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This essay sheds light on what is content marketing, demystifies why content marketing is one of the utmost potent forms of marketing, reveals the benefits of companies implementing content marketing activities on social media platforms, and delineates the problems with companies not implementing content marketing activities on social media platforms. Succinctly stated, content marketing is a form of marketing that involves producing content for the prospect of driving profitable customer actions. "Content marketing is a strategic marketing approach that is focused on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly defined audience and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer actions". The different types of content that can be leveraged for content marketing purposes encompass articles, videos, archivable live-stream broadcasts, newsletters, webinars, images, and podcast episodes. Other types of content that can be leveraged for content marketing purposes encompass episodic content, guides, and infographics. Content marketing activities are not only able to amplify brand awareness and elevate product awareness, but can also play a pivotal role in helping companies to generate interest in their product offerings among the members of their target market. A surfeit of content marketing activities are often implemented by companies on their social media channels. In addition to implementing content marketing activities on their social media channels, companies also often implement content marketing activities on their websites. Even though content marketing activities are "promotional in nature", insightful content that is produced for content marketing purposes can even be curated in an editorial format. The content that is produced for content marketing purposes is often not curated in traditional marketing content formats, such as in the formats of commercials and infomercials.