Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Social has evolved into consumers’ favorite holiday marketing resource: a one-stop destination for discovering gifts, finding the latest deals and seeking customer service. This is especially true for younger consumers, as 57% of Gen Z will use social more for gift inspiration. This number goes up to 21% among Gen Z.

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Scoop.it!

JULY 18, 2024

These days, you can’t just bombard your target audience with tons of generalized content and hope something sticks. You need to do what your competitors are doing: deliver tailored, personalized marketing messages. This optimizes your content for conversions and generates engagement like click-throughs, comments, likes, and shares.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Feeds and timelines have become entirely unique to the individual, based on user preferences. These networks include: Instagram According to the 2024 Social Media Content Strategy Report , 84% of social media users have an Instagram profile, making it the most popular social media network across ages.

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illumin

JANUARY 14, 2025

In this article, well break down the top advertising trends for agencies, retail marketers, and the broader advertising industry. According to a 2023 McKinsey study , 88% of marketing professionals believe AI will fundamentally change how advertising works. Trends for Agencies in 2025: The changing role of advertising experts a.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Case in point: Pinterest users spend twice as much time shopping every month as non-Pinners. Key takeaways Pinterest marketing is the practice of using the platform as a visual search engine to help relevant audiences discover products or services. What is Pinterest marketing? ICYMI: Pinterest is more than a social network.

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Litmus

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Litmus is a proud industry leader, trusted by 700,000 marketing professionals including 80% of the Fortune 100. In order to help email marketers better understand the marketing landscape, we surveyed 1,000 U.S. Less than 50% of Gen Z think they receive too many emails.

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Vertical Response

JULY 7, 2024

Instagram excels in visual content and influencer marketing, providing numerous creative formats and strong e-commerce features, making it essential for brands targeting younger demographics. With over 2 billion monthly active users, it’s particularly popular among younger adults, especially those under 35. With over 2.5

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Hootsuite

APRIL 9, 2025

100% of marketers who read these social media statistics will have the data they need to plan and optimize their social strategies in 2025. With nearly 139 million Instagram Reels watched every minute and TikTok turning almost half its users into buyers, short videos arent just populartheyre powerful. of users into buyers in 2024.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 9, 2023

Welcome to HubSpot Marketing News! Tap in for campaign deep dives, the latest marketing industry news, and tried-and-true insights from HubSpot’s media team. In its first decade, the company experienced a period of steady growth, expanding its product line, opening its own retail spaces, and finding some success in digital marketing.

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Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2024

As AI reshapes marketing, the next generation of decision-makers is placing more trust in creators than in brands. Here’s how to use creator marketing strategies to keep your business relevant. Marketing strategies evolve with the technological shifts of each era, continuously redefining how businesses connect with consumers.

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Sprout Social

MAY 14, 2025

million social media users, its estimated around 76% of Australians are actively engaged on social networks. But how can brands effectively reach these users? From generational trends to platform preferences, we cover the must-know details about Aussie social users and their online behaviours.

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Sprout Social

MAY 20, 2025

Gen Z and younger millennials are eschewing traditional financial advisors in favor of advice from social media. According to the Q2 2025 Sprout Pulse Survey, 71% of Gen Z and 68% of Millennials say social media has had a positive impact on their financial decisions.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Generative AI is transforming how B2B buyers research and make purchasing decisions. Up to 90% of B2B buyers already use generative AI tools , according to Forrester. Dig deeper: Optimizing LLMs for B2B SEO: An overview Why B2B marketers need to pay attention B2B buyer behavior is shifting rapidly. What is ChatGPT search?

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Understanding key YouTube stats and figures is the best way to develop a YouTube marketing strategy that works and lasts. Read on for the YouTube user, usage, and business stats you need to know to hit the ground running (and get that camera rolling). YouTube user statistics Wondering what YouTubes user base looks like?

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Martech

JULY 24, 2024

What does this mean for marketers? Open, Gauff was already on the radar as a sports and fashion ambassador for GenZ. (In P&G brands will be leveraging social media to generate organic content by athletes and their fans throughout the Olympics, according to SponsorUnited. In the U.S.,

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 19, 2024

A proven market base to optimize, improve, or take over. One piece of advice I give to brands that have been around for 8-15 years, succeeding through the COVID ecommerce boom, is that trying new creative can help reach different generations in different ways. A low bar of regulation for test-and-fail projects and companies.

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Sprout Social

MAY 8, 2025

Reddit has long been a pioneer in community-driven conversationswell before social listening became a marketing staple. But Reddits role in the modern marketing mix has shifted. Its partnership with Google makes it easier for users to see and participate in Reddit communities and conversations. This is how organic trends begin.

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Martech

JANUARY 17, 2025

Lets explore key considerations when selecting or upgrading your CMS, focusing on the four pivotal stages of the marketing journey: Discovery. Experience Once your content is discovered, the next focus is user experience. Brands that provide personalized, data-driven answers engage users better, driving loyalty and conversions.

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Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 22, 2025

Well, the same goes for organic marketing minus the juice part. Organic marketing is all about naturally attracting your audience to your brand or business. But how do you do that especially in a saturated market like 2025? Table of Contents What is organic marketing? Organic marketing, however, pulls people in.

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Sprout Social

MAY 29, 2025

Arming yourself with clearer benchmarks and industry statistics isnt just helpfulits the key to confidently explaining whats working, defending your social media marketing strategy and making smarter decisions that drive future success. And let’s face itdifferent audiences behave differently (Hey, Gen Z on TikTok!).

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Hootsuite

APRIL 22, 2025

Key takeaways Facebook marketing involves promoting your company on Facebook to build awareness for your products, grow an audience, and generate leads and sales. A Facebook marketing strategy can include various types of content such as organic posts, Stories and Reels, as well as paid ads. What is Facebook marketing?

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Backlinko

MARCH 11, 2024

User-generated content (UGC) has become a powerful element in marketing initiatives, helping build authentic and trusting relationships between brands and consumers. User-generated content comes in a wide range of formats, including reviews, Q&As, images and videos.

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Martech

JANUARY 22, 2025

Change is the only thing you can rely on in digital marketing. The zero consumer: A new breed needs a new approach Today’s consumers, particularly the younger generations, defy conventional marketing wisdom. So, traditional marketing, relying on broad targeting and impersonal messaging, won’t work.

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Sprout Social

JULY 22, 2021

Brands caught on to this upward trend and are engaging social media users to drive awareness, clicks and sales. Consequently, understanding how different generations use social media is critical to shaping a social strategy that gets results. In this post, we’ll dive into the nuts and bolts of social media use by generation.

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

When I first heard I had to write about D2C marketing, I did what many professionals do when presented with something they know nothing about — I quietly panicked and then asked ChatGPT. To my surprise, however, I learned D2C marketing isn’t as foreign to me as I thought. Table of Contents What is D2C marketing?

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 10, 2024

If marketing and SEO arent making money for your business, then theres no point in doing it. The primary purpose of marketing is sales. SEO should get you to the top of Google for your most desired keywords, including money-generating keywords. Search intent considers what users want when they type something into Google.

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Hootsuite

JANUARY 13, 2022

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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Buffer Marketing

OCTOBER 16, 2023

AI Celeb Backlash Meta's introduction of AI celebrities faces resistance, indicating a challenge in user acceptance. Comment Filter Enhancement Meta's new feature prioritizes comments from verified users, potentially altering engagement dynamics. Verify your Meta accounts to ensure your comments gain priority and visibility.

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Search Engine Land

AUGUST 8, 2024

Economic demands require marketers to do more with less. Each feature offers the same value: finding conversions with few targeting parameters based on user signals. The algorithms match your creative to the right audience, serving ads to the users who are most likely to convert. HTML5 code generation. Audience research.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 27, 2025

Remember a few years ago when op-eds used to claim influencer marketing was a fad? Consumers proved with their loyalty, engagement and purchasing power that influencer marketing is here for the long-haul. Creator marketing is now an essential part of digital marketing playbooks in the increasingly crowded social landscape.

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Brand Purpose Before you start doodling logo ideas and playing around with color palette generators, make sure you’ve laid a strong foundation for your brand identity. Color Scheme Your business’s color scheme influences all of its visual branding elements: logos, marketing materials, website, everything. Brand Identity Elements 1.

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Buffer Marketing

JULY 22, 2024

Organic social media marketing is a long game. It’s an arm of social media marketing where you spend money to reach the right audience. How does social media advertising fit into social media marketing? Social media advertising is a part of your social media marketing strategy. Enter: Social media advertising.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 28, 2025

Ill take you through everything you need to know about why video is important in ecommerce marketing and how you can start implementing it today. Table of Contents What is ecommerce video marketing? Meaning, video marketing for ecommerce drives 25% of leads. So, what type of content is working best on social media right now?

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Sprout Social

MAY 12, 2025

According to The 2025 Sprout Social Index , 39% of Australian social users turn to TikTok to keep up with trends in many areas, from finance to fashion, technology to travel. For businesses, this level of engagement represents a major marketing opportunitybut only if they know exactly how and why Australians are using the app.

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Hootsuite

OCTOBER 18, 2024

A social media marketing strategy is a summary of everything you plan to do and hope to achieve on social media. In this post, we’ll walk you through a nine-step plan to create a winning strategy for social media marketing. We’ve even got expert insights from Amanda Wood, Hootsuite’s Senior Manager of Social Marketing.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 15, 2025

What happens when you combine the trust-building power of influencer marketing with the performance-driven results of affiliate marketing? You get affiliate influencer marketing: a high-impact strategy for boosting brand awareness and sales. What is affiliate influencer marketing?

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Scoop.it!

MAY 4, 2023

In a world where AI is taking over quite a few functions, including writing, genuine human-generated content is still valuable, as humans can provide a context to their content. The same survey also revealed that 58% of consumers worldwide viewed user-generated content as the most authentic content amidst everything a brand published.

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