This is our ninth installment of the Junta42 Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs.

Since our first back in January of 2008, Brian Solis has finished in the Top 10 five times, including a second, fourth and fifth place. This time the popular author, speaker and social media blogger earned a clear first place. Congratulations Brian.

We started with reviewing 81 content marketing related blogs in 2007. Today’s Top 42 contains nearly 400 blogs. For those interested, here’s how we judge the Top 42. Special thanks to our lead researcher, Janet Robbins, who goes through each one of these blogs individually every quarter.

Congratulations to each of the Top 42 content marketing bloggers. You can see the entire list here, as well as see our past winners, but below you’ll find a handy list of just the Top 42.

1 Brian Solis
2 Copyblogger
3 Conversation Agent
4 TopRank Blog
5 PR 20/20
6 Marketing Experiments
7 Convince and Convert
8 Spin Sucks
9 Marketing Interactions
10 ConverStations
11 Simple Marketing Blog
12 Influential Marketing Blog
13 Direct Marketing Observations
14 Post Advertising
15 Web Ink Now
16 Social Media Explorer
17 Writing on the Web
18 Inbound Internet Marketing Blog
19 Rexblog
20 eMedia Vitals
21 Vertical Leap
22 Conversation Marketing
23 WeBlogBetter.com
24 Mack Collier
25 Buzz News
26 FASTforward Blog
27 IdeaLaunch
28 Site Booster
29 Freelance Copywriters Blog
30 Social Media Examiner
31 Priority Integrated Marketing Blog
32 Branding & Marketing
33 Shopper Culture
34 Vertical Measures
35 Proactive
36 Web Marketing Therapy
37 ContentMarketingToday
38 Servant of Chaos
39 Ducttape Marketing
40 TippingPoint Labs
41 Sparksheet
42 The MineThat Data Blog

Brian Solis Rocks Latest Junta42 Top Content Marketing Blogs

By Joe Pulizzi | Published: August 25, 2010

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5 Comments

Kwame

Posted August 26, 2010 at 9:16 am | Permalink

Congratulations to the Top 42 blogs. Kudos to Junta42 for planning and implementing this ranking. My blog ranked 97. I will be in the Top42 next quarter .
Thanks guys.
Kwame.

Jen

Posted August 26, 2010 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

Thank you Joe, Janet Robbins and the rest of the Junta42 team who compiled the list of top blogs. We are tremendously honored here at Priority Integrated Marketing (#31!).

Servant of Chaos

Posted August 29, 2010 at 4:28 pm | Permalink

Content Marketing and the Junta 42

Back in 2008, Joe Pulizzi started looking in-depth at blogs that focused on content marketing. He found 81 blogs – and the Junta 42 were the viewed as the leaders in what was then an emerging field. Two years on…

Arnie Kuenn

Posted September 1, 2010 at 5:57 pm | Permalink

Thanks for including Vertical Measures in the list Joe. It means a lot.

C.B. Whittemore

Posted September 2, 2010 at 12:24 am | Permalink

This is very exciting! Thanks, Joe and Janet!
Best,
CB