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Is It Plagiarism or Jumping on a Trend? The Ethics of Social Media Content

Contently

A 2018 report by Jeff Allen, Facebook’s senior data scientist, noted that: “About 40 percent of the traffic to Facebook pages…went to pages that stole or repurposed most of their content.” Memes, sounds, trends, content formats, filters, and other types of content are made expressly to copy and/or reuse.

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The TikTok Effect: 6 lessons from TikTok trends to influence your social strategy

Sprout Social

in summer 2018, TikTok has generated six billion lifetime downloads in app stores and hit 689 million users worldwide, with no plateau in sight. Between viral dances, memes, recipes, hacks and other TikTok trends, it’s hard to avoid the platform’s influence, leaving many brands to wonder—should we be on TikTok? remibader.

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Email Marketing Trends that Actually Matter in 2019

ATAK Interactive

Reading more on emerging email marketing trends and applying them is a great start! Below, we’ll provide you with an overview of 2019 email marketing trends that matter the most. In 2018, we saw GDPR take effect in Europe and the passage of broad privacy regulations in the state of California. Personalization Vs. Privacy.

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Email Marketing Trends that Actually Matter in 2019

ATAK Interactive

Reading more on emerging email marketing trends and applying them is a great start! Below, we’ll provide you with an overview of 2019 email marketing trends that matter the most. In 2018, we saw GDPR take effect in Europe and the passage of broad privacy regulations in the state of California. Personalization Vs. Privacy.

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Here’s How the Cartoon Design Trend Caught Fire and Why Every SaaS Is Rebranding

Unbounce

For example, Jimmy Daly, Marketing Director at Animalz , recently called out this design trend on Twitter. Although we’re not alone—custom photography seems to be another growing design trend for SaaS brands.). As marketers trying to stand out in an increasingly competitive industry—is it bad for us to follow design trends?

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Google Algorithm Updates in 2018: Every Change You Should Know

RebelMouse

August 16, 2018: Expandable Snippets by Topic. What It Means: This update is related to several similar tweaks made by Google earlier in 2018. Google has shown us throughout 2018 that it values purposeful content that adequately serves user intent above all else. July 20, 2018: Google Updates Search Quality Rating Guidelines.

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2018: A RebelMouse Year in Review

RebelMouse

But this time, 2018 took the cake. January: Rising Above Facebook's Doomsday Algorithm Change Facebook's so-called "friends and family" algorithm update at the start of 2018 charted the course for the rest of the year. April: Powering the Best and Brightest in New Media 2018 brought no April showers for RebelMouse.