Content Research Companies?

Are there any "We will research the niche topics/content ideas for you." types of companies out there?

Where I can throw money at them...

And they will turn around and give me a spreadsheet of 500 content titles/topics.

? .... I don't care what it costs.

I worked at a start up that hired some big names ($50K+ report), but they ALL sent back shit. (Which makes sense considering the dofuses that work at these types of places.)

Perhaps there's a small brand or two out that doing this type of work? Or freelancer...

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On another note:

It amazes how sites like Buzzfeed can come up with so much bullshit on a daily basis. Even on a monthly basis... We're talking easily 1000's and 1000's of stories/articles/etc on utter bullshit. Non-stop.

It's not bullshit. It has production value and is entertaining. Any kind of expenditure on content discovery is not worth it if the production budget (money, time, talent) doesn't allow you to create the content you discover.

BuzzFeed has both, and it actually has done fairly extensive seminars about how it plans and creates shareable content that's very insightful for me.

Anyway besides the content discovery platforms, you could try Isentia or similar.

Content research takes just as much, if not more, time than actually writing the article.

We do the type of service you're asking, but are only able to offer it to clients with significant budgets and content needs. We just price this into the entire project.

A list of 500 topics / titles / keyword groups is asking a bit much. But, batches of 50 at a time? Completely doable.

Aside from us, you can just figure out a process for finding new content topics in the manner that you like doing it. Then record a video that shows you going through the process 5-10 times. Along with the video, create a step-by-step guide on paper. After that...all you need to do is hire a competent VA.

You'll be spending more time / money upfront to create your process, but the ongoing cost will be end up being cheaper for you.

Topics and titles are easy.

I use to hire people off upwork for this type of work and train them a little bit about what I wanted and how I wanted it.

The hard part is after the title/topic. The actual article creation.

Yes 500 topics/titles is easy. You would need also this content to be broken down into a list of subtitles at least, so your writers have some directions. But even then, ordering 500 at one time is probably pointless assuming we are talking about news site, magazine etc. that is updated few times daily and is serving news (you can't prepare news in advance, unless you are the one who creates them, investigating, or like fake stories etc.). But if it's about this "evergreen" type of content it should be easy, but I would skip companies who don't hire professionals in given niches. So for example if you are looking for content research in dog food niche, I would make sure company is actually working with a real dog food specialist. Or you could go ahead and find that person by yourself and tell them what you need. Hiring specialists have this advantage over regular marketing/writing guys that specialists know things no none else even could think about, thus giving you a great opportunity to come up with a unique, and fresh content (that others will be copying from you, not the other way around).

you can use google sheets to scrape topics from quora http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/more-importxml-cookbooks/

I also use http://answerthepublic.com/

doublethinker said:

BuzzFeed has both, and it actually has done fairly extensive seminars about how it plans and creates shareable content that's very insightful for me.

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Sounds interesting. Any links to videos or courses you can recommend?