Cornerstone Content: 10 Content Experts Give Top Tips

A content strategy focused on cornerstone content can help you rank in SERPs and organize your content. Get the most out of your content with these tips.
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Music’s next big startup Splice raises $57.5M to sell samples

Tech has a bad reputation for pulling money out of musicians’ pockets, but Splice is changing that. The audio sample marketplace and music production collaboration tool has now paid out $15 million to artists since 2013, doubling in the last year. Splice lets musicians sell their sounds for royalty-free use, and songs by Eminem, Ariana Grande and Marshmello that were powered by those samples have topped the charts.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/20/splice-sample-marketplace/?source=Snapzu

Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller: Greater than average chance of recession in next 18 months

Nobel Prize winning economist Robert Shiller says that the long expansion in the economy, housing and stock markets, combined with continued low interest rates, could mean the U.S. is due for a recession. However, he says that human behavior makes it very difficult to make such predictions. The Trump administration and extreme weather events haven't affected markets...yet.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/03/19/robert-shiller-nobel-prize-greater-than-average-chance-of-recession.html?source=Snapzu

Television commercials featuring perfect people could be making us miserable

It’s the question that has baffled economists for generations. Why doesn’t economic growth make us happier? This used to be known as “Easterlin’s Paradox” after economist Richard Easterlin. He pointed out way back in the 1970s that the industrialized world’s miraculous leaps in per capita GDP were not being matched by much, if any, gains in average life satisfaction.
Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/television-commercials-featuring-perfect-people-could-be-making-us-miserable-2019-03-19?mod=moneyish?source=Snapzu

The lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are aiming at Realtors and their 6% fee

A new class-action lawsuit takes aim at real estate agents and the tools they use to do business, and housing industry watchers say it could revolutionize the way Americans buy and sell the biggest asset they’ll ever own.
Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/big-name-lawsuit-could-upend-realtors-and-their-6-fee-2019-03-19?source=Snapzu

A month of coffee for $5? That’s Burger King’s plan to rule breakfast.

Burger King’s newest discount is quite a whopper. No, not that kind of Whopper. The kind that gets customers to walk in and smell the coffee. Burger King rolled out its own coffee subscription service: a cup a day for $5 a month. The chain is betting on the service to get early risers in the door — and away from other big names in the fast-food breakfast game.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/03/19/month-coffee-thats-burger-kings-plan-rule-breakfast/?source=Snapzu

The end of an era: Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox is finally complete

To quote a certain mystically inclined neurosurgeon, we’re in the endgame now. By 12:02 a.m. ET on the morning of Wednesday, March 20, the Walt Disney Company’s acquisition of 21st Century Fox will be complete, putting the cap on the long-gestating negotiation that will see the merging of these two Hollywood houses.
Read more: https://ew.com/movies/2019/03/19/disney-fox-merger-complete?source=Snapzu