Sprout Social

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Social media. The number of US social media users is expected to surpass 308 million in 2023 (up over 6 million from 2022 projections). So brands—now’s the time to build a social customer care strategy (if you don’t already have one). How do customers use social media for support?

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Ignite Social Media

JUNE 1, 2022

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.

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Hootsuite

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This year’s YouTube stats show that—spoiler alert—YouTube is still bigger than all the other social media platforms. YouTube user statistics. YouTube usage statistics. YouTube for business statistics. YouTube advertising statistics. YouTube user statistics. YouTube usage statistics.

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Likeable

JANUARY 23, 2019

Social media is constantly changing. As marketers, it’s imperative to stay up to date on the latest trends and research in order to know how to adjust strategies or where to shift budgets. To that end, we’re providing a roundup of the most important social media statistics you should know going into 2019.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 8, 2020

If you’re not sure whether Snapchat is the right social media platform for your business, knowing some Snapchat stats might help. That’s because social media statistics tell marketers how users are interacting with the platform. These are all important Snapchat statistics in 2020 for businesses and brands.

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Sherrilynne Starkie

MARCH 14, 2018

Here’s five content marketing tricks to improve content marketing initiatives. As in most professions, an experienced social media consultant knows certain tricks of the trade to content marketing work better, faster, easier. There is no doubt that social media, when done right, is a time suck.

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Oktopost

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Employee advocacy, how your employees express themselves about your brand on social media, is a hot topic for many that want to cement their employer branding, increase positive brand sentiment, and boost their social selling efforts. Jump to a section: Top Employee Advocacy Statistics. Top Employee Advocacy Statistics.

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Cortex

JULY 8, 2020

Statistics show trends without which it is impossible to achieve success in any social or marketing campaign.

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Oktopost

MAY 23, 2023

The right social media marketing platform will offer 360° insights into how your posts perform, making it easy to identify content that’s ripe for repurposing. It’s the most scalable social media content strategy Any good social posting strategy is built around two things: quality and quantity.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 28, 2014

One recent morning, a client got in touch and asked me to find a widely cited statistic that supports the use of behavioral job interview techniques. They needed the statistic within two hours for use in an important piece of long form content. This is exactly the kind of statistic that the client wanted. Cooper and I.T.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Content marketing has become ubiquitous, with 93% of B2B marketers now using it. And it continues to expand: 82% of marketers plan to increase their budgets for content marketing in 2014. In addition, nearly half of marketers say they are unable to measure the value of their content marketing efforts.

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The Realtime Report

MAY 30, 2023

Brands Spent a Whopping $673B on Social Media Ads in Five Years By Jastra Kranjec With 75% of Gen Zers and almost half of Millennials making purchasing decisions influenced by social media ads, it`s no wonder brands and companies continue pouring money into this type of advertising. billion this year, up from 4.59

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Social Media Strategies Summit

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Having a CEO with an active presence on social media can be beneficial for the organization for several reasons. According to research from Brunswick Group , 63% agree they would prefer to work for a company where the CEO uses digital and social media. But there are also plenty of good examples of CEOs using social media.

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Likeable

JANUARY 18, 2022

Social media was growing like crazy even then, but the pandemic accelerated that growth at rates no one expected. Platforms like TikTok took off, the creator economy boomed, and social commerce became absolutely crucial for businesses. Last month, we predicted what’s to come for social media trends in 2022.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 4, 2023

More than three-quarters of the world’s population aged 13+ uses social media. billion people are active social media users. Social media marketing provides a unique opportunity to connect with this massive audience on the platforms where they already spend their time. What is social media marketing?

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Buffer Social

JUNE 10, 2019

What role do social media stats and facts play in your day-to-day? As social media marketers , we do our best to be data-informed with the decisions we make for our social media strategy at Buffer. Social media stats make a difference. Social media statistics and facts, overall.

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Ignite Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Social media is constantly evolving. Of course, brands need to have a social media presence — but it’s not enough to just be present. As the original social media agency, we’ve watched trends come and go , and we have a pretty good idea of what’s going to be big in 2023. 3) AI will take off.

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Hootsuite

JUNE 16, 2021

It’s the question that launched a thousand sleepless nights: “How often should I post to social media?”. Of course, there’s much, much more to a successful social media strategy than just posting the optimal number of times: it’s not a magic formula, let’s get that straight. On LinkedIn , post between 1 and 5 times a day.

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Sprout Social

MAY 21, 2019

Pinterest usership remains strong as its audiences frequently turn to the platform for social activities that require more attention and focus, such as learning things through how-to posts or planning out boards for visual inspiration. So, how useful can the platform be for your marketing campaigns?

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Social Media Strategies Summit

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In the midst of 4th quarter marketing campaigns and the race to end 2018 with a bang, marketers should also start looking ahead to the new year. It’s a good time to take stock of your social media marketing strategies to assess what’s working and where you have room to improve. Trend #1: Focus on Generation Z.

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agora pulse

DECEMBER 16, 2019

New to the world of social media marketing or just need to ensure you’ve got the basics down? Here’s your informative walk-through of social media marketing. Social media can be overwhelming at times. Each social media platform feels like it requires its own strategies, too.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Our friends at Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud (a sponsor of this blog) recently released their boffo Social Advertising Benchmark Report , where they dug deep into the actual results stemming from more than one trillion (TRILLION!) advertising impressions on Facebook, purchased through their platform. Read the whole entry. »

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

According to Google Trends, social media marketing as a topic if search interest recently turned nine years old (or is about to turn 11 years old, depending on when you place its origin). We’re now long past the days of having to “sell” business executives on the value of social media for marketing.

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agora pulse

JULY 31, 2020

Have you decided to turn to a social media marketing agency for all your social media needs? You’ve reached the point now that your brand can no longer manage your social media channels in house. Either way, it’s time to look for a social media marketing agency to handle your requirements.

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Mindjumpers

APRIL 4, 2012

Tweet Recently, a report called “How Marketers Are Using Social Media To Grow Their Businesses” was released by Social Media Examiner. The report uncovers the “who, what, where, when and why” of social media marketing. Here are two charts that show the responses.

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Sprout Social

MAY 9, 2023

And the world of marketing is going through a tremendous change right now. Artificial intelligence (AI) marketing is taking on a bigger role with the advent of intelligent marketing tools and generative AI like ChatGPT, creating an abundance of opportunities for marketing teams to do more of what they already do best.

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Hootsuite

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Whether you’re B2B or B2C, your customers want to engage with humans on social media. 56% of customers want more relatable, personable content from brands on social, but 48% of brands are still posting self-promotional content multiple times a week. Easy: be active on social media. Not for execs on social media.

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Ignite Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Social media is constantly evolving. Of course, brands need to have a social media presence — but it’s not enough to just be present. As the original social media agency, we’ve watched trends come and go , and we have a pretty good idea of what’s going to be big in 2023. 3) AI will take off. .

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Sprout Social

JULY 13, 2022

Managing a social presence across U.S. and European markets is a unique challenge for U.S-based based marketers. To put it simply, social media in Europe is way different from social media in the U.S. Social media in Europe: Advice from 3 marketers in the region.

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Keyhole.co

MARCH 2, 2023

Love it or hate it, social media is here to stay. Social media has also changed the way products and services are marketed. This sets a new law for businesses and social media marketers alike: if you aren’t on social, you’re missing out on a significant portion of your market.

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yMarketingMatters

JANUARY 10, 2014

Social media and digital marketing are going to grow even stronger in 2014. With my first hand experience working with so many businesses, I am giving you my most important social media and digital marketing tips that will help you increase your online footprint, exposure and bottom line in 2014 for your business.

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Mindjumpers

JANUARY 18, 2012

Tweet 2011 was a great year for social media where we saw true integration of “social” to our lives. To demonstrate the growth of social channels in the last one year, here is an interesting infographic designed by Internet marketing firm Dream Systems Media based on the data provided by AdAge.

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

And once you do, you’ll be able to create a smart Instagram marketing strategy that will create leads, sales, and an audience devoted to your brand. After all, the social media platform boasts more than 1 billion users all over the world (more than 1/10th of Earth’s population). But that’s a little easier said than done.

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Sprout Social

JUNE 17, 2020

Marketers need to take note of this if they want to plan on developing their video marketing strategy on social media. Luckily for us, there are many ways that video can be used in social media marketing. Follow our 7-step guide to creating a successful social media video marketing strategy.

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Pixlee

MARCH 10, 2020

This large user base and the apps growing popularity have resulted in some other statistics that marketers should keep in mind when creating the perfect TikTok marketing strategies. These ten data points create a compelling story for marketers looking to build a presence on the app. TikTok in 2020.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 6, 2023

You’d be hard-pressed to find healthcare marketers that don’t understand the value of social media for healthcare , according to Jill Florence, Director of Enterprise Sales at Sprout Social. However, as Katherine Van Allen, Senior Solutions Engineer at Sprout, points out, the benefits of social outweigh the risks.

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Ignite Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2022

With over 1 billion monthly active users, TikTok is undoubtedly the hottest social media platform — and for good reason. There’s even talk that TikTok will pass Instagram this year as the number two social media site. Here are 7 surefire TikTok Marketing strategies. Brands have got to listen, TikTok is staying.

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