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Social Media Turmoil Drives New Ad Strategies
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
Learn what the latest ruling against Facebook and Instagram means for marketers.
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Join us for Predictions 2023 Live to learn how to focus your priorities for success in the year ahead.
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Twitter Needs Advertisers, But Advertisers Don’t Need Twitter
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
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
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.
Podcast
Why Are Brands Funding Misinformation?
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
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.
Tackle 2023 With Bold Action & Clear Focus
Get our Predictions 2023 Guide to see the 12 big-impact dynamics that leaders will have to navigate in the coming year.
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The Risk Of Greenwashing: One Step Forward For The Cause, Two Steps Back For The Environment
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
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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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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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 […]
See Why 2023 Fortune Favors The Bold And Focused
Explore our 2023 Predictions to see where strategies are shifting – and where opportunities for bold moves exist.
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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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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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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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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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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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