From the course: Social Media Marketing Foundations

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Produce engaging paid social campaigns

Produce engaging paid social campaigns

From the course: Social Media Marketing Foundations

Produce engaging paid social campaigns

- Targeting the right people at scale is another major benefit of social media marketing. Known as paid social advertising or paid social for short, it's the process of paying to get your ads preferred placement on a social media channel to reach a specific audience. These ads are particularly effective as you can quickly reach more of your customers with different variations of an ad, and based on these tests, surface the top performing versions. Ultimately, this helps you significantly improve a campaign's performance, an option not possible with many other marketing mediums. Plus, these ads are formatted like organic posts, but with a label indicating they're an ad, so they don't come across as disruptive to consumers compared to other forms of advertising. You've likely seen examples of these ads yourself as they occasionally appear in the feeds of your favorite social networks alongside the organic posts you're…

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