content calendar

Definition

A schedule planning what content to publish and when, designed to bring order to the chaos of content marketing and typically abandoned by February. It's the New Year's resolution of marketing planning.

Example Usage

Our content calendar planned 52 blog posts for the year, though we actually published seven before running out of ideas and time.

Origin

Adapted from editorial calendars in publishing, formalized for content marketing in the 2010s

Fun Fact

Companies with a documented content calendar are 538% more likely to report success, though 'documented' and 'actually followed' are very different things.

Source: Content marketing operations

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