Monday, July 8

Today's Essential Marketing News & Tips

Welcome back! If you had some of last week off, I hope you had a good long weekend. And if you didn’t, well, I hope it was a good, normal length weekend.

🌟 Today’s Highlights:

  • You should be focusing on shareable content on IG

  • X wants to move interaction & engagement post buttons

  • YouTube is expanding channel handles to 75 languages

  • 📊 Stat of the Day: Gen Z and Millennials both most frequently use Instagram, while Gen X and Baby Boomers most frequently use Facebook. (Source: Sprout Social)

  • 💡Today’s Insight: A look at Threads’ impact in its first year

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💡 Today’s Insight 💡

🗞 TL;DR - Last week was Threads’ first birthday! They celebrated with a new report on the impact of Threads on culture and trends. Through a partnership with Wakefield Research, the study surveyed nearly 2,000 Gen Z, Millennial, Gen X, and Boomer users about their activity.

💡 Insight - Here are some key findings from Threads’ one-year study:

  • For 60% of respondents, connecting with others is the most important part of social media

  • Since the feature’s launch, 50 million Topic Tags (or, hashtags) have been created to bring communities together over similar interests including photography, books, fitness, and, of course, Swifties

  • 67% of Gen Z users report checking their feed for entertainment-related news, 60% would check for music-related news, and 42% for fashion-related news

  • 63% of all Threads posts are text-only, with text-only trends gaining traction – like prompts & repetitive formats

  • 73% of Americans surveyed feel it’s always necessary to post in proper sentence case, but 36% of Gen Z opt to post in all lowercase

  • One in four Threads posts include at least one photo, with a growing number of Gen Z (47%) and Millennials (42%) opting to use the native camera in social media apps to take pictures they plan to share

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⚡️ Today’s Headlines ⚡️

📣 Instagram reiterated that you should focus on shareable content

🤔 X is planning to remove interaction and engagement buttons on posts

✏️ YouTube is expanding channel handles to 75 languages

🔥 Threads hit 175 million users a year after launching

🤑 Telegram is letting creators share paid content to channels

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