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Marketing Lesson of The Week

► Do You Know How GenZ Uses Social Media?

In addition to removing the digital divide, the pandemic got people across age groups to use a variety of social media sites.

Mapped by age group, an interesting finding pops out about US social media users: Social media use by GenZ, aged 18 to 29, has decreased.

It should come as no surprise since young people don’t want to spend their time on platforms that their parents and grandparents use.

Further, Gen Z users are tired of the on-going changes the major social media platforms keep making.

Many social media sites provide similar functionality. As the chart below shows, there are few points of differentiation.

On average, Gen Z participants spend 4.2 hours per day on social media. (Source: Fall 20211 Research by Piper Sandler). Further, their favorite social media platform is Snapchat and they have the highest engagement with Instagram.

Most real-world connections have moved to private messaging on newer social media apps. Gen Z participants choose social media options from an array of smaller apps where each serves a distinct function. For example:

• Twitch focuses on live-streaming and gaming;
• BeReal delivers spontaneous updates; and
• Poparazzi sends candid photos of friends.

To connect privately and directly with their fans, content creators set up accounts on social media chat apps such as a Geneva home, a Discord server, or a Telegram channel.

Editor’s Note: Screenshots are from computer interfaces.

These apps allow creators to have access to and engage with their communities directly. They discuss what their community wants to hear rather than broadcast based on a social media platform’s rules. [Source: Washington Post]

Actionable Marketing Tips

• Test these new social media apps to better understand how they work and where they fit in your social media strategy. Let the younger members of your team do this work and ask if they would use their personal name. You don’t want to stand out while you’re testing the waters.
• Reassess your social media strategy by the age segments of your audience. Since you may want to change your presentations to different segments.

Brand Beats

► 2022 Most Valuable Brands Keep Growing

Together the world’s Top 100 Most Valuable Brands increased their worth to $8.7 trillion in 2022. That’s a year-over-year increase of 23%. (Source: Kantar)

To make the Top 100 Most Valuable Brands list this year, a brand had to have a total brand valuation that exceeded $21,219 million.

At the top of the 2022 list was Apple with a brand value of $947.1 billion, an increase of 55% over 2021. The increase in Apple’s brand represents a high degree of differentiation and continued diversification across its portfolio of hardware, software and services products.

Actionable Branding Lesson

Invest in your brand to maintain its strength through consistent use during uncertain global economic and environmental times.

Voice Notes

► How Customers Use Voice-Enabled Devices

As consumers use voice-enabled devices more and more, they find new uses for them.

Based on Research from Voice Consumer Index 2022, here’s a snapshot of how customers use their voice devices for purchase related activities:

• 64% consume entertainment,
• 54% shop retail;
• 52% call for food delivery;
• 49% check on consumer packaged goods;
• 49% shop for local services;
• 45% check on fashion;
• 43% check travel options; and
• 42% engage with their financial institutions.

Actionable Voice Marketing Tip

• Provide content marketing in voice or audio formats to reach voice-first customers. Then distribute this voice content across ALL voice and audio platforms at the same time.

Content Communicates

► Length Matters For Content

Does the length of your articles matter?

Not sure?

Then check out what Chartbeat discovered for articles of 10,000 words or less published between January 2019 and April 2022.

• For articles between 0 and 2,000 words, the Average Engaged Time increases as the total word count increases.
• When articles contain more than 4,000 words, Engaged Time Variability also grows. As a result, the return on adding extra length to the content is less certain.

While smartphones generate more pageviews than computers, they don’t get the same amount of engagement. This makes sense since smartphone users tend to check their devices to fill otherwise wasted time and these intervals may be very short.

Actionable Content Marketing Tips

• Maximize audience readership by publishing articles of 2,000 words or less.
• Craft article summaries targeted at smartphone readers.

Marketing Reads

► The Ultimate Branding Checklist: How To Create Your Branding
Strategy

Does your business have a unique branding strategy?

Or did someone just create a logo on Fivvr?

If you fail to develop your brand, your offering can become an undifferentiated commodity or be driven out of a specific market category if customers prefer and purchase other brands.

► The New B2B Purchase Process: What You Need To Know Now

Did you realize that the B2B Purchase Process has changed?

Even more importantly, it has major implications for your marketing since ⅓ of B2B buyers use voice options and ⅓ of B2B buyers use digital only options.

► Why You Need to Create Content for After the Sale (Hint: It Can Help Your Strained Budget)

By Jordan Friedman in Contently. I was thrilled to get quoted in this article since I think marketers are missing a big opportunity by not focusing on the post-purchase process.

► The Essential Guide to Brand Management

Everything you need to know to manage your digital brand identity.

Good branding is critical for standing out in today’s competitive business landscape.

This eBook, Offered Free by Canto, outlines everything you need to know about digital branding – with tips to create a consistent brand experience across every touchpoint.

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Plan Ahead: Mark Your Calendar

► MAICON 2022 – August 3-5th, 2022 in Cleveland, OH.

The Marketing Artificial Intelligence Conference (MAICON), returns to an in-person event this year. Check out MAICON’s schedule of upcoming webinars.

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