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The Majority Of Chinese Social Media Users Are Social Savants
Compared to their US counterparts, online adults in China are far more likely to use social media to buy products and interact with brands. Here are three takeaways for marketers.
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Twitter: Elon’s Battle Over Free Speech Is A Fight Against Content Moderation
What will actually happen to Twitter if Musk takes over is mere speculation at best. But we do know that users are polarized.
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Handling International Data Transfers Is Nothing New — Someone Tell Meta!
If, in the world of privacy, I had to pick one topic that never goes out of fashion, it would be managing international transfers of EU personal data. Since the introduction of the EU Data Protection Directive in 1995 and continuing with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), companies engaging in the storage and/or […]
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Advertisers Are Inadvertently Funding Russian Disinformation
Disinformation is fueling war, and advertisers are inadvertently funding the problem. It's time to fight inertia and take action against disinformation.
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Social Media Plays A Bigger Role In Commerce Than Just Buying
Social media can't serve advertisers well as a standalone commerce channel. Instead, treat it as a key driver in the discover and explore stages of the customer journey.
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Social Media Users Interact With Friends And Family More Than Brands
Yesterday, we published the annual refresh of our Forrester social consumer segmentation. In 2021, consumers who use social media at least weekly (the heaviest users we survey) overwhelmingly prefer to interact with friends/family over brands/companies and influencers on social media. The real question for brands is: “Does my target audience want to interact with my […]
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The Metaverse Won’t Fix Facebook
As Facebook eyes the metaverse, Forrester's latest survey shows consumers want substantive changes to Facebook's ecosystem. Read our full analysis here.
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LinkedIn Has Not Given Up On The China Market
On October 14, 2021, Mohak Shroff, senior vice president of engineering at LinkedIn, published a blog post: China: Sunset of Localized Version of LinkedIn and Launch of New InJobs App Later This Year. It triggered multiple follow-up reports from major media outlets, with titles containing words like: LinkedIn to Shut Down Service in China Microsoft […]
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Marketers, Stop Being Part Of The Facebook, Inc. Problem — Start Being The Solution
Facebook, Inc. is in the hot seat again due to a recent The Wall Street Journal “Facebook Files” exposé and 60 Minutes whistleblower interview. As we’ve said again and again, a singular event won’t be enough to bring down the social media behemoth. Facebook will experience a degradation of its reputation by a thousand cuts: […]
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Halloween Comes Early For Syniverse, FB, And Twitch — What We Can Learn From Their Spooky Outages Plus Breaches
As renowned ghost hunter and solver of mysteries Scooby-Doo would say, “Ruh roh, Raggy!” It looks like more than ghosts are wreaking havoc on haunted networks. We’re less than a full week into October, and Cybersecurity Awareness Month isn’t quite taking shape the way we expected. Ostensibly, orgs decided to pivot and use this time […]
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Facebook’s Outage: Breaking The Ad Empire — For A Day?
The Facebook ecosystem outage should remind advertisers to have proactive risk mitigation plans in place.
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Top 59 Global IT Channel Media Outlets — What MSPs, MSSPs, Resellers, Integrators, And IT Consultants Read
Out of the 14 different spheres of influence that we track at Forrester, the channel industry trade press ranks near the top. Smart vendors and distributors know that the magic of finding, influencing, recruiting, enabling, and nourishing a top-performing channel boils down to three simple questions about partners: What do they read? Where do they […]
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The Social “FrankenSuites” Era Must Draw To A Close
Today, we published The Forrester Wave™: Social Suites, Q3 2021. Since our last evaluation, the vendors in this space have spent two years amassing their platforms via a mix of organic and M&A activity. The market has reached an inflection point: Social suites’ era of collecting modules and features should wind down — and must now yield to a […]
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It’s Time For The Infosec Industry To Address Gender Bias And Bullying Head On
The week of June 28 was a big one (not in a good way) for showcasing the persistence and depth of harassment and exclusion for women in cybersecurity. Those on infosec social media were flooded with bikini selfies protesting the harassment that a woman received for posting her own bikini selfie. Men and women took […]
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Top 143 Social Media Groups For MSPs, VARs, And Tech Channel Professionals
The channel is very large, highly diverse, and incredibly decentralized. Channel partners know that to be successful, they need to carve out a niche — whether that be by line of business, by industry (and, increasingly, by subindustry), by size of customer, geographically, technologically, and by business model. These six vectors are not mutually exclusive, […]
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Win The Trust Of Your LGBTQ+ Millennial Targets
Brands, you’ve got work to do with LGBTQ+ Millennials who, as it turns out, have trust issues with you. The data is hot off the presses from Forrester Analytics Consumer Technographics® Benchmark Survey, 2021 — a survey of close to 200,000 global online adults. Given that it’s Pride Month, I was extra eager to compare […]
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Did You Hear? Social Networks Want In On Audio
First the social networks conquered text. Then they dominated video. And now, the new frontier: audio. New app Clubhouse has garnered significant buzz for its audio-based chatroom environment, where users can join live conversations with people and topics they follow. Last month, Twitter announced its acquisition of Breaker, a social podcasting app, and quickly transitioned […]
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