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5 Data-Backed Social Media Trends You Need to Know for 2019

Buffer

Brian : Mobile usage and even shorter attention spans will continue to increase the popularity of short-lived content in 2019, especially with Millennials and Generation Z’ers, who thrive on their relationships with brands being authentic and meaningful. And it has been showing a general upward trend since 2013.

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Facebook Says These Are the 15 Best Brands on Facebook

Hubspot

Did you reach people where they spend the most time on Facebook''s News Feed and mobile? This year, the average 30 second advertisement slot during the Super Bowl cost four million dollars. Newcastle even released the storyboards and the footage of the focus groups that would have been, for the campaign that never was.

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What Your Traditional Marketing Education Didn't Teach You About Marketing Today

Hubspot

Whether you studied marketing as an undergrad, graduate, or business school student, chances are your studies included classes about branding, marketing strategy, public relations, and the basics of advertising -- all of which are interesting topics and core to the history and relevance of modern marketing. But (isn''t there always a but ?).

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Surveying, physical and online focus groups and opinion polling are still the primary tactics companies depend upon for market prediction and go to market strategy. Before crowdsourcing there were focus groups, which never really worked too well. Market research is as important to most companies as the payroll department.