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The ‘Creative Desert’: Brainstorming Social Content Ideas During Slow Days

Social Media Strategies Summit

Mitchell Clements explains that brainstorming at ESPN has two primary purposes: Identifying potential “storylines” their audience will likely engage with during any sporting event, allowing them to create a bank of content ready to go if and when they happen. It was based on a viral video in the sports media space. It was timely.

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Using social listening to surface trends to your audience

Sprout Social

You can also filter trends by categories such as entertainment, news, sports and more. So you should be able to filter the most popular hashtags on various topics and categories including health, design, animals, sports, news, home and more. Maybe we ARE the imposter, because we’re killing the meme. So did Mercedes-Benz.

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What is Reddit, and Should Your Brand Be Using It?

Hootsuite

R.I.P. Yahoo Groups.). For entertainment via memes, humor subreddits, or to discuss TV or movies. Subreddits serve as mini-communities within the site — like Facebook Groups, but public — and foster user interaction around common interests. For example, instead of saying “the memes subreddit,” I’d say “r slash memes.”.

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15+ social media platforms your customers are using in 2021—and why you should be using them

Sprout Social

Largest age group: 25-34 year olds. Largest age group: 15-25 year olds. Rawlings Sporting Goods, a retailer known for manufacturing baseball equipment, regularly publishes short videos on YouTube to promote the launch of new products like baseball gloves or bats. Largest age group: 25-34 year olds. Key Stats: Over 2.8

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Breaking down BookTok: What brands can learn from this social-literary phenomenon

Sprout Social

This summer’s hottest pastime isn’t sports or patio dining. If you were in junior high school during the early 2010s, you probably saw this title getting passed around your homeroom class by a devoted group of young adult (YA) fiction fans. On BookTok, these creators publish reviews, memes, observations and more.

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Captivating a global audience: Why social data is the key to your esports marketing strategy

Sprout Social

For starters, we’re talking about a fragmented, hyper-social group of consumers who span the globe and have opinions on teams like 100 Thieves, Team Liquid and Evil Geniuses. When you understand who you’re targeting and why, you can deepen your relationship with fans and reach an entirely new group of gamers. Do you even LEC? ??.

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Why We Still Love Twitter

Likeable

While certainly not as formally established as Groups on Facebook or Subreddits on Reddit, Twitter communities are every bit the real deal. Whichever cultural niche you’re tapped into (music, politics, sports, The Bachelorette , comedy), this platform is where you’re hearing about it. Staying on the Pulse of Culture.

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