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Meta Creator Marketplace now surfaces intent over follower count, reshaping how brands should brief influencer campaigns
Meta's Creator Marketing Hub prioritises creators who have already tagged brands or expressed partnership interest, shifting discovery away from audience scale. For marketers planning Q4 campaigns, that changes who gets found and how briefs should be structured.

Instagram's 2x Reels speed, launched 18 months ago, signals what YouTube and TikTok already know: audiences want control, not shorter videos

Half of US Halloween shoppers bought by early September, forcing brands to rewrite the campaign calendar

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How to handle objections to a marketing technology purchase
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Leading media and events platform for social media marketing professionals globally
SocialDay is an independent media and events platform for social media marketing professionals and the creator economy. Our readers are social media managers and heads of social in-house, agency and freelance strategists, community and content leads, and creators running their own businesses.
The newsroom is one part of it. We cover platform and product changes as they land and what they mean for organic reach, paid performance and community teams, alongside curated industry intelligence, expert insight, platform features and deep dives, career resources including the Social Media Career Ladder, salary and benchmark reports, a reviewed directory of the tools teams actually use, and a jobs board for social and creator roles.
Every story carries a named byline and a date, drafts produced with AI assistance are labelled as such and signed off by a human editor, and we correct errors in public. We make money from events, sponsorship and partnerships, never from coverage.
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