This chart shows the total number of Internet users showing that 8% of the world's internet users are not on social media, which suggests opportunities for future growth.

It's going to be interesting to see whether this continues post-COVID. Honesty, empathy, and social consciousness will win on social.

Social listening and community engagement will be at the forefront of marketing strategies.

#2. A summary of global social media users around the world. Even though restrictions are starting to lift, our lives (the lives of everyone in the world, in fact!)

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A-5 part deux: by privacy issues, I mean platforms explicitly giving users the option to opt out of tracking. To read more on this topic and explore advice from our community on preparing for the future, go check out the complete, By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our, “Guide to Social Media Marketing in 2020: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons from the Pandemic and Beyond”, “Guide to Social Media Marketing in 2020: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons from the Pandemic and Beyond.”, Facebook Is Removing Its Restrictions on Text Content in Facebook Ad Images, Instagram Launches New Reels Updates, Including Longer Clips and Improved Trimming, LinkedIn Launches Updated Look, Makes LinkedIn Stories Available to All Users, Facebook Launches 'Facebook Business Suite', an All-in-One Management Tool for Facebook and Instagram, The Best Times to Post on Social Media in 2020 [Infographic], How Brands Can Meet New E-Commerce Expectations, Drive Customers to Checkout by Leveraging Transactional Data, How Online Retailers Can Turn Returns Into a Competitive Advantage, Understanding Your Audience to Build a Better Customer Experience, Holiday 2020: Salesforce Shares Insights to Help Navigate a Very Confusing Holiday Season.

Video content will continue to rise in production and demand.

— Roy Benford, Real Estate Consultant at KellerWilliams Realty, Deborah Sweeney, CEO, MyCorporation.com, predicts a new era of brand-consumer relationships and engagement behaviors on social. For one thing, it's easier and cheaper for brands to leverage social media and for another, people all over the world are spending more time indoors than outdoors - and therefore, more time online.".

It has the power of one last nudge, one last call to arms, one last chance at the sale or making a new business bestie! We followed up with our community more recently to ask their thoughts on what comes next. And that doesn’t include the added costs of travel and lost work time! They get unrestricted access to all of the sessions, workshops, recording, and parties. As always, new technologies will appear and social media platforms with continue updating their platforms to align with new online social needs.

#SMTLive A5. What will a post-COVID world look like for social media marketers?

If there’s anything we’ve learned so far in 2020, it's that nobody can ever be 100% prepared for the future. Tik Tok (also known as Douyin in China) is a rising music video social network. Through these conversations, we were able to identify common social media marketing trends that can help us begin to prepare for the future.