BNET Business Dictionary

Business Definition for: Content

  • the textual, graphical, and multimedia material that constitutes a Web page or Web site

Wiktionary Definition for: Content

  • #(''uncountable'') That which is contained.
  • #(''uncountable'') Published information and experience experiences such as many novels, movies, music, game, webpages, presentations, organized data, etc.
  • # mathematics The n-dimensional ''n''-dimensional space contained by an ''n''-dimensional polytope (called ''volume'' in the case of a polyhedron and ''area'' in the case of a polygon).
  • #''See also'' '''contents'''
  • #Satisfied; in a state of satisfaction.
  • #To satisfy.
  • Ex:''You can't have any more - you'll have to '''content''' yourself with what you already have.''
  • English content, satisfied, pleased

Additional Resources

Following the Guiding Principles of Content Management
Content management is about getting the right information to the right person at the right time—at the right cost. By using the Internet as its primary publication medium, content management affords people much greater access to the information they need. When approaching content management, keep in mind that your Web...
Tags: Web, Web Site, Content Management, Web Technology, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Navigation, Professional Content Management, Content Quality, Web Site Development, Internet, Situation, Goal, Content Management System, Information Architecture, Web Site Manager, Software, BNET Editorial
Articles 2007-12-05
The Content Delusion
You're special. You know that right? You have a voice, story, and message, and all you have to do is share it with us. Really! Be transparent and authentic, and put it out there. You're a beautiful and unique snowflake… Now tell us more about that turd you took this...
Tags: folk, Blog, Story
News items 2009-11-10
Writing Winning Web Content
Writing well for the Web requires an understanding of Web readers' habits. A typical visitor to a Web site will decide whether or not to continue within four or five seconds. You need to bear this in mind when preparing Web content. It is more difficult to read on a...
Tags: BNET Editorial, Marketing, Channel Management, Web Site, Word, Web, Content, Web Site Development, Internet
Articles 2007-10-15
Google Social Search Arrives to Surface Content From Twitter, FriendFeed, Yelp
Google launches Google Social Search from Google Labs Oct. 26. The experiment is designed to make search results more relevant by mining the rich Google profile information users provide. This includes all Gmail contacts and Gmail chat buddies, as well and people users are publicly connected to on social sites...
Tags: Google Inc.
News items 2009-10-26
Enough Already About Charging For Content: How To Make The Free Model Work
James A. Pitaro is the vice president of media at Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO) He has worked at the company since 2001.With advertising and media leaders from around the globe descending on New York for the annual Advertising Week conference, one topic will be hotly and obsessively debated in conference...
Tags: Web, Yahoo! Inc., Content, James A. Pitaro, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Advertising, Features, Leading Voices, Media & Publishing
External links 2009-09-23
Today's Content Relevant to Tomorrow's Real-Time Searches
We all know that social media is "where it's at" these days. People are spending more and more of their time on social networking sites. Many are checking their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts before even checking their email or even getting out of bed in some cases.Real-time search, while...
Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, social networking, Twitter Inc.
News items 2009-08-25
EveryZing Moves to RAMP Focus on Content Optimization
Yesterday, EveryZing, a company that we have profiled in the past, has re-branded themselves as RAMP.com. They made a name for themselves by helping companies optimize their video content for search discovery through speech to text recognition technology and they are now moving beyond video optimization to focus on helping...
Tags: Video, engagement, Discovery, Optimization
News items 2009-11-19
AOL's Business Model: "High-Quality Content to Scale"
Until around three years ago, you would never have mentioned the phrase “high-quality content” and AOL in the same sentence, because there simply was no connection between the two. As noted here last week, those days are officially gone, apparently for good. “We intend...
Tags: America Online Inc., Portals, Document Management, Workforce Management, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Human Resources, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-08-06
Murdoch leads online content charge
But it is a moot point when and how others will join his call to arms, given the presence of the BBC's free news service, and the chequered history of publishers taking the paid-for-content route. Business-to-business publisher Emap, for example, has flip-flopped behind paywalls for some of its content in...
Tags: advertisement, Rupert Murdoch, publisher, British Broadcasting Corp., Trinity Mirror Plc.
News items 2009-08-10
In The New Content Economy, Consumers Want Access Not Ownership
Fred Davis is a senior partner at the entertainment law firm Davis Shapiro Lewit and HayesThroughout this country, throughout the world, in conference room after conference room and boardroom after boardroom, executives of content companies are analyzing data that shows the dwindling numbers associated with owning content. For the...
Tags: Microsoft Access, CD, Ownership, Fred Davis, Sales Strategy, DVD, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Features, Leading Voices, Media & Publishing
External links 2009-11-17
Spleak: Content + Utility = Sweet Spot
As long as there has been a world wide web to use as a media platform, those of us working with it have carried on a vigorous debate that might be called the "content vs. utility" question. Reasonable people can disagree on the question, and frequently do, staking out extreme...
Tags: Utility, Hearst Corp., Spleak, Games, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Online Communications, David Weir
Blog posts 2008-07-22
6 Steps to Valuable Internet Content
Marketers are now finally waking up to the idea that pre-formatted communications aren't the right way to engage with customers. The marketing department needs to learn how to write valuable content that brings value to website visitors that initiates discussions, questions and comments. here are my tips: Step 1: Short text is a myth Step...
Tags: Web, Search Engine, Visitor, Image, Keyword, Marketers, Internet, Search, Channel Management, Marketing, Yann Gourvennec
Blog posts 2009-06-15
Mark Cuban's Advice To Fox & MySpace On Selling Content: Yes, You Can
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and cofounder of HDNet, offers running commentary on Blog Maverick and allows us to publish it here when the subject fits.Rupert , you didn't ask my opinion on this, but since when has that ever stopped me. First the good news.  You...
Tags: Mark Cuban, Site, MySpace, Newser.com, News Site, Internet, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Newspapers, Online News, TV, Companies, News Corp., New York Times Co., Washington Post Co.
External links 2009-08-09
80% of US Consumers Won't Pay For Online Content
According to a new Forrester survey , almost 80% of Internet users in the US and Canada would not pay for access to newspaper and magazine websites. Those users who would consider paying for content are mostly interested in subscriptions. Only a small minority of consumers (3%) is...
Tags: newspaper, Forrester Research Inc., Consumer
News items 2009-11-16
Managing Marketing Content: A Unified Content Strategy
As web information and e-commerce initiatives have grown, web content management has become an important part of a corporation's content management strategy. However, corporate content consists of much more than just web content. Corporate content spans an entire enterprise; it is authored by multiple content creators and delivered to multi-channel...
Tags: Strategy, Web, E-business, Channel Management, Web Technology, Content Management, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
White papers 2003-03-01
One Size Doesn't Fit All: Consumers Want Choice On Pricing, Delivery Of Content
In the past year, we’ve seen a palpable shift from newspaper and magazine publishers with regard to paid content—while they still don’t know how to make paid content work, they know they want to try. A recent report from the American Press Institute underscores this trend: The API reports...
Tags: Consumer, Pricing Strategy, Pricing, Marketing Research, Marketing, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Micropayments, Media & Publishing, Research & Metrics, Sarah Rotman Epps
External links 2009-11-16
80% of Consumers Would Not Pay For Content
As you've more than likely heard by now, News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch in an interview last week talked about the possibility of blocking search engines from indexing News Corp. publications' content. While this may or may not actually happen, it is one of the latest and biggest examples of...
Tags: Google Inc., News Corp., Consumer, Publisher
News items 2009-11-16
Blyk Broadens Business Model With New Mobile Content Service
When Blyk, the ad-funded, youth targeted MVNO, scored 40 million euros ($50.5 million) in its latest round of funding a few weeks ago, it also announced that it was embarking on a new "partnership strategy", though no details of what these entailed were given at the time. The company...
Tags: Advertisement, Mobile, Service, Blyk, Gregory, Advertising & Promotion, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Business Structures, Marketing, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Finance, Dianne See Morrison
External links 2008-12-01
Boxee To Stream Brightcove Content Now, Too
Let Hulu hold out ... The video site is still keeping its premium-priced content away from Boxee, but that hasn’t stopped Boxee from adding new, premium content partners. The latest is Brightcove; the online video company sealed a distribution deal with Boxee that will give its clients like TheStreet.com...
Tags: Online Video, Brightcove, Video, Boxee, Rafat, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-09-08
Interview: Behind The Scenes With 15 Gigs, Fox's Stealthy Digital Content Incubator
The days of big media companies pumping money into their own hyped-up video incubators seem to be over, but that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped investing in original digital content altogether. Fox, for example, has 15 Gigs, an incubator that’s been creating web and mobile series on a budget without...
Tags: Web, Mobile, Digital Content, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Channel Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Marketing, Media & Publishing, Social Media, Video, Companies, News Corp., Fox, Tameka Kee
External links 2009-10-05