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Twitter trending topics point to brand opportunities

Twitter trending topics point to brand opportunities | Brands find value in LinkedIn videos | Bring extended reality to life with "convergent design"
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October 5, 2020
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Twitter trending topics point to brand opportunities
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The coronavirus pandemic has changed how we live and work with Twitter analysis showing mental health and parenting discussions gaining traction. Users also are talking about new interests and hobbies such as cartoons, arts and crafts and photography, which create opportunities for holiday tie-ins and promotions, writes Andrew Hutchinson.
Full Story: Social Media Today (10/2) 
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Brands are beginning to realize the value of using videos on LinkedIn to engage with shuttered workers, boost engagement with compelling visuals, and gain more traction on the platform, writes ACH Communications' Arik Hanson. He points to creative executions from brands such as General Mills, McDonald's and Johnson & Johnson to amplify thought leaders and launch products.
Full Story: ACH Communications (Arik Hanson) (10/1) 
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Brands should adopt a "convergent design" approach to creating extended reality experiences that enable customers to explore and interact with products in a digital world, writes Frog Design President Andrew Zimmerman. Blend extended reality solutions with physical and digital touchpoints to deliver an integrated experience that focuses on customer needs, Zimmerman writes.
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Increase sales during the pandemic by teaming with influencers and complementary brands to run social giveaways and use social quizzes to glean valuable customer insights, advises MDG Advertising's Anthony Del Gigante. Refresh social content regularly to keep up with trending topics, boost brand authority via podcasts and use tools to measure metrics such as engagement, he recommends.
Full Story: Social Media Explorer (10/5) 
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BBDO created an "Expert in 0-60" campaign for Ford's Mustang Mach-E vehicles featuring 10 Instagram videos that users can view in augmented reality to explore each car while Ford engineers provide an expert's view. "We're sort of approaching AR in a new kind of format, trying to basically launch a car that doesn't quite exist in a sort of visceral way that you can touch and feel it yet sense," said BBDO's Philip Sicklinger.
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Facebook, TikTok and Twitter announced plans to uphold content policies and remove posts wishing for President Donald Trump's demise following his coronavirus diagnosis last week. Twitter noted tweets that "wish or hope for death, serious bodily harm or fatal disease" against anyone will be removed and can lead to users being suspended.
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Mick Fleetwood joined TikTok to pay tribute to user Nathan Apodaca's viral video set to Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" with his own version. Fleetwood's video -- currently standing at 3.3 million views compared to Apodaca's 22 million -- shows him cruising down a road drinking cranberry juice and lip syncing to the track.
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