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4 Emerging Social Media Platforms To Watch In 2019

Social Media Strategies Summit

It’s a good time to take stock of your social media marketing strategies to assess what’s working and where you have room to improve. There is a lot of chatter about emerging social media sites, and where brands should make investments in 2019. So how is a social media marketer to decide?

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Mobile commerce: what it is and why you should care

Sprout Social

Mobile commerce has long been touted as the future of ecommerce itself. Mobile transactions are poised to make up more than 10% of all retail sales in the United States by 2025. The concept of mobile shopping is pretty universal, right? Checking reviews before buying in-store. Checking reviews before buying in-store.

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Millennials On Mobile, Social Media [Report]

The Realtime Report

adults to feel that social media sites are very important for finding information about news and current events, according to a new report from Scarborough Research. Mobile plays a significant role with this generation: 61% of millennials own smartphones. Only 17% of millennials own a tablet, but 11% plan to buy one next year.

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Social Media News Ticker: Foursquare Launches Swarm, YouTube Reportedy Buying Twitch

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, YouTube and Foursquare: Foursquare app splits in two, launches Swarm. Any social media updates that we missed? Let us know in the comments below.

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Top Video Marketing Trends of 2024

Social Media Strategies Summit

more engaging than longer videos, while 66% agree that short-form video is the most engaging of all in-feed social media content formats. Shift Toward Vertical Video Over the past five years, mobile devices have accounted for more than half of global internet traffic , peaking at almost three-fifths of traffic in mid-2022.

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The Story of Ignite Social Media, The Original Social Media Agency

Ignite Social Media

I’m Jim Tobin, the founder of social media agency Ignite Social Media (2007) and influencer marketing agency Carusele (2015). Ignite Social Media is known as “ the original social media agency ” because we were the first social media agency created out of whole cloth in the United States.

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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Launches Mobile Ad Network, Snapchat Adds Text Chat & Video

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Vine and Snapchat: Facebook. Any social media updates that we missed? Let us know in the comments below.

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