Social Trends & News

I work for a car dealership and constantly have tons of videos on my phone that I need to transfer to my dell computer daily. What’s an easy and free video transferring service? I tried Wetransfer and they are so slow and unreliable. 

I wanted to share this recent blog article about e.l.f.’s and Dunkin’s collab. What really stood out to me was the unlikely partnership here and how they build such a strong campaign around it.Take a read: https://sproutsocial.com/insights/brand-collaborations-101/Are there other collabs you’ve seen that we’re a unlikely pairing?

How are you proving that your ambassador program is worth a budget?  What KPIs and metrics are you tracking to ensure that you are getting an ROI?  My other question is, how are you determining the goals of your KPIs and metrics for your ambassador program?EX: John Doe has 1.4 million followers on Instagram - we want him to reach XXX amount of people, have XXX amount of interactions, and XXX amount of users convert to XXX amount of revenue. 

Is anyone else experiencing issues with organic carousels on Facebook? When we create an organic carousel through the Page Posts feature on Business Manager, images from the website link pulls through into the carousel once it is published instead of the images which we uploaded. It is very odd because this only happens when we use our website links, but when we use external links the carousel publishes perfectly. We’ve reached out to Facebook Support but they have no managed to resolved this issue. 

Hi Community, we need your help! Our content team has put together the below survey asking for advice and predictions about your viewpoints on the future of social messaging.https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDwJ3riro9425_GNsiULjiHc-TXSBtzqFmmsdX0D7xzlbeyw/viewformParticipate in the survey for your chance to be quoted in the article!   

For months now, after moving our Facebook page to the New Pages Experience, Sprout’s super customer service team has been trying to figure out why we can’t reply to Facebook private messages via Sprout. Of course, now we’re all at the mercy of Facebook’s support team figuring things out on their end, so it’s been a long-term holding pattern (Sprout does a great job of checking back in with me as we wait).I’m mostly wondering if anyone else has run into this brick wall and if you’ve seen a resolution to it? I can reply to private messages with no issue within native Facebook platforms. I can reply to Facebook comments and Instagram comments and DMs via Sprout, too. It’s just Facebook PMs that are the problem.

So Twitter is bringing back the testing of its status project! This feature allows you to share with your followers what you’re currently doing or working on. It certainly gives me OG Facebook vibes. Would people use this? So curious on your thoughts!  

The age old question that no one ever seems to have the answer to. It’s great that Sprout have the first comment feature but is it even worth it?On Instagram does putting them in the comments versus the post actually matter?My hunch on hashtags on platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn is, are you just giving the user a reason to leave your content and go engage with someone else’s content? Or are people actually coming to your content from a hashtag?What are people’s thoughts?

Does anyone have experience hosting events for your org on LinkedIn? How about using the live video functionality? Would love to hear about others’ experiences and any pros/cons. Thanks! 

Howdy!I work for an agency that focuses on B2B tech, and we’ve dabbled influencer work from time to time, but it has always been more along the lines of a B2C program AKA a traditional influencer program. Does anyone have tips and tricks they can share for running a successful B2B influencer program? So far, we’ve researched and recommended SMEs and trade publications for our clients to tap into, but we haven’t got to actually manage that program. Are B2B influencer fees similar to traditional influencers? Is there ever an opportunity to negotiate exclusive relationships?Do you have to do more coaching with B2B influencers?Do B2B influencers even really exist? Is it weird to ask industry leaders to partner? Thanks in advance for the help.

The Drum put out an article of Brands that won on social in 2021.They talked about Weetabix, Dove, Aldi, Reddit, and Specsavers Euro 2020.My question to you all: Who won on social in 2021?!

 Tiktok announced new ways to make your videos more creative by adding a GIPHY library option to videos. I’m so curious to see how creators and brands will use the new options.Read the update here: https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/tiktok-libraryQ: Any ideas on how you would use it? 

It’s so nice to meet everyone!  I’m Lauren and I run a small boutique agency and have been in business for 8 years now.  I would love to hear how everyone is continuing to educate their clients and add value to their social media services.  Throughout the years, we have found that clients continue to devalue this service, and we have found that breaking social media into several areas of services (content, community, advertising, etc.) is most helpful for clients to understand the various ways social media agencies can lend a helping hand while getting properly compensated for the work that goes into these services.  Would love to hear your ideas and what you’re doing!  

Some reporting from Variety on YouTube starting to hide dislike counts. They’re citing creator harassment as a key reason. Do you think this will curb some of those things? What’s your take on things like this and Instagram hiding “like” counts?

Hello everyone! I would like to take my LinkedIn ads to the next level when it comes to setting up conversions and bidding. Is there anyone out there that would be open to a Zoom call to share some tips and tricks? I have insight tags set up, but I’ve never done an event tag (worth it?) Also, I use automated bidding, but also understand that putting in manual bids can magnify a budget. I could use some tips on how to not under or overbid. One last thing I’d love insights on. Some of our clients like to test ungated vs gated content on LinkedIn. Is that a fair comparison when reporting on results? Should they just be evaluated on their own? I personally believe gating should be reserved for retargeting, but we get a lot of “well, could we just try it?” for cold/cool audiences.TIA for any advice you have.

Hey there to all our beta testing friends! Would you be willing to join an AMA as either a guest or question asker? We’d love to build that process with you and get feedback on how things feel from both sides. If so, please comment below and we’ll get to work!Let us know what your AMA would cover as a “theme”, too. What about you would make you a great AMA guest?! Everyone in here would be amazing, so be sure to big yourself up!Expected working time for guest:30 minutes for prep 1 hour for AMAExpected working time for question askers:1 hour for AMA

Some Non-Profit Questions:So normally we don’t handle non-profits but we’ve had thing clients that does stuff with us on a project basis not a regular basis.We helped them with their end of year appeal. But it’s hard to know if we did well for them when I don’t have any other data to compare things too? I’m not finding many nonprofit industry averages out there. We definitely had some challenges but I’m trying to figure out if it was because of the holidays, second year in a pandemic or what. I’m looking for some general statements. You don’t have to give exact numbers just looking for some overall statements. Did you meet your fundraising goals in 2021? Yes or NoDid you meet your Q4/Holiday fundraising goals in 2021? Yes or NoDid you do better or worse than 2020? 2019? Better or Worse in 2020            Better or Worse in 2019Dealing with the second year in a pandemic did you have a harder time in 2021 rais

Everything has once again changed drastically in 48 hours and all of us as social managers have had to pause or adjust our entire content calendar in a moment’s notice. Over the last couple of days I’ve seen people ask, myself included if it was appropriate to pause social content and the outstanding answer was yes. But then it begs the question on when do we start posting again? I feel like we were just getting back to a regular routine and once again I could schedule content calendar a month in advance. Back are the days or taking it day by day. But we also have to keep on top of the news to make sure the content we had created doesn’t come off as insensitive and ignoring the state of the world. So personally I’ve decided to pause all my clients content through the weekend a re-evaluate on Monday. What are your plans? 

Hello! It’s the week of February 21st!This is our weekly check-in! We’ll be using these weekly check-ins as a way for you to stay true to your goals and set up a solid framework for yourself as you track toward your goals. Be sure to check back on Mondays for these threads!For this first check-in, let’s share:Your name One thing you want to learn from Team Sprout about growing your revenue on socialOther Community happeningsCheck out the Introductions & networking megathread for more info on some of the other participants. This cohort is all about connecting, so introduce yourselves and start building together!If you’re brand new to Sprout or want a refresher, be sure to check out the

Really great read on how brands and agencies are evolving their strategies with influencers. The most interesting thing to me is on the pricing model and how agencies are working through that.Data collection was also eye opening. Normalizing the process and going beyond a simple screenshot of engagement metrics could help make influencers more professional, reliable, and consistent in their deliverables, as well.Do you work with influencers? Are you prices public? How are you collecting the data?Here's the article..

Hello! It’s the week of February 14th!This is our first weekly check-in! We’ll be using these weekly check-ins as a way for you to stay true to your goals and set up a solid framework for yourself as you track toward your goals. Be sure to check back on Mondays for these threads!For this first check-in, let’s share:Your name Your goal for the next 7 weeks What you want out of the next 7 weeks with this program One thing that you’re doing to hit your goalOther Community happeningsCheck out the Introductions & networking megathread for more info on some of the other participants.Our product team wants to hear from you about your ideas to make Sprout better. We have the 

I want to hear from you about your year in social!This campaign is pretty awesome and I’d love to hear from some of you about what numbers surprised you or made you feel great. Drop some of your numbers in the replies!

Now that you’ve had some time to get familiar with Sprout Community, we’d like to hear about your experience so far!  The link below is for a short survey where you can anonymously share feedback with the Community team. Your feedback, questions and ideas directly impact everything we do. Whether it’s about content, conversations, resources, or design feedback, we’d love to know what you like, what you don’t like, and how we can improve things.Survey closedAs always, I’m available whenever you have comments, questions or ideas. Feel free to send me a DM or tag me in a post if you’d ever like to chat.

Thanks to Brooke Sellas for joining us for our first ever AMA!Thank you for participating and asking questions. We’ll be back with more of these in the future as we refine the format.-What’s an AMA?It stands for “Ask me anything” and we mean just that! Anything you want to know more about, our AMA panelist is here for you! From their hobbies to what they get done in business, this is the time to ask!I can’t make it live, but I have a question. How do I get it asked?Just add it here to the replies! We’ll be using this thread as the AMA.Is there a video?No. AMAs are text-based replies, so the panelist will be answering right here in the threads.How do we join?There’s nothing to join, per se. Just come back to this thread on the date and you’ll see Brooke answering questions in the replies as you ask them!-About our panelist!