Content marketing is a strategic marketing approach that involves creating and distributing valuable content to attract a target audience and drive customer action. It has several advantages over traditional advertising such as providing value to customers, educating them about products, creating a sense of reciprocity, attracting customers for free, increasing content sharing and traffic, being highly targeted, and providing SEO benefits. An effective content marketing plan involves defining goals and target audiences, developing personas, and creating different types of content such as blog posts, social media, podcasts, whitepapers, ebooks, infographics, and videos. Success requires consistently creating and promoting great content over the long-term.