Here you’ll find our online digest dedicated to the art and science of communications. It’s also named after an isotope of the element cobalt.

Pharma and biotech are two of the biggest pillars of the healthcare industry and have started to converge, but their marketing strategies remain completely distinct. This blog offers an in-depth breakdown of the unique strategies required for pharma versus biotech marketing, exploring their respective target audiences, messaging, and channels.

Often, the most influential discoveries in the history of life sciences can be traced back to a singular moment or, in some cases, a single sentence. This blog explores ten of those pivotal instances in which just a few words permanently reshaped our understanding of the world and science.

Struggling with long life science sales cycles? Learn how to engage stakeholders, meet regulatory needs, and nurture leads effectively.

The very sounds that go into a word can subtly alter our perspective of the thing it names. In this blog, Cobalt explores the role of linguistics in shaping how an audience responds to the language we use in life science marketing and communications.

Jargon is often scorned, but it’s not always bad. In technical fields, it’s even necessary. This blog explores how marketing writers can detect jargon, evaluate its use, and replace it with stronger, clearer language.

Compelling ESG report design builds trust, attracts investment, and highlights sustainability progress for life science B2Bs.

Ten nonfiction science books to consider for your next read.

Learn how the customer journey map can guide your content strategy and reduce the friction that may stop a customer’s progress. Consider the customer journey for a fictional medical device startup company and how to describe and target the ideal customer.

By implementing customer-focused content marketing strategies, science B2Bs can cultivate customer trust, encourage repeat business and referrals, and gain a competitive edge.

A unique and compelling value proposition is essential for defining why a potential customer or partner should choose you over a close competitor.

This article will introduce common AI tools and how to use them effectively for brainstorming in creative agencies.

AI marketing tools can deliver many benefits, allowing companies to operate more efficiently while better predicting and satisfying customer needs. Learn about related ethical and legal concerns and how to handle them.

This blog post reviews key considerations when choosing typography for complex data sets.

This blog describes how to use metaphors and analogies to explain complexity and inject creativity into life science content marketing.

This blog reviews how you can position your company as a thought leader and differentiate it from competitors.

How to incorporate ESG marketing into your overall sustainability communications strategy.

Learn how using stories in your presentations can make your company’s message more memorable, persuasive, and interesting.

By utilizing storytelling in your social media posts, you can build a meaningful, ongoing conversation with your audience.

Whether the story is fictional or based on facts, storytelling is the differentiating factor through which a narrative can communicate a brand’s values. In other words, what a brand stands for, not what it sells.

Storytelling is still one of the most effective ways to reach prospective customers. Learn how you can use some simple storytelling techniques to make your case studies interesting, creative, and illuminating narratives.

Brand guidelines detail a company’s visual identity. Find out more about what brand guidelines are and how they’re useful to companies of all sizes.

Powerful headlines take work, but few resources explain how to write killer headlines that get readers to click. This blog covers all of the bases.

Writing lists correctly is not rocket science, but there are rules to follow. This is a beginner’s guide to writing lists.

Graphic designers have many different tools for creating effective visual communications — isolation is one of the most important.

Clichés aren’t always bad. They can foster togetherness, inclusion and mutual understanding — a verbal or visual common ground.

Writers and designers are “creatives,” but they work quite differently. What can each creative discipline learn from the other?

Imagine internal and external communications as two partners in a well-functioning, long-term relationship. Like any great partnership, they’re better when they work together and play off of the other’s strengths.

We get it, the communications landscape can be a bit confusing. So we broke it down for you.

Effective messaging isn’t only about what you say — it’s also about how and when you say it to whom

Every day, we’re bombarded by the maddening susurration of voices coming to us via the internet. Much of it is potentially interesting, but most of us don’t have the time, inclination or supernatural abilities to absorb it all. That’s why, as marketers and communicators, we must produce content that stands out and grabs the attention of our busy and easily distracted audience. One great way to do that is to start telling stories. In this article, we share some basic storytelling techniques that can be adopted easily as you develop content for common social media platforms.

The north pole is at the top of the world, and the south pole is at the bottom. But why is this? There is no scientific reason that one pole should be considered “up” and one “down.” A brief history lesson about the Mercator projection can help us appreciate the importance of a fresh perspective in our creative strategies.

When you think of brainstorming, you might conjure up images of the Schooner Tuna creative session from Mr. Mom: agency team members gathered in a conference room, cigarette smoke billowing, clothes wrinkled, Chinese food growing crusty in the takeout containers while ideas died their slow death on an easel pad. A lot has been learned about brainstorming since then, including the fact that groups are not always better than individuals when it comes to generating great ideas.

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