Can I suggest for the Itlian people our blog: http://www.ninjamarketing.it ?
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.
Regarding non-English blogs…, translate.google.com is an excellent platform for translating an entire web-page, or a snippet of text, from/to nearly sixty languages. It will even detect the webpage language if you are not sure what it is. Maybe using the translate function a future/specialty list could be provided of other language websites that are of the same quality as these English-language ones.
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Thanks for the inclusion on this stellar list!
Many thanks for including our blog about marketing to the older market. A great list of UK marketing and ideas blogs.
Robert and Dick. Thanks for your comment. Glad to include your sites.
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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!
Great content. I really found it useful.
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!
Lee, Christian and Becky – thanks for comments.
Lee: –> Digital marketing category
Becky: updated URL (tag line sounds good I think ..).
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!
Could you change the link for The Inspiration Room to its new home at http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/ ?
Thanks
Interesting list. Will be referring to it in the future.
GREAT! Thanks so much for this list – Hope I get there more information…
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.
This is a very resourceful list of reputable blogs. It can aid greatly in information dissemination about important digital marketing issues.
I have a marketing blog too , named
“Marketing in a Branded World”
can i know how to add it in this list?
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
This list is a great asset. Thank you for taking the time to compile it.
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.
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Wow, what a huge list of top blogs. I wish I could make mine get listed within the top 100.
Awesome post!
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.
Guerilla Billionaire, Mark, Jeff, Aurelius, Shri – thank you for your comments!
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/
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awesome cool collection
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.
How come Crenk.com isnt on the list??
Thank you for this very comprehensive list. Many I am already aware of, but there are many that are new to me.
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
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
Fresh thinking and open-mind attitude is the key to online success along with social media and networking.
Great list! Here’s a blog for small business marketing..
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
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!
What about http://www.creativecriminals.com
I like that site
indeed a comprehensive list, useful and educational, thank you very much.
What about me?
PR at Sunrise – http://www.worob.com
@Worob on Twitter
Great list.
Take a look at Right Brain/Left Brain Marketing when you get a chance.
For UK and European advertising, marketing, media and PR, I recommend http://www.brandrepublic.com/news
http://www.wearemba.com
you should add this one…they are featuring it on a number of industry websites
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Fantastic list thankyou, very useful great content.
Thanks for the list of the top 100 Marketing and PR Blogs. They are very useful for my Marketing of my websites.
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