News broke earlier this month that Facebook has plans to build a new version of Instagram for kids under the age of 13. They’ve chosen 13 because anyone below that age is currently prohibited from using any of Facebook’s products (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger) aside...
This article originally appeared on Starter Story. I’m Jim Tobin, the founder of social media agency Ignite Social Media (2007) and influencer marketing agency Carusele (2015). Ignite Social Media is known as “the original social media agency” because we were the first social media agency created...
Since November of 2020, the new social-audio app Clubhouse has been gaining more and more attention from audiences. Not only has the network garnered over 10M weekly active users and over 1.5M average monthly searches on Google (as of February), competitors have begun taking notice...
There are currently over 80 million businesses worldwide using Facebook Pages. It’s safe to assume that more than one person manages many of those Pages, especially when you look at larger brands that are dedicating significant budgets to social media efforts. Armed with that knowledge,...
As one of the world's top 5 most popular social networks, Twitter has long been an important platform for brands to include in their marketing plans. Not only does the platform boast 192 million daily active users, but 40% of those users have reported purchasing something...
Once a force to be reckoned with, Snapchat more recently seems like an afterthought in most social media strategies. Over the last year, brands have fixated on going viral on TikTok and are now looking at even newer apps like Clubhouse to stay relevant. With...
Social audio could become the future of social media marketing as apps like Clubhouse continue to gain popularity. "Social Audio is the fastest growing communication trend as users are finding that video meetings are too taxing, and text messaging lacks emotion and context. Audio is the...
This article was previously published on Forbes on February 19, 2021 Social media marketers constantly try to balance the proven practices on established social networks with strategic bets on the up and comers. When I started Ignite Social Media in 2007, the battle between MySpace and...
This article was originally published on Inc. Masters on February 8, 2021. Several years ago, my leadership team encouraged me to endorse the creation of “core values” for our organization, Ignite Social Media. At the time, we had been functioning well and growing regularly, and my...
Advertisers are starting to allocate more of their marketing dollars to Reddit. This year, the platform is expected to hit $212.5 million in ad revenue in the U.S. It’s not at the level of Facebook ($40.76 billion in 2021), however, the year-over-year ad revenue growth...
We’re rapidly approaching the 1-year anniversary of statewide lockdowns across the nation due to the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, many of us spent a large portion of that time (and some of us still are) working from home, remote learning, Zooming, and more. In...
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...