Across the industry, ROI and tying social to business objectives are consistently reported as top challenges in understanding the marketing effectiveness of social media. With the amount of available social data growing every day, marketers are consistently reporting struggles with showcasing value, often due to...
The analytics tools behind some of the most popular social media platforms can be surprisingly limited. With an increasing number of businesses using social media for marketing, many platform analytics leave something to be desired. While some platforms excel in certain aspects of analytics reporting,...
With thousands of people attending live events, both in-person and online, it’s extremely important for your brand to develop good social listening techniques. The social conversation exists whether your brand chooses to participate or not, so it’s critical to be able to listen to the...
Full disclosure, this blog post was fueled entirely by a pro-dog agenda. My wife and I have a bit of a menagerie: 1 dog, 2 permanent cats (1 foster cat), and 3 chickens. As a result, the cute faces of our animals end up on...
If you are like the members of the analytics team here at Ignite Social Media, you've been anticipating the release of an official Instagram analytics platform ever since Facebook purchased the platform for a nice, round $1 billion. It's taken four years for a native...
When I try to explain my job to people outside of the industry, the most common reaction I get is something along the lines of “So you do Facebook…and numbers?” As a social media analyst, I do spend a great deal of time in Facebook,...
We are well into the year now and you may have some looming questions as to how best utilize your social media buys for the remainder of the year. Here are some quick tips and reminders to keep in mind. Invest in Instagram Open to all advertisers as...
2015 was a great year for data! Our analytics team put our heads together to find some highlights for the year and a little sprinkle of speculation for what is to come in 2016. Facebook Organic Reach Oh Facebook organic reach, where hast thou gone. This year we...
Social media monitoring has been around since social media marketing came into existence. Monitoring is great for customer service, measuring share of voice, brand and competitor research, product feedback, etc. As such, it has become a necessity for any brand or agency working in the...
Bam! Yep, that’s a wall and you just walked into it. That moment when you just don’t know what to write about. It happens to everyone, so we put together a quick tip on how to use data from your existing blog content as a...