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2021 Social Media Predictions

Ignite Social Media

Some things might still surprise us (like the FTC lawsuit against Facebook that was issued last week), but there are some things in the social space that we can plan for based on key trends we saw unveil themselves this past year. 2021 Facebook Changes and Predictions. 2021 Facebook Changes and Predictions.

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Marketing Lessons Learned From the 2021 Facebook Outage

Ignite Social Media

The week of October 4, 2021, Facebook’s week went from bad to worse when the company’s entire family of apps were inaccessible to users with no warning. The massive outage, which impacted Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus, lasted over 5 hours. How did your brand handle the infamous Facebook outage?

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Facebook Announces 2021 Community Accelerator Grant Program to Assist Facebook Community Leaders

Social Media Today

Facebook has announced the 2021 iteration of its Community Accelerator Program, which is designed to help group admins maximize their communities.

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The Most Popular Social Networks of 2021

Ignite Social Media

eMarketer released some excellent data regarding social media usage of 2021, and we’re breaking down some of the key information below to help your brand better optimize your social media marketing efforts. SOCIAL NETWORK STATS OF 2021. Facebook boasts 179.5 1 FACEBOOK . Why is Facebook so popular? million 87.3

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Facebook Previews the Next Stages of Digital Connection at its Connect 2021 Conference

Social Media Today

Facebook - sorry, 'Meta' - has previewed its next level connection tools at its Connect 2021 event.

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Five Upcoming Social Networks To Look Out For In 2021

Ignite Social Media

This article was previously published on Forbes on February 19, 2021. When I started Ignite Social Media in 2007, the battle between MySpace and Facebook still raged and Friendster was hanging on for dear life. Near the end of 2020, a Chinese startup leaked 400 GB of scraped data from Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.

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The Experiment 2021: Ads Don’t Have to Suck

Jon Loomer

The result: I’ve started a new experiment for 2021! Facebook ads were seen as intrusive. A necessary evil to be able to use Facebook for free. I then created a series of Facebook ads “tips” on hidden pages of my website and promoted those tips with Facebook ads to those who participated.

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