The 17 Best Tools for Widespread Content Distribution as complied by TNW

When you’re creating useful, actionable, epic content, everyone deserves to see it.

So how do you get your hard work and effort seen by the largest audience possible?

We’ve considered that question often at Buffer, as we try to maximize our content so it reaches the people who need it. There are certain strategies you can put into place for spreading your content far and wide, and there are a good number of tools that can help these strategies run super smooth.

Here are the tools we use (and the strategies we love). Is there a tool you use that I failed to mention? Please do share it in the comments!

The 3 types of content distribution channels

Before we dive into the tools, let’s start with an overview of content distribution. Essentially, when you distribute your content, you do so in three basic channels.

1. Owned
2. Earned
3. Paid

Owned media includes the channels that belong to you, where you control the content. This can be your blog, website, email newsletter, and social media profiles.

Earned media involves others sharing your content. This can take the form of social media shares, guest posts, media coverage, and product reviews.

Paid media is the exposure you pay for, be it pay-per-click ads, display ads, social ads, or otherwise.

When viewed in a Venn diagram, you can see that these channels provide a bit of overlap with one another as content distribution can touch on many different channels for the same piece of content.

With this idea framework in mind, let’s look at some tools that help accomplish content distribution in each of the three major distribution channels: owned, earned, and paid.

The 17 Best Tools for Widespread Content Distribution

Owned media

1. Buffer

We’ve found Buffer to be the simplest way to share your content to your social media channels on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn. You can schedule your posts to publish at ideal times (or let Buffer decide when is best), and you can reshare older content by re-buffering straight from the app dashboard.

2. Edgar

A new tool for reposting content from your archives, Edgar helps with evergreen promotion by linking to your social channels and sharing old content at a regular drip.

3. WiseStamp

A complete, beautiful email signature that can contain the typical contact information plus a host of other social media, RSS, and content distribution tidbits. You can show your latest tweet or hook up your RSS feed to show your latest blogpost.

4. Goodbits

Create an email newsletter full of amazing links (including the content of yours you want to distribute). Goodbits lets you drag-and-drop content from a queue made up of any RSS feed you connect as well as any articles you add via the bookmarklet or browser extension.

You can then customize, edit, and send to your contacts, including your MailChimp list and segments.

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