Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The first few weeks of a new year are the perfect opportunity to reflect on our wins—and I’m thrilled to announce one of our biggest yet: Sprout Social has been named the #1 Best Software Product by G2’s 2024 Best Software Awards. That’s the number one spot when compared across products in every software category!

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Sprout Social

APRIL 25, 2024

There are social media templates available for virtually any task you can think of—from content production to reporting to team onboarding. Consider this: When you spend an hour formatting a spreadsheet, you’re losing an hour that you could have spent on your social media marketing strategy.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

NLP powers AI tools through topic clustering and sentiment analysis , enabling marketers to extract brand insights from social listening, reviews, surveys and other customer data for strategic decision-making. Plus, see examples of how brands use NLP to optimize their social data to improve audience engagement and customer experience.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 5, 2024

We conducted a survey of 1,500 US and Canadian social media users aged 18-64 to determine how loyalty was changing and what brands could do to win consumers over. And yet, 79% of redditors agreed that “once I find a brand I like, I stay loyal to that brand,” also tops among social media users.¹ How can this be true?

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Oktopost

APRIL 6, 2023

Episode Summary Social listening is the practice of monitoring social media platforms to gather insights and gain an understanding of customer behavior and sentiment. Social listening can help businesses to improve their marketing and sales strategies by identifying customer needs, preferences, and pain points.

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Buffer Social

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Thanks to ever-changing social media algorithms and the ever-growing list of platforms that make them, it’s easier than ever to become a creator. A content pillar is a key theme or topic you want to focus on in your content and become known to your audience on social media. Why are content pillars important for social media?

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 31, 2024

Managing multiple marketing projects on social media can be challenging. You have to manage various projects, harmonizing content creation, engagement strategies, and analytics. But how do you manage all these tasks across multiple social media platforms without compromising your content quality, consistency, and sanity?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

For social media managers, being “always on” has long been a challenge of the job. Sprout research found almost two-thirds of social media professionals had experienced burnout in the previous three months , while two-fifths planned to quit working in social media within the next two years.

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Hootsuite

MARCH 27, 2024

The language of digital advertising can be confusing: ROI, UTMs, CTRs… One particularly common question is: what exactly is the difference between a boosted post vs ad on social platforms? It’s a bit of a tricky one to answer because boosted posts are technically a form of social advertising. What’s a social ad?

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Sprout Social

MARCH 19, 2024

Sprout’s 2023 State of Social Media report confirms these advantages, with 9 out of 10 business leaders acknowledging the indispensable role of AI in enhancing market competitiveness, understanding customer preferences and driving innovation. This capability enables you to adjust your strategies proactively and remain competitive.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What are they posting on social media? What’s their email marketing strategy? In this article, we’ll walk you through the benefits of competitive monitoring and how to keep an eye on the competition using top strategies, tips and tools. What kind of content are they publishing on their blog? You need to know it all.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Is managing multiple social media accounts becoming too tedious? This unified approach makes it easier for marketers and content creators to manage, analyze and optimize their social media activities across Facebook and Instagram. The four categories are just the tip of the iceberg.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

AUGUST 10, 2023

Influencer marketing has always been one of the most effective strategies for reaching new audiences. cokepartner #ad ♬ original sound – Rickey Thompson These organic posts drove the conversation on social media, alongside bespoke and remixed memes, face filters, and WhatsApp stickers. But that was only phase #1 of the campaign.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 12, 2021

Social media and digital channels often became brands’ only options for connection and conversation during a time when many were feeling isolated. With all the news around COVID-19, our usual social content just doesn’t feel relevant. — Sprout Social (@SproutSocial) March 13, 2020. Published on Categories.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 15, 2018

With so many different social media scheduling tools to choose from, there’s something for everyone. Every business has its own set of goals when it comes to social media marketing, so it makes sense that they’d use different tools based on those objectives. What is the right social media scheduling tool for your business?

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s time to take your first steps into social media marketing. billion people are social media users. Worldwide, social users spend almost two and a half hours on social platforms each day. Find more eye-popping stats about social media here !) Find more eye-popping stats about social media here !)

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Sprout Social

JUNE 28, 2023

We’ll also share how to use the tool in combination with an advanced social analytics solution to drive results faster. It’s a valuable tool for evaluating the impact and effectiveness of your Instagram marketing strategy. Choose the category that best describes your business. What is Instagram Insights?

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Building brand reputation and loyalty is the top business priority for leaders in the current economic climate, according to the 2023 State of Social Media report. Even though the majority of marketers say influencer marketing is vital to their social strategy, only 34% have a dedicated budget for influencer marketing.

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Oktopost

APRIL 27, 2024

Because many people are socially competitive creatures. Your teams may lose momentum and it’s up to us, the social media managers, to re-spark their enthusiasm. Keeping active and posting on social media is a must when you want to develop and maintain your personal branding.

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Oktopost

MAY 11, 2022

But from an external perspective, strategy matters more. Meet Christopher Willis, an AI content governance and brand alignment strategy expert who is currently serving as CMO/CPO at Acrolinx. How to get your competitors to speak the same language as you, so your audience understands and sees value in both you and your category.

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Ignite Social Media

APRIL 6, 2020

Please see prior posts: Changing Consumer Behavior and How to Adjust Your Strategy (March 16 th ) Organic vs Paid Social Media Marketing Before and After the Virus (March 23 rd ) Top Questions Brands Have About Their Social Media Strategy During COVID-19 (March 30 th ). Social Media Usage During Covid-19.

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Ignite Social Media

APRIL 22, 2021

As our teams dove into Q4 research at the beginning of the year, we notice that our data partner, GWI (formerly known as GlobalWebIndex), recently moved YouTube out of the ‘social media network’ category and into the ‘streaming service’ category. YouTube As A Social Media Network. Community Tab.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Social insights that give you a glimpse into the minds of your audience are often the hardest to access by traditional means. And social listening can unearth these game-changing insights…if you know how to use it. Listening is like mining social data to get to the buried gold insights, so you can put social data into action.

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Digging into your competitor’s approach through a marketing competitor analysis is critical to putting together or updating your brand’s marketing strategy. Marketing competitor analysis is the process of researching and analyzing your competitors’ marketing strategies and tactics to identify their strengths and weaknesses.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, we’re looking back on our own year in social at Sprout. Like most social media teams, we’re taking stock of what went well with our social media marketing and what we can improve on as we enter 2023. — Sprout Social (@SproutSocial) November 30, 2022. Setting expectations. Looking back.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 25, 2024

In this post, you’ll find a curated list of the top Instagram Reel hashtags for travel, fitness, food, fashion and other categories. This, in turn, gets your content more engagement in the form of likes, comments and shares—the holy grail of social media success. Then, use these insights to guide your own hashtag strategy.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Download the full Social Trends report to get an in-depth analysis of the data you need to prioritize and plan your social strategy in 2022. Here, you can add a profile picture and bio, plus links to other social accounts. Now, pick the category that best describes your brand and tap Next. Get to know TikTok.

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Keyhole.co

JANUARY 20, 2024

Big businesses can throw massive budgets at expensive marketing strategies, but small businesses just don’t have that luxury. So how can a small business create an achievable marketing strategy that gets results? One example of a brand using this strategy is Instant Pot. The answer is Facebook marketing.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 7, 2023

In this guide, you’ll learn how to build an exceptional brand experience with a step-by-step brand strategy framework that adapts to your customers’ needs, plus social listening examples that show how sentiment mining drives ongoing customer growth and retention. What is brand experience? Why does brand experience matter?

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Instagram analytics help you understand how your strategy is performing, both on an account and individual post level. Bonus: Get a free social media report template to easily and effectively present your social media performance to key stakeholders. What are Instagram analytics? 1 Analytics Tool for Growth Beautiful reports.

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Ignite Social Media

APRIL 2, 2019

We are excited to announce that we have been selected as Shorty Awards Finalist in two categories: Retail & E-Commerce and Large Media Buying Strategy. We partnered with our client, Altar’d State, for the Retail & E-commerce category. 88% year-over-year increase in last-touch sales attribution from social media.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 6, 2023

It’s not just a trend—it’s a proven strategy. We’ll explore need-to-know benefits, draw inspiration from real-world examples, and provide tips to shape your strategy. However, influencer marketing is not only viable for B2B brands; it can play a crucial role in B2B social media strategies.

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Ignite Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Subscribe to Social You Should Know, our free biweekly industry update What Are Good Content Ideas for Brands on TikTok? UGC should probably not be used as your entire TikTok strategy but can be a great addition to your rotation. Create How-To Videos Another popular category of content is How-To videos.

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Sprout Social

JULY 25, 2023

Brands need the context social media metrics provide to meet today’s dynamic consumer space and take their business to the next level. That’s why leaders from more than 700 companies surveyed in the 2023 State of Social Media Report revealed that 85% of their business decisions were strongly informed by social data and insights.

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The Realtime Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Standing for search engine optimization, there are two broad categories of SEO. Spreading the Brand’s Identity on Social Media Platforms. Next, it is also important for you to take advantage of social media platforms. Today, there are hundreds of millions of people who use social media on a daily basis.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Social marketers rate influencer marketing as having a significant impact on their brand’s marketing efforts including customer loyalty (87%), awareness (89%) and reputation (87%), according to our Q3 2023 Pulse Survey of 307 social marketers in the United States. What is an influencer marketing campaign?

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Social data has become a critical source of strategic insights for businesses of every size and industry. Whether you’re measuring brand health, benchmarking against competitors, or assessing market opportunities, social data provides real-time consumer insights that no other data source can provide. What is owned and earned data?

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