We were talking about Red Bull's website, remember? This company's approach to content or storytelling is strategic. It involves the whole company and is arguably become the most successful branded content example of the last decade. Their videos are coherent with their tweets, with their mission, with every item about can and should be termed as content narrative. In this example, a brand which is defined by adventure and extreme outdoor sports for young generations. The fascinating element about Red Bull is that they truly don't speak about their products anymore. They just expand their storytelling narrative about giving you wings and enjoying life without any limitations. It wasn't like that at the beginning of this century, the brand underwent a thorough transformation based on the principle of operating like an editorial agency, investing resources, and building a coherent narrative along multiple channels with a cool and very identifiable visual style. A complete and bold change of attitude. The problem of getting noticed as we've repeated before is that consumers ignore marketing messages with no relevance. The world is full of content and people searched for quality. Content quality in itself is a very mysterious entity. It may be probably defined as content which stands by itself without any connection to the product or service or brand which is being promoted in that very subtle way. Understanding what works and what content does not work can take quite a lot of time. No successful content strategy is developed overnight. In these conditions of content surplus and attention deficit, simplifying stories is sometimes the best approach to start with. Seventy percent of consumers prefer getting to know a company through articles rather than through ads. So, one thing appears to be very clear. Please, stop talking about your product or your service. What's the point in boasting about your product unless it reinvents the wheel? It bores people, it's a bad use of your marketing budget. In the old debate about whether advertising works through persuasion, this is persuading people to buy things they don't really need or by providing information to customers who do want a product. The latter option is the winner nowadays. A study from the year 2015 showed that 74 percent of the general public trusts content from companies that educate them on a topic. Content which they find interesting which they can relate to. But when those same companies include product-focused contents, credibility drops by almost half. So, the conclusion seems to be a very simple, but a very powerful one. Produce something which helps the user in any way. Something which builds trust, which is informative, educational, recreational, or at best even useful. It's almost the same as in journalism, but for different purposes.