A special announcement this week. We’re excited to share with you our latest research, in collaboration with our colleagues at Talkwalker: Social Media Audience Trends During The Pandemic. In this paper, you’ll learn which social media networks grew the most in the early weeks of the pandemic, which networks are holding onto their audiences, and the three big trends to take advantage of as we navigate the ever-changing situation. You’ll see practical examples of brands and techniques, Action Steps and takeaways for each major trend, and ways to pivot your marketing to make the most of what you have to work with.
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This week’s Bright Idea is a tidbit from our upcoming webinar on May 19th with Talkwalker on the Social Media Audience Trends During The Pandemic. Here’s a slogan to print and hang up in your home office: Niches Hide Riches. (also a handy clue on how to pronounce niches) One of the heaviest use social networks so far? Twitch. The ubiquitous video streaming and social platform lets you live-stream just about anything. If you haven’t played around with it, set up an account and see what it’s all about. This niche – if your audience is there – could be a powerful way to reach your audience in a non-traditional manner.
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This week’s Rear View Mirror looks at the month of April for top-ranking content. What can we learn about content that attracted the most traffic?
What we see in April is surprising. The number of average social shares for a piece of content is anywhere from 5-11 times greater than the amount of actual pageviews the content received. What’s even more unusual is the substantial inverse correlation between traffic and social shares, -0.79 (Pearson R). One would think, intuitively, that the more a piece of content was shared, the more readership it should earn, but this relationship suggests the opposite – the more it’s shared, the less it’s read.
What are we to make of this? In April, social media usage rocketed up (see our report at the top of the newsletter), and one of the most common habits people have on social media is sharing an article after reading only the headline and preview. The headline is all they care about, and it’s what they share.
What does this mean for us as marketers? If the goal is to create shallow engagement, go for the clickbait headlines. You may not see a bump in your web analytics, but you’ll get the shares. If the goal is to create deep engagement, to have people consume your content and take action from it, then you must obtain traffic from other channels in addition to social media. Sharing may be caring, but sharing definitely isn’t reading.
Methodology: Trust Insights used Ahrefs SEO software to extract content statistics for the top pages posted to the web in April 2020. Data was sourced using the top 25 most common words in the English language; the data thus has a bias towards the English language. The date of the study period is April 1, 2020 – April 30, 2020. The date of extraction is May 13, 2020. Trust Insights is the sole sponsor of the study and neither gave nor received compensation for data used, beyond applicable service fees to software vendors, and declares no competing interests.
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Shiny Objects is a roundup of the best content you and others have written and shared in the last week.
Data Science and AI
- How to Implement Affordable AI in 3 Steps, According to the Marketing AI Institute Director
- Five Strategies for Putting AI at the Center of Digital Transformation via Knowledge@Wharton
- Business Analytics vs. Data Science via Which Path Should you Choose?
SEO, Google, and Paid Media
- SEO Tools to Give Your New Website A Head Start
- How to Stay Creative With an SEO-Driven Content Strategy via Moz
- For better SEO, dont put all your eggs in the SEO basket
Social Media Marketing
- 20 Important TikTok Stats Marketers Need to Know in 2020
- Social Media Lessons From Mom: How To Improve Your Marketing via Heidi Cohen
- Surviving a Crisis: Tips for Social Media Agencies in a Tough Sector
Content Marketing
- Content Management and Strategy: A Disruptive Change We Need
- How to Measure and Analyze Content Marketing Success via ReadWrite
- Learn To Make YouTube Content That Is Supported By The New Algorithm via Technosoups
Get Back To Work
We’ve changed things up in Get Back To Work, and we’re looking at the top 310 metro areas in the United States by population. This will give you a much better sense of what the overall market looks like, and will cover companies hiring in multiple locations. Want the entire, raw list? Join our Slack group!
What do you do with this information?
By looking at this data, you’ll see what the most popular titles are; use any of the major job/career sites to ensure your resume/CV/LinkedIn profile matches keywords and phrases for those titles. For companies, search job sites for those companies specifically to see all the open positions and apply for them.
You can also hit up LinkedIn and see who you know at companies listed, and see if your connections have any inside tips on hiring.
Top Marketing Positions by Count, Manager and Above
- Marketing Manager : 420 open positions
- Digital Marketing Manager : 227 open positions
- Social Media Manager : 181 open positions
- Pharmaceutical Marketing Accounts Manager : 134 open positions
- Account Manager : 132 open positions
- Marketing Director : 119 open positions
- Director of Marketing : 115 open positions
- Product Marketing Manager : 88 open positions
- Product Manager : 84 open positions
- Project Manager : 75 open positions
Top Marketing Hiring Companies by Count, Manager and Above
- SingleCare : 134 open positions
- Northrop Grumman : 130 open positions
- Amazon.com Services LLC : 116 open positions
- Amgen : 64 open positions
- Amazon Web Services, Inc. : 61 open positions
- Deloitte : 44 open positions
- Raytheon Technologies : 44 open positions
- Salesforce : 41 open positions
- JP Morgan Chase : 40 open positions
- Reynolds and Reynolds : 39 open positions
Top Locations of Hiring Companies by Count, Manager and Above
- Seattle, WA : 187 open positions
- New York, NY : 186 open positions
- San Francisco, CA : 137 open positions
- Los Angeles, CA : 115 open positions
- Austin, TX : 88 open positions
- Atlanta, GA : 84 open positions
- Boston, MA : 78 open positions
- Chicago, IL : 75 open positions
- San Francisco, CA 94105 : 73 open positions
- Denver, CO : 69 open positions
Methodology: Trust Insights uses the Indeed.com API to extract open positions from a geographic area focused on marketing analytics, marketing, social media, data science, machine learning, advertising, and public relations, with a filter to screen out the most junior positions.
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