Social Media Marketing Trends to Keep an Eye on
It's never a dull moment when it comes to social media marketing. Marketers confront a slew of decisions and obstacles, like picking which indicators to track to determine campaign effectiveness, allocating money, and more.
Marketers must first traverse through some tough terrain before they can reap the benefits of social media marketing. If you're one of those hapless marketers, keep an eye on how the following plays out. As 2020 approaches, keep an eye on the following developments.
1-Where Should Our Brand Advertise?
Another concern is which channels should marketers engage in in order to pique the interest of their customers. The solution isn't straightforward. Social media platforms must demonstrate that conversions from their viewers are possible and durable, whether it's through social commerce or lead generation.
In order to supply digital ad services, social media platforms will compete not only with one other, but also with other services that supply advertising. The rise of Amazon as the third largest ad platform in terms of market share has demonstrated that marketers can be provided with a safer advertising alternative — a platform for brand content that avoids being mixed in with a world of fake likes, extremist commentary, and varying decisions for controversial media such as political ads. Marketers may rethink social networking due to the walled garden aspect of streaming networks like Disney Plus and Netflix, or the fledgling emergence of other digital media like podcasts.
2-Audiences Can Be Attracted by Influencers-Audience should be chosen wisely.
Influencers are essential for connecting brands to certain audiences, particularly when it comes to diversity. Culture and subcultural interests are heavily indexed on platforms like Twitter and Instagram, as I observed in my essay on diversity and inclusion.
However, with the FTC increasing concerns about brand-influencer endorsements, marketers should examine how influencers serve an audience. By managing relevant topic discussions and fostering trust, good influencers will inspire genuine connections. Brands will look for influencers that are naturally engaging while also being able to generate measurable interest.
Marketers must pay attention to the demographics of social media platforms and implement techniques that boost the chances of reaching the target audience. Instead of causing a terrible PR nightmare, the outcomes can assure a favorable reception for their marketing message.
3-Immersive Experiences Usage Metrics.
Marketers have a plethora of media alternatives, ranging from augmented reality (AR) that can be overlaid on top of a video to virtual reality (VR) that is still being polished by software developers. However, the arrival of 5G will provide advertisers with a more even playing field, since the protocol will make streaming to a smart phone or gadget much easier. In these cases, social media marketers will be charged with rethinking usage data in order to gauge how people are engaging and affect future branding or sales activity.
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Hyperlocal marketing, which uses metadata such as zip codes, landmarks, and neighborhood references to connect individuals with businesses and products within a few blocks or even a single street location, will be a major driver for social media.
Google noticed this trend in 2017 when it noticed an increase in users searching for "near me" on their smartphones. It included "near me" in its smartphone search algorithm as a significant sign of buy intent.
Hyperlocal qualifications will be included in the content that retailers and services post on social media to highlight local events. All of the major social media networks have updated or introduced digital advertising tools to help users find these nearby possibilities. Marketers must determine how these characteristics fit into their overall strategies, which may include making a purchase more convenient.
5-Likes, Tweets, and Page Views Have Lost Their Value.
Likes, followers, and page views aren't going away; they'll just be a secondary tactic. For a long time, there has been a propensity to downplay basic indicators. The downfall of Klout, a social media rating service, in 2018 was the first major warning (I wrote about it in this post). The decision by Instagram to hide likes added to the trend.
The new reach measurement will be difficult to forecast – how will you know if people are responding when you launch a campaign? The days of posting "spray and pray" are long gone. Instead, understanding how people engage will necessitate a multi-attribution strategy.
Analytical solutions that can correlate measurements to identify behavioral value should be sought. Some techniques have been around for a long time — you can look at Google Analytics reports to see what kind of traffic comes in on a regular basis. However, data can now be exported into tools, allowing calculations such as how text is clustered, where social media activity is linked to sales, and whether platform data can be used as a variable in a regression model or as part of a machine learning experiment.
6-Trolls and bad content must be eliminated as a first line of defense for clean metrics.
Unilever CMO Leith Weed asked Google and Facebook to "clear the swamp" of extreme and unlawful content or risk losing advertising money at an IAB leadership meeting in 2017. Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and other sites have now responded by removing problematic content and users (with different degrees of effectiveness). Furthermore, government organizations have become more aware of the ramifications of high-quality digital information. Following a New York Times investigation that revealed Devumi offered bogus likes and follows, the FTC struck a $2.5 million settlement with the company in October, according to TechCrunch.
However, marketers must consider how well social media platforms protect a real-world user and usage environment. The level of faith marketers may place in platform dashboard analytics is ultimately determined by the enforcement.
7-Time's Ascension as a Valuable Metric.
Marketers will pay attention to the growth of new metrics derived from digital sources. Time is one statistic that will acquire traction as a means of maintaining audiences. Although people spend a lot of time on digital media, its overall growth rate has slowed. Platforms and advertisers will have to battle for people's attention long enough to engage with content.
Author Information.
M. Shoaib iqbal is the founder of The Educationist-OSC, a digital learning firm for small businesses. He analyses data from online analytics and social media dashboard systems before making recommendations and taking web development steps to boost marketing strategy and profitability.
