November 2026 gives ecommerce content marketers opportunities to celebrate Route 66, explain the science behind everyday products, revisit 1976, explore television history, and rethink the traditional holiday gift guide.

Content marketing is the act of creating, publishing, and promoting content to attract, engage, and retain customers. The best-performing content is useful, informative, or entertaining, especially in the AI era.

Here are five content marketing ideas your business can use in November 2026.

Route 66 Turns 100

A century later, Route 66 still points toward the American road trip.

America’s famous Route 66 emerged from a patchwork of local roads, state highways, and gravel tracks that planners connected into something now legendary.

On Nov. 11, 1926 — 100 years ago — the route received its famous number, linking Chicago with Los Angeles across roughly 2,400 miles. Yet it wasn’t fully paved until 1938.

The highway mattered not for where it went, but for what rose alongside it.…