Content Marketing World 2023 takes place September 26 – 28 both in-person in Washington, D.C. and online, and as the biggest content marketing conference in the world, #CMWorld annually brings together a fantastic group of top-notch professionals sharing their curiosity for future trends, marketing insight, and aspirations for elevating the industry.
For the past 15 years top marketers from the world over have gathered for one of the world’s most comprehensive content marketing events, and this year’s Content Marketing World returns again for expanded networking and learning.
Readers of our blog know we have a longstanding history with the conference starting at the very beginning, with 13 years of speaking and attending along with eight years during which we partnered with the Content Marketing Institute to develop speaker and influencer content marketing campaigns.
A favorite classic TopRank Marketing tradition that has been imitated in recent years but never duplicated is our annual list of content marketing experts to follow — a helpful compilation extracted from top industry leaders and the hundreds of fantastic #CMWorld 2023 speakers.
List Methodology: For this list we utilized the Traackr influencer marketing platform to measure resonance surrounding the topic of content marketing.
Many thanks go to all the people who are actively sharingknowledge about content marketing in 2023 by engaging and working to elevate others with insight and expertise on the social web. This list is just a starting point to help expand your own content marketing learning.
In this year’s list there are plenty of familiar faces along with many new additions. We expect to learn new lessons from each of these 50 content marketing influencers, and hope that you’ll do the same throughout the rest of the year and into 2024 and beyond.
We extend special thanks to Stephanie Stahl, who as general manager of Content Marketing Institute has passionately continued on the ambitious mission of CMI founder Joe Pulizzi.
Stephanie Stahl@EditorStahl General Manager, Content Marketing Institute
Now let’s jump right in with this year’s list of 50 top content marketers to follow and learn from.
Top 50 Content Marketing Influencers To Follow
Ann Handley@marketingprofs Chief Content Officer, MarketingProfs
Mark Bornstein@4markb Vice President, Marketing and Chief Evangelist, On24
Dusty DiMercurio@dustycd Senior Director, Industry & Portfolio Marketing, Autodesk
Wendy Covey@wendycovey CEO and Co-Founder, TREW Marketing
Dan CafieroLinkedIn Senior Program Manager, Account Based Marketing and Paid Media, Seagate Technology
Robert Rose@Robert_Rose Chief Strategy Advisor, Content Marketing Institute
David Fortino@David__Fortino Chief Strategy Officer, NetLine*
Liz Willits@lizwillits Founder and Owner, Content Phenom
Jacqueline Loch@jacquelineloch EVP Social + Emerging Platforms, SJC Communications
We Hope To See You At Content Marketing World 2023
Using the most detailed statistical analysis — no matter how comprehensive and well-researched — can only take you so far in finding the people who you’ll consider the most relevant and influential in your own daily professional marketing lives, which is why we’d love it if you’d share the names of other content marketers that influence you in the comments section below or on our social media accounts on LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
To further your own content marketing expertise, here’s a bonus list of some of our top recent posts about content marketing:
If you’d like to learn more about optimizing B2B content for search intent, you’re in luck, as our co-founder Lee Odden will be presenting at Content Marketing World on the topic. Here are the details about Lee’s session:
We hope to see you either in-person or virtually at the exciting Content Marketing World 2023 conference, and be sure to follow us on Twitter at @TopRank for real-time updates during the conference using the #CMWorld hashtag.
*LinkedIn and NetLine are TopRank Marketing clients.
About the author
Lane R. Ellis has over 39 years’ experience working with and writing about the Internet. He writes for and manages all of the posts on the award-winning TopRank B2B Marketing Blog. Before joining the team here as Social Media and Content Marketing Manager, Lane spent more than a decade as Lead Editor for the prestigious conference firm Pubcon. When he’s not writing about B2B marketing trends, Lane enjoys distance running (he’s completed 11 marathons including two ultra-marathons so far), genealogical research, cross-country skate skiing, vegetarian cooking, and spending time with his wonderful wife Julie Ahasay and their cats Kukla, Twister, and Arlo in beautiful Duluth, Minnesota.