Social Media Strategies Summit

MARCH 20, 2025

Nothing stays the same for long in the world of social media. Fortunately, weve made your lives a little easier by rounding up eight key social media marketing trends to look out for in 2025 and beyond, from the increasing adoption of AI to the growth of authenticity in brand storytelling.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 30, 2024

New platforms, changing algorithms, and increasing audience expectations mean social media management is now a complex, full-time job. (We’re We’re preaching to the choir here, but social media isn’t just for interns anymore. What is social media management ? Honestly, was it ever? )

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SocMed Sean

MAY 21, 2020

[Answered] Your Guide To Effectively Using Instagram Hashtags. Did you know that effectively using hashtags on Instagram can help you grow your audience, generate more audience engagement, and even drive traffic to your blog? Answered] Your Guide To Effectively Using Instagram Hashtags. Here's how! Nicholson.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Wondering which of your social media tactics are working? Busy social marketers need effective social media analytics tools to focus their efforts. What are social media analytics tools? But what does all this mean for a real social media team? That’s the theory.

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Oktopost

JANUARY 30, 2025

Social media content in B2B marketing is about starting conversations that guide, inform, and generate mutual value. If your social media channels are frustrating for users with disabilities, over 70% of them will simply click out. Many social media publishing tools offer the capability to add alt text for images.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Those who see social media marketing as a key part of their customer engagement strategy and those who view it as a nice to have. The importance of social media in UK retail has only grown. In a 2022 report, it was found that 78% of consumers in the UK have upped their social media usage in the past year.

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Buffer Social

JANUARY 8, 2025

Building your presence across multiple social media platforms is incredibly valuable for brands and creators — but it doesn't have to mean spending all day creating unique content for each channel. Crossposting is when you share the same (or similar) content on multiple social media accounts.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 3, 2025

Organic reach has been in decline for some time now, but social media holidays can help brands get a bit of a boost. When coupled with the right hashtag, these holidays provide businesses with a good opportunity to reach a like-minded crowd. Where do social media holidays come from?

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Buffer Social

APRIL 23, 2025

With the ever-changing nature of The Algorithm™, hashtags have remained one of the most reliable ways to boost your content’s visibility. Your TikTok or Instagram hashtags might be what gets your content discovered, shared, or saved — especially when they’re relevant, timely, and well-placed.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 17, 2025

Key takeaways Social media advocacy is the practice of using social platforms to advance causes like charitable campaigns, connecting with political leaders, or driving social change. It differs from brand advocacy, which focuses on using social media to increase brand awareness and trust. In the U.S.,

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Buffer Social

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Where do you turn for meaningful stats on your social media marketing ? I'm grateful for the insight from some truly incredible tools that help make sense of the actions I take on social media. What are social media analytics?   The best social media analytics tools for marketers 1.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 31, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) is supercharging social media marketing. Think of AI social media tools like Sprout Social as your marketing pit crew. They can fine-tune your social media engine, swap out tired tactics and keep you running at peak performancethey just cant drive the car.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 18, 2024

A social media marketing strategy is a summary of everything you plan to do and hope to achieve on social media. In this post, we’ll walk you through a nine-step plan to create a winning strategy for social media marketing. Social media is always changing! What is social media marketing?

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Hootsuite

MARCH 12, 2025

Over one billion people use LinkedIn, making it the worlds largest social media platform for professionals. Using LinkedIn hashtags will help those people find you and your content. But which LinkedIn hashtags do you use? How else can you use hashtags, besides in content, to find fellow professional peeps?

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Managing a social media strategy is a constant balancing act between creativity and operational demands. According to the 2023 State of Social Media report , 39% of business leaders cite insufficient training and development as a significant hurdle in implementing AI effectively.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

APRIL 16, 2025

Once upon a time, you could feel confident that when you posted something on social media, a decent chunk of your audience would see it. Image source Declining reach is a big problem for government agencies and public sector teams, which rarely have the budget to spend on social media ads. Sadly, thats no longer the case.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Social media is a cut-throat world. But it’s not all bad news because those same rivals can be a major source of inspiration for your own social media strategy, helping you identify new opportunities and close gaps in your content calendar. Read on to learn how to run an effective social media competitive analysis.

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Webbiquity SMM

APRIL 27, 2021

Social media and influencer marketing have each significantly impacted the work of B2B marketers. Social Media Marketing Becomes a Thing. According to Google Trends, search interest in social media marketing took off in late 2008 / early 2009. Many brands struggled with social media early on.

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Buffer Social

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Picture this: Your boss is asking you about the business impact of your social media strategy. This is where a social media dashboard comes in handy. It’s a visual representation of the key metrics that prove the impact of your social media efforts. But how do you prove it?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

JULY 26, 2024

Did you know that 68% of marketers admit they’re concerned about the return of their social media activities? Image source To make big decisions about where and how to spend your social media marketing bucks, you need to understand the impact of every platform, strategy, and tactic you employ. Let’s get into it.

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Ignite Social Media

JUNE 14, 2023

Finding it hard to compete with social algorithm changes using hashtags? Here are tips to make sure you can outsmart social media search and get in your audience’s feed. Remember when Adam Mosseri said in March of 2022 that your caption matters more than your hashtags in terms of post visibility and reach?

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Hootsuite

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Social media measurement is all about using data to make informed decisions that support and align with business goals. In this post, we’ll explore how social measurement can drive real results for your business. What is social media measurement? What can social media measurement tell you about your brand?

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 27, 2025

Those who see social media marketing as a key part of their customer engagement strategy and those who view it as a nice to have. The significance of social media in the retail sphere has only amplified. These numbers underline the pivotal role of social media in present-day consumer habits.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

MARCH 18, 2021

If I asked you to tell me about social media marketing, you’d probably describe an e-commerce brand promoting its products. Or maybe a B2B company using social platforms to generate leads. But those aren’t the only use cases for social – far from it. Department of Defense. Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

MAY 27, 2022

As a marketer, it’s important to balance how much time you spend on social media and the results you get. That’s where time-saving strategies for social media management can help you. Expert marketers use these strategies to get the most out of their social media marketing efforts. Social media platform.

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Social Media Today

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Does this mean that hashtags are no longer important?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

From a brand awareness and community engagement perspective, jumping on social media trends can be rewarding for higher education institutions. How To Spot Social Media Trends The first challenge of jumping on social media trends is to spot those trends in the first place. Let’s get into it.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Social media for government agencies is about demonstrating your expertise, building trust and credibility, and providing audiences with fast, reliable, unambiguous information. Every government social media marketer occasionally struggles with ideas or a lack of content. Treat Social Media As a Two-Way Conversation.

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Hootsuite

MARCH 31, 2025

The use of artificial intelligence ( AI ) in social media can be controversial. The thing is, it doesnt really matter at this point what you think of AI, in social media or in pretty much any other area of modern life. And, sure, content creation is one of the primary use cases for AI in social media.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 3, 2024

According to Sprout’s The Social Media Productivity Report , social media marketers spend an average of 40 hours per week on management tasks, with some clocking in over 60 hours. Plus, 63% of social media marketers report feeling burned out—and this is during the regular, non-peak seasons.

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Social Media Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

Are hashtags still important on LinkedIn? We asked the LinkedIn team for the latest advice on this.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Social media ROI is a bane for most marketers. In fact, it is the biggest concern of 55% of marketers, according to a Sprout Social survey. Out of the 2000 marketers surveyed, most said they have no clue how to define, measure, or report social media ROI. Image via Sprout Social. Let’s get started.

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Social Media Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

Are hashtags still important on LinkedIn? We asked the LinkedIn team for the latest advice on this.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Social media listening tools give you the power to discover what your (current and future) customers really think about you. But it’s not only about turning your customers’ frowns upside down; social media listening generally helps you deliver a better standard of service. That’s something we’d all like to know, right?

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Social Media Today

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Hashtags are not as important as they once were, but are they useless?

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Ignite Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2025

As social media managers rolling into a new year, here are 10 important Instagram updates that you need to be aware of: Test the Waters with Trial Reels Ever wished you could preview how your content might perform before going all in? Hashtag Following Gets Retired December 13, 2024, marked the end of hashtag following in feeds.

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Convince & Convert

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In fact, when the Rival IQ 2021 Social Media Benchmark report was first released, Corynn shared it with the note, “TL;DR–everyone needs more carousels.” . You can stop reading now if that’s all you need to refresh your social content plans. 4 Cues For Your Social Media Strategy Refresh. posts a week (7.5

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