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Spotify Wrapped: What marketers can learn from the viral campaign

Sprout Social

Spotify Wrapped has been showing users their musical year in review since 2016. For Spotify, it’s a viral marketing tool. To see just how effective the Spotify Wrapped campaign is, we dove into the Sprout Social Listening tool. While 2021 might have been a banner year for the Spotify Wrapped campaign, 2022 has been even bigger.

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Short-Form Video: The Secret to Standout Influencer Campaigns

Ignite Social Media

Influencer marketing continues to be an essential part of most social media strategies. When done right, influencer campaigns can help raise brand awareness, improve engagement, and drive conversions. Since 2016, time spent watching short videos has shot up by over 445% according to Adweek.

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Navigating social media marketing in an election year

Sprout Social

A proof point that illustrates what many social marketers already know: Presidential elections make social media a hard place to navigate, even if your brand isn’t inherently political. The dawn of social media activism—from #OccupyWallStreet to #ArabSpring to the 2016 US presidential election—changed people’s expectations of brands.

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9 tips for designing TikTok marketing campaigns (and examples to show them in action)

Sprout Social

Between its rapidly growing global user base and its investments in brand features, there are a number of reasons to use TikTok for marketing in 2022. This article will outline how brands can architect successful end-to-end TikTok marketing campaigns (versus one-off experimental videos) to capitalize on this engagement.

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Popular Social Media Topics of 2016

Ignite Social Media

2016 has been a very eventful year, especially in the world of social media marketing. Starting with January, we’re going to take you through the year to see what popular social media topics were on marketers minds. The Ignite Mystery Trip 2016: Destination Revealed , by Jessica Gaylord. There you have it folks.

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Top 8 Viral Social Campaigns of the Year

Social Media Strategies Summit

Social Media has truly grown into its maturity as a marketing channel. While other channels continue to influence consumers, social media is a key ingredient to the overall success of a marketing strategy. The marketing campaign to support this launch featured The Office actor, Craig Robinson, sharing zingers about the new product.

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Not Everything Has Changed

Jon Loomer

A 70-page PDF called The Facebook Ads Experiment: 12 Tips to Crazy Engagement from 2016 underscores just how much has changed. What Facebook ads standards from 2016 could be repeated in 2024 without missing a beat? Campaign Structure? You may have forgotten that early Facebook ads included only a campaign and ad, no ad set.