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Top Video Marketing Trends of 2024

Social Media Strategies Summit

Video is no longer optional for marketing teams, with 91% of businesses using it as a marketing tool and 88% describing video as an important part of their marketing strategy. If you’re going to see success from video marketing, you need to know what works (and what doesn’t ) — and the landscape changes fast.

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Last Minute Social Media Marketing Strategy for the Holiday Season 

Ignite Social Media

Here are some tactics to consider to get the most out of social media marketing during this special time of year. Creating a social media countdown to the holidays is a great way to both engage with followers and build excitement for upcoming promotions. The holidays are a great time to roll out special offers and discounts.

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Getting Started With Social Media Marketing for Virtual Events ?

Ignite Social Media

For today’s blog, let’s walk you through how you can leverage social media marketing for events, especially when hosting them virtually. Social Media Marketing Tactics to Increase Event Attendance . While 58% of marketers use social media to promote before, during, and after the event. Read more here.

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SMS marketing 101: How to use text messaging in your marketing strategy

Sprout Social

Looking to tap into the marketing strategy that gets 4x more open rates than email? It’s SMS marketing—one of the easiest and most effective ways to reach your target audience. What is SMS marketing? These messages can be anything from promotional offers and discounts, to appointment reminders and shipping notifications.

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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

If you want to improve your social media marketing strategy , you need to know about the different types of social media content and how or where you share that content. To help you out, we’ve put together a list of 14 types of social media every marketer needs to know. Should you focus on photos? What about forums?

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How to gain a competitive advantage by analyzing marketing initiatives by competitors

Sprout Social

Digging into your competitor’s approach through a marketing competitor analysis is critical to putting together or updating your brand’s marketing strategy. It is the key to your business’s future success because when you look more closely into your competitors’ marketing, you learn from their successes and mistakes.

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Is Snapchat for brands?

Mindjumpers

16 Handles encouraged their customers to send a picture on Snapchat of themselves eating ice cream and then 16 Handles would automatically send a discount coupon back to the customer. So by combining a discount and a surprise element, 16 Handles was able to engage with their customers on Snapchat. 3 Ways To Great Social Content.

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