Social Marketing

If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years on the Internet, it’s that if two people are disagreeing online, the most productive course of action is to wade right in with your own overblown opinion. So here I am.

Millennials are indeed highly social, with huge implications for brands. But, there remains confusion about where their social activity takes place and how best to activate it. As a result some marketers may be misconstruing how best to engage with them.

Nielsen announced plans to bring its Nielsen Social solutions to Mexico in the first half of 2015.

Who cares? I cannot for the life of me recall an occasion where a tweet or Facebook status update from a CMO has pushed me to buy or try a product or service. Can you? Can any of your co-workers or family members? Anyone who is in line at Starbucks right now, as you read this? Go on, I dare you to ask if they even know the name of the Starbucks CMO. Or if they even know what a CMO is. Or does.

There are plenty of things I’ve never understood about CMOs — like why they’d take a job that seldom lasts that long– but chief among those things I just don’t get is their often-willful ignorance about how people are actually using media.

As teens are changing their media habits, moving away from traditional TV viewing to spending more time with other entertainment formats—namely YouTube, Instagram, and Tumblr—their interest in traditional celebrities has waned.

The digital marketing world has been abuzz for months about Facebook’s dialing-down of organic brand content in the average user’s newsfeed—and the declining importance of the “like” or page follow in its wake.

Expectations where high and discussions among colleagues were all about predicting if Telemundo and Latin We’s social media experiment #YoSoyElInfluencer Summit combined with the new reality show “Yo Soy el Artista” would become a brilliant idea with a flawless execution or a total disaster. The task was not an easy one, and I was told it was in the making for an entire year.  By Lynn Ponder / WebCityGirls

YouTube is booming. A recent analysis from Jefferies valued the company at up to $40 billion—more than Twitter. And marketers have taken note, using the platform to share content as digital video continues to rise in popularity.

Social networking is a majority activity in the US: eMarketer expects 54.3% of the population, or 68.5% of internet users, to log on to a social site at least once per month in 2014.

By Gonzalo López Martí @LopezMartiMiami

When I started out in this business back in the good ol’ 90s, it could take us weeks, even months to craft and get approval for a four word-long tagline.
Entire teams of senior admen and adwomen would sit down around a table to analyze inane lines of copy.
Clients would belabor for months over the meaning, subtext and anthropological connotations of a futile alliterated soundbite.
Of course, the soundbite under the magnifying glass was going to run on billboards, bus shelters, newspapers and magazines when billboards, bus shelters, newspapers and magazines reigned supreme in the marketing repertoire.
Today, I lead a team of dozens of fickle Millennials cranking out tweet-like musings by the truckload, destined to ephemeral social media lifespans.
Funny thing is, the dozens of fickle Millennials refuse to talk to me.

Telemundo announced its first-ever social media influencer summit, dubbed #YoSoyelInfluencer, as part of the reality series, “Yo Soy El Arista” (“I am the Artist”), premiering Sunday, September 14 at 8 pm/7c.

The US social network audience is big—172.6 million people in 2014, or 54% of the population and 68.6% of internet users, eMarketer estimates. Based on June 2014 research by Harris Interactive for WP Engine, many of those users are likely worried about privacy on such platforms.

U.S. Hispanics are ahead of the curve when it comes to digital. They lead in adoption of new devices. They are power users of mobile and over-index in video consumption. But despite the facts, these consumers are vastly underserved, and the opportunities to reach them through digital remain largely untapped. But what, exactly, should marketers be doing? To see what’s working (and what’s not), Vice President of Americas Marketing at Google, Lisa Gevelber, looked at the strategies of leading brands and forward-thinking marketers. Here are the top lessons she learned.

Have corporate marketers figured out social media measurement?

What’s the difference between a social connecter and a social influencer? 

If you are like many mom marketers, you are probably spending this week recovering from BlogHer, the annual blogging conference that just celebrated its 10th anniversary in San Jose. You might be, as blogger Janie Emaus calls it, “BlogHerized”— a mind-boggling state of sorting through the Who, Where, Why and When of What you experienced at the conference. You met some amazing bloggers, but how do you begin finding those blogs that will be the best partners for your brand?

Traditional journalism has been significantly impacted by the growing number of Americans who turn to social media to source, share and engage with news.

Following last year’s “Bleachable Moments” social TV effort success with ABC’s “The Bachelorette,” Clorox Bleach went at it again with extensions on Twitter, allowing fans to vote. Molly Steinkrauss, associate director of marketing communications at The Clorox Company, spoke with eMarketer’s Danielle Drolet about the effectiveness of social TV for consumer packaged goods brands.

It is no secret that Millennials are, by and large, social media enthusiasts. With the expansion of the social networking landscape in recent history, Millennials are not just connecting online with friends; they are connecting online with thought leaders, experts, idols, and any other figures they are interested in but might not actually know in real life.