In The Headlights: September 9, 2020 Issue - Trust Insights Marketing Analytics Consulting

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Instagram brand data, real-time analytics for content marketing, planning for 2021

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How do you create impactful content when predictive analytics simply isn’t working?

Switch to near real-time analytics.

In the days before the pandemic, we could rely on predictive analytics to understand search trends, to forecast what audiences are likely to want to hear about. But since March 15, 2020 (in the US, other countries have had their own experiences), that data has become unreliable.

The next best thing to knowing what’s likely to happen is knowing what’s happening right now. If you’ve got decent social media monitoring software and trend monitoring software, build a practice of developing marketing content in the moment. When you see something trending in your analytics or your data, use your rapid-response capabilities to craft something appropriate as quickly as possible.

For example, looking at marketing analytics, what are the current topics and discussions in the space in the last 7 days? Here, we use the Talkwalker system for quickly digesting that content:

From this, we’d identify a topic cluster that we could create rapid content about which audiences were highly engaged with, or drill down further to identify specific questions.

Competent public relations professionals have been using data analytics like this for years, finding opportunities to align stories with the zeitgeist of the day. The rest of us should adopt these practices and use them in lieu of predictive analytics if we’re finding that our forecasted data has become unusable due to current conditions.

In this week’s In-Ear Insights, Katie and I discuss marketing planning for 2021. (yes, it’s that time already!) What should you do in the face of overwhelming uncertainty? How do you deal with the fact that a bunch of previous year data isn’t relevant in the current world?

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In this week’s Rear View mirror, we look back at Instagram engagement rates for brands over the past few months. With all that’s happened since March, what have we seen audiences do with brands?

What’s interesting is how quickly Instagram has plateaued for brands. Going into the start of 2020, we saw Instagram engagement around 0.4%. Unlike other social channels, the pandemic didn’t seem to give Instagram much of a boost beyond the first few weeks; after that, performance has bottomed out at roughly 0.13%.

What do we make of this? Those brands that were able to hop on the engagement bandwagon at the start of the pandemic did well; we’ve now reached all-time lows for brand engagement on Instagram. That means it’s time to start comparing performance with other channels; if another channel yields better performance, don’t beat a dead horse – pivot your strategy to what’s working now for you (near real-time analytics!) and keep a close eye on Instagram data in case you see a temporary spike in engagement, as we saw at the beginning of June 2020.

Methodology: Trust Insights used Facebook’s Crowdtangle software to extract 728,306 posts from 3,968 brand pages; brands were provided by Crowdtangle and augmented by Trust Insights. Engagement is defined as the sum of reactions divided by fans/likes at posting. Content included unpaid and paid brand posts. The dates of extraction are March 15, 2020 – September 7, 2020. The date of study is September 9, 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 : 465 open positions
Digital Marketing Manager : 270 open positions
Social Media Manager : 206 open positions
Account Manager : 178 open positions
Director of Marketing : 158 open positions
Marketing Director : 143 open positions
Project Manager : 131 open positions
Product Manager : 109 open positions
Program Manager : 86 open positions
Product Marketing Manager : 84 open positions

Top Marketing Hiring Companies by Count, Manager and Above

Amazon.com Services LLC : 165 open positions
Google : 103 open positions
Thermo Fisher Scientific : 91 open positions
Mattel : 75 open positions
Amazon Web Services, Inc. : 74 open positions
Northrop Grumman : 72 open positions
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. : 57 open positions
Verizon : 52 open positions
Facebook : 51 open positions
Microsoft : 47 open positions

Top Locations of Hiring Companies by Count, Manager and Above

New York, NY : 615 open positions
San Francisco, CA : 426 open positions
Austin, TX : 410 open positions
Chicago, IL : 373 open positions
Seattle, WA : 349 open positions
Atlanta, GA : 297 open positions
Boston, MA : 286 open positions
Los Angeles, CA : 271 open positions
San Diego, CA : 256 open positions
Remote, NA : 235 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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INBOUND 2020, September 2020, virtual
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MarketingProfs, November 2020, virtual
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