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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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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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6 lessons and predictions from the best social media campaign ideas of 2021

Sprout Social

— nba paint (@nba_paint) August 21, 2021. 6 social campaigns that captivated the internet in 2021. — isa (@_isa0k) June 14, 2021. Despite launching in 2015, Apple’s “Shot on iPhone” campaign continues to delight users by showing off the quality of photos taken with the iPhone camera.

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2021: The Year Martech Shrank — Just Kidding (A Year in Review)

Chief Martec

Congratulations on making it to the end of 2021. But here for the holidays, I thought I’d take a leisurely look back at the topics and trends that shaped 2021 in martech. I know, I didn’t publish a 2021 version of the marketing technology landscape. 2021 also saw a huge acceleration of the no-code paradigm.

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10 AI Tools to Transform Your Marketing Strategy

Jeff Bullas

In 2021, the investment in AI tools reached a total of $111.4 Here are some examples of the latest and hottest marketing startups that leverage AI: Persado Persado labels its technology as “ The Generative AI Platform to Motivate Every Individual to Engage and Act”. Why should you care?

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Why it Pays to Invest in Animated Videos in the Age of the Metaverse

Jeff Bullas

In October last year, Mark Zuckerberg did a keynote speech at Connect 2021 , promising to spend billions of dollars on research to build the Metaverse. Building an interactive engagement experience for users in the metaverse is challenging, but it can also be a great opportunity to capture a future-minded marketplace.

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Marketing Automation: What is it, Examples & Tools [2021]

Neil Patel

For example, brands could create an automatic lead generation funnel that gathers an email address, sends a recorded demo, then invites the prospect to schedule a live demo. Generate Leads, Close Seals, and Manage Your Pipeline on Auto-Pilot With HubSpot. The company was launched in 1999 with the goal of boosting lead generation.

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