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Social Media Trends You Need to Know for 2016 Michelle Kostya Global Director, Enterprise Training and Strategy
The Landscape in 2015 The following paved the way for our 2016 trends: Consumerization Fragmentation Mobile First
2015 Landscape, demographics Active Users of the Top Social Platforms and Messaging Tools, by Age 16-24 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 Tumblr Instagram YouTube Pinterest Google+ Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Snapchat Kik Wechat Line Facebook Viber Whatsapp Skype Kakao Messenger Source: Global Web Index Q4 2014
Hootsuite Trends for 2016 1. Social is the 2. Channel 3. #socialbusiness 4. Video is king 5. Spend on new front door feature sets are FINALLY happens Influence converging
Trend 1: Brands are investing in reaching customers where they are – social and mobile - and how they want to be engaged.
Percentage of marketers growing their 70% social media advertising budgets in 2015 Reaching Consumers $24 The amount marketers will spend by the end of 2015 to reach customers on social media on Social billion + 33% Growth in social media advertising budgets in 2015 YoY Data source: emarketer, marketingland, recode
Social - Beyond Marketing PR Marketing Sales Customer Service Research HR Social Internal Communication Media
Customer Service Gets Social According to J.D. Power, 67% of consumers have used a company’s social media channel for customer service. Less than 6% of unhappy customers get in touch via email or support hotline now. In fact, 30% of people prefer to contact brands using social media rather than the telephone. More than half of social 42% of consumers media users under the complaining in social media age of 45 engage in social expect a 60 minute response care. time.
Sales Gets Social 75% 45% 84% more opportunities of prospects now use Social selling leaders create of new opportunities social media to be more 45% more opportunities per are started from a informed quarter than Social Selling warm introduction laggards.
HR Gets Social ● Recruiting: 92% of companies use social to hire and 3 / 4 hiring managers check social profiles. ● Brand: 47% of Millennials say a prospective employer’s online reputation matters ● Retention: Empowering employees and encouraging a positive sharing company culture
The convergence of feature sets.
Trend 2: While channels are increasingly fragmented, the feature sets offered by each are actually converging.
Top Apps Usage (Time) Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 App Facebook WhatsApp Messenger Instagram Line Viber Kakao Clash Of Clans WeChat Twitter Talk Source: Mary Meeker Report 2015
In-Demand Features Fastest Growing Apps Direct Messaging Content Discovery Photo, Video, Animation Data source: Statista
Messaging Investments & Innovation
Niche over Mass
Work is now social.
Trend 3: The long-awaited transformation of workplace communication promised by social media is here.
Social’s Taken Over the Office Data source: IDC
Employee Advocates Take Over Social X
Video dominates on social.
Trend 4: Video continues to grow its share of our attention on social media, even as it fragments across multiple channels.
The Internet is Video 80% +50% YoY 5 million 6 billion Percentage of global Hours of video watched Years it would take to Daily video views on Internet traffic that will by YouTube users every watch all the video that Snapchat (3X growth from be attributed to video month will be shared every May to November 2015) by 2019 month in 2019
Facebook vs. YouTube 8 billion videos are viewed on Facebook daily YouTube Facebook views are aided significantly by autoplay Facebook
The Future of Livestreaming 2016 will be the make-or-break year for mobile livestreaming, as Meerkat and Periscope seek mainstream consumer use cases ● 10 million users ● 2 million users ● 40 years/21 million minutes of video watched every day ● Unknown number of video views ● Owned by Twitter ● Access to Facebook Graph
Trend 5: Both brands and consumers are shifting spend toward influence.
The influence of people we trust seals the deal.
The Pyramid of Journalists & Celebrities Influence Paid Professional Influencers Power Middle Influencers Super Fans Earned/Owned Fans & Followers
What Do You Do With Them?
What Can They Do For You? Generate Reach a Ignite Awareness new audience action Amplify your messages Crowdsource Drive entries, downloads, clicks, or program intelligence traffic, shares and purchases Build affinity Grow consideration Change for your brand for your products opinions
Where’s It All Going? ● Blurring the lines between traditional ● Influencers are becoming more diverse and and digital PR are either “non-niche” or VERY niche ● Influencers are becoming increasingly ● Influencers will need to provide more data expensive to partner with ● Oversaturation = inauthenticity ● Exclusivity drives cost and complicates ● Marketers need to figure out relationships the true value of an impression
Questions?
Resources Resource Library hootsuite.com/resources Hootsuite Blog Blog.hootsuite.com
Thank You Michelle Kostya Global Director, Enterprise Training & Strategy LinkedIn.com/in/michellekostya
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