Social Data

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taylor.vanceNew User

asked in Social Data

Sprout Link Analytics

I’d love a graphical representation or just deeper report on sprout link in bio rather than only being apply to see link clicks through the post performance report and filter.

kelli.cochranAgency Partner

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Social Listening Reports

How are people “presenting” their social listening findings/reports? I know Sprout gives you a few different options for exporting and you can take screen grabs but is anyone taking the social listening data and making it into a PPT or something? I would love details for inspiration! I work at an ad agency and often times the way the social listening report presents itself isn’t enough. What are you doing to make it more into a report and/or present it to your client / others in the agency?

terry.gaylordFrequent User

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LinkedIn Advertising - not reaching full audience

Hey Arb community! Apologies in advance if there’s already a topic floating around for this, but I didn’t see one. I do frequent LinkedIn advertising for my company and I’ve noticed something interesting. Despite having large audience sizes, in some cases 85,000, my ads typically reach <10,000 LinkedIn users. For those that the ads do reach, it is shown to them an average of 7 times. Now, I would LOVE if my ads were reaching more people in my target audience. I would also love if I could somehow decrease the frequency that my ads are shown to each user. So I guess I have a couple questions.1.) How can I reach more LinkedIn users in my target audience? Do I simply need to increase my budget?2.) Is there a way to put a cap on frequency? Any responses are greatly appreciated! I am still relatively new in my role. Thank you!

amanda.roeschFrequent User

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YOY Engagement Reporting - Is it possible?

Has anyone else had a team push for year over year comps when looking at engagements within organic social (IG specifically)? The biggest issue is YOY often looks down as the data continues to compound, so we can't get a true look of what last year at months end looked like compared to this year. With engagements becoming the top channel priority and having a push for not just MOM but YOY, I haven’t been able to find an accurate way to report that without making it appear as if the channel is down. Any ideas?

Laura PorcinculaCommunity Manager

published in Social Data

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Malorie PastorFrequent User

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When impressions are up, engagement is down [and vice versa] ?

Hello fellow social media warriors. I’ve bene noticing a trend for the last several months when I pull my monthly metrics: when my impressions are up, my engagement is down; when my impressions are down, my engagement is up. I can COUNT on it. And this is for all networks, to included when I pull cross-network reports, too. Anyone else? And….whhhhy? 😅

brittany.vanmaeleAgency Partner

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Personal Information Requests under CCPA & Other Laws

Hey all! Curious if anyone has experience with dealing with personal information requests from consumers in light of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and other laws involving personal information? Particularly how it impacts information provided over social media? One of our clients is implementing a data request form and we’ll be tasked with checking to see what information consumers have provided across channels (social, email, website, etc.) There’s not a ton out there (that I can find) regarding what’s required when it comes to deleting personal information on social, so we’re not sure if someone requests that we delete their information, if that includes deleting past social comments, messages, etc. Just seeing if anyone else has any experience related to this!

lbridgeNew User

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Is Meta putting a penalty on the content I'm posting?

Hi everyone! I post consistently on all the major platforms with the main one being Instagram. Usually I can easily see 700K+ impressions each week with tons of engagements. The content is very audience driven and has been performing well up until recently.For the past two months it seems like all my posts and reels can’t get past the mid ten thousands for views and the engagements are very low.It feels like I did something wrong and Meta is capping my reach. Does anyone have any ideas?

mmellanderAdvanced User

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Unexplained Changes in Facebook Gender & Cities Reached Analytics

Going over our Facebook demographics from the past year, I have discovered some confusing changes and trends. I’m curious to see if anyone else has seen similar things. People Reached By Gender: After consistently having Women as our top reached gender (by a big majority) for years, it suddenly flipped to Men, and has stayed Men since July 2023. Top Reached Cities: There is zero consistency in this list month-over-month. I believe that some of that might be attributed to targeted ad campaigns. However, in April 2023, New York, NY suddenly topped our list out of nowhere, and has been the no. 1 city each month since July 2023. (We are a financial institution based in the Binghamton, NY market with locations in Reading, PA, Northern, NJ, and Central, NY) I attached our raw numbers for these two categories. I would appreciate any insight anyone may have.

Zuzana VoskarovaFrequent User

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Incorporating video views in overall reporting

Hi team, I’m looking for clarity on how / if video views are incorporated into other metrics. Our team does not specifically report on video views - only on impressions, engagements and engagement rate. I know that video views are separated out in Sprout Social reporting, so I just want to clarify if they are included in either impressions or engagements as well, or will I need to add the video views to those metrics? I’m conscious that TikTok views are included in the impressions metric, are there any other channels that do this? I don’t want to accidentally double up on the data, so I’m looking for clarification and best way to report on video views given our team’s reporting needs. Any help would be appreciated!

allisonFrequent User

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Meta Pixel Won't Connect to Shopify

Hi friends! Unfortunately, I’m here with another “why does Facebook Business Manager hate us all” post :(Our web team has been trying to link our Facebook Ad Pixel to our Shopify site for a hot minute with no success. Despite having all page permissions on the Facebook account, we receive a “you don’t have the permissions for this” error message every time we attempt to link them. I have tried as the Facebook account owner, had the Shopify account owner try, and a few other team members who have access to both platforms but no one can make it work. Unfortunately, Facebook does not have a responsive support team and we’ve followed their online “help” guide to no avail. Any tips on how to link Facebook Pixels to Shopify would be greatly appreciated! Or if you have the secret on how to get FB on the phone, I’ll take that too. Thanks in advance!

mmellanderAdvanced User

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Presenting Social Data Reports

I love reviewing all the data that comes with social media. However, I am spending way too much time building my monthly report that I share with management. I’ve been tweaking a powerpoint presentation for the past year that I enter all the data from SproutSocial into. Granted, I get way too into the weeds when it comes to making my reports look fancy (I’m a designer..what do you expect?) but I am curious what others are doing to present all this great data in a “pretty” way.

michelleemardNew User

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Upcoming Report Changes from Facebook

Hey everyone! With the recent upcoming changes for Facebook and reporting on page-level metrics that I think many people use, are there any suggestions of what if anything will replace these metrics?

emma.peneguyAdvanced User

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Meta Shops "Upgraded" Checkout (ie, 2.9% processing fee)

Hi guys,Ok, I need some help pulling some data. Basically, our team is trying to decide if it’s worth it to eat the processing fee (2.9% for us) that Meta will begin requiring in order to operate a facebook/instagram shop on April 24th. I have been tasked with researching the value of keeping our Facebook/Instagram shops, and I’m trying to pull some data on how many times our “tagged products” from posts were actually clicked on. This is proving difficult because Meta has recently disabled the product tagging feature to anyone who hasn’t “upgraded” their shops. Does anyone know how to get this metric? Additionally, curious to know if anyone else is in the same situation. If so, what type of business do you work for/own and how did you make your decision to keep or to close your Facebook/IG shop?

Laura PorcinculaCommunity Manager

published in Social Data

🔴 Watch Recording - The Arboretum Presents: Year in Social!

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Laura PorcinculaCommunity Manager

published in Social Data

Sharing Reports with Leadership: An Educational Short

There’s a lot to consider when sharing your reports with leaders at your organization. Watch @steph.hermanson explain the who and how of sharing your data with leadership, in the video below: Fun fact: Steph LOVES answering your questions, make sure to share questions in the thread below. Make sure we don’t disappoint her, please ask ALL the questions!

virginia.riosEngaged User

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How to create a report on Social Media influence in the pipeline

Hello! Furthermore the reports on clicks and additional analysis of UTMs that we currently do, I would like to detect how our social media interactions with potential customers influence our pipeline. For example, if we receive a comment on LinkedIn in a post, and that person is a partner or potential customerCan Sprout tell they are a partner? Is that a KPI I can report on using the tool?Connecting Hubspot wasn’t useful because it’s more geared toward the Service module(tickets), that’s not our type of org. Any best practices or knowledge you can share is useful! Right now we’re doing it manually :( thanks!!Virginia

chris.johnsonFrequent User

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Sprout Zapier Integration

I am hoping to learn about the possibility of Sprout and Zapier working together. It would super helpful for me to create automations around social activity that Sprout does.

chris.johnsonFrequent User

asked in Social Data

Zapier for Social

I am hoping to learn about the possibility of Sprout and Zapier working together. It would super helpful for me to create automations around social activity that Sprout does.

morgan.murrayEngaged User

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Determining Social ROI for QSR

Hi social friends! I have a Restaurant client who is dead-set on understanding his return on investing in organic social/ social at all. I’ve talked about EMV equations or leveraging influencers to look at their EMV or using affiliate codes that can be redeemed in-store. Any other ideas to get him to invest? I’ve tried all the ways in of educating and the necessity for this more top of funnel tactic which leads to consideration > loyalty > advocacy, but if it doesn’t equate to sales he just doesn’t get it. Any help is appreciated!M

bkmnNew User

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How do you determine your top posts?

Do you organize your top posts based on ER or by total engagements?

will.velizSprout Team

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Content strategy for different artists/performers

Looking for insight from those who have worked on social reports on events they host with different artists/performers Traditional reporting/benchmarking is not as effective due to content related to certain popular artists/performers naturally getting more engagement than others. Looking for advice on how to guide content strategy best when post differentiators may just be due to artist. What would be the best way to analyze what types of content (different color backgrounds, visual elements, audio elements, etc.) would truly perform best prior to a performance?

swarajNew User

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How are marketers leveraging content intelligence to drive high quality video campaigns?

Often we see brand marketers hustle with manually collating content breakdown reports for their social media or influencer marketing campaigns. Is there any tool out there that people use to understand their content better? Basically, understanding what content works for them and what doesn’t?