This week’s #ContentCatchUp is choc-full of inspiring videos to help give you ideas, useful guides for your website and social accounts, and some lovely telly stuff to keep you distracted from the ongoing Coronavirus crisis. Hang in there!
Video inspiration
Athena Skates: a documentary short (Ayla Angelos - It’s Nice That)
The best short films on the internet chosen by Vimeo (Meghan Oretsky - Vimeo)
New animation raises awareness for organ donation (Aimee McLauglin - Creative Review)
Websites and social
Get your ‘about us’ page right: 25 creative examples (Alexander Kesler - Search Engine Journal)
The Twitter algorithm in 2020: what you need to know (Katie Sehl - Hootsuite)
A guide to hosting virtual events on YouTube (Google)
Marketing
How to stay top of mind: lessons from the travel industry (Kristina Monllos - Digiday)
Infographics: 7 great tips to get you started (Nadya Khoja - Content Marketing Institute)
Striking the right tone during the Coronavirus crisis: what Nike is doing right (Nikki Gilliland - eConsultancy)
TV distractions
The Trip to Greece: interview with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon (Anne Thompson - IndieWire)
2020: the best TV so far this year (The Guardian)
Homecoming: an interview with season 2 director Kyle Patrick Alvarez (Danette Chavez - AV Club)
If any of these videos and articles spark an idea or a question about your own content, get in touch.
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