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The Twilight renaissance: Why retailers need social media for trend forecasting

Sprout Social

3 trend forecasting tips for retail brands. Follow the memes. Memes work for more than just quick laughs during work breaks. Before people were searching “Bella Swan fashion” on Pinterest, they were sharing memes. Memes drive trends because they usually require some amount of cultural knowledge to be in on the joke.

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Top 8 Viral Social Campaigns of the Year

Social Media Strategies Summit

To get you inspired to create holistic social media campaigns, we’re sharing the top campaigns from 2019 that are already doing just that. #1 The marketing campaign to support this launch featured The Office actor, Craig Robinson, sharing zingers about the new product. But the campaign didn’t end on social.

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Halloween hashtags to kickoff spooky season

Sprout Social

In this article, we will unearth trending Halloween 2022 hashtags and how your brand can create a creepy campaign to bolster your larger social media strategy. Retailers, makeup brands and craft stores typically have the best use cases for costume hashtags. Keep reading (if you dare). Halloween is bewitching social media users.

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7 Proven Social Media Promotion Ideas That Don’t Suck

Hootsuite

The advanced stuff: omnichannel campaign performance, sales attributed to social media marketing, brand equity development. For bigger results, set aside a marketing budget for influencers and develop a unified campaign to launch simultaneously with multiple influencers. Memes are an easy and popular way to be funny on social.

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Brands to watch on social media right now

Sprout Social

Dove’s inspiring Real Beauty campaigns? From edgy social personas to posting fresh memes, storytelling takes many different forms. OREO: Inclusive and celebratory campaigns. It’s really impressive considering they post about breaking news, trending topics, social media memes , content from in-house creators, etc.

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The Next Big Thing in Social: Top 7 Brands Embracing TikTok

Social Media Strategies Summit

It was the first-ever campaign of its kind on TikTok. These partners participated in the denim transformation challenge by posting a native meme from TikTok. TAKEAWAY: This campaign was an early example of how brands can work with TikTok to create a campaign that makes viewers want to be a part of something big.

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Energize Your Social Media Agency: Ideas for Experienced Social Media Managers

agora pulse

Why not team up to offer your new clients a discount at a local restaurant or help a charity promote their campaign? Australian social marketing agency The Social Deck helped launch a campaign on behalf of Aboriginal organization Nunkuwarrin Yunti of South Australia, whose younger members are prone to taking up smoking. Kudos, guys!).