diff --git a/src/clojure/clojurewerkz/serialism/core.clj b/src/clojure/clojurewerkz/serialism/core.clj
index 8cb2083..26d5384 100644
--- a/src/clojure/clojurewerkz/serialism/core.clj
+++ b/src/clojure/clojurewerkz/serialism/core.clj
@@ -161,6 +161,9 @@
 (defmethod deserialize octet-stream-content-type
   [value _]
   value)
+(defmethod deserialize :bytes
+  [value _]
+  value)
 (defmethod deserialize text-content-type
   [value _]
   (String. ^bytes value))
@@ -176,6 +179,10 @@
   [value _]
   (json/parse-string (to-string value) true))
 
+(defmethod deserialize :json
+  [value _]
+  (json/parse-string (to-string value) true))
+
 (defmethod deserialize json-utf8-content-type
   [value _]
   (json/decode (to-string value) true))