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Finally clarity in the content marketing software jungle: These are the technologies you need

Content marketing software – what is it even supposed to be? This category includes many tools with a wide range of functions and use cases. But which tools do you need, when, and for what purpose? Here, things finally become clear!

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ardly anything in marketing is as important as the right content at the right time on the right channel. Easy to say, but in practice it’s a demanding task day after day. How fitting, then, that the MarTech industry is providing us with hands-on support here with more and more—and better—solutions? However—and this is the crucial point—countless tools with different functions are lumped together under the label “content marketing software” – the MarTech Landscape includes more than 400 content marketing software providers (and certainly isn’t complete yet)!

In this article, we categorize the different software categories for content marketing and help you find the right provider for your team with our content marketing matching.

What do content marketing software tools offer for my marketing?

Good software supports you at every step of your content marketing—from planning and creation through to distributing content. With the right tool, you can organize content, maximize its effectiveness, and measure its impact. This covers both internal company channels as well as external channels and platforms.

Many tools also help you segment users so you can deliver the right posts for your target audience on the right channels. In addition, the programs identify suitable topics and formats, optimize content for search engines, and analyze content in detail. A welcome support for marketers!

The right content marketing software also assists you with keyword research or automates processes the marketing team would otherwise have to perform manually. Essential for this are interfaces to software you already have in your MarTech Stack.

For these reasons, good content marketing software is important:

Matchilla - Matching-Plattform und Marktplatz It helps create and centrally document a content strategy for the entire company.

Matchilla - Matching-Plattform und Marktplatz It provides clear monitoring, evaluation, and controlling—unlike the boring Excel editorial plan that is still all too often the standard.

Matchilla - Matching-Plattform und Marktplatz It shows the target group’s online search habits, so you can serve the appropriate channels accordingly.

Matchilla - Matching-Plattform und Marktplatz It provides a central work platform for the whole team.

Matchilla - Matching-Plattform und Marktplatz It simply makes your (content) life easier.

However, remember that content marketing software can’t work miracles. For maximum success, it’s important to develop a clear, shared strategy with unambiguous milestones. This can then be entered into the software and implemented accordingly. The same applies here: You don’t get something from nothing (as we say in Cologne).

All these programs may sound tempting at first, but be careful: In the jungle of content marketing software, it’s easy to lose track. That’s why we’ve put together the most important categories when it comes to content marketing software for you:

Content creation software and platforms

Even for the first category, “Content Creation,” there is no uniform definition. On the one hand, content creation tools include all (smaller) programs that you and your team use to create and optimize content formats, such as videos and memes for social media, texts for your blog, graphics for your website, infographics for your eBook, or presentations for B2B customers. On the other hand, content creation platforms help you find suitable authors and creators. This is especially interesting if you don’t want to employ your own team for this, or if your team doesn’t have enough time to create a lot of content. Both can certainly be helpful for you.

Content collaboration software

In content creation, all team members must be able to see the necessary documents at any time. A smart tool for content collaboration ensures that the information is always up to date. Many software solutions include a tool for teamwork, but there are also specialized programs dedicated solely to this content purpose.

Content Operations Software

Effectively orchestrate content and processes: Content operations software is the central hub for the marketing team when it comes to content. This type of software is often multifunctional and includes many interfaces so the entire team can plan, write, manage, and analyze. Content operations tools are powerful all-rounders that let you manage all types of content for all of the company’s channels in one place.

Content Curation Software

Content marketing isn’t just about new, self-created content – it’s also about curating third-party content. With a content curation tool, you filter relevant news, blog posts, social media pages, and other content and repackage it. At the same time, links to the source strengthen your own SEO.

Content Distribution Software

Content distribution tools help you get your content to the right target audience. With suitable content marketing software, you collect and process data, which then handles the automation of posts and other measures.

SEO Tools

In the area of content marketing tools, there is a particularly large number of SEO software solutions—and for good reason! Google alone gives you good insights into frequently searched questions and keywords. With a keyword research tool, you can dive even deeper into the SEO side of content. Then all that remains is to assess this information correctly. These tools are especially important because search algorithms are regularly updated and your content has to keep up.

More software and tools in content marketing

Do you now have a better idea of what content marketing software is out there in general and which options might work for you? Then let’s plant a few more trees here in the cleared jungle!

For example, consider whether you need graphic tools, video tools and audio tools to create your content. More and more companies support their texts with visual or audio content, which tends to perform particularly well on social media. After all, it’s not only TikTok—Instagram also focuses on video content. Maybe a content operations software solution that includes graphic elements would be a good fit?

Good analytics tools are absolutely central. Because even the best content doesn’t help much if you can’t measure, understand, and replicate its success. These features are also often included in content marketing software. Talk with your team about whether there are enough features or whether it might be worth purchasing a dedicated data or analytics tool. This, in turn, helps you implement insights from other tools—such as marketing automation software—and optimize your activities.

Click here for the article “AI for your content marketing? A status quo report on Generative AI”.

And this is how you can now find the right content marketing tools

So, to sum up: Good content marketing doesn’t just need professional, SEO-optimized, and attractive content, but also the right software. It saves you a lot of work and delivers better results as well as exciting insights. But how do you find exactly the tools that help you? That’s where Matchilla comes in! Let us match your specific needs with exactly the software you really require. Have fun with technology-driven content marketing!

To do so, use our Match Assistant for content marketing software (or for a new content marketing agency) and we’ll take care of the rest for you. Just a few minutes of your time to get a big step closer to your new software.

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René Kühn is the founder of Matchilla. He has been in the content marketing industry since 2010 and, at previous companies, developed among other things the CMCX and several content marketing tools.

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