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Social marketing is at an inflection point. The Wild West days are ending as customers become privacy conscious and governments respond in turn. Read more about how social marketing will grow and change with the times.

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“TikTok Shop” Launch Makes US Social Commerce Plausible

Kelsey Chickering September 12, 2023
ByteDance officially launched its social commerce experience, “TikTok Shop,” in the US. It includes features such as a dedicated shop tab for searching products or browsing product categories, the ability for creators to tag products for purchase, an affiliate funnel for sellers, secure checkout, and brand product portfolios. So far, over 100,000 creators signed up […]
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Overscripting Will Sabotage Your Creator Partnerships

Kelsey Chickering July 17, 2023
In Forrester’s Q1 2023 B2C Marketing CMO Pulse Survey, nearly three-quarters of US B2C marketing and advertising execs say that they plan to partner with creators and influencers in 2023. This doesn’t mean that all of these partnerships will succeed, however. In our just-released report, Best Practices For Creator Marketing Campaigns, we found that overdirection is […]
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Meta’s Advertising Backbone Guarantees Threads’ Monetization

Kelsey Chickering July 6, 2023
Last night, Meta launched its rival app to Twitter, Threads, in 100 countries. This new app is garnering initial excitement and downloads, but it still has a long road ahead to scale and retain an audience, integrate new features, and eventually monetize through advertising. The easiest part for Meta will be monetizing Threads because if […]
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Social Media Turmoil Drives New Ad Strategies

What It Means March 9, 2023
The turmoil happening in social media may be a good thing for advertisers. Find out why as Principal Analyst Kelsey Chickering discusses the current and future state of digital advertising in this episode.
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Meta Hit With €390 Million Fine And An Uncertain Advertising Future

Stephanie Liu January 4, 2023
Learn what the latest ruling against Facebook and Instagram means for marketers.
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Twitter Needs Advertisers, But Advertisers Don’t Need Twitter

Kelsey Chickering December 28, 2022
Recent concerns around brand safety should prompt advertisers to test elsewhere.
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Consumers Haven’t — And Don’t Plan To — Shop Via Social Media

Kelsey Chickering November 16, 2022
US consumers have little interest in doing their shopping — let alone holiday shopping — on social media platforms.
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Meta Pixel Fiasco Underscores Why Marketing And Risk Must Work Together

Stephanie Liu August 5, 2022
Marketing and risk share a common goal: building customer trust. By partnering, marketers and S&R pros can use the growing momentum around consumer privacy to grow customer trust.
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Why Are Brands Funding Misinformation?

What It Means June 23, 2022
Marketers are accidentally funding misinformation and fueling the proliferation of dangerous falsehoods. In this episode of What It Means, Principal Analyst Kelsey Chickering discusses how marketers can protect their brand from this phenomenon.
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The Majority Of Chinese Social Media Users Are Social Savants

Xiaofeng Wang May 18, 2022
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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The Risk Of Greenwashing: One Step Forward For The Cause, Two Steps Back For The Environment

Alla Valente April 21, 2022
The theme for Earth Day 2022 is “Invest In Our Planet.” In the leadup to the main event on April 22, it’s not unusual for scores of companies big and small and newcomers and household names in every industry to take to social media to highlight their efforts for investing in our planet. After all, […]
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Social Media Users Interact With Friends And Family More Than Brands

Jessica Liu October 27, 2021
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

Mike Proulx October 25, 2021
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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Marketers, Stop Being Part Of The Facebook, Inc. Problem — Start Being The Solution

Jessica Liu October 12, 2021
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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The Social “FrankenSuites” Era Must Draw To A Close

Jessica Liu August 9, 2021
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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Top 143 Social Media Groups For MSPs, VARs, And Tech Channel Professionals

Jay McBain July 8, 2021
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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Did You Hear? Social Networks Want In On Audio

Jessica Liu February 11, 2021
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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Consumers Are On Social Media, But That Doesn’t Mean They Want To Hear From You

Jessica Liu January 29, 2021
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?

Jessica Liu January 15, 2021
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

Jessica Liu December 9, 2020
Facebook has thrived in the short term with record-setting users and revenue. Long term, its outlook remains bleak.
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