Digital Marketing This Week

Digital Marketing News This Week

Topics: Massive Twitter hack and Bitcoin scam; the Minnesota Twins broadcast a scrimmage with a crowdtrack; free Grow With Google courses; long-term care seniors pose for iconic classic rock album cover recreations; Michelle Obama’s new podcast on Spotify; Hulu rolls out self-serve advertising; an ad agency goes fully remote; Target joins the growing list of retailers mandating masks for customers; Chris Cuomo calls out Trump over Goyagate; Instagram to clone TikTok; Hong Kong’s protest movement keeps getting stymied by Apple; more.

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Most Effective Instagram Content [CHART]

Chart: Most Effective Instagram Content

Two-thirds of marketers say that Instagram is either extremely important (30%) or very important (35%) to their overall social media marketing strategy, as a majority of marketers planned to increase their organic activity on the platform this year.

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TikTok US Users By Age & Income [CHART]

Chart: TikTok US Users By Age & Income

Who is downloading and using TikTok? Not surprisingly, data from March 2019 shows that the age group with the largest number of unique visitors is 18-24-year-olds (3.7 million), which accounts for just over one-quarter (25.8%) of the total US adult visitors.

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US TikTok Growth, 2017-2019 [CHART]

Chart: US TikTok Growth

There’s a new social media kid in town. Taking advantage of the current popularity of short-form mobile videos, made all the rage by the likes of Snapchat and Instagram Stories, TikTok has seen its growth in the US almost quadruple in just one year, according to figures provided by comScore.

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