This list contains:

• blogs that are close to being, or already have been, in the top 100 list (Spotlightideas Top 100 Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR Blogs).
  and /or
• blogs that might or might not be that well-known but are original / provocative / interesting / edgy.
  and / or
• blogs that are based on particular niche subjects such as: direct response copywriting, small business search marketing, apps (web and mobile), food marketing, movie marketing, and more.

The overall list comes in two lists. List A: with categories that haven’t appeared before (in original Top 100 Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR Blog list). List B: with categories that have).

* Please note: blogs within categories are not ranked against each other
This list is will be updated regularly

* RELATED ARTICLE JUST PUBLISED: Top 250 Blog Posts – Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR

List A – Categories (in some cases, niche categories) that haven’t appeared before (in original Top 100 Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR Blog list)

Advertising – Non-profits

• Osocio – and social advertising

Media – Analogue to Digital

• A Gartner Blog – Moving from the physical present to the virtual future

Gaming / Virtual world

• Business & Games- ‘The essential read on advergaming, serious games, virtual worlds and other ways to combine games and business’

Apps – web /mobile

• Crenk -‘ reviewing some of the newest and best web and mobile apps on the web’

Email Marketing

• Inbox Ideas – general

Food Marketing

• So Good - ‘an absurd look at the world of food’

Movie Marketing News

• Movie Marketing Madness - Movie marketing news, reviews and opinion

Environmental marketing

• Greenormal - ‘A blog following hot on the heels of The Green Marketing Manifesto by John Grant’

Age-target marketing

• 50-Plus Marketing – ‘News, views and opinions about the most powerful group of consumers – the 50-plus market’.

Cross-cultural marketing

• Cindy King - ‘Cross-cultural marketer and international sales specialist – Aligning businesses with different cultures’

Professional Services and Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR in general

• Golden Practices - ‘ideas and advice for CPAs, lawyers and other professional service firms

Internet Entrepreneurism

• e-soup - ‘simply, organize, thrive’

Social-network Site Marketing

• Marketing Nirvana- ‘people, marketing, technology’ – from LinkedIn

Online promotion

• Promopeddler - online, ontime promotional products

PR Measurement

• KD Paine’s PR Measurement Blog
• Metrica ‘Get the buzz on social media and PR measurement and analysis’

Copywriting – Direct Response

• Ray Edwards- Direct response copywriting

Small Business Search Marketing

• Small Business Search Marketing – ‘Because not everyone can throw thousands of dollars at the ‘How do we market ourselves online?’ question…’

List B – Categories that have appeared before (in original Top 100 Advertising, Marketing, Media & PR Blog list)

Business / branding – marketing

• Cherryflava – new trends in business, marketing and advertising
• BizSolutionsPlus – ‘Lead With Your Heart: Sell Happiness and You and Your Business Will Flourish’

Customers / consumer behaviour

• This Blog Sits At – Intersection of Anthropology and Economics
• Neuromarketing - Where Brain Science and Marketing Meet Consumer Generated Media – ‘the consumer is in control’

Advertising News

• Beyond Madison Avenue – covering the changing world of advertising
• BNET – ‘BNET Advertising provides daily industry news coverage and insights for managers and executives about the major companies in advertising, marketing, and public relations’

Advertising – General

• Small Agency Diary – life in small American advertising agencies
• Mastercom - It’s better to entertain than to interrupt and disturb
• The Fruits of Imagination - Leo Burnett Toronto – ‘an advertising agency thinks out loud’

Advertising and technology

• Shake Gently - general advertising and technology blog

Branding

• Influx Insights – and lifestyle and entertainment
• The Origins of Brands Blogs – by the author of ‘The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR’
• Krishna De’s BizGrowth News – brand communications, employer branding, social media, and more

Strategic Planning

• Chroma - and culture, media, design, digital lifestyle
• A source of inspiration – ideas on advertising, creativity, online marketing, and the web
• Amelia Torode – by a Managing Partner and Head of Digital Strategy at London advertising agency VCCP 

Media General

• Rex Blog – media, community and technology
  Convergence Culture Consortium – ‘cultural convergence’ which means ‘an emerging pattern of relations bringing together entertainment, advertising, brands, and consumers in creative (and other) ways’
• Media Culpa – ‘The Swedish eyes on media and public relations’
• Cymfony – consumer insight on traditional and social media
• Real Fresh TV - internet TV and social media

Digital Marketing

• The Digital Mindset Blog – run by HP with focus on technology
• Technomarketer - ‘marketing, emerging media, mobile, PR and everything inbetween’
• Cross The Breeze – ‘geek marketer stuff’
  Wat Blog – Web, advertising and technology – focus on India
• Tubby Nerd - ‘Internet Marketing, guitar-playing and fashion’
• Behind the Buzz – digital and interactive advertising and marketing

Interactive Marketing

• The Forrester Blog - general interactive marketing
  Threeminds – ‘latest trends and happenings in and around the interactive industry’ / digital marketing

Marketing – General

• Five blogs before Lunch - general marketing / branding
• Greg Verdino’s marketing blog – ‘looking at trends in media and marketing ..with the changes being brought on by disruptive technologies, new business imperatives and the rise of the empowered consumer’
• The Marketing Technology Blog- ‘conversation and resources on marketing, social media, development, and wordpress
• Masi Guy - Marketing / PR
• Marketing Hipster - ‘Bridging the gap between markers and market’
• Marketing Roadmaps - where marketing has been and where it is going
• CK’s Blog - ‘clever strategies, the best practices and the smart (and no so smart) moves of today’s marketers’
• Ron Shevlin’s Marketing Whims – Marketing general and marketing technologies.
• Modern Marketing - strategic marketing
• Spinning Around - general
• Blog Till You Drop - Marketing, advertising, social media and blogging
• Novell - by John Dragoon – Novell’s senior vice president and chief marketing officer

Small Business Marketing

• The Marketing Spot – general

Word of Mouth

• Buzz Canuk - viral communication, branding, influence marketing, social media

Direct Marketing

• Direct Marketing Observations – ‘A convergence of marketing, technology and media’

B2B Marketing

• Marcom Writer – Dianna Huff delivers news, riffs, and commentary on all things relating to B2B marketing communications.

PR – General

• 360 Digital Influence - and word of mouth and social media
• Strategic Public Relations - Focused on public relations strategy within integrated marketing communications
• The Bad Pitch Blog - Relations resource
• Young PR -‘Discussing issues affecting PR Students and New Practitioners’
• Phil’s Blogservation - and media

Social Media

• Techipedia - social media consultant and tech geek at heart (was in top 100 list)
• What’s Next Blog - general
• Global Neighbourhoods – ‘following social media wherever it leads’
• Connie Bensen – ‘community strategist’
• The Viral Blog – including Viral Friday, showing the most popular viral videos and more.

Blogging

• And Wibbels - Small business blogging
• Ron Shevlin’s Marketing Whims - Marketing general and marketing technologies.
• Blog Badly- humorous and enganging – SEO, making money online and marketing

Design

• Mark Boulton - web design

SEO

• Blog Storm - and online marketing
• Compete blog – search online marketing
• Web Analytics World - Search marketing / web analytics
• AimClear – A search marketing blog for advertising agency, in-house & PR professionals

Online Marketing

• Twist Image – strategy, creativity and technology (was top 100 for a week)
• Grokdotcom -  ‘marketing optimization blog’
• ClickZ - general
• Bruce Clay - ‘SEO, PPC, Analytics, Design, Branding, Ethics’

Affiliate Marketing

• Frazer’s Affiliate Marketing - UK affiliate marketing news, views and podcast interviews

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