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10 Examples of Brands Hopping on Social Media Trends (That Worked)

Social Media Strategies Summit

The internet is littered with examples of brands receiving backlash after failing to read the room. This article will focus on the second camp, sharing 10 of our favorite examples of brands that used trending subjects to generate social engagement. Or when Burger King UK tweeted, “ Women belong in the kitchen ”?

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8 Social Listening Examples: How Brands Are Thriving Digital Landscape

Keyhole.co

Keep reading to get inspired by a few notable real-life social listening examples. SoFi began producing and sharing easily digestible educational content that broke down everything consumers wanted to know about refinancing student loans. How did the company do this? Knitters were often at the forefront of these complaints.

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What is User-Generated Content? And Why is it Important?

Hootsuite

Whether you know it or not, both of these examples are user-generated content (UGC). What is user-generated content? User-generated content (also known as UGC or consumer-generated content) is original, brand-specific content created by customers and published on social media or other channels.

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How to Build Public Trust Through Social Public Service

Social Media Strategies Summit

So they shared the reasons with the original poster, who was delighted with the response. Any content we create, any conversations we have, if they don’t fit within this purpose and this manifesto, then we don’t do it,” he says. Driven by her passion, Russel’s team transformed the old footage into social media content.

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How to import Posterous to self-hosted WordPress

The Way of the Web

With the news that Posterous will be closing on April 30, 2013 , many people are now looking to export their content and start to publish on a different platform. So assuming you don’t want to move from Posterous to another third party service like WordPress.com, Tumblr etc, what do you need to do?

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6 Ways to Boost Your Content Engagement in 2021

Pixlee

Let’s face it: nobody likes boring content. If I don’t grab your attention now, there’s a chance you’ll click off the content. That’s the power of content engagement, or the lack thereof, as you might say. . You put time and energy into developing “top-shelf content,” but your audience is just not where you want them to be.

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A Straightforward Approach to User Generated Content that Connects

Buffer Social

” This is perhaps one of the best examples of the possibilities of user-generated content. 85 percent of people say UGC is more influential than content made by brands directly, according to Adweek. Two reports, in particular, highlight the importance of user-generated content for forward-thinking brands.

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