If you were savagely ranking your friends on MySpace in 2007 (when Ignite was founded ), you know that the social media landscape has undergone a significant transformation. What once began as simple platforms for connecting with friends have exploded into vibrant, multifaceted ecosystems where...
It can be difficult to evaluate the success of your social media marketing initiatives when social media is just one of the many marketing tactics you oversee. It’s an issue that a majority of marketing executives face, and one that we’re always working to help...
The social media world is full of crazy terminology, and the terms keep adding up the more the industry evolves. Throughout the years, our team has broken down common social media marketing buzzwords as well as influencer marketing buzzwords, but the most important terms marketers...
Native social media analytics capabilities have changed a lot over the past year or so. Facebook, arguably, has one of the most-robust native analytics platforms available providing an overwhelmingly high number of data points. Other network platform analytics capabilities tend to live in the shadows...
Depending on your business objectives, social media marketing can wear multiple hats. It can be used to drive brand awareness, product consideration, direct sales, and customer care. Quantifying the value behind social content that drives awareness, consideration, and, especially, direct sales/conversions is, for the most...
As a result of ever-changing content algorithms, social media benchmarks are fickle. There's a good chance what will follow in this post will be irrelevant as soon as it's published but, what the heck, let's look at a few social media stats and benchmarks we've...
Our President, Deidre Bounds, shares insights on Facebook updates to key metrics in this week's edition of Ignite Your Week. Facebook Updates Key Metrics [embed]http://youtu.be/En3LmXrW-_w[/embed] Relevancy Score Today we're going to talk about Facebook's new relevancy scores, their new ranking. Relevance score measures whether the ads you ran were...
The most glorious time of year is upon us – yes, football season. To celebrate, I’ll be diving into data that sheds a light on how and why different NFL team’s fans use social media, throwing shade as appropriate since I have data to back...
In this edition of Ignite Your Week, we're talking about benchmarks before the impending Facebook algorithm change. So before the change we wanted to take a look at some benchmarks so we could compare once the algorithm actually takes effect. We looked at over six...
With Facebook consistently changing the News Feed algorithm to reduce organic reach, many page owners are, justifiably, concerned about the future of their page’s ability to generate impressions. While most brands will be fine by supplementing the decrease in organic reach with paid support, pages...
Social media marketers have been battling against the downward trend of organic reach since 2013 when Facebook began limiting the visibility of content in the news feed. These days, you are lucky if you get above 3% reach on your organic content. Additionally, recent algorithm...
Facebook recently made an exciting announcement for marketers. Facebook is experimenting with letting brands study people’s posts and comments on the platform. Facebook Audience Insights API is currently in Beta test with limited partners, as one of those partners, Ignite is going to give you...