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Why UGC

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Why your brand needs UGC.

User-generated content, or UGC for short, is any content that has been created, published, and/or submitted by users of a brand. In many cases, it’s the most effective content for brands. Often, contributors are unpaid fans who promote a brand instead of the brand promoting itself. What Does User-Generated Content (UGC) Mean? What does UGC stand for? User-generated content can be content of any type and usually comes in the form of images, videos, social…

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Lately, more and more marketers are seeing how user-generated content impacts their business. In 2021, user-generated content (UGC) emerged as the solution to their most pressing problems. It stands out from the content people are used to seeing, which creates more engagement and conversions than brand-created content. Meanwhile,…

Marketers are struggling—and this isn’t breaking news. In 2020, the biggest challenges for marketers were time and team size, likely due to COVID-related layoffs. Now that companies have recovered and marketing teams have grown, here are the biggest challenges faced by marketers today in 2022, according to the State of User-Generated Content report: Lack of an ideal budget Publishing high-quality content consistently Getting engagement from their audience A never-ending time crunch. Every year, as more…

How did an exclusively online store sell $100M in mattresses through DTC marketing when people couldn’t even test out if they liked the product before buying? Direct-to-consumer marketing initially seemed to go against the laws of buying decisions. People would always want to lay on a mattress before…

The user-generated content customer journey is built on excitement. First, the excitement of discovering a product. Then, the excitement of ordering and anticipation of that product’s arrival. Finally, the excitement of experiencing and engaging with the product. Smartphones and social media have further accelerated this journey, placing purchasing…

Employee-powered marketing democratizes the content creation process and turns every member of staff into an internal influencer. There are a variety of names: employee advocacy social program, employee-powered marketing, employee-driven communications, but all of them fall under the umbrella of Employee-Generated Content (EGC) EGC and employee-powered marketing are…

Omnichannel marketing takes a lot of work.  Posting, engaging, and responding consistently to one social platform requires at least one dedicated member of your team—add in 5 other platforms (on top of your campaigns!) and overwhelmed becomes an understatement. 42% of users expect inquiries on social media to…