Social Snapshot – 16.08.2023

August 16, 2023

It’s time for another social snapshot! Find out what you may have recently missed in the fast-paced world of social media:

TikTok Quick Tips

Elevate holiday marketing with TikTok’s vital insights. Craft impactful ad campaigns through strategic goals, budgeting, and optimisation. Leverage tailored examples for swift progress. Access videos or key tips from the newly released report to refine your holiday strategy on TikTok.

Instagram Rich List

Curious about the earnings of top Instagram celebrities from sponsored posts? Gain insights into potential endorsement costs and the online wealth phenomenon. Valuable for marketers assessing endorsement investments. Explore the full Hopper HQ list for details.

More Ad Changes for X

X, formerly Twitter, is discontinuing promoted account ads to focus on video and interactive formats, aligning with its evolving direction. This shift aims to prioritise adaptive content, despite the $100 million in annual revenue from Follower Campaigns. Learn more here.

LinkedIn AI Insights

LinkedIn examines generative AI’s impact on professions, offering skill development insights. The new report identifies growing AI skills and roles influenced by generative AI, stressing its augmentative role. Stay updated on relevant skill alignment. Access the full report for in-depth workplace AI insights.

Latest Posts

B2B marketing feels slower because you’re selling to a buying group, not a decision maker. Forrester says the average buying decision involves 13 people and 89% of purchases involve two or more departments. Add three generations with different trust cues and you get rework, internal debate, and “one more version” forever. Buyers are also doing more research without sales, which makes guessing expensive. This LinkedIn Live with Tejal Patel is about buyer behaviour, trust cues, and what social is doing in research and validation, so you can build one narrative that travels across the group and saves your team time.

We’re only a couple of weeks into 2026, and social already feels…different, in the best way possible. This year isn’t just about flashy new features or the next viral sound; it’s about making the internet feel more human, more useful, and a lot less exhausting.

Buyers are hunting answers, and social is deciding who they trust The short answer Mahoosive behaviour change for customers is already here. Search is being replaced by an answer layer, and social is feeding it. When Google’s AI Overviews show up, people click less, sessions end sooner, and your carefully-crafted…