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

Hootsuite

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. Try out Hootsuite Streams to monitor brand mentions, hashtags, and keywords across multiple social platforms.

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Drive authentic connection at scale with a sophisticated listening solution

Sprout Social

Before the proliferation of social media, brands sought these insights through a variety of different tactics: surveys, focus-groups, shop-alongs. In addition, the keyword search capability offers a “search engine for social”, making it easy to quickly dive into different focus areas within your brand, industry or competitive Topics.

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How to Test Content Marketing and Digital Campaigns with Social Media

Pam Moore

Thanks to social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube, marketers can obtain real-time customer insight within seconds and begin using such data to optimize their digital and social marketing programs for the highest success and ROI possible. 2019 Content Marketing Calendar Quick Start Toolkit.

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4 overlooked B2B market research methods for understanding your customers

Sprout Social

In Sprout Social, users have the power to build Listening Topics around specific accounts, hashtags, industry keywords and more. Once Topics are set up, your tool will collect candid conversations from the world’s largest focus group. The latter two are unique and valuable—but underused—channels for B2B market research.

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It's a Subscription Model Market, Facebook's Pivot to Professionals, X Targets Streaming: Monday Social Media News Roundup

Buffer Social

Reviving Interest in Threads Meta explores new options to reignite interest in Threads, alongside Instagram's focus groups with creators. Mobile Live Streaming Exclusive mobile live streaming for members rolled out on YouTube mobile app. Podcasts Auto-Download YouTube Music introduces auto-downloads for podcasts.

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10 Marketing Techniques for Content Marketers from Traditional Advertising

Writtent Blog

We’re specifically referring to focus groups, scheduled panels of carefully-selected consumers who would provide feedback over the course of a few hours on a potential marketing campaign. They weren’t cheap to run, but it’s safe to assume that thousands of terrible marketing ideas were diverted when a focus group reacted poorly.