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5 Data-Backed Social Media Trends You Need to Know for 2019

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Hailley : From chatbots to ad optimization, platforms like Google and Facebook have been continuing to adopt artificial intelligence to enhance customer interaction. In fact, one of every four Facebook Pages now use paid advertising as part of their strategy. And Facebook accounts for 23% of total U.S. digital ad spending.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Surveying, physical and online focus groups and opinion polling are still the primary tactics companies depend upon for market prediction and go to market strategy. Before crowdsourcing there were focus groups, which never really worked too well. Market research is as important to most companies as the payroll department.