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Top Five: The night that YouTube went dark

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s must-know social media news includes the YouTube outage, a religious stance on women and social media, Coke’s misstep in New Zealand, Snapchat’s new original programming and Google’s shopping insights. It’s news to keep marketing and communications professionals ahead of the curve. — SS.

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7 ways to use social media for market research

Sprout Social

As marketers, it’s our job to know our target audience’s needs and preferences. It’s why we conduct market research every year to better understand what our customers want and uncover new business opportunities. But sometimes market research alone isn’t enough, especially when consumer preferences can change overnight.

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How to Test Content Marketing and Digital Campaigns with Social Media

Pam Moore

The new always on, always connected, digital and social world provides amazing opportunities for smart digital brand marketers and business leaders to develop, test, and launch marketing programs, campaigns, products and services to market in far less time than days past. test visual marketing campaigns before launch?

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How to Make the Zero Moment of Truth Work for You

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Posted in Behavioral Targeting Business Intelligence Conversion Conversion Optimization Customer Experience Interactive Marketing Internet Search SEO Strategy User Generated Content. These behaviors have redefined the way marketers now plan for online shoppers—causing a tremendous shift away from the way they used to plan their campaigns.

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Think Like a Television Network to Create a Winning Social Media Strategy

Convince & Convert

From a marketing perspective, there is no such thing as “social media.” For example, my Jay Today video blog is a “show” on my Facebook page, and on my YouTube channel. It’s a highly targeted, nearly free focus group. I post two episodes per week.

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Dark Social in 2023: Here’s Why (and How) You Should Track It

Hootsuite

Source: Morning Consult Great news for social media marketers, but what if your target audience isn’t Gen Z? In an era when you can watch 700 review videos for a product on YouTube, we still turn to people we consider experts — friends, family, or niche communities — for purchasing advice. What are dark social strategies?

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Drive authentic connection at scale with a sophisticated listening solution

Sprout Social

For marketers it naturally raises several more questions: What do they say when I’m not in the room? The answers to these questions reach beyond brand and even marketing. Before the proliferation of social media, brands sought these insights through a variety of different tactics: surveys, focus-groups, shop-alongs.