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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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Social Media Meets Tulip Mania
It’s a story straight out of the Sherwood Forest, with a stopover in Holland. A determined group of small investors have used the power of social media to punish “the smart money” by pushing the price of GameStop, a widely shorted stock, from $19 to $325 (as of this writing). As the saga continues to […]
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Consumers Are On Social Media, But That Doesn’t Mean They Want To Hear From You
Brand marketers shouldn’t be asking if their consumers are on social media, but rather, “Do they want to hear from my brand?” Discover the segments of social customers and their preferences.
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Voulez-Vous Parler Social Networks’ Content Moderation Policies?
My father told me once, “If you see something wrong happening in the world, you can either do nothing, or you can do something.” And I already tried nothing. — Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman Social networks, tech vendors ingesting social data, and brands running social listening practices might all be wondering the same thing right […]
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No One Should Be Surprised About The Facebook, Inc. Lawsuit In The US
Facebook has thrived in the short term with record-setting users and revenue. Long term, its outlook remains bleak.
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Social Listening Platforms Aim To Serve All User Types
Throwback to the mid-2000s: Facebook was founded, and Hannah Montana premiered. Miley Stewart was an average American kid with an alter ego pop star named Hannah Montana. Miley/Hannah’s dual identity allowed her to escape the public eye while still reaping fame and fortune — ultimately, living “the best of both worlds.” Cut to 2020: Social […]
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Livestreaming Commerce Lands In Europe
Live-streaming commerce is arriving on European shores. Here's what European marketers can expect...
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TikTok — When Geopolitics Trumps Tech Innovation
In the past two months, I’ve received dozens of inquiries about TikTok. While the case is still unsettled, I wanted to summarize some of my comments in this blog post. Is banning TikTok in the US “tit for tat”? Not really. People often compare the US government’s handling of TikTok with the Facebook and Google […]
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Executives Really Must Walk In Their Customers’ Shoes
Back when I was a customer experience (CX) practitioner, I regularly found myself reminding stakeholders up and down the organization that, just because they may have never experienced something, it did not mean that it wasn’t happening to our customers. It would be followed up with me encouraging them to adopt an outside-in perspective and […]
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The Facebook Ad Boycott Is Only The Tip Of The Iceberg
Will The North Face be the North Star for other companies to stick to corporate values and rethink their organic and advertising presences on social media
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Is It Time To Break Up With Social Media?
More than one in three consumers believe social media does more harm than good. Many brands spend tremendous time and money on social media, only to get a tepid (or even angry) response. On this episode of What It Means, Senior Analyst Jessica Liu discusses a timely question: Is it time to break up with social media?
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Facebook, Inc. Extends Its Tentacles With GIPHY Acquisition
There may be more to the move than meets the eye. The acquisition will give Facebook access to data it will find useful.
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Don’t Succumb To Social Media Stockholm Syndrome
A detailed analysis of how consumers are using social media in the customer lifecycle and an intriguing option for brands.
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Q4 2019 Earnings: Top Takeaways For Facebook, Snap, And Twitter
The Q4 2019 earnings reports are in for Facebook, Snap Inc., and Twitter. Here are our top takeaways for marketers: Facebook, Inc. Last year, we at Forrester argued that despite the number and extremity of Facebook’s scandals, they wouldn’t doom the company in the short term. So far, that’s held up, as the user base […]
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Five Consumer Lessons From The 2010s: No. 3
Today I present the third of five key consumers lessons to take away from the 2010s. You can find the previous two here and here. Ten years ago, a wave of demonstrations and protests in the Middle East reshaped our understanding of social media’s influence; the Arab Spring turned up the volume on debate about […]
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Mobilized Employees Engage Buyers With A Trusted Voice
Employees’ Advocacy Boosts Your Content And Customer Interactions While trust in brands has dwindled, B2B buyers hold those same brands’ employees in high regard as authentic and compelling sources of information. And they want to engage with them. In our new research, “Mobilized Employees Engage Buyers With A Trusted Voice,” Matthew Camuso and I explored […]
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Social Suites Technologies Are Coming Together
“The Forrester Wave™: Social Suites, Q4 2019“ is live! We’re particularly excited about this report because it represents a culmination of years of Forrester research on social technologies. Since 2015, we’ve covered five distinct social tech categories: Social listening platforms aggregate and analyze social conversations. Social adtech buys, manages, and optimizes social ads. Word-of-mouth platforms identify and […]
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Social Will Be The Fastest-Growing Digital Advertising Channel Globally
While 2018 was a challenging year for global social media advertising amid the implementation of GDPR, privacy scandals, and brand safety concerns, Forrester forecasts that social will remain the fastest-growing digital advertising channel globally over the next five years. This growth will be driven by increasing revenue per user and will be fastest in Asia […]
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