Webbiquity

MAY 9, 2023

Goal-setting is the foundation of any successful social media (or any other type of) marketing campaign. With 93% of marketers leveraging social media for increased brand exposure, it’s vital for businesses to identify ways to stay ahead of the curve. Guest post by Ahana Basu.

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Social Media Social Marketing Planning Tips 313

SmartBrief - Marketing

MARCH 7, 2024

One area marketers can’t dismiss is dark social media activity. According to Capterra research , marketers say nearly half of their brand’s web traffic can be attributed to dark social channels. These key factors have driven the rise of dark social activity.

Social Media 113

Social Media Social Marketing Peer-to-peer Media 113

Navigate the Channel

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Digital branding is vital for long-term success in a competitive market. This type of content can have a positive effect on your SEO efforts by increasing page views, links, and long-term visibility. Utilize social media to promote content and reach a wider audience.

Branding 123

Branding Brand Identity Tips ROAS 123

Sprout Social

APRIL 25, 2024

There are social media templates available for virtually any task you can think of—from content production to reporting to team onboarding. Consider this: When you spend an hour formatting a spreadsheet, you’re losing an hour that you could have spent on your social media marketing strategy.

Social Media 107

Social Media Template Work Management Marketing Management 107

Sprout Social

MAY 9, 2024

There’s no denying the impact of influencers on social media, culture and commerce. Trendsetters and culture drivers like Lia have made influencer marketing an essential piece to social media strategies. We’ll explore five influencer marketing trends shaping the social media landscape in 2024.

Trends 75

Trends Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel 75

SocialPilot

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Your collaboration journey with a social media influencer starts over social media DMs, emails, and phone/video calls. Every brand and influencer agreement should be formalized into a legally binding social media influencer contract. What is a Social Media Influencer Contract?

Social Media 93

Social Media Template Media Terms and Conditions 93

Martech

APRIL 19, 2024

By adopting a “privacy-by-design” approach, we can address the growing apprehension surrounding excessive data collection, build trust and foster long-term consumer loyalty — the cornerstones of economic success in the advertising industry. These challenges have profoundly impacted media planning and buying.

Paid Search Agency 103

Paid Search Agency Privacy Advertising Agencies Multi-Touch Attribution 103

Martech

APRIL 19, 2024

Even with new channels and new tactics entering the fray on a regular basis, the debate around how to do lead gen rages on, including on social media channels. And social media is a good place to start if you’re looking for consumers who are thinking about researching and buying products. Meta saw 16.6%

Lead Gen 104

Lead Gen Paid Content Social Media Sales Qualified Leads 104

Oktopost

APRIL 26, 2024

Why should social media management for law firms be on your immediate to-do list? Social media takes our legal branding to the next level by getting social with our audience and providing them with real insights for their legal needs. We live in an age where promoting our services online is essential.

Social Media 62

Social Media Work Management Marketing Management Media 62

Sprout Social

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The results are telling: According to our Q4 2023 Sprout Pulse Survey, respondents believe the average social media manager is: white (65%), female (73%), 25-40 years old (55%), and a part-time employee or freelancer (40%). The only difference is experience level (most people working in social aren’t entry-level or freelancers).

Social Media 120

Social Media Paid Search Agency Media Advertising Agencies 120

Martech

APRIL 25, 2024

For the first time, digital video — which includes CTV, social video and online video — will claim a higher share of budgets than linear TV. Social video. Video ads on social platforms are expected to see the ad type’s second consecutive year of 20% growth. Social video is projected to reach $23.4 Why we care.

Spending 105

Spending Paid Search Agency Top of Funnel Cable 105

Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What is social media technology? At its core, social media technology is software designed to manage a company’s social media profiles across multiple platforms. From emerging networks to well-established platforms, audiences have a nearly insatiable appetite for social media content across channels.

Social Media 100

Social Media Work Management Marketing Management Media 100

Optinmonster

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Not sure where to start: email marketing vs. social media? Both email and social media marketing are promising channels to grow your business. In this post, we’ll share important insights into email and social media marketing. Which Drives More Sales: Email or Social Media? Let’s get started!

Social Media 109

Social Media Email Marketing Social Marketing Marketing Budget 109

Oktopost

APRIL 28, 2024

Social media marketing managers and sales executives are no longer sitting on opposite ends of the strategy table. To close more deals, sales executives are starting to take social media for sales seriously. What’s the difference between thought leadership on social media vs. a cold email with similar content?

Social Media 80

Social Media Top of Funnel B2B Thought Leadership Media 80

SocialPilot

APRIL 26, 2024

These famous words by Stephen R Covey are especially true when it comes to social media. Knowing how to schedule social media posts on different platforms can really help you gain more traction, even when you are not online and when your audience is most active. Why Should You Schedule Social Media Posts?

Social Media 90

Social Media Effectiveness Media Top of Funnel 90

Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

3 elements to a successful influencer marketing strategy An influencer marketing campaign uses individuals with a strong social following to promote a brand. Think long-term impact According to our Q3 2023 Sprout Pulse Survey of 307 US-based social marketers, 33% prioritize long-term partnerships with influencers over one-off campaigns.

Advertising Agencies 104

Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 104

Martech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Marketers will continue to engage with audiences on social media through advertising and organic social campaigns. And for consumers with money to spend, there are new ways to shop through social commerce. Here are some ways that marketers will leverage social media in 2024.

Gartner 135

Gartner Advertising Agencies Paid Search Agency Ad Exchange 135

Brandwatch Marketing

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The key to making the most of social media is listening to what your audience has to say about you, your competitors, and the market in general. Once you have the data you can undertake analysis, and finally, reach social business intelligence ; using all these insights to know your customers better and improve your marketing strategy.

Social Media 98

Social Media Tools Media Lead Scoring 98

Martech

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Here are some of the results from the game that marketers can take note of for the year ahead, including social media winners and top-performing brands. B2B brands like Salesforce also listen closely to social media.) Disney+, “Well Said.” State Farm, “Twins Reunion.” BMW, “Christopher Walken.” Image: Sprinklr.

Digital Asset Management 118

Digital Asset Management Paid Search Agency Peer-to-peer Blast Campaigns 118

Anyword

APRIL 10, 2024

For example, you can learn which terms performed well on social media posts and then try incorporating those terms when creating new Google ads. These talking points are ranked by a star rating, with a higher star rating indicating a keyword’s predicted performance.

Copywriting 98

Copywriting Curation Keywords Advertising Channels 98

Contently

JANUARY 13, 2023

The power of influencers has exploded with the popularity of short-form social videos on platforms like TikTok and Instagram. Today, around 50% of consumers now turn to social media and the influencers they follow for product advice. billion—that’s how big the global influencer marketing industry was in 2022.

Branding 200

Branding Brand Identity Best Practices Thought Leadership 200

Martech

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Never has the expression, “Don’t confuse activity for performance,” rang truer than in B2B social media programs. You can divide organizations into two buckets based on their approach to social media execution: Those that think strategically and plan their programs. The ones who just post… anything and everything.

Social Media 121

Social Media Media B2B B2B Thought Leadership 121

Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 13, 2023

As a social media brand or content creator, getting an audience hooked on your uploads is as fundamental as it is challenging. The good news is that if you’re having that issue and you seek to increase those engagement rates on social media, you’ve come to the right place. But what’s the fuss all about?

Social Media 153

Social Media Video Marketing Media Eye-Tracking 153

Martech

APRIL 12, 2024

However, many advertisers claim that the social media giant’s dependable advertising system is currently experiencing significant issues, prompting some to reallocate their budgets to rival platforms. Dig deeper: The zero-sum game of social media: When going viral spells disaster Impact. Fuel for your marketing strategy.

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Cost Advertisements Advertising Automation 95

Martech

APRIL 16, 2024

Top channels included CTV, retail media and audio, which all saw double-digit growth in 2023. Retail media. Even higher growth came from retail media networks (RMNs), which saw a 16.3% Other non-retail consumer brands are creating similar ad media platforms. Social rebound. Social media ad revenue rose 8.7%

Advertisements 97

Advertisements Advertising Paid Search Agency Privacy 97

Martech

APRIL 11, 2024

Its stack included: Advertising & Promotion Content & Experience Social & Relationships Commerce & Sales Data Management One drawback is that Perplexity’s technology recommendation was more high-level than the others. For example, CRM was bundled under Social & Relationships. Fuel for your marketing strategy.

Marketing Automation Services 118

Marketing Automation Services Bundling Marketing Management Public Relations 118

SocialPilot

MARCH 8, 2024

Something that gives your clients the final nudge they need to choose you as their social media marketing comrade. And that something my friend is a fine-looking “ Social media proposal ”. So we will cover a step-by-step process that will enable you to create your social media management proposal from scratch.

Social Media 80

Social Media Ideal Customer Profiles Template Marketing Proposals 80

Martech

MAY 9, 2024

It uses in-house AI image clustering technology and the latest AI models to enable users to professionally display media online by inputting only a few words. It can generate all of the associated, on-brand content — from emails and blogs to social media posts, SMS messages, etc.

Marketing AI 85

Marketing AI SMS User-Generated Content Customer Surveys 85

Contently

MARCH 23, 2023

Personalized social media content: Brands can use social media to create personalized content for their followers. Personalized landing pages: Brands can create personalized landing pages for their website visitors based on their search terms, referral source, or demographics.

Multi-Touch Attribution 213

Multi-Touch Attribution Word of Mouth Content Landing Pages 213

illumin

MARCH 19, 2024

Marketers relying on AI-generated content for their social media could find themselves in hot water in 2024. The social media giant’s long-term goal is to develop technology to detect and label all AI-created content on its platform internally.

Generation 111

Generation Classified Ads User-Generated Content Content 111

Martech

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Face up to the phygital Apparently we can blame the Australian agency Momentum Worldwide for coining the word “phygital,” a neologism that neatly obscures the good old Latin-derived terms “physical” and “digital.” 15BB a year is shifting into commerce media networks (not just grocery!)

Trends 108

Trends Work Management Advertising Agencies Marketing Management 108

Martech

DECEMBER 27, 2023

A busy CEO, however, now barraged with marketing terms from CTR and ROAS to Z-score and SERP, may struggle to piece together their place in the bigger picture of business objectives. Or to put it in marketing terms: make sure you’re speaking the language of your target audience. That includes speaking in terms of what matters to them.

Allocation 109

Allocation Barriers Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 109

Martech

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Chances are, brands will be hearing from customers on social this holiday season. Nearly three-quarters (74%) of consumers say they’re likely to reach out to a brand on social over the holidays, according to a new study by social media management platform Sprout Social. Discovering new products. customers (67%).

Social Media 110

Social Media Contacts Media Branding 110

Martech

MARCH 27, 2024

At the event in New York, which brings together publishers, adtech partners and media buyers, IAB released a new study showing increasing marketer interest in the space and providing pointers on how to engage gamers better. The study, by IAB and media consultant Advertiser Perceptions, surveyed 300 U.S. gaming spend will swell from $8.5

Advertising Agencies 101

Advertising Agencies Planning Mobile Advertising Budget Programs 101

Martech

MARCH 18, 2024

Tracking marketing campaigns: Google Analytics allows you to set up campaign tracking, enabling you to measure the effectiveness of different marketing channels, such as social media, email, or paid ads. Dig deeper: Redefining success: Getting started with Google Analytics 4 Get MarTech! In your inbox.

Budget Programs 98

Budget Programs Marketing Automation Services Marketing Analytics Tools Cost 98

B2B Marketing Directions

MARCH 17, 2024

Human perception of image quality and realism Social media engagement Click-through rates of banner ads The studies used AI-generated images created with 13 text-to-image diffusion models, including DALL-E2, Jasper, Midjourney v4, and several versions of Stable Diffusion. So, the choice of model matters.

Marketing AI 70

Marketing AI Research Banner Ads Effectiveness 70

Brandwatch Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

The key to making the most of social media is listening to what your audience has to say about you, your competitors, and the market in general. Once you have the data you can undertake analysis, and finally, reach social business intelligence ; using all these insights to know your customers better and improve your marketing strategy.

Social Media 144

Social Media Tools Media Lead Scoring 144