Sprout Social

JULY 7, 2020

Throughout 2020, brands have been challenged to maintain their social media presence as audiences invest their attention into major social movements and changes to their way of life. Consistently, the message has been that audiences seek brands’ participation on social issues. Why do audiences look to brands on social issues?

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 4, 2023

While prior media conglomerates focused heavily on amassing large audiences and monetizing through advertising, emerging media brands are finding success by creating their own lifestyle brands to generate growth and engagement. Witherspoon started a book club in 2017 offering a monthly book recommendation to her fans.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 17, 2020

Two-thirds of consumers prefer to use messaging apps to connect with brands. . Consider these numbers: In 2017, there were 70 million businesses with a Facebook presence. Some brands are using Facebook Messenger to drive loyalty and sales. If you want to set your brand apart, this is a prime opportunity.

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Spiralytics

JANUARY 26, 2023

Thanks to emerging personalities through parasocial relationships on social media, influencer marketing has become an effective strategy for brands to reach a wider audience. Working with influencers can be a risky move, especially when brands are not familiar with the dos and don’ts of influencer marketing.

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Sprout Social

JULY 12, 2022

In today’s fast-moving market, it’s more critical than ever for brands to be agile and resilient in the face of unfavorable public opinion. Your brand’s best bet is to get ahead of any future problems by proactively creating and testing a comprehensive crisis management plan that includes a robust guidance around communication.

Communications 136

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This may make it the perfect time for brands to take a hard look at their skincare marketing strategies and seize on this growth. When influencer Hyram Yarbro featured the clinical, no-nonsense brand, parent company L’Oreal reached out to him. In fact, 83% of beauty brands are working with influencers on Instagram.

Gen Z 138

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Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Check out our brand-new 2025 State of Blogging report with data from 500+ marketers the first time we've ever run such a comprehensive audit on what's happening across the blogging landscape.) What started as an experimental program quickly became a powerful distribution engine for our original research, blog, and brand.

Transform 111

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Buffer Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Great speaker lineups: Think industry leaders and innovators across tech, branding, and the creator economy. Networking lounges and interactive sessions provide opportunities to meet brand partners and other creators. Niche workshops on platform-specific tactics like TikTok growth, Instagram Reels, and LinkedIn personal branding.

Social Media Marketing 108

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Jane specializes in helping female entrepreneurs develop authentic, compelling brand identities through the power of goddess archetypes. Jane specializes in helping female entrepreneurs develop authentic, compelling brand identities through the power of goddess archetypes.

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Businesses Grow

MARCH 17, 2025

In 2017, I wrote a post noting that the average number of comments on a blog post had dropped from about 25 to 12. His tendency to guilt-trip, at times in a vaguely threatening way, made him a meme in 2017, and his popularity has soared ever since. Once the brands copied each other, it became dull.

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Hootsuite

JULY 12, 2022

And all that strategy got us thinking about the relationship between social and brand identity. Classic marketing wisdom used to say the brands we love earn our trust with an amazing product experience and consistent, emotionally resonant messaging. Social-first brands like us are taking it one step further. hot dog combo.

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Marketing Insider Group

JUNE 22, 2020

Always-on content marketing is the only way to build new relationships for a brand. Always on content marketing works ever better, especially when trying to grow your brand. Differentiate your new brand voice from your previous one. Differentiate Your Brand’s Customer Experience from Its Former Self. Every week.

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Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 19, 2019

respondents check their personal email account more than 10 times a day, and it is by far their preferred way to receive updates from brands. 56% of brands using an emoji in their email subject line had a higher open rate than those that did not. Content Marketing Institute , 2017). Imaginepub.com , 2017). Forbes , 2017).

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 17, 2022

Brand safety, that is. A recent study found that 75% of brands have been exposed to a brand safety incident within the past year. In this new world of social advertising, brand safety issues aren’t an “if”—they’re a “when”. In this new world of social advertising, brand safety issues aren’t an “if”—they’re a “when”.

Branding 134

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Martech

MAY 23, 2022

customers agree, or strongly agree that it’s important for brands to take a stand on sensitive topics – up 7.6% from 2017. Marketers know that customer trust is everything when it comes to brand success. The post Public wants to know where brands stand on issues, surveys show appeared first on MarTech. See terms.

Branding 114

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SMEI

JANUARY 24, 2023

While these tactics can be effective in the short term, they ultimately lead to decreased customer loyalty and a negative perception of the brand. In addition to lowering customer loyalty and creating negative brand perceptions, shame marketing also has the potential to cause serious psychological harm.

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Set Up

JULY 23, 2024

In 2017, Wendy's viral tweets changed the course and set the standard for social media marketers everywhere. With a consistent and infallible tone, sense of humor, timely and relevant commentary on pop culture, and community, Wendy’s paved the way for other Brands to find their unique spark on social media. How do you recover?

Energy 59

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Jeff Bullas

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

One of the most criticized UX launches ever, it closed in 2017 due to such a catastrophic failure. Creating a seamless and fluid experience for your customer will make them love your brand so much more. A lot of brands think it is safer to go with lots of details. Don’t be scared to go all-in.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 3, 2022

You’re probably familiar with the Notes app apology that brands post on Instagram or Twitter. Social media managers and communication professionals must craft tactful corporate apologies—or else they risk facing even more backlash during a brand crisis. When you’re doing it on behalf of a brand, it can feel even more stressful.

Branding 126

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Sprout Social

MAY 3, 2022

The cannabis industry is booming, which means more brands are leveraging social media as a channel to promote their products, share educational information about cannabis use, and advocate for decriminalization, social justice and destigmatization. Now more than ever, brands are fighting for higher visibility amongst cannabis consumers.

Branding 108

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 14, 2024

This article explores how brands are leveraging video to stand out in a crowded market. Video: The secret weapon for brand differentiation and growth Video is a powerful medium because it leverages human-to-human connection. What I find most interesting about brand building with video is how long top-funnel engagement can last.

Branding 99

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 27, 2024

For example, you could create a custom GPT to edit written content to reflect your brand voice. Enter your domain or landing page and click Import Brand to add brand elements. The app automatically identifies your brand name, logo, and colors. Review them and click the Create Brand button.

Transform 113

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The user-influenced platform , which embraces discussion and community engagement, rather than content creation or branding is vastly different from other networks -- like Facebook or Instagram -- where brands naturally find their niche. But, in the past few years, Reddit's made attempts to gain more attention from brands.

Gen Z 145

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Most of the impact was on branded terms, indirectly impacting the reduction in PPC branded spend. 10, 2017, it had a shockingly quiet impact. Here is the example on desktop: In addition to the drop in organic traffic, the homepage lost 97% of its keyword rankings on desktop. Remember, Google crawls from the U.S.,

SEO 90

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

look back to 2017 , just 70% of marketers found marketing to be effective for their brand. Three years ago, only 6% of marketers felt they knew what a successful marketing campaign really looked like -- in 2019, that number has increased to more than a third of marketers. Additionally, if we.

Content Marketing 145

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Hootsuite

MARCH 2, 2023

In today’s digital age, it’s crucial for marketers to take steps to protect their brand safety online. Social media does a great job of building brands and connecting businesses with their customers. But it also comes with the risk of associating a brand with content that can harm its reputation. What is brand safety?

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2023

It was shut down in 2017 after a decline in its user base. 2017 - TikTok became available in the United States in late 2017 and has since reached over 130 million downloads. It was shut down in 2017 after a decline in its user base. 2017 - ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, purchases Musical.ly. 2014 - Musical.ly

Gen Z 134

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Martech

JUNE 23, 2022

Xanterra Travel Company owns an extremely unique and diverse collection of travel and hospitality brands that all share a common mission — to provide travelers with unforgettable experiences. Five years ago he found himself faced with the task of unifying customer identities across multiple brands and experiences.

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Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2023

Developing a consistent brand starts with creating a brand style guide. These branding rule books help graphic designers, marketers, web developers, community managers, and even product packaging departments all stay on the same page, and present a unified vision of the brand to the public. The language sounds familiar.

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Buffer Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

  As content creation continues to blossom into a viable, lucrative career path, so too do the networks of support that can help you level up — whether you’re an influencer, personal brand builder , or just looking to get your work out into the world.

Gen Z 119

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Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 18, 2020

If you're trying to connect with younger audiences, like millennials or Gen Z , odds are you've thought about creating a podcast for your brand. With these tactics, you can identify podcasters with a price-point and audience target that makes sense for your brand. I probably don't need to tell you that podcasting takes time and effort.

Gen Z 144

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Hootsuite

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

And once you do, you’ll be able to create a smart Instagram marketing strategy that will create leads, sales, and an audience devoted to your brand. A decade later, the site has grown into a social media powerhouse with the world’s top brands leveraging the account to create engagement, build an audience, and increase sales.

Social Media Marketing 145

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Influencers have a special way of connecting with their audiences, and when they showcase your brand, you expand your reach to a larger audience. Influencers that share our brand values are partnered with us, and together we develop giveaway campaigns or offer special discount codes to their audience. Solicit brand partnerships.

User-Generated 81

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 25, 2020

If you’re a brand, business or personality, you might be wondering how you can get that verification status as well. Verification can help build credibility , but it is not the only way for brands, businesses and influencers to build a trustworthy presence on Twitter. — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) November 9, 2017.

Health 145

Health Fashion Branding Place 145

Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A car fire ignited a viral marketing moment for the Stanley brand. Two days later, Stanley President Terence Reilly stitched Danielle’s original video offering to send her some new tumblers and to replace her car on behalf of the brand. Though the car was totaled, her Stanley Quencher tumbler was intact and still had ice in it.

PR 129

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Hootsuite

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Competition is fierce out there for brands and creators. This stat—straight from YouTube itself—implies that brands should spend more time getting to know their audience and what they care about, and spend less money trying to dazzle them with lowest-common-denominator tactics (like celebrity guest stars). YouTube usage statistics.

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Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Mielle Organics is a popular Black-owned hair care brand that was founded in 2014 and initially made popular by the natural hair community. These events left many customers feeling left behind when their favorite brands get acquired, causing distrust and skepticism.

Product 134

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