In The Headlights: September 23, 2020 Issue - Trust Insights Marketing Analytics Consulting

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Instagram brand engagement by type, new live show, value of analytics?

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This week, we’ve got an announcement – a brand new show: So What? The Marketing Analytics and Insights Live show.

What, another live show?

Yes. Another live show. Why? Because we’ve been watching livestreams voraciously over the past month to see what we’d want out of a livestream, and we’ve asked you for your feedback in surveys recently. What you’ve wanted:

Interesting, relevant content that’s engaging the audience, something different, something actionable.

We’ve designed So What? to be that actionable, engaging, different show. Each week on Thursdays at 1 PM Eastern Time (with recordings available immediately afterwards), we’re covering topics important to you with a critical difference: we’re going to do the work on the air, live. Think of it like an analytics cooking show.

This past week, we looked at how to optimize a page for SEO, along with identifying which pages on your site were most in need of help.

This week at 1 PM, we’ll be tackling email deliverability – the ins and outs of ensuring your email marketing gets delivered.

How do you watch? Subscribe to our YouTube channel and pop by Thursdays at 1 PM, or catch replays on the blog on Fridays.

Got a question you want us to tackle on the air? Submit it here.

In this week’s In-Ear Insights, we tackle a key question that eludes many of us: how do you explain the value of analytics so that your stakeholders are willing to invest in it? How do you make analytics valuable?

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In this week’s Rear View mirror, we dig into Instagram engagement rates for brands, a question posted in our Analytics for Marketers Slack group.

The big question was, did the rollout of Instagram reels substantially reduce engagement? The answer is… not really. What we see instead is a consistent decline in Instagram engagement for brands of all content types, not just Video (which the questioner expected to be the hardest hit). IGTV has remained stable and lowest-performing, while photos and carousels appear to have taken a slight hit. It’s still too soon to tell conclusively; what may be happening now could be seasonal or impacted by many, many other outside factors.

The key takeaways here: if appropriate for your brand, give Reels a try, but we won’t have good data about them until Reels is added to the Instagram analytics API. In the meantime, if it’s engagement you want, carousels (albums, multi-picture posts) are still the way to go.

Methodology: Trust Insights used Facebook’s Crowdtangle software to analyze 1,075,425 Instagram posts from 3,997 brands. Brands were curated by Facebook and augmented by Trust Insights. The dates of extraction are January 1, 2020 – September 21, 2020. The date of study is September 22, 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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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 : 508 open positions
Digital Marketing Manager : 273 open positions
Social Media Manager : 210 open positions
Account Manager : 182 open positions
Marketing Director : 161 open positions
Director of Marketing : 140 open positions
Project Manager : 128 open positions
Product Manager : 104 open positions
Product Marketing Manager : 90 open positions
Program Manager : 88 open positions

Top Marketing Hiring Companies by Count, Manager and Above

Thermo Fisher Scientific : 144 open positions
Amazon.com Services LLC : 143 open positions
Google : 121 open positions
Pearson : 118 open positions
Mattel : 66 open positions
Anthem : 61 open positions
Amazon Web Services, Inc. : 57 open positions
Deloitte : 57 open positions
Verizon : 57 open positions
Northrop Grumman : 56 open positions

Top Locations of Hiring Companies by Count, Manager and Above

New York, NY : 663 open positions
San Francisco, CA : 450 open positions
Austin, TX : 423 open positions
Chicago, IL : 416 open positions
Seattle, WA : 325 open positions
Atlanta, GA : 312 open positions
Boston, MA : 288 open positions
Los Angeles, CA : 268 open positions
San Diego, CA : 261 open positions
Remote, NA : 228 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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Upcoming Events

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MarTech East, October 2020, virtual
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