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Matt Locke
Making a new B2B format: Everybody Is Interesting

Dec 3, 2025

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7 min read

Making a new B2B format: Everybody Is Interesting

No matter how complex or dry your subject matter is, there is a sure-fire way to make it interesting - learn how to be a great interviewer.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
Follow us as we make a new B2B format: Getting the first insight

Nov 19, 2025

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6 min read

Follow us as we make a new B2B format: Getting the first insight

In our new series we're sharing all the background details of how we make a new B2B format.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
NEW SERIES: How To Make Attention Grabbing B2B Formats

Oct 29, 2025

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3 min read

NEW SERIES: How To Make Attention Grabbing B2B Formats

We're making a new B2B Format at Storythings, and we're going to share what we're doing every step of the way.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
B2B Prototyping part 8: How to build a prototyping culture in your team

Aug 6, 2025

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10 min read

B2B Prototyping part 8: How to build a prototyping culture in your team

The last part of our series looks at how to move from doing prototypes as one offs to making them a core part of how your team works

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
B2B Prototyping part 7: How prototyping saves you time and money

Jul 23, 2025

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9 min read

B2B Prototyping part 7: How prototyping saves you time and money

The seventh part of our series answers the biggest question stopping people from prototyping - can we afford to do it?

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
B2B Prototyping part 6: How to kill your darlings

Jun 27, 2025

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10 min read

B2B Prototyping part 6: How to kill your darlings

The sixth part of our series looks at one of the trickiest decisions to make - when to kill a format that doesn't seem to be working.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
B2B Prototyping part 5: How to scale your prototypes

Jun 11, 2025

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9 min read

B2B Prototyping part 5: How to scale your prototypes

The fifth part of our series looks at how to scale a prototype, and why scale is sometimes a scary concept.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
B2B Prototyping part 4: How to measure attention and engagement

Jun 4, 2025

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9 min read

B2B Prototyping part 4: How to measure attention and engagement

The fourth in our series on building a B2B prototyping culture looks at how to measure humans, not platforms

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
B2B Prototyping part 3: How to test your prototypes

May 28, 2025

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9 min read

B2B Prototyping part 3: How to test your prototypes

The third in our series on building a B2B prototyping culture looks at how to test prototypes, and why you might be asking the wrong questions.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
B2B Prototyping part 2: How to collaborate

May 21, 2025

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10 min read

B2B Prototyping part 2: How to collaborate

The second in our new series on how to improve your B2B marketing with prototyping looks at how collaboration is essential to good prototyping, but it isn't always smooth sailing...

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
B2B Prototyping part 1: How do you find the time?

May 14, 2025

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8 min read

B2B Prototyping part 1: How do you find the time?

The first in our new series on how to improve your B2B marketing with prototyping covers how to make the time to prototype when you're feeling swamped. And we're all feeling swamped, right?

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
NEW SERIES: How Prototyping Makes Your B2B Marketing Better

Apr 9, 2025

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3 min read

NEW SERIES: How Prototyping Makes Your B2B Marketing Better

Our new series on how to save money and create better content through prototyping

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
STAY HUMAN - Stopping Engagement Entropy Rot

Mar 19, 2025

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10 min read

STAY HUMAN - Stopping Engagement Entropy Rot

In the last part of our guide to making B2B marketing stand out from the crowd, we look at what to do when your campaigns are met with nothing but tumbleweed...

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
STAY HUMAN - Breaking out of Risk Aversion Paralysis

Mar 5, 2025

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12 min read

STAY HUMAN - Breaking out of Risk Aversion Paralysis

In the sixth part of our guide to making B2B marketing stand out from the crowd, we explain how to make it easy to try something new

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
STAY HUMAN - Moving Away From Template Dependence Disorder

Feb 26, 2025

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9 min read

STAY HUMAN - Moving Away From Template Dependence Disorder

In the fifth part of our guide to making B2B marketing stand out from the crowd, we explain the important differences between templates (bad!) and formats (good!)

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
STAY HUMAN - Curing Your Corporate Voice Affliction

Feb 19, 2025

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9 min read

STAY HUMAN - Curing Your Corporate Voice Affliction

In the fourth part of our guide to making B2B marketing stand out from the crowd, we are delighted to announce 😉 we're covering the problems with corporate voice.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
STAY HUMAN - Overcoming Algorithmic Addiction

Feb 12, 2025

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8 min read

STAY HUMAN - Overcoming Algorithmic Addiction

In the third part of our guide to making B2B marketing stand out from the crowd, we'll look at how to use platforms to reach humans, not robots

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
STAY HUMAN - Escaping from Buzzword Dependency Syndrome

Feb 5, 2025

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8 min read

STAY HUMAN - Escaping from Buzzword Dependency Syndrome

In the second part of our guide to making B2B marketing stand out from the crowd, we look at how buzzwords stop people from hearing what you're really saying.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
STAY HUMAN - How to Avoid Generic Thought Leadership Disease

Jan 29, 2025

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7 min read

STAY HUMAN - How to Avoid Generic Thought Leadership Disease

In the first part of our guide to making B2B marketing that stands out from the crowd, we focus on the first symptom that you might be becoming a B2B zombie.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
STAY HUMAN - How to Avoid the B2B Zombie Apocalypse

Jan 16, 2025

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4 min read

STAY HUMAN - How to Avoid the B2B Zombie Apocalypse

Most B2B marketing looks the same, so make 2025 the year you stand out from the crowd.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
STAY HUMAN - A Reading List

Dec 18, 2024

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9 min read

STAY HUMAN - A Reading List

In 2025 we're launching a new campaign to make B2B marketing more human. Here's a reading list of our research so far.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
How To Build More Human B2B Personas

Nov 20, 2024

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9 min read

How To Build More Human B2B Personas

Your ideal customer is more than just a profile - you need to understand the broader context around their decision making

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
How To Find Your Story Part 6: How to Grow Audiences and Impact

Nov 13, 2024

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10 min read

How To Find Your Story Part 6: How to Grow Audiences and Impact

In the sixth part of our series, we look at why marketing teams are so siloed, and how measuring impact can be the thing that brings them together.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
How To Find Your Story Part 5: How to build a sustainable workflow for story formats

Nov 6, 2024

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9 min read

How To Find Your Story Part 5: How to build a sustainable workflow for story formats

In the fifth part of our series, we tackle the most important factor in the success of a story format - workflow.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
How To Find Your Story Part 4: How prototyping stories can save you money and reduce risk

Oct 30, 2024

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9 min read

How To Find Your Story Part 4: How prototyping stories can save you money and reduce risk

In the fourth part of our series, we explore the one thing the media industry does better than marketing - development.

Matt Locke
Matt Locke
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