Content Science
Our blog devoted to the fundamentals of producing content and marketing to developers.

What Makes Effective Developer-Focused Content Unique in Content Marketing?
Back to Basics As we all know, content marketing is a marketing strategy to attract, nurture, and retain a clearly defined audience, and that content marketing achieves those goals by offering valuable and relevant information to convert that audience to customers.¹ ...

Why Market to Developers? Developers Have Influence
Why Market to Developers? Maybe your product’s customer is actually a CIO. Maybe the purchasing team sits on the business side of the house. Maybe developers aren’t even really your customer, you just need to convince their company’s C-suite to build a product with...

Valuable Technical Content
The Significance of Significance Tech professionals consume many forms of technical content to help them understand a product — pre- and post-sale. Have you ever wondered what content technical audiences most value in their process? To find out, Developer Media posed...

Distribution Channel Discovery: Who Is Where?
Audience Discovery Basics Finding the right channels to distribute content to your audience relies entirely on how well you know your target audience. It’s almost always the first step for any marketing strategy. Where do your developers find technical content?...

Influencing Developer Sentiment with Content Marketing
Sentiment Sounds Important That’s because it is. We first visited developer sentiment last year. For those who have forgotten, sentiment with respect to marketing and PR usually refers to social sentiment, which is the emotion associated with your brand when it is...

How Distribution Channel Selection Affects Your Technical Content Campaigns’ Success
Distribution Channels Define Success According to Jodi Harris, the director of editorial content and curation at Content Marketing Institute, and editor-in-chief of its digital magazine, Chief Content Officer, “No matter how much time and care you put into building...

Ask a Developer: What 5 Things Make Developer-Friendly Content?
Ask a Developer We know as marketers that there are times when you’d just like to ask a developer. That’s why we created the “Ask a Developer” series, where developer Jeff Fritz (a.k.a. @Csharpfritz on Twitch) asks fellow Twitch live coders questions that marketers...

How To Anticipate Future Technical Topics of Interest
Becoming a Futurist? You don’t necessarily need to be a futurist to make some informed guesses about what technical topics will be of interest for your audience. Just spend some time listening to your audience. If your brand supports a developer community, then you...

Ask a Developer: Explain Technical Terms with Links for Caroline Kerns
Why Ask a Developer? It’s fun getting to know each developer! But we know individual stories can have unmerited weight. That’s why we also use data like that collected by Evans Data Corporation, SlashData, and our own surveys. However, running an idea, question or...

Quantum Computing Topics
Quantum Computing Quantum computing has been characterized as “10 years away 20 years ago,” according to Vijay Pande, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz in a 2018 article in IEEE Spectrum. So, why should brands start providing tech content about programming for...