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Social Media Has a Career Ladder Problem, and We Have the Receipts
Our midway report on the Social Media Career Ladder is out today. One in ten practitioners can see a clear path, the entry rung has quietly stopped being an entry rung, and the top of the ladder is emptying at the same time as the bottom.
Pinterest turns its phone-free brand campaign into a couture front row stunt, making offline marketing part of the product
How MAD//Fest turned its event marketing into a comedy series
Building an education business around giving knowledge away
How Grape Tree built an influencer partnership around expertise rather than reach
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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.
We also run SocialDay events, including the Social Media Fest, and a member community of more than 2,000 social media professionals, built by the community, for the community.
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