content

Content is the information contained within communication media, including the internet, cinema, television, radio, audio CDs, books, magazines, physical art, and live events. It is directed at an end-user or audience in the sectors of publishing, art, and communication. The advent of the Information Age has advanced content as a mass-produced commodity for distribution through social media, which has led to the professionalization of content creation. Any content developed or disseminated by an individual or on one's behalf, including but not limited to content distributed via books, magazines, brochures, newsletters, newspapers, social media, billboards, websites, mobile applications, movies, television, and radio, is referenced to as media content. Content value Communication theory philosopher Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase "The medium is the message."