7 Emerging Social Media Marketing Trends to Watch

Social media marketing is never dull. Marketers face a raft of choices and challenges, including choosing which metrics to watch to gauge the success of their campaigns, deciding where to allocate resources and more. Marketing on social media can provide real opportunities, but first marketers need to navigate through some rocky terrain. If you are one of those beleaguered marketers, watch for how the following trends unfold as 2020 rolls along. 1. Oh the Places You'll Go! (With Hyperlocal Marketing) The big driver for social media will be hyperlocal marketing, the use of metadata like zip codes, landmarks and neighborhood mentions to connect people with services and products nearby, be it a few blocks or even a specific street address. Google noted this phenomenon back in 2017 when it saw an uptick among people typing the phrase "near me" into smartphone searches. It incorporated “near me” in its search algorithm for smartphones queries as a strong indicator of purchase...