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10 User Generated Content Campaigns That Actually Worked [+Expert Insights]

Hubspot Marketing

User-generated content (UGC) has become increasingly important over the past few years. In fact, in a recent HubSpot survey of 500+ marketers who sell content via social shopping features, 92% say user-generated content increases brand awareness of their products.

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What is User-Generated Content? And Why is it Important?

Hootsuite

Whether you know it or not, both of these examples are user-generated content (UGC). What is user-generated content? User-generated content (also known as UGC or consumer-generated content) is original, brand-specific content created by customers and published on social media or other channels.

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Online Advertising: Everything You Need to Know in 2018

Hubspot Marketing

Online Advertising: Everything You Need to Know in 2018. Naturally, there’s enormous demand for the top ad rankings, so Google triggers an auction anytime there are at least two advertisers bidding for keywords that are related to search queries that users consistently enter into Google. Lead generation. Paid Search Advertising.

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The History of Social Media Since 2003

Hubspot Marketing

1978 - The Bulletin Board System (BBS) is introduced, allowing users to upload and download software and data, read news online, and exchange messages with people in online communities. 1985 - America Online (AOL) is founded, and it lets users communicate online via email and messaging. billion monthly active users.

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Buyer’s Guide to the Best Content Marketing Books of 2018

Content Marketing Institute

During 2018, authors and publishers created some of the most helpful and sophisticated content marketing books. Books published in 2018 tended to have better designed covers and short, punchy titles coupled with longer subtitles that described the benefits to readers. Make Blue Ocean Shift the first step in reinvention. Joey Coleman.

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13 Best TikTok Tools For Fast Audience Growth (2023)

Jeff Bullas

TikTok became the world’s most downloaded app on Apple devices in 2018 and has been growing quickly ever since. It’s now firmly embedded in Gen Z’s daily lives and spans across 154 countries with 500 million active users. Stormlikes Stormlikes is the place to go if you want to buy TikTok followers, likes, or views.

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Wendy's Took #NationalRoastDay to TikTok — Did It Bring the Heat?

Hubspot Marketing

Wendy’s first National Roast Day was in 2018. Twitter users could drop a Tweet asking to be roasted and the official Wendy’s account would counter with a ruthless response. A place for men to feel safe online. To participate, TikTok users posted videos asking Wendy’s to roast them.

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