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COVID-19 Impact on Social Media Marketing

COVID-19 Impact On Social Media Marketing

COVID-19 Impact on Social Media Marketing: Social media plays a vital role, from elevating news updates to promotions of any business brand and handing social media platforms becoming tougher during the Covid19 Pandemic than ever before.

Moreover, social media platforms are the most engaging and conversion-driven channels for businesses looking to grow their brand by reaching a million customers.

Social media marketing has become the most challenging for start-ups. How has the impact of Covid19 on social media changed the consumer preferences and marketing strategies that the brands want to implement? To know that go through the below list.

COVID-19 Impact on Social Media Marketing

Time spent on social media has increased:

The audience spent time on social media platforms soaring heights that never happened before, and marketers can drive enormous engagement.

Ad engagement has increased:

The businesses are driving the continuous ad campaign engagement that finds sales conversions.

Online shopping is booming:

The Pandemic blocked physical stores from shopping, which directed online shopping sites to explore their marketing strategy by generating massive sales. During Covid19, more than 62% of US customers shop online.

Influencers form deeper connections:

Most social media influencers are adding bucks to their pocket by offering them plenty of sales to the partnered businesses.

Online search improved:

In March 2020, buy online search reached more than 27K, letting the businesses offer more content.

Enhancement of the sales growth:

Above 40% of the business brands state that product sales have improved.

Rise of Facebook Messaging:

In the most challenging hit countries, Facebook Messaging improved by more than 50% where the businesses can promote their brands.

The upsurge in Twitter usage:

In March 2020, Twitter found 4x more conversations about Covid19, and it has made way for the publishers to promote their content relevant to the Pandemic.

Influencer Marketing:

Influencer posts reached more than 2.9 Billion about Covid19, driving more engagement and opening the doors to finding more business brands.

The surge of Facebook time spent:

More than 70% of time spent on Facebook applications during Corona has become the most engaging and entertaining social media platform for the audience.

Ad spending increased:

Most brands are deciding to spend more on ad campaigns as they want to reach millions of audiences and find sales with the launch of more and more ad campaigns.

Ad spends by the News channels:

The news sector increased ad spending to 52%, which has never been seen before, and with the elaboration of covid19 information, they reached and engaged several audiences.

Curse to the Travel sector:

Travel sector Ad spending lessened to 65%, which has wholly damaged the growth of the travel industry. The travel website found a 50% decrease in traffic.

More website traffic:

Media sites gained more than 30% of website traffic and got a massive reputation by launching covid19 information that leads to engaging the people.

Improved Food sites engagement:

Food Sites gain 60% conversions by creating innovative recipes and inspirational video content for the public.

Construction sites find huge losses:

Construction sites account for 50% of conversions and complete losses in their field.

Increment in the supermarket sites:

Supermarket websites drive more than 162.4% of web traffic engaged by online customers.

Usage of grocery apps:

Grocery delivery apps generated more than a 218% increase in usage as they are user-friendly apps for making online purchases and delivering groceries on time.

Open rate email engagement:

25% increment in the available email rate can be observed, making businesses engage more customers with the most personalized email marketing campaigns.

Customer Engagement:

During the covid19 Pandemic, social media audiences became the potential customers that help businesses to build strong customer relationships.

Ignite Visibility:

Most business brands are glowing their brand reputations with content marketing strategies across social media platforms.

Social Media usage:

Most audiences spend lots of time watching video content on social media channels like YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Instagram Live:

Instagram live streaming is the most engagement metric that holds the attention of a million audience at a time to define your brand. During this Pandemic, it has become a business booster.

Changes the times to upload a post on social media:

Most brands are uploading content on social media by allocating a specific time to find the vast engagement of the audience on social media.

Creativity and entertainment are on the rise:

Entertainment is the most preferred category for audiences to go through any business profile on social media and is the most focused one.

Stay-At-Home state of mind:

Most people are habituated to being at home by getting everything to their home, including work from home.

Modifying Websites:

It has become the right time for backward businesses to go viral on social media, letting them find the website changes.

Leverage Social Media more:

All business brands add the most innovative content marketing ideas to leverage the social media audience more and more.

Decrement in the marketing budget:

More than 65% of marketers have accounted for the annual decrease in the marketing budget.

Too much competition:

86% of marketers find reaching their goals tough as the number of competitors with the most challenging promotional strategies is rolling out.

SEO on the rise:

SEO is the most significant factor during Covid19 stated by marketers, as it is the only medium to reach more relevant audiences.

Video marketing on the upper hand:

More than 113% increment gained by the video streaming channels on an average

Conclusion:

Mostly Covid19 has let business brands find and engage a broader audience range by making an in-depth analysis of what they are looking for. Also, it has given life to the most advanced social media tools and technologies in the global market.

Kiran Voleti

Kiran Voleti is an Entrepreneur , Digital Marketing Consultant , Social Media Strategist , Internet Marketing Consultant, Creative Designer and Growth Hacker.

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