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20+ Top Social Media Sites and Platforms to Grow Your Brand in 2024

Buffer Marketing

More than  200 million businesses  (mostly small businesses) use Facebook tools, and  more than seven million advertisers  actively promote their business on Facebook, which makes it a pretty safe bet if you want to have a presence on social media.  Be aware, though, most subreddits do not allow self-promotion.

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Silver Linings Social Media Playbook: Ad Campaign Do's and Don'ts

Set Up

In 2017, Wendy's viral tweets changed the course and set the standard for social media marketers everywhere. Whoever said bad press is still press may not have had a taste of Pepsi’s “ Live for Now ” ad in 2017. Fenty Beauty - Features user-generated content to reach a wider audience and promote inclusivity and diversity.

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YouTube is My Business’s Biggest Source of Organic Traffic — Here’s How I’ve Streamlined and Monetized It

Buffer Marketing

  I quickly burned out when I tried starting a YouTube channel in 2017. For example, if someone is searching for how to use a specific keyword research tool, my keyword research planner digital product could be useful for them, so I’ll promote it in the middle of related videos.

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What Is Generative AI and How Does It Work?

Backlinko

Advertising You can take advantage of AI advertising tools to generate both copy and creatives for your paid promotions. 2017 Transformer models Newly developed transformer models allowed gen AI systems to create natural language text for the first time. Furthering the development of this bidirectional artificial neural network.

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How to Write a Blog Post: A Full Breakdown of How We Do it at Buffer

Buffer Marketing

  For example, take a look at how our Content team worked together back in 2017 to plan our editorial calendar. We promote all our blog posts to social media using the zero-click content strategy.   As you can probably guess, we don’t do things the same way anymore.

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Content, engagement and reach: The biggest UK TikTok trends in 2025

Sprout Social

Despite only launching internationally in 2017, TikTok has grown to become one of the most popular social media platforms among young people in the UK, and TikTok marketing is the best way to market to them directly. TikTok has also been promoting this side of the platform specifically through its annual TikTok book awards.

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Social Media PR Playbook to Build Trust & Avoid Brand Disasters

SocialPilot

In contrast, social media PR is a cost-effective way to build brand awareness through organic reach, targeted promotions, and influencer partnerships. They promote trust in your brand and influence potential customers by highlighting success stories and satisfied clients. Use social media to promote events.

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