It's July 2020, which means Stop Hate for Profit is underway. If you're not familiar, Stop Hate for Profit is a recent protest where large advertisers have pulled their budgets from Facebook and Instagram to try and get Facebook to adjust their policies on hate...
Most social platforms offer a snippet of code advertisers can place on their websites that offer benefits such as enhanced targeting, tracking, and insights. There's the Facebook Pixel, Pinterest Tag, and Snap Pixel, to name a few. LinkedIn has a lightweight Javascript tag; the “LinkedIn Insight...
The 2019 holiday shopping season became the first-ever trillion-dollar retail season in US history. All three key shopping days (Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday) gained over 14% in incremental sales compared to prior years and were on track to again exceed sales in 2020…...
The Current Online Shopping Landscape In response to the global pandemic, buyers significantly have shifted their consumption behaviors. A recent study from the Boston Consulting Group found that eCommerce has grown more in the last eight weeks than in the decade before that. Younger users who...
Social media groups have become a popular way for communities to stay connected, and with the rise of branded Facebook Groups and LinkedIn Groups (along with new features), brands have new opportunities to connect with their audiences. LinkedIn, the leading social media network for professionals...
Facebook is in the midst of a boycott by some large advertisers during this month of July 2020. While Facebook’s stock price hit an all-time high on July 7th, one of the key boycott dates, all is not sunny in Menlo Park. A meeting that same...
Understanding social media management pricing and costs isn’t easy. These items drastically vary across the industry depending on what services you’re looking for and what level of expertise you’re intending to hire. That said, it’s essential that your brand sets your budget before going into any...
Over the last few days, some large, reputable brands have announced that they plan to withhold all social media advertising on Facebook and Instagram throughout the month of July (some as long as the remainder of 2020). This situation is evolving quickly and as we...
Agency life is stressful during good times and bad. When things are good, growth can happen faster than hiring and onboarding can keep up. When things are bad, people know that their jobs might be at risk. It’s rare for an agency to be in...
The year 2020 has been an interesting year, and has had social media marketers asking more often than not, “should we pause our paid media and hold publishing content?” It’s certainly the right question to ask. And the majority of brands have implemented their crisis management...
Our most popular webinar of the last 12 months was by far “What Marketers Need to Know About TikTok,” and for good reason. New research shows that TikTok has leaped to third place among teens’ favorite social media apps, passing both Facebook and Twitter. Other evidence is also...
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...