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Americans’ Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low

Adweek

Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media, with 31% expressing a "great deal" or "fair amount" of confidence in the media to report the news "fully, accurately, and fairly," similar to last year's 32%.

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Megan Thee Stallion’s Advice to Next Gen of Creators: ‘Don’t Be a Walking Commercial’

Adweek

Megan Thee Stallion has always had a front-row seat to the evolution of content creation on social media. The rap superstar first started posting her freestyle videos on YouTube as early as the 2010s before her rap in a Houston artist cypher went viral on social media in 2016.

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Taco Bell’s Taylor Montgomery Reveals the Path From Social Media Manager To CMO

Adweek

Having cut his teeth working on strategy for brands including Clairol and Always at Procter & Gamble (P&G), Montgomery joined Taco Bell in 2016 as senior manager of brand and marketing innovation. There's no one path to the chief marketing officer (CMO) seat, and Taco Bell's top U.S. marketer Taylor Montgomery is living proof.

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AI Influencers Can Now Rep Your Brand. Should They?

Adweek

On April 9, social media influencer Miquela Sousa (@lilmiquela) announced her 20th birthday on Instagram to her 2.6 Lil Miquela hit the social media scene in 2016 as a virtual 19-year-old Brazilian American. million followers. In fact, it was her first birthday ever.

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TikTok Changed How Americans Shop. Brands Will Need to Fill the Engagement Void

Adweek

Launching abroad in 2016, then stateside in 2018--a latecomer to the social media platform landscape, in fact--its current 1.8 billion monthly active users (MAU) make it the fifth-largest social media platform worldwide, and by some reports the most engaging platform as measured by.

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Off the Clock: Social Media Specialist by Day, Pop Star by Night

Adweek

s Acosta launched Sobbrs in late 2016. Despite its reputation as a haven for live music, the city of Austin, Texas, had arguably not produced a proper pop musician until Jes?s At the time, the city had cultivated a thriving atmosphere for psych-rock foursomes and singer-songwriter soloists.

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Social Media is now Pay to Play for Ad Agency New Business

Fuel Lines

During the past decade, technology and the rise of social media changed how people communicated. This led to a paradigm shift in the way professional service firms, such as advertising, digital, media and PR agencies, sold their services. The content was shared to their social media community which also boosted their SEO rankings.

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