In response, LinkedIn created Thought Leader Ads, which allows advertisers to sponsor content from LinkedIn members, expanding the ways they can reach audiences. Effective B2B influencer marketing isn’t about celebrity status. In B2B, the focus is on value creation, trust-building, and collaboration.
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| Jun 20, 2024
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The attractive walled garden of LinkedIn: B2B marketers spend a lot of time and money on LinkedIn for good reason. LinkedIn manages the collection of data and ensures GDPR compliance. It also obtains consent from its members to use anonymized contact and firmographic data for marketing. The data stays with LinkedIn, but marketers can use LinkedIn’s tools to effectively target and market to people.
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| Jan 20, 2023
LinkedIn has become a hub for journalists. The app has become a go-to for sharing articles and engaging with readers. It is catering to those users, by promoting posts and videos in its “L News” feed, for example. Still, many journalists can’t fully quit Twitter, mainly because they’ve spent years building their presence on the platform and there is no exact replacement.
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| Apr 10, 2023
LinkedIn revenues grew 8%. Google's “Search and Other” revenues are holding steady (just 1.87% growth)—although YouTube ad sales actually dropped. By comparison, Microsoft’s search and news advertising revenues (excluding traffic acquisition costs) jumped 10%. Alphabet also announced $70 billion in additional stock buybacks, signaling the company's confidence in its financial health.
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| Apr 26, 2023
That’s good news for Pinterest and LinkedIn, the platforms most trusted by users according to our “Digital Trust Benchmark” report, and bad news for Facebook, which just 18% of users think protects their privacy. 2. Digital trust is necessary but elusive. Our survey found trust in social media at its lowest point in three years for all major platforms.
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| Nov 30, 2022
The LinkedIn user base is getting younger. On this top B2B network, millennials and Gen Zers will make up 61.6% of total US users in 2023, per our forecast. User growth this year will be most notable in Gen Z, rising 20.0% YoY. B2B buyers use social media to reach sellers and to share experiences.
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| Jul 5, 2023
Older Gen Zers use Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, and the former Twitter (now called X) more than teens. Teens have a higher preference for YouTube for viewing long videos. The big takeaway: The fact that Gen Z’s attention is divided for key social media activities spells potential opportunities for brands and the major social networks.
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| Oct 27, 2023
But Jasmine, what should we make of this 1 billion user milestone for LinkedIn? Jasmine Enberg:. Well, it's a huge milestone again. Also, interestingly, it's coming just a few days after Elon Musk said that LinkedIn was one of X's biggest competitors now that they're rolling out XHiring, which I have a lot of questions about.
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| Nov 6, 2023
An influencer who has mastered the art of B2B social platform LinkedIn. How is it used? The same way “influencer” would be used in any creator economy conversations, but specific to LinkedIn. Why should you care? More than 1 in 5 people in the US are on LinkedIn, and both the creator economy and B2B ad spend are growing, according to our forecast.
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| Oct 3, 2023
Microsoft has quietly laid a foundation for the future of digital advertising with assets in search (Bing), social (LinkedIn), gaming (Xbox), retail media (PromoteIQ), and ad tech (Xandr). Ecommerce giants power the retail media boom. Amazon drove—and now dominates—digital advertising’s third wave with a powerful combination of search, display, and streaming TV ads.
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| Dec 19, 2022
As inflation eases across Europe in 2024, retail, media, and marketing firms will turn their attention to regulatory headwinds on the horizon.
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| Oct 15, 2024
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The top two channels in the digital ad spending space are LinkedIn and Meta. Together, they’ll capture more than 37% of all B2B digital ad spend in 2023. Display will dominate search by 2024. B2B video ads will help drive up display’s growth rate, with YouTube accounting for 15.0% of B2B video ad spending in 2023.
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| Sep 5, 2023
TikTok’s staggering US growth last year was far higher than other social media networks (LinkedIn came in second with growth of just 19%). Its success is spilling over to competitors, too: Thanks to TikTok and the rise of YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels, we forecast that video will make up 53.4% of US social ad budgets in 2023.
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| Jan 18, 2023
Methodology: Insider Intelligence surveyed 2,225 social media users in the US during May 20-June 9, 2022, to gauge how perceptions of digital trustworthiness differ between nine of the largest social platforms: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube.
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| Jan 17, 2023
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“Over the last year, we have shifted our focus from a writing assistant to becoming a true AI copilot for marketing teams,” said co-founder Dave Rogenmoser on LinkedIn. “Specifically, we’ve become a platform mid-market and enterprises can trust with on-brand, high-performing marketing content.”. What does Jasper do?
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| Oct 3, 2023
LinkedIn is becoming a must for industry professionals. Creators are building audiences by sharing industry insights and business news. LinkedIn is steadily rolling out new tools to support those creators, including its Creator Accelerator Program, Top Voices list, and newsletters, which saw a fourfold increase in subscribers in the past year, per LinkedIn.
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| Mar 22, 2023
TikTok also launched an AI ad script generator, part of a trend of social platforms—including Snap and LinkedIn—using generative AI for ad copy. Player: Microsoft. Microsoft made a number of changes to its ad management tools, renaming several ad platforms and introducing AI-based targeting, generative AI in responsive search ads, and more.
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| Jul 17, 2023
Through multiple LinkedIn posts, Unit investors implied that Treasury Prime was to blame for Piermont’s consent order, per Fintech Business Weekly. How the industry has reacted: Throughout the banking sector, there’s a general sense of regulatory dread around which bank will wind up in the news next.
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| Apr 3, 2024
Only 26% of B2B marketers worldwide plan to use genAI, according to a May 2023 LinkedIn survey. That’s likely due to factors like major privacy concerns over proprietary and sensitive data, regulations, transparency, and misinformation.
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| Oct 4, 2023
Adult Gen Zers also overindex on Twitter, Reddit, and LinkedIn. Younger Gen Zers grew up on social video, but older Gen Zers are still drawn to text-based and conversational social platforms, in addition to platforms offering social video. Key Takeaway: Don’t think of Gen Z as a monolithic audience. Teens are more concentrated in a few favorite destinations, making it easier to catch their attention.
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| Sep 28, 2023
The data derived from successful email campaigns in email are also core to other profitable channels like remarketing—in email, social, or anywhere you can upload hashed email like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Google Ad Manager (via publisher-provided IDs), Amazon, LinkedIn, Taboola, LiveRamp, Criteo, AdRoll, etc.
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| Mar 4, 2024
More Chart of the Day. 7/12 - B2B’s LinkedIn the chain. 7/11 - Just in Prime. 7/10 - Prime expectations. 7/7 - Gen Z’s mind over matter. 7/6 - Beauty on a budget.
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| Jul 12, 2023