🎛️ What are headless or hybrid content management systems?

Facebook and Instagram outages could affect your social advertising metrics To view this email as a web page, [click here]() Oct 05, 2021 [Martech: Martech is Marketing]() Good morning, Marketer, and there are rumors circulating… Specifically, that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — which at the time of writing are all suffering an outage — might be down for at least a week. Rumors, I say, not informed speculation. After all, if the root cause is a DNS failure, as Cisco has suggested, that’s a familiar fault that should be resolvable. And of course, there are people too saying they’re gone for good, or that they should be gone for good (especially after [the whistleblower allegations]()on “60 Minutes” on Sunday). To which someone on Twitter responded, forlornly, “I need them to run my business.” The commercial and emotional dependence on these platforms highlighted by their temporary unavailability makes me think again: What if the internet itself went away? For a day, a week, indefinitely? How would anything work anymore? Kim DavisEditorial Director Experience What are headless or hybrid content management systems? Headless and hybrid content management systems are software that serves as a repository for textual and other digital content that includes an application programming interface (API) that allows that stored content to be distributed to a variety of platforms. “Hybrid” systems have some of the characteristics of headless systems and some of those of “traditional” content management systems. In this concise guide, learn what headless and hybrid CMSs can do that a traditional CMS like WordPress can’t. The growth of mobile devices, especially, makes delivering content experiences, well synonymous with delivering them quickly. Headless and hybrid content management systems can help marketers in this pursuit by providing a number of benefits. These include easier delivery of content to new and emerging platforms, not just websites, security and an enhanced ability to reuse and repurpose content, leading to greater ROI. [Read more here.]() [A single source of truth is the foundation of any digital ecosystem]() A single, accessible view of the customer empowers marketers to understand and better engage with their customers by knowing who they are and what they are looking for. Register for Signals21 and hear real-life case studies from marketers at leading brands who have worked feverishly to nullify data silos, push for organizational change and eradicate the “but this is the way we’ve always done things” approach. [Read More »]() Social Facebook and Instagram outages could affect your social advertising metrics Facebook and Instagram were down for over two hours yesterday. The outrage resulted in quite a few [funny tweets](), as Twitter was one of the only social media platforms still up at the time. 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