The time has come to begin planning your brands' annual back-to-school marketing strategy, but with the unpredictability of 2020, where do you begin? At Ignite Social Media, it's our job to plan ahead and build our client's social media strategies with safeguards that make it easy...
As a social media agency, we’ve been on a different kind of frontlines during COVID-19: helping our clients navigate and communicate individual business plans on their social channels. In the early weeks, we helped develop and adjust editorial calendars, content, and social media messaging that took...
As we draw closer to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, we wanted to provide an update on ad spending on Facebook and Instagram. We’ll share some trends we’re seeing and recommendations for social ad placements during election time. Trends on Facebook/Instagram As of 8/27, Facebook is reporting...
Bad news: There is no one thing I can tell you that will optimize your social media content. Good news: There are several things I can tell you to consider and ask yourself throughout the entire content creation process that will make optimizing your social...
A new decade is upon us, and with it comes a fresh lens through which we can view the world of social media. Ten years ago, social media platforms were developing (some yet to be developed) and foreign to marketers. Now, as we step into 2020 armed with...
As we get ready to close the door on 2019 and move on to a new decade, we think it is worth revisiting some of the popular topics, based on blog traffic data, of this year. It will be interesting to see if the popular...
Most the of the time, brands are looking to target a certain subset of individuals on social. When it comes to millennials, brands have to be strategic as they differ from other generations and groups of people. Below we breakdown what's trending with millennials on...
Your birthday must be on or before today’s date in 1998 to view this content. If we were advertising or selling alcohol you might see a similar message due to the restrictions put in place for marketing alcoholic beverages. In the US the marketing and...
When you think of the word “organic” these days, the word “expensive” probably also comes to mind. But when it comes to social media, organic reach is all about the influence content has without paying to boost it. Growing your following naturally can be painfully slow sometimes. So...
As 2019 draws to a close, many of you may be putting the finishing touches on your social media strategy plans for the next calendar year. Buttoning up your 2020 strategy can get tricky, however, when the social media platforms and their users are perpetually...
Buying followers is one of the worst ways to spend your social media budget Social media trends ebb and flow, and recently more and more marketers are approaching our agency asking, “Can you run a program to get me more fans on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter?” Stop. Right. There. Running a...
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...