Winning the Social Media Wars With Facebook

Topics
Strategy
Expert
Share this post

Last week, renowned market research firm Edison Research revealed the latest social networking usage statistics:

Slide67

Above, we see that Facebook has effectively won the social media wars. When you pause to think about it, getting 62% of Americans to do anything is impressive. Fewer people than that vote in Presidential elections.The question marketers have on their minds, especially in B2C, is whether Facebook is cool or not to teens and young adults. Conventional wisdom and repeated memes all say that Facebook isn't hot among the youth. What's the real answer?

Slide69

Whether or not it’s cool, 3 out of 4 Americans age 12-24 are using Facebook, followed by Facebook property Instagram and then Snapchat. This is a far cry from "no one uses Facebook any more". Just how many people is that? The US Census Bureau estimates the 12-24 population to be approximately 56.5 million Americans. Operating under the belief that Facebook isn't used any longer by 41.8 million people is a dangerously flawed premise.

Slide70

If we dig into general usage vs. 12-24 usage, we see above that the 12-24 population is significantly engaged with every social network, except for LinkedIn. LinkedIn's lack of dominance is logical; 68% of the 12-24 age bracket are age 21 or lower; they are less likely to use a business-focused social network. Visual media dominates the 12-24 landscape.So, is the lesson to simply produce great content that's highly visual and publish to Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat? While the above statistics might lead you in that direction, there are other factors to consider. Brand reach is a different story entirely.

What’s a Rich Text element?

The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.

The rich text element allows you to create and format headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, images, and video all in one place instead of having to add and format them individually. Just double-click and easily create content.

Static and dynamic content editing

A rich text element can be used with static or dynamic content. For static content, just drop it into any page and begin editing. For dynamic content, add a rich text field to any collection and then connect a rich text element to that field in the settings panel. Voila!

How to customize formatting for each rich text

Headings, paragraphs, blockquotes, figures, images, and figure captions can all be styled after a class is added to the rich text element using the "When inside of" nested selector system.

More Insights

All Posts
All Posts
Post

Communicating a Business Pivot

Post
Post

How To Use B2B Influencer Marketing

Post
Resource

Report: Manufacturing Tech Media Trends & Opportunities

Resource
Post

Communicating a Business Pivot

Post
Post

How To Use B2B Influencer Marketing

Post
No items found.
No items found.

Ready to Shift Ahead?